After a tumultuous two months that included the stunning revelation the city was in a multi-million dollar fiscal hole, Dunkirk received a bit of positive news. Earlier this week, New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul announced nine projects were chosen for funding in the Downtown Revitalization ...

Summer’s unofficial start in Dunkirk could be a bit sour for some on Memorial Day. Hopes for Hero Banners to be in place before the city services and parade did not look good before Tuesday’s Common Council meeting. Councilwoman Natalie Luczkowiak, who headed up the effort that has led to ...

With all the playoff futility by the Bills and Sabres, it’s good to see at least one Buffalo team know how to win a championship. For the second year in a row on Saturday, the Bandits took the National Lacrosse League title in KeyBank Center. Since their beginning in 1992, the Bandits have ...

By this fall, it will be much easier for girls who want to play boys varsity sports to do so. That’s not a bad thing. Girls who can athletically compete should be able to do so without demeaning, invasive tests or having to do more to prove they are athletically capable than a boy of ...

City of Dunkirk residents may not want to hear the coming reality, but it is best the city officials put it out there now rather than later: get ready for a property-tax increase. That, for the most part, was the discussion at last week’s Finance Committee meeting. “There will definitely ...

President Joe Biden recently presented 19 people with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. One of the 19 recipients of the Medal of Freedom stood out to us as particularly noteworthy. Medgar Evers truly served his country — first in the U.S. Army, serving in combat during World War II, then ...