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 ...

Residents across New York state will be voting on school budget plans on Tuesday. Despite a recent disdain for tax increases, many who go to the polls overwhelmingly support the plans. While our coverage normally focuses on those items — as well as the larger municipalities of Dunkirk and ...

Flag football teams from Dunkirk and Fredonia were battling Tuesday night to keep their seasons alive in the playoffs. Dunkirk was coming off a dramatic win over Southwestern on Monday while Fredonia is one of the top seeds in the Division 2 playoffs. All things considered, the sport has ...