Weekly events at local libraries have been announced. Check each library’s website for details. — Monday: Preschool Storytime at Barker Library, 7 Day St., Fredonia, 10:30 a.m. — Tuesday: Little ...

Many of us are looking forward to a check for a return on overpayment on our 2025 federal income tax. Others are expecting to pay a little more on April 15. I have never minded paying my federal tax.

There has been recent discussion regarding inequity between the town of Hanover and the village of Silver Creek policing contract with the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department. In the big picture, ...

While the Chautauqua County Board of Health is weighing the safety of Battery Energy Storage Systems, the city of Dunkirk has gone on record saying they believe the BESS proposed in Dunkirk would be ...

Today, Saturday, March 28, there will be more than 3,000 No Kings demonstrations all across the country. They will be a celebration of our First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition ...

Neighbors of a proposed $70 million development of the former Point Chautauqua Golf Club are filing arguments in state Supreme Court in advance of April’s oral arguments in state Supreme Court.

A crime lab at SUNY Fredonia is still in the works. “I’m calling it CSI Fredonia,” university President Stephen Kolison said during the University Council’s March meeting. The crime lab is a ...

OBSERVER Photos by Tim Frank The Fredonia Hillbillies traveled to Jamestown on Friday and came away with a 21-7 victory over Jamestown in a flag football game at Strider Field. In photo above, ...

The push from community residents to see the Health Department issue new and stronger guidance regarding wind turbines and battery energy storage systems continues. During the recent Chautauqua County ...

For the first time in years, a Randolph Cardinal is not the Player of the Year in Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 3 boys basketball. Gowanda junior Trelin Warrior has been ...

Forestville and Cattaraugus-Little Valley went late into the season before determining a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 4 boys basketball champion. The Hornets ultimately came ...

One of the best teachers across all of New York state is set to retire after this school year comes to a close. Ellen Foley has submitted her retirement resignation from the Fredonia Central School ...