Award-winning writer

Roger F. Coleman, secretary/treasurer of the New York Newspaper Publishers Association, presents Mary Ann Herrington with a plaque for winning the “Distinguished Column Writing Award of Excellence.” The NYNPA awards banquet was held May 7 in Albany. Herrington won the award for her commentary “Losing faith” which discussed the closing of St. Hyacinth School in Dunkirk.

More than $39,000 awarded by NCCF

The Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation awarded $39,261 to 17 different non-profit organizations through its spring 2008 Community Grants Program, it was announced earlier today.

The Community Grants Program is a biannual program t

Red Cross salutes Hometown Heroes

A number of area residents received honors this morning at Salute to Hometown Heroes event in Mayville this morning.

Included in the awards were:

• Dale Van Valkenburg of Fredonia, who is the recipient of the NRG Dunkirk Power

CITY TOASTS BOARDWALK

After much planning, prodding, and some plodding along, the city of Dunkirk welcomed a new addition to its business community Thursday. Like a beaming father walking his daughter down the aisle, Mayor Richard Frey introduced the Dunkirk Boardwalk Mar