A few members of the Fredonia staff will be around for the long haul, as three teachers were awarded tenure at the final Fredonia Board of Education meeting of the 2023-2024 school year. Kristina Brinkel-Covert, Shannon Marsh, and Naomi Pierce all were approved for tenure by the Board. They ...

An apartment complex in Fredonia near the college has a new owner. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from May 28-31. During this time period, RRG Fredonia Apartments, LLC of Jenkintown, Pa. sold ...

Trestin Briggs, son of Leslie Briggs and Derrick Casey of Dunkirk, was recently awarded the Dunkirk High School Class of 1989 Memorial Scholarship. The award is managed by the Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation and coordinated by 1989 classmates Jennifer Ellman and Matthew Woelfle. The ...

Audubon Community Nature Center’s (ACNC) mission, in part, is to build and nurture connections between people and nature. There are a lot of ways to connect to the natural world. It can happen through physical activities such as walking, biking, paddling, or playing. We also connect through ...

WESTFIELD — Everyone’s breast cancer journey is different. For Janay Cosner of Mayville, her journey includes writing a play that will be staged in mid-August in Westfield. “Dancing with Breast Cancer” was written by Cosner following a book of poems she wrote under the same name ...

The Chautauqua County Legislature is going on record wanting an investigation from the state Attorney General’s Office on what caused Dunkirk’s fiscal woes. On Wednesday, the legislature voted 14-2 in favor of the request, with three legislators absent. The two “no” votes came from ...