Dunkirk News

The Dunkirk Free Library is making June Dunkirk Pride Month at the library. The library announces the start of the "Why I Love Dunkirk" contest.

Youth ages eight through 12 can enroll in a variety of non-credit courses this summer as part of Kids' College at Jamestown Community College's North County Center in Dunkirk July 9-13. Participants have the option of attending Kids' College for either full or half-day sessions on a weeklong basis.

A wide swath of Upstate New York including Syracuse is under a severe thunderstorm watch until 7 p.m., the National Weather Service says.

It was a day for both somber reflection and celebration in Dunkirk. The Dunkirk Joint Veterans Council, which consists of 11 area American Legions, VFW's and other military-related organizations, planned Monday's Memorial Day parade and services.

On Saturday evening, while investigating a disorderly person on Iola Drive, dep-uties from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Depart-ment were notified of a fight involving weapons.

There are many American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts throughout the region.

The Westfield Quilters' Guild will be holding its quilt show at 21 Brix Winery, 6654 W. Main Road in Portland, on June 1, 2 and 3. The show on Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, June 3 from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is $4. Co-chairpersons for this year's show are Helen Sager of Brocton and Pat Sysol of ... (more)

The celebratory event was held at the Kosciuszko Club in Dunkirk and included a family-style dinner and awards ceremony.

It was a fitting setting recently as the man who manages both the Dunkirk and Tonawanda NRG plants provided his perspective on his company's financial difficulties.

Brian S. Montanez, 23, of Dunkirk, was observed by a Dunkirk patrol officer driving along Lakefront Blvd.

Eighty degrees and sunny one minute, 30 degrees and snowing the next; it has been a wild and wooly spring! Despite the ever-changing weather, Chautauqua Striders will soon begin its track season in earnest.

For the third year in a row, the OBSERVER's Web site is allowing readers to vote on the next Laurel Run logo.

Chautauqua County has its air and ground firmly covered. A new county airports and parks manager has been approved, Public Facilities Director George Spanos announced Monday.

The Civil Air Patrol has finished its first Corporate Learning Course in Western New York held at the American Legion Memorial Post 1280.

Online users typing in the city's old web address were automatically sent to the new website, www.dunkirktoday.com . The three-month project was accomplished through the efforts of the Development Department staff and Dunkirk native Todd Bialaszewski, a self-employed website designer with an office in Rochester.

The Girl Scouts of Western New York started a special incentive program last year called the 222 Club.

After months of wrangling within committees and the full County Legislature, a resolution to front taxpayer money toward the County Home passed Wednesday.

Bertha Angle Marquardt, 75, passed peacefully on Sunday, April 1, 2012, with her devoted daughter by her side.

Francisco J. "Pancho" Aviles, 81, of Dunkirk died Monday evening at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, following a lengthy illness.He was born Dec.

The early stages of talks about using some form of public transportation between downtown Fredonia and the Dunkirk pier have begun, according to Fredonia Village Mayor Stephen Keefe.