Fredonia News

The elusive water line break near the Canadaway Creek bridge on Water Street in the village of Fredonia has been repaired.

An 18-year-old Eagle Street man was arrested on drug and weapons charges Thursday morning after authorities executed a search warrant at his home.

Some areas on Water Street past Ryan Place and toward BOCES were at a trickle of water at best, he said, and as of 10:45 a.m. reports indicated some apartments past Canadaway Creek on Water Street toward Route 20 were without water completely.

Fredonia Mayor Michael Sullivan joined Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo Thursday to applaud the enactment of the "New N.Y. Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act." Cuomo was in Buffalo to demonstrate how the legislation gives citizens and local officials the power to cut the nation's highest local taxes by consolidating and ...

"Up," the latest animated gem from Disney/Pixar Studios, is the next featured film in the Cinema Series at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House.

Property owners of the North End Water District will vote from noon to 8 p. m. on Aug.

An eight-year OBSERVER tradition continues next week. On Wednesday, our annual special edition to raise funds for The Resource Center and spotlight the Laurel Run will take to the streets.

Nothing brings a community together like a free summer concert series, and nothing says summer concert series in Chautauqua County like the Kokomo Time Band.

The Fredonia Village Board avoided a snafu at a recent board meeting when it was slated to pass a resolution for two new police vehicles.

Area officials will be on hand Tuesday to announce the establishment of a new "Chautauqua Seed Fund" being established for early stage technology businesses that will be based in the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator.

The owner of a Fredonia paint store arrested on a third-degree grand larceny charge Friday is accused of stealing $4,200 from an elderly woman.

The Eyewitness newsroom has been inundated with phone calls and emails from many of you who use the Grand Island Toll Booths on the New York State Thruway.

A New York Thruway spokesman says a malfunction at a western New York toll booth caused erroneous speeding citations for about 3,600 motorists with E-ZPass. The errors happened at Exit 59, the Dunkirk-Fredonia exit, between May 28 and June 6. In some cases, drivers received letters telling them their E-ZPass privileges had been temporarily ...

Welch's/National Scholarships have been awarded to two incoming freshmen at SUNY Fredonia, Alissa Cole of Westfield and Elizabeth Martin of Sheridan.

Fredonia School Board President Edith Byrne received the Master of Boardsmanship award during a meeting of the board Tuesday night.

Cutting time, cutting pay. These were two resolutions approved by the Fredonia Board of Trustees during Monday evening's regular meeting.

SUNY Fredonia's College of Education has been selected to receive a five-year, $500,000 grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.

By JOEL CUTHBERT OBSERVER Staff Writer Ed Hamlet, of Sheridan, has left some "pretty big footprints to follow in" over a long career of community service in Chautauqua County, according to Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation President Kurt Maytum.

Are you a teenager in need of a summer job? Were you hoping to work for your local municipal government's youth program? If you don't have a job yet, you may be out of luck.

Fredonia pitcher Marah Dahn threw a complete-game three hitter, and Hillbillies scored four runs in the fifth inning to defeat Chenango Valley, 5-1, in a New York State Class B Softball semifinal game at Waterloo High School.