LAKEWOOD - A Chautauqua Lake stormwater improvement project is going to be more expensive than originally thought. The Lakewood Village Board approved a measure to change a grant order at a Sept. 28 meeting. As previously reported in an April 2026 edition of The Post-Journal, the trustees ...
DUNKIRK - The Common Council followed improper procedure in imposing a Battery Energy Storage System moratorium, Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz stated in her veto message. Wdowiasz wrote that she intends to share her own draft for a moratorium, following “procedural steps required for its lawful adoption,” such as adopting a local law. Wdowiasz laid out four main objections to the council’s moratorium, with supporting paragraphs. She first called the moratorium resolution “legally deficient.” Wdowiasz said that such a moratorium requires a local law and its accompanying ...
MAYVILLE – County officials are considering upgrading a local law that would permit managers to get the same retirement benefits as union employees. During the legislature’s September meeting, an amendment had been proposed to a local law regarding paid health insurance at retirement. ...
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James recently joined a bipartisan group of 47 other attorneys general in urging eligible consumers to submit claims for compensation from generic drug manufacturers that illegally colluded to raise prices. The U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut recently preliminarily approved the coalition’s plan to distribute tens of millions of dollars to consumers who overpaid for certain generic drugs as the result of a massive, long-running scheme to inflate drug prices while reducing competition in the pharmaceutical industry. ...
FREDONIA - The State University at Fredonia’s enrollment decline continues, though the pace of the decline has eased for a third straight September. Enrollment vice president Kathryn Kendall offered a report at the first University Council meeting of the 2026-27 school year, which showed a student body at 3,108 students as of Sept. 21. That’s down 76 students from the September 2025 “head count” of campus enrollees. The count was 3,201 in September 2024, and 3,236 in September 2023. However, that is at least an improvement from 2019-2022 when SUNY Fredonia lost hundreds of ...
Three significant Dunkirk Department of Public Works budget lines are running in the red, according to department head Randy Woodbury. DPW’s director began his most recent Common Council Finance Committee report saying the department will be able to use Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding to pay for a bucket loader truck. Woodbury followed that news by saying three budget lines are running out of money with three months remaining in the year. “We are in the red on three lines,” he stated. The first line involves fixing broken infrastructure. “We ...
