SHERMAN - Sherman Central School officials recently announced the school’s honor and merit rolls for the third quarter of the 2025-26 school year. They are: HONOR ROLL 12th Grade: Elias Armes, Albert Burkett, Troy Chambers, Jacob Ferranto, Mary Fuller, Kamryn Heinert, Delilah Heverley, ...

A Dunkirk project has received high honors for the New York State Economic Development Council Wells Enterprises expansion project in Dunkirk has been named the council's 2026 Project of the Year. The announcement was made this week during the 2026 Annual Meeting in Cooperstown. The ...

As was reported by The Post-Journal last week, the state budget will include a five-year delay of the state’s electric school bus mandate. State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, supported the budget bill passed late Wednesday authorizing a five-year delay to New York's electric school ...

Fredonia Trustee Jon Espersen has resigned. “The real question is, why did it take me that long,” he cracked when the OBSERVER asked him Thursday why he did it. “It’s not just one thing, it’s a culmination of many things. The constant negativity— I dreaded going to meetings. I ...

Mayor Kim Ecklund is pictured presenting the Rev. H Wayne Eppehimer and his family with a proclamation at City Hall declaring May 15, 2026, to be International MPS Awareness Day in Jamestown. MPS and ML diseases are a little bit like the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in which a ...

MAYVILLE - Chautauqua Lake Team II won the 36th annual Chautauqua County Envirothon held recently at Boy Scouts of America’s Camp Merz in Mayville. Students from 15 area schools, comprising 27 separate teams, competed. Students spent the day answering environmentally-based questions ...