Don Traynor, Jacob Schweinsberg and William Dorman were honored with The Resource Center’s top staff awards for 2025. Traynor, who has worked for TRC since 1993, received the Joseph Trusso Jr. Employee of the Year Award. He was chosen for the award based on his efforts in supporting ...
Tropical birds have a reputation of being flashier and more interesting than the birds in the backyards. At least that was what Jan Bowman’s experience taught her in many trips to Costa Rica and Panama guiding students to study tropical flora and fauna. Join Bowman at Audubon Community ...
Tucker Calimeri, sixth grade, has been chosen as Falconer Middle School Student of the Month for March. Tucker’s hobbies include football, wrestling and playing board games. He is a member of the Hammerhead Wrestling Club and his favorite subject is math. In his spare time, he enjoys ...
Recent data from the Energy Information Administration and Empire Center for Public Policy show New York’s average residential electricity prices at 29.99 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 70 percent higher than the U.S. average of 17.6 cents per kilowatt hour, and 50 percent higher than in Pennsylvania, and nearly double the price in Florida or Texas. Moreover, New York’s electricity prices rose 5.7 percent over the past month and 14.4 percent over the past 12 months. Over that same 12-month period, electricity prices in New York increased at twice the national rate and four times ...
U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday urging the immediate consideration of the Department of Homeland Security funding measure that passed the Senate unanimously last month. Following his arrival to Washington this week, he held a Zoom press conference outlining his support for passage. In the letter, Congressman Langworthy stressed that there is no time for delay as the nation continues to face serious homeland security threats and the Department of Homeland Security requires stable funding to carry out its mission of protecting the American ...
A union has filed an appeal of an arbitration decision that went against former city of Dunkirk employee Kim Robbins. Robbins was a legal secretary who was told on Jan. 6, 2025, that she was getting laid off. The American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees filed a grievance, claiming her layoff violated the provisions of her contract. However, an arbitrator ruled in January that Dunkirk didn’t violate the contract. The union’s appeal of that decision claims “the contract language is clear and unambiguous” in not allowing layoffs. Dunkirk argued the position ...
