The Audubon Community Nature Center is accepting entries for its 2026 Nature Photography Contest. With awards totaling $1,600, adults and youth (ages 8–18) can submit photos to three different categories, each paying $200 to the winning photo. Cash prizes of $200 will also be awarded to ...

FALCONER - The Thule Lodge is the Swedish organization formed 118 years ago in the Jamestown/Falconer area to help the Swedish immigrants when they settled in the U.S. Thule Lodge served to help the Swedish immigrants with housing, employment and schooling. Many of the Swedish people ...

Charges are pending after a probation check last week led to the discovery of cocaine and methamphetamine in a Dunkirk residence. The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department reported on Monday that a federal probation check was conducted at 128 S. Jerboa St., the residence of Christopher ...

Elementary school classrooms at Pine Valley Central School District participated in humane education lessons in collaboration with the Chautauqua County Humane Society recently. Humane Education is an outreach program from the Humane Society designed to engage students while teaching the ...

Southwestern Middle School officials recently released the school’s December Students of the Month. They are: Damien Burkholder, sixth grade and the son of Jake and Jill Burkholder. His favorite subjects in school are math, science, library and gym. Damien belongs to the middle school ...

WESTFIELD - Lake Shore Bank has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation through the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Small Business Recovery Grant Program, an initiative designed to support local organizations and economic resilience. The grant will help fund ...