Town of Ripley board members, at their regular meeting this month adopted a local law requiring the separation of recyclable and reusable materials from other forms of trash. The law is intended to conform with the direction from the New York State Legislature that each municipality adopt ...

A group of nine professors bashed SUNY Fredonia's administration this week in a letter to the OBSERVER. “We oppose our administration not because we are whiny faculty who balk at extra work for ourselves,” according to the letter. “Our administration is making decisions on the future of ...

Two Jamestown Community College faculty members have been selected for State University of New York fellowship programs for the 2025-26 academic year. Dr. Johnny Stein, associate professor of English, has been named to the AI for the Public Good Fellows program, while Simone Sellstrom, ...

Jamestown Community College has welcomed four new full-time faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year. Kylie Harris, assistant professor of nursing, returns to the Jamestown campus after previously serving as a nursing faculty member from 2013 to 2017. Harris holds master’s degrees in ...

The Seneca Nation secured a significant legal victory in its ongoing efforts to hold the State of New York and the New York State Thruway Authority accountable for decades of illegal operation of the New York State Thruway across the Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory. United States ...

Members of the Mozart Club recently held a semisesquintennial celebration with Celtic music of 1775 to 1776 by the group Water Horse. The performers were Sue Tillitson, fiddle; Jim Cunningham, guitar; Sue Turnquist, oboe, and Cathy O’Hagan, piano accompanist . The audience was treated to ...