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Falconer man sentenced to jail for PA sex offender registration violation

A Falconer man convicted of sexual misconduct in New York in 2018 has been sentenced to between 1.8 and 5.5 years in state prison after failing to register with the Pennsylvania State Police. Armando Rosario, 44, of Falconer was originally charged in November 2025 with felony failure to provide accurate registration information and second-degree felony failure to register with the Pennsylvania State Police by Conewango Township Police. Rosario pleaded guilty in July to the second-degree felony charge while the first-degree felony was not prosecuted. Jury selection in advance of a ...

Motivation can come from anywhere

Three weeks ago, the VFTB presented a number of movie quotes that could maybe help in situations where we are trying to teach, inspire, invigorate, and/or take what the quotes are saying, see how the words are not just applied to the topic of the film they were in, but could motivate those we ...

Living inside autumn

It’s interesting to be writing about fall when I’m in the autumn of my own life. For many years now, fall has emphasized the quiet. The house feels big and empty. No hustling for the first day of school. No pencils to sharpen, no trips to the shoe store, no lunch sacks waiting on the ...

Sales include radio station properties

After a group of local radio stations were sold this spring, the building and properties that they operate out of were officially sold over the summer. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from July ...

Lavish, placid Republican legislators may be on hot seat

Right as the controversial data center issue began to ramp up in the spring, our newspaper received a communication from a fired-up individual. As part of the impassioned discussion, the caller made it clear what she was going to say would be important to the Brocton-Portland community. Why ...