RANDOLPH — The Randolph Central School District celebrated the Class of 2026 during a commencement ceremony in the school auditorium recently. Jason Halpainy, high school principal, opened the ceremony by welcoming families, friends, and community members. Halpainy encouraged the ...
Family and friends of Delani K. Williams want the community to know the 25-year-old was a caring father and family man. Their recollection of him comes days after he was identified in the OBSERVER as the shooting victim last month in the city of Dunkirk. “He actually got to the point where ...
Chautauqua County officials recently announced there are no plans to help Dawson Metal either repair a bridge or install a new access road near their plant in Jamestown. While Dawson Metal isn’t looking to take any legal action or relocate in the near future, the decision isn’t sitting ...
CASSADAGA – The Citizens for a Better Cassadaga organization will host Midnight Recovery from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday on the floating stage as part of the Cassadaga Lakes Summer Concert Series. Midnight Recovery is primarily a classic rock band that mixes in some new country hits. The band has ...
One of my favorite musicals since it arrived on the stage scene in 1964, and hit the Big Screen in 1971, is Fiddler on the Roof, the story of a poor Jewish family struggling to maintain their religious beliefs and teachings in a settlement of Imperial Russia set around 1905, about the same time as the Russian Revolution. It is a tale based on a real-life milkman who author Sholem Aleichem, writer of a series of Yiddish short stories titled Tevye and his Daughters, once met somewhere 1894 and 1914, in a small Jewish-only settlement. When the story became a musical, the opening one-word ...
Jamestown Community College students earned full-time Dean’s List honors for academic excellence during the spring 2026 semester. To be eligible, a student must achieve a minimum grade point average of 3.50 while enrolled in at least 12-degree credits. Dean’s List students are: Ashville: Levi Graham, Jaden Jones, Brady Phelps Bemus Point: Robert Campbell, Colin Colburn, Logan Crist, Rachel Krom, Jack Lingenfelter, Max Lingenfelter, Desiree Putt, Cadence Rodgers, Sunnhi Suber Brocton: Bella Bennett, Sethanial Haynes-D'Angelo, Paige Winford Cassadaga:Mishaida Jeudy, Ethan Johnson, ...
