EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes specific unchanged excerpts from a DEC press release that relates to Western New York, and from the writer’s perspective, should enlighten local Chautauqua Lake water quality groups, Fredonia folks, Westfield well water protection groups and Dunkirk Harbor ...

BUFFALO — Southwestern and Chautauqua Lake high school sailors attended the Great Pumpkin Regatta recently at Buffalo Yacht Club. It was a beautiful day. The morning started with strong winds that tested the sailors’ heavy weather skills. As the day went on, the temperature warmed up and ...

LAKEWOOD YMCA COED SOCCER RED DIVISION Gage Bird netted a hat trick for Red in a 9-2 win over Mint. Nyle Bird added two goals while Raena Bird, Blake Bird, Alex Lee Yaw and Ryan Shipherd each chipped in a goal for Red. Andy Lindell and Noah Burch scored for Mint. ——— Brady ...

Nine members of the Jamestown Tuesday Night Men’s Pool League shot perfect 24s in Week 4. They were Billy Borkowski, Marc Peters, Scott Laurito, Tom Perez, Travis Kotch, Danny Smith, Keenan Smith, Dean McKoon and Scott Meacham. Team scores were Eagles Club 129, Crescent Inn II 116; ...

FOOTBALL Class AA Quarterfinals Thursday, Oct. 30 Lancaster 20, Niagara Falls 14 Friday, Oct. 31 Jamestown 56, Lockport 0 Saturday, Nov. 1 Orchard Park 42, Hutch Tech 0 Semifinals Friday, Nov. 7 No. 4 Lancaster vs. No. 1 Bennett at All-High Stadium, 7 p.m. No. 3 ...

CLYMER — Top-seeded Clymer found itself down against visiting Maple Grove in each set of the Section VI Class D semifinals, but every time the Pirates showed why they are No. 1 on Monday night. Capping off rallies in the first, third and fourth sets, Clymer defeated No. 4 Maple Grove ...