Dunkirk News

The Dunkirk High School Concert Band and the Jazz Ensemble picked up a number of awards at the WorldStrides Heritage Festival held recently in Washington D.C. The trip involved 44 students, two staff and eight chaperones.

Wil Bathurst and Hasan Saleh led Olean to a first-place finish in the Division 1 Three-Man Tournament on the Lake Course at the Chautauqua Golf Club on Thursday.

It is a time of transition for Jamestown Community College. Not only is the Gregory DeCinque presidential era concluding after 19 years, but the leader at the Dunkirk site also will be retiring at the end of this month.

The growth of jobs and the economy is a concern for all governments and New York state is certainly no exception.

The Thursday Morning Knitters decided that their spring project would be a donation to Meals on Wheels clients.

Difficult times are falling on two hospitals in the southern tier. Dozens of workers will soon be without a job.

Yes, the taxes will sky rocket because the city and county will never make the cuts needed.

The cost of medical care now exceeds the cost of groceries for the typical American family with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, Forbes reports.

Memorial Day services will take place in a number of area communities on Monday.

Print and television media swarmed the Hall R. Clothier building in Mayville, and Sheriff Joe Gerace - on the job only two years at that point - was inundated with interviews from as far away as Japan.

Katherine Mary Kaiser Burch, 81, of West Oak Hill Road, Jamestown, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at Buffalo General Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y. She was born on April 7, 1932 in Dunkirk to the late Lawrence and Esther Kaiser.

A two-vehicle accident between a car and a tractor trailer sent one to the hospital Tuesday morning.

John Berry Jr., 42, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard Arcara to making a false claim against the United States.

For the third year in a row, all area school districts approved their budgets. Most budgets easily passed.

National Grid has issued a report saying that the figures don't add up to convert the Dunkirk NRG plant from coal to natural gas.

He was born June 18, 1917 in Yonkers, NY, the second son of the late Peter P. Chudzik Sr.

Dorothy I. Radloff, age 83, of Dunkirk, NY, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at UPMC-Hamot Hospital in Erie, Pa.

So much has happened since my Mother's Day column, but I'd like to continue with that theme.

The train was once a workhorse for Southern Pacific Railroad, but retired in an Austin park in the 1950s.

The skinny: A woman lost her baby-sitting gig after she was caught helping herself to some merchandise at a store in Chautauqua County, N.Y., on May 11, New York State Police said.