It is easy to get caught up in the downtrodden happenings in northern Chautauqua County in recent years. Fredonia has bad water. Dunkirk is out of money. Yes, local government has a long tradition of ...

The Observer-Dispatch has been telling Utica's stories for 200 years. Started in the days of the horse and buggy, open-hearth cooking and quill pens, the paper has gone on to chronicle everything from ...