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The cold, hard hand of zoning law is at least temporarily keeping a Dunkirk woman from erecting a neon religious sign on her home. Catalina Rivera wants the s

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We should stop calling Wells Enterprises’ upcoming project at its Dunkirk plant an “expansion,” because it’s not. It’s not really even a “renovation

We continue to receive letters to the editor about the idea of using mono instead of stereo in certain FM broadcast situations.

jward@observertoday.com El Cavair Capesino located at 39 W. Seventh St. is looking to set up a commercial kitchen within the home. This ran into some mixed and concerned sentiments at Dunkirk’s Planning Board last week. “What they’re doing is taking a residential and turning it into a partial commercial,” board member Frank Torain pointed out. “They do have a permit from the Health Department to do the mobile food truck, but as part of that they have to have a commissary area at the...