Students returned to SUNY Fredonia on Monday following winter break.
Photo by Jo Ward
FREDONIA As a new semester gets underway, enrollment worries continue to be a focus at the State University of New York at Fredonia.
President Dr. Stephen Kolison praised the campus during a meeting with the Dunkirk-Fredonia Rotary Club during the winter recess, while lamenting a decline in support from the state. “This is a great institution, great faculty, outstanding students,” Kolison began. “We have strong programs and we are a very good value in terms of affordability and we play a critical role in the socio-economic fabric of this community.”
Deputy Chief Bruce Farrell, who is retiring this week after 37 years in the fire service in Summit County, on the scene of the 2015 Brush Creek Fire in the Lower Blue River Valley. Farrell became a Type III plans chief with the Upper Colorado River Interagency Incident Management Team, regularly deploying out of district for weeks at a time.
Photo from Summit Fire & EMS.
Summit Fire & EMS bid farewell to Deputy Chief Bruce Farrell last week, who retired after 37 years of service with fire and ambulance agencies in the county.
Farrell, 60, officially hung up his fire boots on Friday, Jan. 29, and plans to move to Arizona with his wife, Jennifer, to spend more time fishing, boating and traveling.
There is no escaping winter in Western New York. We deal with the wind chills, heavy lake-effect snows and sometimes icy conditions. That is not always a bad
It was music that sparked William Oliver’s lifelong passion for computers.
Growing up in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he was an avid keyboard player. “But I got into music school on voice,” says Oliver, “because it was a little bit easier.”
But once in school, first at State University of New York at Fredonia then the University of Rochester, he hardly shied away from a challenge. “I was studying sound recording technology, which led me to digital signal processing,” explains Oliver. “And that led me to computers.” Twenty-five years later, he’s still stuck on them.
Stephen Kershnar
The crackdown and overreaction to last week’s Capitol Hill riot is so lacking in proportionality as to constitute pure pretext for what has and will continue to follow.
In the last few years, there have been widespread riots, two attempted coups, and an election awash in fraud. Following these events, a few hundred protesters stormed Capitol Hill, destroyed property, and fought with the police. The police shot one protester dead, three people died from medical issues, and one police officer later died from his injuries.
First, consider the rioting and looting. Writing in the New York Post, Andy Ngo pointed out that last May, rioters brought Minneapolis to its knees. He noted that rioters burned entire neighborhoods to the ground, burned down a police station, and looted hundreds of businesses. Widespread destruction, looting, and violence also broke out in Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and dozens of other cities. During the riots, at l