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Fredonia hosts Virtual Employer Showcase through the month of March

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMADISON BLASZ Special to The Leader  With COVID-19 infections still surging across the U.S., many employers are turning to virtual showcases as a hiring strategy.  While not new, the concept has been gaining popularity since the pandemic began.  You might be asking yourself — what is a virtual employer showcase?...

Expelled student takes Fredonia to court

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  While Fredonia is trying to manage an entire SUNY campus during a pandemic, they also have another heavy situation on their hands. A former student who has been expelled for “non-consensual sexual conduct,” is requesting from the Supreme Court of Chautauqua County that they be reinstated...

It’s been one year since COVID-19 turned our world upside down

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALYSSA BUMP Life & Arts Editor One year ago from writing this, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. One year later, 118 million people have gotten the virus, and 2.62 million are dead. In my Snapchat memories today, there was a video from my last...

Community and comestibles at the Fredonia Farmers’ Market

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANNA GAGLIANO  Copy Editor  Quite possibly the only reason that justifies getting up early on a Saturday morning is the Fredonia Farmers’ Market.  This not-for-profit market has been a year-long occurrence in Fredonia every weekend for over 10 years.  Upon walking into the market’s winter location, one is greeted by...

Local man goes into food coma after throwing one-man Pi Day rave

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Scallion Editor and Pi Day Enthusiast Tragedy struck the other night as Vernon Crompton, a native to the Fredonia area and alumnus of the class of 2017, was placed in permanent care after setting himself into a food coma.  Crompton, 26, has been known as an avid fan...

I amalgamated my friends into a hivemind to be COVID safe

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJAY BYRONStaff Scallywag We all know that COVID-19 changed basically everything in our life, especially for those of us who live on campus.  There were many problems originally, like people being loud during quiet hours (I know my neighbors probably aren’t reading this but God I wish they were), the...

[SATIRE] (Inspiring!) Local child works in sweatshop to afford hospital bill

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBRIAN CECALA Staff Scallywag In the modern era, we as Americans ask ourselves, which is more important?  Being a red-blooded AMERICAN or a diaper-wearing communist?  Sometimes I look at the people and think it’s a shame how brainwashed they are. The president of the free world is a communist and...

NCAA March Madness: What you need to know

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Reading Time: 2 minutesANTHONY GETTINO Sports Editor Just like every other sport the past year, college basketball has been completely different from the norm. For most games, the fanbase, energy and home court advantage have all but disappeared and the normal powerhouses have fallen from grace. If there was ever a year for...

[SATIRE] Conservative convention planners shape floor layout into a Hindu symbol of prosperity

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMATTHEW BAUM Scallion Editor Once again, the whiners that are so prevalent in the liberal media have caused a stink over something that’s harmless and even inspiring, all for the sake of cancelling conservative values in the U.S.  The beloved super-Pac People for the Corporations had planned a conservative convention...

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