The Leader

Bills trim roster to 53: Final cuts made as team gears up for regular season

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor   New Bills’ general manager Brandon Beane is quickly becoming the girlfriend that throws out everything that your ex-girlfriend ever bought you. The Bills are his team now, and it has become increasingly obvious that he is trying to rid the organization of all of the...

Festivals Fredonia to kick off 22nd annual Red, White and Blues fest

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer   For 22 years, a local non-profit group, called Festivals Fredonia, has been putting on the Red, White and Blues festival in downtown Fredonia. It’s a two-day free music festival featuring red and white wines from local wineries along with blues styled music in Barker Commons....

Breaking the stigma: The National Alliance of Mental Illness comes to SUNY Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBailey Kuzma Special to The Leader   This year there is a new club on campus: NAMI. NAMI stands for the National Alliance of Mental Illness. It was started by Tyler Gross, a junior biology major. “I wanted to start the club because I’ve always been passionate about helping people...

Sparking the much needed conversation: The Netflix original movie “To The Bone” sheds light on eating disorders

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Reading Time: 4 minutesAMBER MATTICE Managing Editor   Whenever a movie or tv show is made about something as sensitive as mental health disorders and struggles, there is a lot of apprehension surrounding it. There is concern for lack of sensitivity, empathy, truthfulness and potential glorification of things that are far less glamorous...

Curtain Up: A preview of the upcoming Opera House events

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMELISSA FUCHS Special to The Leader   The arts are alive and well in Fredonia both on and off campus. From the variety of arts majors to off-campus concerts at the bars downtown, it’s undeniable the role art plays in Fredonia. One art-oriented point of interest in Fredonia, often not...

Video Game Development Club programs their way onto campus

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Reading Time: 3 minutesJAMES LILLIN Staff Writer   Video games are quickly evolving from their humble console origins into something much more powerful and ubiquitous. From mobile gaming to competitive e-sports, game culture is quickly worming its way into the national zeitgeist as a sign of the times. Most people are happy playing...

Activities Night 2017

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Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=9533] JACOB SANTOS and AMBER MATTICE Special to The Leader and Managing Editor   On Aug. 30, hundreds of new and returning students attended Activities Night, an event hosted by Spectrum Entertainment every semester. There are currently over 170 organizations recognized under the Student Association (SA), with each encompassing...

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