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From EBC to Tiki: Fredonia staple changes ownership

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LEE PYE Staff Writer  That’s right, the Ellicottville Brewing Company (EBC West) restaurant in downtown Fredonia has been sold.  Replacing it is a multi-themed bar called Monster Beach Brewery & Tiki Bar.  EBC’s restaurant has been running with the current owner for about 12 years, and throughout the years has......
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Why do 10-year-olds think they’re better than me at Dress to Impress?

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ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor (AKA Researcher of Dress to Impress) Graphic by Isabella Rizzo | Art Director Guys. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I hate children. Shocking, I know. The only children I love are my nieces, nephews and the child I babysit for.  Every other child, hell......
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New York State passes a bill requiring universities to provide free menstrual products

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ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor Graphic by Isabella Rizzo | Art Director Something new will be coming to the bathrooms on the SUNY Fredonia campus.  On Aug. 26, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill requiring all public SUNY and CUNY universities to provide free menstrual products in campus restrooms and buildings.......
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How the now helps the future of Fredonia athletics

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MITCHELL HORUCY Asst. Sports Editor Sam Evans (Midfielder), Men’s Soccer | Photo by Becca Torncello (Sports Photographer) After numerous years of declining enrollment, Fredonia has welcomed its largest freshman class in three years.  The school announced that the total of first-year, transfer and new graduate students was 1,034.  This means......
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Local talk show host runs in 2024 election

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ETHAN GOODNESS Special to The Leader BROCK PAPKE  Special to The Leader United States, 2024. A nation trapped in a period of perpetual darkness, with no light in sight. Every day is a civil war. People on both sides of the aisle wage endless battles with each other. Division holds......
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Students for Fredonia holds protest regarding 15 possible minor cuts

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ALEX BUCKNAM Asst. News Editor ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor In December of 2023, Fredonia President Stephen Kolison Jr. announced plans to discontinue 13 majors across the university’s curriculum. Discontinued majors include philosophy, Spanish and photography.  All 13 majors were officially discontinued by the administration on March......
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Nyles Emile presents commentary on race and identity in directorial debut Fairview

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DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor PAC’s poster for Fairview. Designed by Alyssa Regrette. For first-time director Nyles Emile, SUNY Fredonia’s Performing Arts Company’s (PAC) production of Fairview is a dream come true. A 2018 play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Fairview confronts the......
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Fredonia administration announces plans to cut faculty positions

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ABIGAIL JACOBSON News Editor DAN QUAGLIANA Managing Editor On the evening of Friday, Sept. 13, SUNY Fredonia President Stephen H. Kolison, Jr. sent out an email at 4:01 p.m. to all faculty and staff members and announced that he and the rest of the administration plan to move “forward with......
Life & Arts

A guide to the Fredonia music scene

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ELENA FITZGERALD Staff Writer Magazine Beach performing at BJ’s bar in Fredonia. Photograph by Justin Hoock. Fredonia is home to a flourishing music scene, with both local and visiting bands bringing all kinds of live music to the campus and surrounding community. I myself have been an avid concert-goer my......

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