March 7, 2026
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Sports

Playing for a purpose: Luke Rivera nominated for 2018 Hockey Humanitarian Award

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Reading Time: 4 minutesAVRIL KING Social Media Manager, Assistant Sports Editor   Luke Rivera, a junior at Fredonia, did not set out to be nominated for the 2018 Hockey Humanitarian Award when he first proposed his community service idea to Head Hockey Coach Jeff Meredith. That is simply where he ended up. After......
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Life & Arts

Sigma Tau Delta coffee talk inspires creative writers

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBETHANY CLANCY Staff Writer This past Friday, Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society, set up a “coffee talk” with two new creative writing professors, Eric Schlich and Sarah Green. This gave students an opportunity to ask them questions about their journey as writers, along with asking about the work......
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Life & Arts

Sam Smith thrills us all once again: Smith’s second album tops the charts

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Reading Time: 3 minutesTEISHA MCELFRESH Special to the Leader   Sam Smith is possibly one of the youngest old souls that we have in pop music today. According to Biography.com, he is a four-time Grammy winner and has also won an Academy Award. Between his romantically desperate crooning ballads and his impossibly high......
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Life & Arts

The spirit of Shakespeare pays Fredonia a visit: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ comes to Barlett Theatre

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBAILEY KUZMA Special to The Leader   Starting Nov. 30 and continuing from Dec. 1 through Dec. 3, Fredonia will be putting on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in the Bartlett Theatre in the Rockefeller Arts Center. “The major themes are: love, [a] couple who have it, lose it [and]......
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Sports

Bunk missing SUNYACs poses questions about academics and athletics: Women’s tennis team bounced amid bizarre circumstances

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Reading Time: 7 minutesCURTIS HENRY Sports Editor   The Fredonia women’s tennis team was ousted in the quarterfinal of SUNYAC play to SUNY Cortland at the start of the month. This was an unexpected early finish to what was otherwise a wildly successful year for the Blue Devils. However, missing from the team......
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News

A writer’s reunion: NYT bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub and Lucia Macro return to SUNY Fredonia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesVICTOR SCHMITT-BUSH Staff Writer   To some graduates, their time at Fredonia lives on only as a story. A good read it might have been, but it remains a memory, nonetheless. For others, the story is still being written. Staff and students alike will be pleased to know that Fredonia......
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Communication department remembers long-time colleague

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Reading Time: 3 minutesANGELINA DOHRE Photo Editor   This past Thursday, a public memorial service was held for long-time communication professor Ann Carden, who died on May 4 of this year, following a lengthy battle with cancer. It was sponsored by Fredonia’s communication department, with the help of Department Chair Mark Kiyak and......
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WCA Home celebrates its 125th anniversary at Lanford Home

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=9956] JAMES LILLIN Staff Writer The Women’s Christian Association (WCA) Home of Fredonia has been a Fredonia landmark since 1892, with its spacious, Victorian halls offering a home to elderly women in Fredonia who have found themselves in need of assisted living. “Our goal during this anniversary year is......
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Life & Arts

‘Broadway and the Marx Brothers’: Freedonia Marxonia back for third year in a row

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMELISSA FUCHS Special to The Leader This year’s Freedonia Marxonia is nearly here. The yearly celebration of the comedic troupe kicks off on Sept. 28, with the exhibit opening in Reed Library at 3 p.m. This year’s theme “Broadway and the Marx Brothers” features planned events at both the library......
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Life & Arts

Life & Arts reacts to the Emmys

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMOLLY VANDENBERG Staff Writer   With Stephen Colbert as this year’s host, the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards was, of course, filled with Trump jokes. If you’re familiar with his talk show, this comes as no surprise. Colbert’s opening monologue was centered around Trump, making the suggestion that television is an......
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