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Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols to be sung
The Fredonia School of Music will present its 20th annual production of “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church in Fredonia. The concert is free and open to the public.
Differences swept away with annual raking effort
More than 125 SUNY Fredonia students got out of bed early a few weeks ago to do something nice for their neighbors on Temple Street and Central Avenue: rake their lawns. The Annual Fall Sweep, now in its second year, experienced a big spike in student participation this year. A community relations event, it was founded by two student groups as a way for Fredonia students to give back to the community, and to offset typical "town/gown" problems between students and permanent residents.
Wind Power is subject of panel discussion Nov. 15
The Chautauqua County League of Women Voters is sponsoring a thought-provoking program on wind power as an alternative energy option. The event will take place at SUNY Fredonia on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1:30 p.m. in Room S 104 of the Williams Center. Panelists will be Fredonia faculty Jack Berkley and Ken Mantai, and community leaders Elizabeth Booth and Claire Quadri.
Naturalist to speak Nov. 15 in Jewett Hall
Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul will speak at SUNY Fredonia on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101, and that evening at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown. The biology department has invited him to give an informal seminar including taking questions from students.
Alumni honor late friend with Memorial Homecoming Race
Alumni raced to raise funds for the track and field program in honor of late alumnus, Fred Ruterbusch, '77.
Grad students give health tests at Special Olympics
Graduate students in SUNY Fredonia's speech pathology program gave hearing tests to180 athletes at the Special Olympic Fall Games in Binghamton, N.Y., in October
Pearl Harbor Day observed in arts series
“Things We Carried,” a traveling exhibit from the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, opens Nov. 15 in the Main Gallery of the Access to The Arts, opening the second annual Healing Arts program sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund.
SUNY Press to publish Nelson's book on Rt. 20
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Malcolm Nelson is currently working on an anecdotal study of the longest highway in the United States. It is this road, U.S. 20, which he takes to work every day, and indeed, offers him an exceptionally personal vista of human traffic going east or west as it passes by the front door of his home in Brocton, N.Y. SUNY Press has selected Dr. Nelson's book, Twent West: The Great Road Across America, as one of its books to be published in 2007. Dr. Malcolm Nelson
Mardi Gras Masquerade in Williams Center
The Black Student Union at SUNY Fredonia is sponsoring “A Mardi Gras Masquerade” for its annual Culture Night extravaganza on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 7...
Site for High Tech Incubator to be announced
SUNY Fredonia and the City of Dunkirk will jointly hold a News Conference on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. to announce the site location for the SUNY Fredonia High Tech Incubator. The news conference will be held on the vacant lot on Central Avenue in Dunkirk, N.Y., between Second and Third Streets.