[2] Subsequent to Lawson's purchase, the newspaper's coverage broadened and the company opened up buildings in two locations, Dundee and Penn Yan.
Lawson's son, Brandon, works as the newspaper's primary photographer and was also quintessential to the creation of the Dundee Observer's online website.
[2] Furthermore, historian Barbara Hope Smith Bell started to write for the Dundee Observer in 1952, and in 2003 she established a section of the paper devoted to neighborhood history.
[6] Artist and one time Dundee resident George Rhoads produced comic strips for the paper such as that of "Big Mouse," a cartoon rodent.
[8] For over 140 years, the newspaper has provided Yates county readers local coverage on numerous topics including reports on criminal activity, economic growth, weddings, and fatalities.
For example, in 1942, the paper published a letter from the perspective of a former conscientious objector who now believed that it was his responsibility join the United States war effort.