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Julie Jackson-Forsberg running for county Legislature

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Julie Jackson-Forsberg of Jamestown is running for the Chautauqua County Legislature seat in District 10. Jackson-Forsberg is endorsed by the Democratic and Working Families parties. District 10 includes Busti and Lakewood and the neighborhoods surrounding Persell School and Bergman Park in Jamestown and Ellicott. Jackson-Forsberg began her career as an English teacher and now develops entrepreneurship, employment readiness and personal development curriculum for people in prison. She has an EMBA from RIT’s Saunders College of Business and graduated from Hamilton College with a ...

Man accused of shaking baby, causing blindness

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Charges have been placed against a man who is accused of shaking an infant which caused her to possibly become blind. According to the secret indictment, which was unsealed at the time of his arraignment in September, Seth Pulver, 28, has been charged with reckless assault of a child. It is alleged that on or about Feb. 16 in the village of Fredonia, Pulver recklessly caused serious physical injury to the brain of a child born June 16, 2025, by shaking, slamming or throwing her as to impact her head on a hard surface. The case is being handled by Assistant District Attorney ...

Sherman school ready to welcome circus

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SHERMAN - The circus is coming to Sherman Central School on Thursday, Oct. 22. Billy Martin's Cole All-Star Circus will perform in the Sherman Central School gymnasium at 6:30 p.m. The all-new show, Slinko's Big Birthday Bash, will feature Slinko and special guest stars. The event is a ...

St. Luke’s to host MLK theatrical performance Thursday

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St. Luke's Episcopal Church, located at 410 N. Main St., will host a free-to-the-public theatrical performance of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail: If Martin Were Here Today” on Thursday at 7 p.m. Presented by the Buffalo-based Typography of Women, the production reimagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” through a conversation with a younger, 21st-century version of King. The performance includes music, spirituals, dramatic readings and commentary. “Dr. King’s letter still asks something of us: to recognize injustice, to ...

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Genealogical Society meets Oct. 21 Change of venue for the Oct. 21 meeting of the Chautauqua County Genealogical Society. The meeting will be held at Darwin. R. Barker Museum 7 Day St., Fredonia. The business meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Steele Room. At 7 p.m. Max Walters, Curator of the Museum, will speak on the “Founding of the Fredonia Academy.” According to Walters, Fredonia had some form of higher education since 1826, when the Fredonia Academy opened to an original cohort of just 15 students. Within one year, the Academy had 136 students — 81 boys and 55 girls. ...