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Hispanic Heritage Festival is Sept. 19 in city

CHQ Hispanic Development will host the 2026 Hispanic Heritage Festival on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Jackson Taylor Park. The free community festival will celebrate Hispanic culture, highlight local Hispanic entrepreneurs and include food, music, activities, and connection. This year's festival marks an important milestone as leadership of the event transitions from the YWCA of Jamestown to CHQ Hispanic Development, a newly established nonprofit organization founded by Yanira Castellano, Carmen Perez and Solimar Vazquez. For several years, the YWCA helped create the ...

Camp Gross to hold golf tournament fundraiser Sept. 19

Camp Gross will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2029. In 1929, Robert Gross of Dunkirk donated the property to the Lake Shore Council of the Boy Scouts of America, which later became the Allegheny Highlands Council. His vision was for the property to be used as a camp for Boy Scouts. In 1988, the Allegheny Highlands Council was no longer able to maintain the property. A not-for-profit corporation was then established, and the Camp Gross Foundation was incorporated to preserve Camp Gross as a camp for youth. Over the years, Camp Gross has provided young people with opportunities ...

Rotary Club to host football party Oct. 18

The Greater Jamestown AM Rotary will hold its largest fundraiser of the year on Oct. 18. The annual Bill Briggs-Tim Grace Memorial Football Party will be held at EBC in Bemus Point featuring the Buffalo Bills at the Las Vegas Raiders. The event is sponsored by the Ellicottville Brewing ...

SCFCU makes $15K sponsorship contribution to The Resource Center

Southern Chautauqua Federal Credit Union recently announced it had made a $15,000 corporate sponsorship contribution to The Resource Center and Filling the Gap Inc., a Jamestown-based non-profit organization that works with The Resource Center to support people with disabilities and other ...

Martz-Kohl Observatory to take part in Observe the Moon Night Sept. 19

FREWSBURG - The Martz-Kohl Observatory will host International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Sept. 19, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The free, family-friendly event is open to the public and will be held live at the observatory. It will not be streamed online. Visitors will join more than ...

Volunteers plant gardens at Ashville Free Library

ASHVILLE - The Ashville community recently helped to beautify the Ashville Free Library. A garden of native plants and shrubs, with plants purchased from Art Samples Nursery in Ashville and Royal Fern Nursery of Fredonia was installed to beautify the Ashville Library and road near the library. Preparation of the space was provided by Ronnie Blynt of RC Property Solutions. On a humid September day, volunteers Oliver Burgeson, a Panama High School student and National Honor Society member, Jo Ann Bardo, Heidi Bird, Julie Nelson of the Audubon Gardeners, Forest McCray, a community ...