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Lakewood Trustees Adopt Spending Plan

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LAKEWOOD - Lakewood Village Board members have unanimously adopted a 2025-2026 budget. The spending plan was pared down from $5,762,081 to $5,674,015. The tax levy or the amount to be raised by taxes now is $2,403,074, a reduction from $2,587,640. At the April 24 budget work session, the ...

Fredonia Board Of Trustees OKs 65% Tax Hike

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The Fredonia Board of Trustees have narrowly passed a 2025-26 village budget with a 65% property tax increase. Trustees voted Monday to approve the budget. The tally was 3-2. Trustees Ben Brauchler, Jon Espersen and Nicole Siracuse provided the “aye” votes, while Trustees Michelle Twichell ...

Sound Of Service: JHS Alum Brings Musical Journey Full Circle

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When TSgt. Erik Lundquist walked through the band room doors at Jamestown High School in early April, it wasn’t just a homecoming — it was a full-circle moment. A 2009 graduate of JHS and now a member of the prestigious United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., Lundquist returned ...

Judge To Rule On Charges In Death Of Silver Creek Child

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Chautauqua County Judge David Foley is contemplating whether or not a second-degree murder charge should remain against a woman whose 12-year-old daughter died from untreated diabetes. On Monday, arguments were heard in the case involving Ashley Bertino. 36, of Silver Creek. Her daughter Mya ...

RTPI Names New Development Director

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The Roger Tory Peterson Institute has hired Jeanne Fralick as its new development director. Fralick is a Jamestown native who first discovered RTPI as an art student at Jamestown Community College. ‘“I still have the drawing I did on a field trip from one of Roger’s Emperor ...

Frewsburg Names Honor, Merit Rolls

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FREWSBURG - Frewsburg Central School officials recently released the school’s honor and merit rolls for the third quarter of the 2024-25s school year. They are: HONOR ROLL Seventh Grade: Kira Ambrose, Isabelle Anderson, Aleyah Baker, Marleigh Baker, Genevieve Bussman, Gavin Carmen, Evelyn ...