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Mayville Food Pantry Adds Saturday Hours MAYVILLE - The Mayville Food Pantry (St. Paul’s Episcopal Food Pantry), 99 S. Erie St., Mayville, in the Cheryl Steinbach Outreach Center, is adding additional open hours. The first Saturday hours will be held on Saturday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Oct. 17, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Additional days may be available depending on need, beginning in November. The additional hours are being offered to assist those families who, because of work obligations, are unable to come to the pantry during the regular pantry open hours. The regular pantry ...

Twan Leenders presents at Audubon First Friday

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Biologist Twan Leenders will share some of his backyards when he presents “Meet Your Neighbors - Getting Up Close and Personal With Nature in Your Backyard” at Audubon Community Nature Center’s First Friday from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Sept. 4. Leenders has lived and explored in some ...

Lawmaker proposes ‘Take Me Home’ registry

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A state lawmaker wants to create a statewide initiative allowing caregivers and family members to react more quickly when a loved one goes missing. Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara, D-Schenectady, is sponsoring legislation (A.11614) that would create the New York State Take Me Home Program, a ...

Cassadaga expands Labor Day Festival

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CASSADAGA – For several years, the village of Cassadaga has held its own Labor Day festival. Now it’s expanding with fireworks, a lawn mower dice run and a new day called “Cassadaga Days.” The Labor Day Festival will begin on Friday, Sept. 4, with a street dance at the American ...

Fabulous Flower Squad

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BEMUS POINT - The Village of Bemus Point has its own version of a superhero group. Introducing the Flower Squad, a group of four women who live in the village and work part-time caring for, planting, watering and seeding the village’s variety of flowers. The team consists of squad members ...

Sherman expects increases in sewer rates

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SHERMAN - At their meeting on Aug. 12, Village of Sherman Board of Trustees learned that sewer rates in the village are expected to increase 3% to 3.3% each year, in keeping with inflation. Department of Public Works Director Jay Irwin and Village Mayor Colleen Meeder met with a team from CHA Solutions recently to discuss financial forecasting, based on current rates, inflationary factors and timelines for building and equipment repairs and replacement. The estimate of 3% to 3.3% is part of the Asset Management Program which is required by the state and federal government, who have ...