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City Works To Decrease Number Of Condemned Homes

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Development Department officials are trying to cut the number of condemned homes in the city. Following a request from the City Council’s Housing Committee for an updated list of condemned houses within the city, city Development Director Crystal Surdyk provided the committee with the list ...

Shoe Drive Kicking Off With St. Nicholas Celebration

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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will be celebrating the generous spirit of St. Nicholas with a range of activities starting Sunday, Dec. 7. The event will officially mark the beginning of the church’s mutli-week long shoe drive. Church officials noted that anybody from the community is ...

Goold As Gold: For Five Years, Father And Son Volunteer Together

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The shutdown caused by the pandemic provided a father and son with an opportunity to give back to their community by volunteering together. Five years later, they’re still doing it. Bob Goold had been a regular volunteer at another area non-profit agency until the pandemic forced that ...

The Celebration Of Festivus

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I believe I mentioned back in July that the topic of this fictitious ”holiday” would be revisited later in the year, so being a man of my word… Well, Thanksgiving came and went last week, and back when things were “normal,” which, if you turn on the news, or tuned in to Christmas in ...

Season’s Most Important Gift May Surprise

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Something incredibly important happened three hundred years ago. It was right up there with the most important things that ever happened on earth: people across all walks of life became obsessed with reading. It is hard to overstate how radical that moment was. Historians call it the ...

Area Police Reports

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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT — ARKWRIGHT — Around 7:59 p.m. Thursday, deputies were made aware of an in progress order of protection violation. Through an investigation it was determined that Dakota S. Sugg, 30, of Dunkirk was actively violating a full stay away order of ...