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Jamestown School Board To Meet Tuesday The Jamestown Public Schools District Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at C.C. Ring Elementary School, 333 Buffalo St, Jamestown. There will be video presentations beginning at 5:45p.m. showcasing Ring programs and activities. The public is welcome to attend. Audubon To Hold First Sunday Story Time Oct. 4 The Audubon Community Nature Center will hold its monthly First Sunday Story Time from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, for children ages 3 to 8 and a guardian. Doors open at 12:20 p.m. The program and building admission ...

County organizations to receive $900K for youth employment programs

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Chautauqua County will receive $909,729 of the $7,383,214 allocated to Western New York as part of a broader $42 million allocated to the state’s Youth Employment Program. The program helps reduce community gun violence and youth criminal justice involvement by providing year-round employment and training opportunities to at-risk youth in parts of the state, outside of New York City, most impacted by gun violence. Launched in 2024, the program plays an important role in New York State’s Gun Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) initiative, which operates in the 21 counties that ...

Committee gets first glimpse of city DRI requests

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Jamestown’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative Local Planning Committee has received 24 funding proposals - Robert Gibson, a senior vice president with WSP, said that approximately 24 funding proposals were submitted, totaling $36,445,000. However, the total funding needed to complete all ...

Save Our Reservoir returns to Fredonia podium

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FREDONIA - Critics of Fredonia’s plan to connect with the North County Water District returned to the village Board of Trustees podium this week. It was Save Our Reservoir’s first turn at the speaker’s podium since trustees ended a hiatus, enacted in June, on public comments at ...

GOP pushes through COLA raises for county managers

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MAYVILLE – A county law that is designed to give county managers raises tied to the Cost Of Living Adjustments has been updated, but only with Republican support. During the Chautauqua County Legislature meeting, lawmakers voted 11-6 to update a local law relating to the management salary plan by providing for an annual adjustment of management salary ranges based upon the consumer price index. The legislation states, “The County Legislature finds that maintaining current and competitive salary ranges within the Chautauqua County Management Salary Plan is necessary to support ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE - Xavier L. Williams, 26, of Jamestown was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal contempt, two counts of first-degree criminal contempt, resisting arrest and second-degree obstructing governmental administration at 1:28 a.m. Friday after officers responded to a west side address for a domestic dispute in progress. Upon arrival officers allegedly saw Williams exit the residence and then start to run away. Officers were aware that Xavier had an active arrest warrant and stopped him nearby. After a brief struggle, Xavier was placed into custody. Through ...