RANDOLPH — New Directions Youth and Family Services closed out 2019 honoring several employees with the agency’s annual “Normative Awards” recognizing employee excellence in the areas of safety, respect, responsibility, goal achievement, all-star and teamwork. At New Directions, the ...
The Resource Center has hired Jackson Graham as the agency’s controller. Graham, a Bemus Point native, joined The Resource Center last summer. In his role as controller, he is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of TRC’s general ledger and associated financial statements, as well ...
Five Star Bank announced the hiring of Brenda L. Michalowski as vice president and senior business banking relationship manager. In this role, Michalowski maintains active relationships with existing customers, fosters new business through actively meeting the needs of those customers and works ...
In a previous column, I detailed retirees’ biggest lifestyle regrets, such as not traveling more before their health gave out and not communicating clearly with a partner about what they hoped retirement would be like. Now we’ll cover the money moves retirees wish they hadn’t made. The ...
LAKEWOOD — The Chautauqua Art Gallery is celebrating its second year in business with an open house Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visitors to the open house will have the opportunity to see new work by new and returning artists. Watercolor demonstrations will take place at 11 a.m. and 2 ...
LAKEWOOD — Starting in March, Happy Hounds Hotel & Day Spa will begin undergoing a 2,600-square-foot addition to its existing facility. The construction process, estimated to last roughly four to five months, will double the size of the doggie daycare area, increase the size of the big ...
A local business is continuing to push forwards into a brighter technological future. Superior Steel Door & Trim Company, located at 154 Fairmount Ave., Jamestown, launched a new addition to its manufacturing process on Jan. 1. The latest update is a new fiber laser cutting machine ...
James N. Olson has joined the public accounting firm of Vanstrom & Company CPA’s of Jamestown. Olson recently retired from the city of Jamestown as director of administrative services/city clerk, with more than 31 years of service and more than 37 years of local governing experience. ...
Lake Shore Bancorp Inc., the holding company for Lake Shore Savings Bank, announced it has awarded $14,000 in grants to local nonprofit organizations throughout Erie and Chautauqua counties. The bank’s Community Reinvestment Committee, comprised of four members from local communities, is ...
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge says it’s likely that Microsoft was trying to avoid or evade paying U.S. taxes and is ordering the company to hand over financial documents from more than a decade ago. The Internal Revenue Service has been seeking the documents as part of a long-running ...
If you’ve saved a lot for retirement, or your parents have, you could be affected by recent changes in the rules about retirement distributions. The recently enacted Secure Act eliminated the “stretch IRA,” a strategy used by affluent investors to pass tax-advantaged money to their ...
Experienced restaurateurs are bringing the fine dining experience to downtown Jamestown. Do you want to enjoy a 28-day aged angus steak or Marine Stewardship Council certified seafood? Do you want to dine where there is a valet so you don’t have to worry about parking? These a just a few of ...
Gary Rater is retiring after a 50-year career at Maplevale Farms Inc. For most of his career, Rater has been a sales representative for Maplevale Farms selling food service items to local restaurants, nursing homes, hospitals and schools. Rater played an integral role in helping Maplevale ...
AM Suchar Accountants has hired two new staff accountants for the 2020 tax season. New employees are Elizabeth "Libbi" Martin and Jamie Ansell. Martin graduated from Panama High School. She holds a bachelor's degree in public accounting from the State University of New York at Fredonia. ...
ERA Team VP announced the addition of Kacyn Cheney to its team of real estate sales professionals serving consumers in the Chautauqua County area. Cheney is the newest real estate agent to join ERA Team VP Real Estate, and she will be working out of ERA Team VP’s Jamestown location at 23 E. ...
Most retirees regret not saving more. A 2018 study by Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found 73% wish they’d put aside more money on a consistent basis, and half felt they waited too long to get serious about retirement saving. But retirement is about more than the balance in ...
DUNKIRK — Mark Geise, Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency CEO, together with Erie Land Development LLC, announce that the Battery Point Villas luxury apartment complex project planned for 468 Lake Shore Drive East in the city of Dunkirk will break ground in the spring of ...
LAKEWOOD — Six Century 21 Turner Broker agents attended the C21 LIVE event at Mohegan Sun Casino & Resort in Uncasville, Conn. The agents sat with others from Century 21 offices in the northeast listening to speakers and discussing ways to build their businesses based on delivering an ...
Business advisers from the Small Business Development Center will be available at the Prendergast Library to answer any business related questions at no cost. Advisers will be available on Jan. 14 and Jan. 23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Prendergast Library, 509 Cherry St., Jamestown. ...
FALCONER — Truck-Lite Co. LLC announced that Genstar Capital has made a significant investment in Truck-Lite, a leader provider of safety lighting, filtration systems and telematics services for commercial vehicles. Truck-Lite was owned by affiliates of BDT Capital Partners, Koch Equity ...