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Chamber To Recognize Local Residents And Organizations

The Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce is proud to recognize a number of local leaders and business and community impact during our Annual Awards Banquet on Thursday, October 5. The Chamber’s annual Economic Development Award is being presented to the Chautauqua County Partnership for Economic Growth. CCPEG brings together more than 65 partner organizations from throughout the county to focus on business development, placemaking, workforce development, housing development, and infrastructure. In 2022 alone, CCPEG secured nearly $1.5 million in funding and leveraged over $7.1 ...

Better Signs

WASHINGTON — An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained low last month, adding to signs of cooling price increases and raising the likelihood that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged when it next meets in late September. Thursday’s report from the Commerce ...

Millions More Workers Could Be Entitled To Overtime Pay Under Proposed Rule

NEW YORK — The Biden administration proposed a new rule Wednesday that would make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, the most generous such increase in decades. The rule revives an Obama-era effort that faced pushback from business leaders and Republicans and was ...

How To Avoid The Top Text Messaging Scam

The Federal Trade Commission recently revealed the most reported text message scam: bank impersonations. Reports of bank impersonations by text in 2022 jumped to 20 times the number reported in 2019. According to the FTC, consumers reported a loss of more than $330 million to text message scams in 2022. And cash that’s lost because of bank fraud or scams isn’t covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or National Credit Union Administration. Banks are a safe place to keep your money, but there are still a few basic but important precautions you can take to ensure you don’t ...

PayPal Using AI To Stop Fraud

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword of 2023 ever since ChatGPT made its public debut earlier this year, with businesses, schools, universities and even non-profits looking for ways to integrate AI in their operations. John Kim, chief product officer for PayPal, spoke ...

New Chapter

A multi-decade legacy did not close at the end of July, but it took on a new chapter as familiar as the white stone and black shutter visage that stands at Central Avenue and Temple Street in the village of Fredonia. After 43 years of owning and operating the Larson-Timko funeral home, ...