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Credit Union Acquires Building

LAKEWOOD — Southern Chautauqua Federal Credit Union purchased the former Wealth Management Building located at 110 Mall Blvd., Lakewood, and closed on it earlier this month. The new building will serve as the credit union’s headquarters. The Legend Group and Deppas Insurance Agency will continue to reside in the building. SCFCU will now boast a training center large enough to gather the entire staff of over 70 employees and ensure regular, ongoing conversations and communication. The credit union believes this opportunity affords them the ability to continue to build and grow ...

How A Credit Card Strategy Saved On Home Remodel

The morning after the hurricane hit Florida, I got a text from my tenant. “I have completely moved out,” he wrote after the storm last fall, wishing me an abrupt “good luck” despite having been there over three years, with eight months left on his lease. The wind had just subsided, windows were still boarded up and my nerves were frazzled. The building was unscathed from the hurricane, but a different storm had ravaged the apartment. Once inside, I found pet damage to the doors and walls, busted tile in the bathroom and broken kitchen cabinets — a list of repairs that would ...

Economist Still Sees A Recession Coming

WASHINGTON — For more than a year, the U.S. economy has defied predictions of a forthcoming recession. It has withstood 10 interest rate hikes in 16 months from an inflation-fighting Federal Reserve. In June, America’s employers added a healthy 209,000 jobs. Will the economy remain ...

Recession Or Not?

WASHINGTON — Despite more than a year of widespread warnings that a recession was near, America’s economy is, if anything, accelerating. Even as the Federal Reserve has sent borrowing costs sharply higher, the economy’s resilience has been on plain display: Consumers keep spending, ...

Area Man Added To Academy Board

RANDOLPH — Randolph Academy, a two-campus public school district which supports, empowers and educates children struggling with various emotional and mental health disabilities, has added Scott Winterburn to its Board of Education. Winterburn is the intake coordinator for New Directions ...