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Weekend stroll around the lake

Challenge. Community. Strength. All three will be on display, beginning early Saturday morning. It’s just the way Dunkirk resident Collin Barmore has envisioned it for months. So at 7:30 a.m., he will leave Lakeside Park in Mayville and embark on a run that will take him around ...

Domestic incident, stealing from vehicle among overnight police reports

- Ryan D. Edwards, 42, of Jamestown was charged with two counts of first-degree criminal contempt, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation and fourth-degree criminal mischief at 6:30 p.m. Monday at an east side home. Officers received a complaint regarding a past-tense domestic ...

Jamestown OTB office to close Oct. 31

Jamestown is scheduled to lose its Western Regional Off-Track Betting branch as of Oct. 31. The OTB board plans to cut its branch operations from eight locations to two, with branches remaining in Williamsville and Gates. Locations in Auburn, Cheektowaga, Empire, Jamestown, Rochester and North Tonawanda are all scheduled to close at the end of October. The OTB board is expected to take formal action on the proposed plan, which was approved after several years of reviewing the financial performance and changing needs of the OTB branch network. An analysis conducted this year examined ...

Two charged after Friday drug raids

Two Jamestown residents face charges after drug raids Friday morning by Jamestown police officers and Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies. Brenda K. Leeper, 58, of Jamestown was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia at 8:45 a.m. Friday after a search warrant was executed at 107 Lister St., Jamestown, by narcotics detectives from the Jamestown Police Department and narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's ...

Homeless man charged with St. Susan Center refrigeration unit destruction

A homeless Jamestown man has been charged with destroying the cooling system at the St. Susan Center in August. Jurall R. Reid, 33, was charged Monday with second-degree criminal mischief and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Reid was arraigned in Jamestown City Court and ...

Dunkirk woman sentenced to probation in government theft case

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Angela Kellogg, 35, of Dunkirk, who was convicted of theft of government money, was sentenced to serve three years’ probation by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. In July 2020, Kellogg provided her identification information and social security number to a ...