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Eagles Club Gives Back During Holidays

Members of the Chautauqua Eagles Aerie 2145 lodge recently participated in several holiday drives. To further the Fraternal Order of Eagles slogan of People Helping People, many of the club’s members helped create gift bags for children full of snacks, gifts and games donated by the ...

Lakewood Historian Digitizes Past And Present

LAKEWOOD - From awards documents to photos, Historian Olivia Derby is digitizing the past and present. And the process takes various amounts of time to preserve the Village of Lakewood’s pieces for future use. “To preserve the pieces for future use, we are digitally restoring as many ...

‘Fairly Straightforward’: Busti Moves Ahead With Water Project

LAKEWOOD - The town of Busti will move forward with its District 7 Water Expansion Project. Andy Johnson of EcoStrategies, and Matthew Zarbo of Square Engineering updated town board members Monday on what the next steps are. The proposed $5.82 million project was approved in May 2024, and ...

BPU Board Welcomes New Member, Reappoints Chairperson

In its first meeting of the year, the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities welcomed a new member, along with beginning with annual beginning of the year items such as committee appointments and electing a chairperson. City councilman, Brent Sheldon, R-Ward 1, is the new council representative serving on the board. Sheldon takes the place on the board of former councilman Jeff Russell. “Before I go into the organizational issues, real quick, I just want to welcome Brent as a new board member,” Mayor Kim Ecklund said at the start of the meeting. “Everybody else was here last year, ...

Cassadaga weighs DPW consolidation

CASSADAGA — Following the abrupt resignation of former Department of Public Works Supervisor Sam Alaimo, the village had to work quickly to come up with a plan for what to do next. The short-term fix was to rely on assistance from neighboring municipalities, especially the town of ...

Maple Grove Continues Celebrating Retirees With Breakfast

BEMUS POINT – Since about the 1970s, Maple Grove Jr./Sr. High School has held a celebration on the last day of school before winter break begins. This celebration sees a range of retired teachers and school employees returning to have breakfast with, and get to meet, the current staff. With the most recent event having been hosted this past month, many recall some of the earliest of the events and why it still holds such a special place to many today. Scott Lewellen recalls some of the earliest instances of the event, having begun at the school in the 1980s. But Lewellen is even ...