The Jamestown Police Department is in need of updating their current tasers, and a resolution was looked at by the city’s public safety committee and presented to the full council Monday night to support this purchase. The resolution details a purchase agreement with the department and ...
Throughout the last few months the area has been continually blasted by cold and brutal weather conditions, leaving many that are unhoused to require the emergency housing services of Code Blue. With the worst of the cold months seemingly behind, officials have begun to analyze and discuss the program’s results from this past winter and get back to looking into upgrades to strengthen the program in the future. Though Chautauqua County currently offers Code Blue services in north county, there is no solely dedicated building that offers sheltering such as the one in south ...
ASHVILLE – Though small, Ashville is preparing to fully embrace the holiday spirit soon. The hamlet will soon be seeing both an Easter Egg hunt put on by various members of the community, and the annual Easter Carnival coordinated by the Chautauqua Safety Village. Both events will be ...
The city of Jamestown will be in state Supreme Court on April 6 to present arguments why the court shouldn’t require the city to fill leadership positions in the Jamestown Fire Department. The case is being heard by acting Supreme Court Justice Stephen Cass in state Supreme Court in Mayville. Answers and affidavits are to be submitted no later than March 31, according to an order dated March 11. Firefighters and members of the Jamestown Professional Firefighters Association Local 137 are suing the city of Jamestown over consistently leaving management positions such as battalion ...
DUNKIRK — Dunkirk city leaders would like to see a brush drop off site in the northern end of the county. Earlier this week, four Dunkirk Councilmembers attended the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Public Facilities Committee meeting. Those in attendance included Natalie Luczkowiak, ...
WESTFIELD — Westfield Academy and Central School board of Education members tabled Policy 8210 for a second time at their meeting last month due to continuing questions and need for clarification. Policy 8210, Safety Conditions and Prevention Instruction, is a modification of a BOCES policy, which deals with many safety issues. The topics in the policy range from AIDS instruction in health education, CPR and AED instruction, and conservation of natural resources in New York State, to fire and arson prevention, safety and accident prevention in schools, prevention of child abduction ...
