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Fredonia OKs hearing for police employee

FREDONIA - Fredonia Police Chief Gregory Myers has received permission to pursue discipline against one of his employees. The village Board of Trustees approved two resolutions Monday to set up a hearing for the employee, who is not getting named by village officials. Myers is authorized to suspend the worker without pay “upon delivery of the charges against him,” according to one of the resolutions. Trustees Paul Wandel said the resolutions were “difficult for me to consider…but I am putting my faith in our due process system.” Trustees Ben Brauchler and LeeAnn Lazarony ...

Reg Lenna to present sing-along edition of The Greatest Showman on Oct. 10

A sing-along edition of The Greatest Showman will be shown at the Reg Lenna Center for The Arts at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. The film, inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum, was a surprise hit with moviegoers, raking in $81 million at the box office. The music, from "La La Land" and "Dear Evan ...

Cedric the Entertainer to perform in Salamanca in January

Cedric the Entertainer will bring his vaunted stand-up act to the Seneca Allegany Casino stage in January. Beginning in the 1990s, Cedric the Entertainer built a career in stand-up comedy, as well as in film, television, and voice acting, earning recognition for his contributions to ...

Jamestown’s Art in the Alleys to get an update

Jamestown’s Art In the Alleys will have new artwork arriving this spring through a partnership with the Chautauqua Art Gallery, the Jamestown Renaissance Corp. and area high school students. The JRC is working with Stephanie Baker at Southwestern Central High School and Leslie Calimeri of ...

Council approves IT purchases with 2026 contingency funds

Information technology purchases for multiple city departments have been approved by the City Council in a pre-emptive move to lessen spending in the upcoming 2027 budget proposal. The total cost for the purchases is $40,578. Purchases to be made are as follows: an Epson DS-900WN document scanner for the City Comptroller’s office, a passport system for the City Clerk’s office, a computer in the City Clerk’s office, a computer in the Corporation Counsel’s office, a computer for DPW director Mark Roetzer, a computer for the Parks Department, a new monitor in the City ...

Dunkirk mayor plans BESS moratorium veto

Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz said she is vetoing the Common Council’s moratorium on new Battery Energy Storage System proposals. Wdowiasz told city department heads at her monthly meeting with them last week that Dunkirk was threatened with a lawsuit over the moratorium. She didn’t say who made the threat. “They need to do it properly,” she said of the Common Council. “Local law, public hearings, one end of the spectrum to another.” The veto may be only symbolic, because all five council members voted for the moratorium. Going by past city practice, the council would ...