State Sen. George Borrello and Assemblyman Andrew Molitor joined Chad Ecklof, the Ecklof family and employees of Ecklof Bakery last week to celebrate the longtime Jamestown business’s 70th anniversary. During the visit, Borrello and Molitor presented a proclamation recognizing seven decades ...
An undeveloped 657-acre site on Route 5, Sheridan will be studied to see if it is good for future development. During the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors meeting, Economic Development Coordinator Nate Aldrich stated that National Grid has awarded the IDA $500,000 from the company’s Strategic Economic Development Outreach Program for the promotion of the Eagle Bay Shovel Ready Development Project. Eagle Bay is what the 657-acre property is called. Previously the county IDA was awarded a $675,000 grant by Empire State Development. “What this ...
The city’s department of public works is looking to enter into an agreement for engineering services with C&S Engineers for their flood mitigation project near Jones and Gifford Avenue, and this agreement is up for approval at tonight’s voting session. The agreement is not to exceed $403,300, and the project is set to improve existing drainage channels along Jones and Gifford Avenue from Washington Street to reduce flooding impacts to transportation infrastructure and nearby industrial properties. According to tonight’s voting session agenda, the engineering scope includes survey ...
“201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown” 201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown was sold in June for $70,000. At one time this was a Marine Midland Bank. A former south county bank that was planned to be a distillery has been sold. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from June 15-18. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are available for review at the clerk’s office. During this time period, TBT Holdings, LLC sold 201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown to ...
FALCONER - The Village of Falconer is seeking its piece of a $4.5 million grant from New York State. Members of the Falconer Local Planning Commission (FLPC) met at the Village Fire Hall Training Center, located at 115 Davis St., on Wednesday to better understand how to tap into a $4.5 ...
Have you noticed there aren’t many bugs around? What fascinates me most about the disappearance of insects is how quietly it happened. There was no particular summer when we walked outside and announced that the bugs were gone. There was no funeral for the moths around the porch light. Nobody held a memorial service for the bugs that used to splatter against our windshields. I used to run around our lawn on Chautauqua Lake growing up catching lightning bugs in mason jars. We had fly strips hanging from our kitchen ceiling. Running across the grass in summer was a good way to get ...
