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Area fully plugged in to data center debate

Maybe Portland town Supervisor Rich Lewis and Town Board members were testing the waters in March. That is when the body passed a resolution expressing its support for a proposed data center to be located on the grounds of the former Sugar Hill Golf Course. If anything, they had the residents at a boiling point. Within the next three months, an online petition was started and a Facebook Grape Belt Community Group with a modest 210 members was started to send a message of opposition to any such plan. Located near the shoreline along Route 5, the former golf course property is ...

Westfield rescue awarded $500,000 grant for new shelter

WESTFIELD - The Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue has been awarded a $500,000 Companion Animal Capital Projects Fund grant from the state Department of Agriculture and Markets to support construction of a new shelter. NCCR is one of 12 organizations statewide selected to receive funding ...

Falconer to hold public hearing Monday

FALCONER - The village of Falconer will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Monday to get village residents’ opinions on the village’s plan to apply for state grants to complete sanitary sewer system work. The hearing will be held in the Fireman’s Exempt Hall, 3 Coleson Drive, Falconer, to hear public comments on the village’s community development needs and to discuss the possible submission of one or more Community Development Block Grant applications for the 2026 program year. The CDBG program is administered by the New York State Office of Community Renewal and will make ...

New Chapter

The Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education has approved the appointment of Nicole Marino to serve as the new assistant principal of the Innovation Center at R.R. Rogers School. Marino, who is currently the assistant principal of Jefferson Middle School, will begin her position this ...

Tobacco business, mobile home park found guilty of violations

A judge has found a north county business guilty of violating a state law for selling tobacco products as well as a south county mobile home park for not submitting required water reports. A representative with NF Sparks, Inc., which is located at 105-107 Lakeshore Drive East, Dunkirk appeared before the Hon. Betsy S. Steger, the designated Chautauqua County Board of Health Hearing Officer. The business was accused of selling an illegal flavored vapor product to an individual under the age of 21. Jessica Wuerstle with the county Health Department told the Board of Health her office ...

New Southwestern principal ready to begin work

The Southwestern Central School Board of Education has approved the appointment of Katie Miley as the district’s new middle school principal. Miley succeeds Greg Lauer, who served as principal of Southwestern Middle School for the past two years. Miley brings 17 years of experience as a ...