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Hazeltine Library To Host December Art Exhibit

BUSTI - The Hazeltine Public Library is welcoming Kelly Hunt as the library’s December artist on display. Hunt always had a love for art in school so in 2000 she picked up a paint brush and taught herself to paint. While working full time and raising three children she and her mom traveled ...

Randolph Approves Slight Tax Increase

RANDOLPH – Randolph Town Board members recently approved a final budget for the 2026 fiscal year. While there is the expected slight increase in rates for the next year, the increase remains smaller than increases from past years. Despite ongoing projects within the town, it seems there was ...

Sales Include Former CIty Rite Aid

A former drug store building has been sold at less than a third of its value three years ago. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the sales from Oct. 1-6. During this time period, OFP Wagradol NY, LLC sold 811 ...

Goold As Gold: For Five Years, Father And Son Volunteer Together

The shutdown caused by the pandemic provided a father and son with an opportunity to give back to their community by volunteering together. Five years later, they’re still doing it. Bob Goold had been a regular volunteer at another area non-profit agency until the pandemic forced that ...

Season’s Most Important Gift May Surprise

Something incredibly important happened three hundred years ago. It was right up there with the most important things that ever happened on earth: people across all walks of life became obsessed with reading. It is hard to overstate how radical that moment was. Historians call it the ...