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IT purchases, new BPU division on council agenda

Two items are up for council approval tonight under new business, IT purchases from multiple departments, and the creation of a new division for the Board of Public Utilities. BPU General Manager, Kris Sellstrom, spoke with the council last week during their work session on the BPU looking to create a Digital Services and Infrastructure Division, in connection to the ongoing fiber project. The division would operate similarly to the other five BPU divisions, and allow for a division for BPU employees to focus solely on the fiber and related items. Up for approval tonight is a local law ...

Sales include buildings for Jamestown bar

 A downtown Westfield building that houses multiple businesses has changed ownership. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from July 14-20. The county does not provide transaction information, but ...

Looking back, we lived a dream, and more

Over time, we’ve tried very hard to make things as easy for our children as possible, short of doing everything for them. Sometimes, we had to say, “no” to things. Sometimes, we had to make them do for themselves, but where we could, and still can, we try to help them as much as ...

Whatever happened to “hello?”

There was a time when a ringing telephone meant something. Someone wanted you. The phone rang in the kitchen and everybody heard it. If you were a teenager, you might sprint 100 miles an hour from another room to get there before your mother did. There was no caller ID. No advance warning. You ...

Anew Center to paint city purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Month

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and as a part of that, the Salvation Army Anew Center is handing out purple lights to local people and businesses to “paint the town purple” next month. Lights began being handed out Wednesday. Linda Cecchetti, Anew Center Prevention Education team lead, said this year is an expansion on what the center did last year. “We started this last year,” Cecchetti said. “October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and that is what the Anew Center is all about, helping people that are in a domestic violence situation. Purple is the ...