As the month of July melts into the sunset, August begins to turn up the heat when it comes to this campaign season. In both Pennsylvania and New York, it appears incumbents are in complete control with the election 95 days away. Republican gubernatorial challenger Bruce Blakeman is hoping ...
Jamestown native Dorothy Jean Fuller Lundeen and The Flor Hotel have something in common - they’re both turning 100 this year. Lundeen’s birthday is today. Her son, Daniel Lundeen said she was born Dorothy Jean Fuller on July 31, 1926, at WCA Hospital. She lived in Stillwater on a dairy ...
BUSTI - Most area residents have never seen Ralph Sandquist’s bird carvings. They can do so now at the Hazeltine Public Library in Busti. Nearly a decade after his first attempts at a public display, the bird carvings of Ralph Sandquist have found a home at the Hazeltine Public ...
The town of Pomfret is getting additional funds from the county for a study to investigate options for shared services and mergers. During the recent Chautauqua County Legislature meeting, lawmakers approved a resolution to award Pomfret $25,000 from the county’s Government Reduction initiative. The money is not part of the county’s budget but rather will be coming from its reserve accounts. In September, County Executive PJ Wendel announced that he wanted $500,000 from the county reserves to create a government efficiency fund that would support local municipalities in ...
The owner of the DG Market store on East Second Street is asking the state Supreme Court to decrease the store’s taxable assessment mere months after the store was closed for code violations. Bruce Stavitsky, the New Jersey attorney representing MDC Mercury 2604 Propco 4 C/O Dollar ...
There will be no water service extension into the town of Ellery as a project to extend Board of Public Utilities water into Ellicott begins. A water survey last fall showed there wasn’t enough support among town residents for Ellery to move forward with the proposal, which could have served part of Fluvanna. The BPU had contacted Ellery about a possible extension once the Ellicott project took shape. The owner of apartments in Ellery had asked about the status of the potential water line during a recent Ellery Town Board meeting. “The survey came back really sketchy,” ...
