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South Dayton dissolution vote set for Tuesday

There are nine villages in Cattaraugus County. That total may soon reduce to eight. On Tuesday, July 14, residents in the village of South Dayton will be headed to the polls to decide if they want to dissolve their village government. If approved, all assets will eventually be turned over ...

Request to rescind Portland resolution ignored

PORTLAND — Community members in Portland have not wavered in their opposition to the idea of a data center coming to town at the site of the former Sugar Hill Golf Course on Route 5. At least a dozen members of the public have attended each of the four meetings in protest since the Town ...

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Falconer Village Board To Meet July 13 FALCONER — The Falconer Village Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, July 13, in the Fire Exempts Hall, 3 Coleson Drive. The public is welcome to attend. Bemus Point School Board To Meet Monday BEMUS POINT - The Bemus Point Central School Board of Education will hold its reorganizational meeting on Monday, July 13, at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria at Maple Grove Junior-Senior High School. There will be a public hearing from 5:45 to 6 p.m. to get public comment on the district’s school safety plan. The public is welcome. Stockton Library To Host ...

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 ...

Capturing A Crisis

A documentary photographer’s 7,000-mile, 30-city project documenting housing insecurity will begin Monday in Jamestown. Karen Lippowiths is in the midst of her newest project, Extended Stay, an exhibit that will cross 13 states and 30 cities across Appalachia, from New York to Mississippi. ...

Paths To Success

While Buffalo Bills players often occupy the spotlight on Sundays, Nick Lacy and Chris Brown have built careers that demonstrate the many paths to success in professional sports. Lacy, an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Bills, and Brown, the longtime voice of the Bills ...