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PVCS teacher, coach facing sex abuse charges with youth

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SOUTH DAYTON -- A Pine Valley Central School teacher has been charged with allegedly engaging in sexual contact with a juvenile. On Dec. 3, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint from the Pine Valley School District regarding a teacher employed at their school. The ...

Council To Discuss Allocation Of Funds To Blooming Gardens Project

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A resolution focused on the Department of Development allocating HOME Redevelopment Funds to the ongoing Blooming Gardens project in the city is up for discussion at tonight’s city council work session. The Blooming Gardens project is being done in a collaboration between Southern Tier ...

Chilling Out: Dunkirk, Fredonia Participate In Polar Plunge

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BLASDELL — It takes something truly inspiring to convince someone to jump into Lake Erie on a December morning. Special Olympics certainly checks that box. Students and supporters from across western New York converged at Woodlawn Beach State Park last week for the Special Olympics Polar ...

Sex offender violation nets Jamestown man probation

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A Jamestown man will serve up to three years of probation after not registering with the Pennsylvania state police in accordance with Pennsylvania’s sex offender registration requirements. Walter Morse, 46, of Jamestown was charged in January with third-degree felony failure to register ...

Area Police Reports

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JAMESTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT — Georgeanna Ribbing, 49, of Jamestown was charged with third-degree assault, criminal obstruction of breathing or blood flow and endangering the welfare of a child. At 12:20 p.m. Friday, officers responded to a southside address for a reported physical ...

Portland enacts battery storage moratorium

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PORTLAND — After fliers in the town of Portland began to circulate alluding to interest of a battery energy storage system in the town, the Portland Town Board moved quickly to make sure it had the time it needed to properly regulate such systems. A one-year moratorium on battery energy ...