FALCONER - The owner of the West Main Mercantile building is hoping Falconer’s NY Forward Grant will help make her building an even bigger centerpiece of the village’s business district. Members of the Falconer NY Forward Grant Local Planning Commission met recently, with heavy ...
FALCONER - The projects up for inclusion in the final Falconer NY Forward grant plan continues to shift as the process continues. Since the three previous LPC meetings, Joshua Greene, a project planner with LaBella Associates, said during a recent meeting that several funding requests have been added or withdrawn, shifting the competitive landscape. Private projects decreased from 13 proposals to 10; six public project applications were submitted; and one non-profit application was received. In the small project category, there were originally three letters of interest, with the ...
The city Development Department will receive additional city support after the expiration of American Rescue Plan Act funding that has supplemented the department’s budget in recent years. The Development Department budget booklet presented to the City Council outlines many of the department’s projects, and Crystal Surdyk, city development department director, said every step of any project requires administration, coordination and follow through. Surdyk also briefly talked on the city’s historical funding allocation to the department, also noting their request has increased ...
FREDONIA - Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson was advised last week to “say less” about the situation involving a Route 60 motel that used to house homeless people. He was not interested in following that advice the previous night. Ferguson offered another defense of his actions on the former Econo Lodge, which lost that chain’s designation and then shut for months. It’s now reopening as an America’s Best Value Inn. The mayor successfully pushed for removal of homeless people placed there by Chautauqua County. However, he said at last week’s village Board of Trustees ...
Flipping the calendar from October to November brings an end to Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and with it an opportunity for Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign five pieces of domestic violence-related legislation. Kyra’s Law is one of those bills. The legislation (S.6194C/S.2280C) Kyra's Law ...
A man has been charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a physically disabled person on Monday. Justin Houghton, 40, was charged at 5:19 p.m. after city police responded to an address on the city's east side for a report of a domestic incident. Officers allege Houghton assaulted a ...
