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Book Fair, Basket Raffle Is Oct. 3 In Busti BUSTI - The Busti Church of God and Hazeltine Public Library will present a book fair and basket raffle from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. Authors and artists participating include Julia Casselman, Jen Kilburn, Lana Keller, Sally Ferguson, Jessie Andersen, Steve Sorensen, Julia Thompson, Alicia Willsie, Darla Grieco, Mollie Lyon, Heidi Mercier, Emily Stepansky, Arlene Coullter, TJ Buck, Joe Sanifilippo and Dan Weisbrod. The event is a fundraiser for the Busti Church of God Uganda Team, leaving for Africa next spring to present eye ...

Dunkirk mayor plans BESS moratorium veto

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Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz said she is vetoing the Common Council’s moratorium on new Battery Energy Storage System proposals. Wdowiasz told city department heads at her monthly meeting with them last week that Dunkirk was threatened with a lawsuit over the moratorium. She didn’t say who made the threat. “They need to do it properly,” she said of the Common Council. “Local law, public hearings, one end of the spectrum to another.” The veto may be only symbolic, because all five council members voted for the moratorium. Going by past city practice, the council would ...

Jamestown OTB office to close Oct. 31

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Jamestown is scheduled to lose its Western Regional Off-Track Betting branch as of Oct. 31. The OTB board plans to cut its branch operations from eight locations to two, with branches remaining in Williamsville and Gates. Locations in Auburn, Cheektowaga, Empire, Jamestown, Rochester and North Tonawanda are all scheduled to close at the end of October. The OTB board is expected to take formal action on the proposed plan, which was approved after several years of reviewing the financial performance and changing needs of the OTB branch network. An analysis conducted this year examined ...

Falconer to host NY Forward meeting Thursday

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FALCONER - The next meeting of the Falconer NY Forward Local Planning Committee is set for Thursday, Sept. 30, at the Fire Hall Training Center, 115 Davis St., starting at 5 p.m. Falconer is one of two recipients of a $4.5 million New York State NY Forward award for the Western New York region, which will help revitalize part of the village. Members of the Local Planning Commission were nominated by Falconer Mayor James Jaroszynski and, as previously reported in an edition of The Post-Journal, consist of Jaroszynski, who serves as co-chair along with Shane Marcheson, Brenda ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE - Brenda K. Leeper, 58, of Jamestown was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia at 8:45 a.m. Friday after a search warrant was executed at 107 Lister St., Jamestown, by narcotics detectives from the Jamestown Police Department and narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Department. Once officers made entry, they allegedly found Leeper inside as well as a quantity of fentanyl, crack ...