On a rainy Monday, Chautauqua County’s grape growers received some sunshine. One week after a visit to Portland and a plea from U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its decision to purchase $20 million worth of Concord grape juice, providing critical ...
For the past few years, Democrats in the Chautauqua County Legislature have been calling for the county’s reserves to be spent down to lower property taxes. It appears they have an unlikely ally. Legislator Fred Johnson, R-Westfield, who is a member of the Audit and Control Committee and ...
Former Interim Principal, Todd Crandall, took off his principal's hat and put on his Executive Director of the Chautauqua County School Boards Association hat to address the Westfield Academy and Central School Board of Education at their meeting this month. Crandall, who became well acquainted with WACS school board members during his time as Interim Middle and Secondary School Principal, told board members that he will be making presentations to all boards in Chautauqua County. "We want boards across the county to know that they are not working in isolation," he said. All 19 ...
New York's public transit system is unlikely to meet a goal to convert its fleet of buses to electric vehicles by a 2040 deadline, according to a new audit by the state's fiscal watchdog. The report, released last week by Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, said the Metropolitan Transit Authority's four-stage plan calling for a one-for-one replacement of its entire fleet of 5,800 buses with zero-emission buses has been stymied by bureaucratic missteps, rising costs for e-vehicles, and reliability issues. “The MTA has set an ambitious goal to transform the nation’s largest bus fleet to 100 ...
FREDONIA — Flock camera outrage has reached Fredonia, with village officials distancing themselves from the program at last week’s Board of Trustees meeting. The issue was the very first thing Mayor Michael Ferguson spoke about at the meeting. “We’ve had a lot of phone calls and ...
Enrolled voters who aren’t part of a political party could be allowed to vote in one primary election of their choosing under legislation proposed recently in the state Assembly. Assemblyman Sam Berger, D-Flushing, has introduced legislation (A.11650) that would allow voters not enrolled ...
