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County to receive $1M mental health service grant

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The Chautauqua County Department of Mental Hygiene has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support comprehensive community mental health services for children with serious emotional disturbances. The funding is provided through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) program and will help strengthen access to coordinated behavioral health services for children and families throughout Chautauqua County. "Every child deserves access to the mental health care and ...

Clymer names honor, merit roll students

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CLYMER - Clymer Central School officials recently named the school’s high honor, honor and merit rolls for the fourth quarter of the 2025-26 school year. They are: HIGH HONOR ROLL 12th Grade: Elliana Bodamer, Olivia Dellamora, Aiden Dobson, Finnegan Fadale, Sadie Fuller, Dayton Hosier, Adelie Jackson, Landon Johnson, Lillian Johnson, Gavin Krasa, Abigail Malecki, Beau Miller, Jeffrey Perry. 11th Grade: Micaleb Anderson, Camryn Battaglia, Gavin Burchanowski, Charlotte Cooke, Harleigh Faulkner, Hannidy Goetzinger, Colton Hamilton, Caira Harvey, Emma Hoch, Caitlyn Kriner, Marleen ...

Maple Grove announces honor, merit rolls

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BEMUS POINT - Maple Grove Junior-Senior High School officials recently released the school’s honor and merit rolls for the fourth quarter of the 2025-26 school year. They are: HONOR ROLL 12th Grade: Mae Benedetto, Lily Bohall, Kameron Brown, Nathan Cali, Cameron Carraher, Gracie Chimera, Liam Colburn, Kaden Cooper, Bryanna Cornell, Gianna DiDomenico, Bayley Godfrey, Alexandria Halstrom, Rylee King, Mattias Kraft, Meghan Lockwood, Skyler Norman, Gemini Prittie, Logan Quattrone, Madilyn Seastrum, Kamryn Seekings, Dani Trim, Katherine Verdonik, Savannah Weart, Kyle Yohe. 11th Grade: ...

Football memories at their finest for some of us

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From grades K through 9, I received my schooling at St. James School, which sat on the site of the present Walgreen’s Pharmacy on Jamestown’s Prospect Street. Being that we had no playground outside our school, we made do (very well too) at what was/is called Fenton Park, which was (and ...

Bean counters often on short end of municipal payroll

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Since a much-needed control board is not part of the current equation, the city of Dunkirk is banking on a new comptroller to better steer the fiscal condition for the municipality. In taking the newly created position this month, Tracy Smith-Dengler will be compensated $140,000 per year. With the entity being strapped for cash, that figure has ruffled some feathers. Before the salary was made public, Common Council member Gary Frederickson from the Third Ward was the lone no vote on the position after he couldn’t get a response on the salary. “It seemed that nobody in this ...

Pa. State Supreme Court decision will limit game warden searches

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The state Supreme Court has overturned more than a century of precedent by limiting state game wardens’ warrantless searches on private property.  In a 7–0 unanimous decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in Punxsutawney Hunting Club v. Pennsylvania Game Commission, sided with ...