New York state says it is fully funding the Foundation Aid formula for schools and meeting a state court decision requiring additional aid to eight small city school districts - including Jamestown. The school districts disagree. On Tuesday, the small city school funding lawsuit will be ...
ASHVILLE - The Ashville community recently helped to beautify the Ashville Free Library. A garden of native plants and shrubs, with plants purchased from Art Samples Nursery in Ashville and Royal Fern Nursery of Fredonia was installed to beautify the Ashville Library and road near the library. Preparation of the space was provided by Ronnie Blynt of RC Property Solutions. On a humid September day, volunteers Oliver Burgeson, a Panama High School student and National Honor Society member, Jo Ann Bardo, Heidi Bird, Julie Nelson of the Audubon Gardeners, Forest McCray, a community ...
FALCONER - Dark gray smoke darkened the sky over Falconer on Friday afternoon as firefighters fought a fire at JMI's 1946 New York Ave., Falconer, concrete facility, around 1:26 p.m. JMI is the largest, family owned producer of ready-mix concrete in Chautauqua County. Firefighters from at ...
JAMESTOWN POLICE - Joseph A. Snyder, 41, of Jamestown was charged with petit larceny, two counts of public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child at 11:09 a.m. Thursday after officers responded to a downtown business for a reported shoplifting. Snyder allegedly stole merchandise ...
A Euclid, Ohio, man has been charged after a hit-and-run accident that left an unnamed person dead on the state Thruway earlier this week. Devante A. Jones, 34, was charged with operator leaving the scene of accident - injury resulting in death. Jones was charged at 4:19 p.m. Wednesday in ...
FALCONER - Have you ever wondered why the second-busiest road in Falconer is named Work Street? Brenda Cavallaro, Falconer village historian, shared the answer during a recent Falconer Village Board meeting along with a brief history of some of the names behind roads and streets in the village. The first group of streets named were after prominent people in the village: Work (Edward Work), Falconer (Patrick Falconer), Davis (Gilbert Davis, who built the Davis block and Davis Hall), Everett (a prominent businessman), Phetteplace (John Phetteplace, the first president of Falconer), ...
