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Challengers need to spice up insipid races

As the month of July melts into the sunset, August begins to turn up the heat when it comes to this campaign season. In both Pennsylvania and New York, it appears incumbents are in complete control with the election 95 days away. Republican gubernatorial challenger Bruce Blakeman is hoping ...

Lakewood police eye camera near Walmart

LAKEWOOD - Lakewood-Busti police are looking to submit a grant application that could result in cameras at Fairmount and Fairdale avenues in the village to better monitor traffic around the Walmart Supercenter. Gov. Kathy Hochul recently announced grant applications are being accepted for ...

Area Police Report

JAMESTOWN POLICE - Jami Slater, 35, was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs at 10:40 p.m. July 24 after officers responded to a request to check the well being of a person at the Tim Hortons restaurant in Brooklyn Square after it was reported there was a woman in a car slumped over the steering wheel. Slater was charged, arraigned and released to be in court later.

Warren man’s motion to withdraw guilty plea denied in case involving Jamestown girl

A Warren man’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea entered in May in relation to three felony charges related to a missing New York teenager has been denied. Michael J. Bundy III, 25, pleaded guilty in the Court of Common Pleas on May 7 to one count of second-degree statutory sexual assault: 8-11 years older, one count of second-degree felony aggravated indecent assault – forcible compulsion and one count of third-degree felony corruption of minors – defendant age 18 or over. The rest of the remaining 13 charges were not prosecuted. After the plea, according to online court ...

August benefit to raise money for longtime Falconer bus driver

The name and face of Roger Lampman is one that is most likely familiar to many in the village of Falconer, where he has served as a bus driver for the school district for over 20 years. Now, Lampman is looking to his community for help as he battles stage four prostate cancer. A benefit ...

Permanent Display

BUSTI - Most area residents have never seen Ralph Sandquist’s bird carvings. They can do so now at the Hazeltine Public Library in Busti. Nearly a decade after his first attempts at a public display, the bird carvings of Ralph Sandquist have found a home at the Hazeltine Public ...