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Brainy Battles

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Some of the region’s best and brightest spent the past two days taking part in a battle of the brains. STEM Wars 2025 was held over the past two days at the Northwest Arena featuring variety of challenges, such as competitions in robotics construction and programming, addressing social ...

Spring Street Housing Project Proposed

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An affordable housing project set to be placed on Spring Street, known as the Blooming Gardens Project, has been presented to the city Planning Commission. The Blooming Gardens project is being done in a collaboration between CODE Inc and Southern Tier Environments for Living. The project ...

JPS Superintendent Receives New 5-Year Deal

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Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education members Wednesday approved a five-year contract for Superintendent Dr. Kevin Whitaker. According to Board President Paul Abbott, the contract is from July 1 to June 30, 2030. In 2022 the board also extended Whitaker’s contract by five years. As ...

LaBella To Speak On Fredonia Water Study

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The LaBella Associates engineering firm will report Tuesday on its study of Fredonia joining the Northern Chautauqua County Water District, village Mayor Michael Ferguson said Thursday. Ferguson said in an email to village officials and the OBSERVER that LaBella would do a presentation on the ...

BPU Discusses Electric Bill Scammers

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The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities is warning the community about potential scam calls from people claiming to want to talk about their electric bills. During the BPU’s May meeting, board member Marie Carrubba said she received two different phone calls within the span of five minutes ...