WESTFIELD - The Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue has been awarded a $500,000 Companion Animal Capital Projects Fund grant from the state Department of Agriculture and Markets to support construction of a new shelter. NCCR is one of 12 organizations statewide selected to receive funding ...
A consulting firm working with the Chautauqua Lake Watershed and Management Alliance is calling for a management plan for starry stonewort. Starry stonewort is an invasive algae that functions like a plant but forms in dense stands that choke out native plant and fish populations. It has ...
The Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education has approved the appointment of Nicole Marino to serve as the new assistant principal of the Innovation Center at R.R. Rogers School. Marino, who is currently the assistant principal of Jefferson Middle School, will begin her position this ...
As New York works toward competency-based graduation standards, a state Assembly member is proposing adding a veterans remembrance civic engagement requirement as well. Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz, R-Hicksville, introduced legislation (A.11601) before the end of the state legislative ...
JAMESTOWN POLICE DEPT. - Ivan G. Benitez, 41, of Jamestown was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief at 1 p.m. Wednesday after officers responded to a north side address for a 911 investigation. Officers determined that a domestic incident occurred resulting in a cell phone allegedly being smashed. Benitez was found a short distance away and taken to the city jail until he could be arraigned. - Kyle D.M. Pratt, 19, of Jamestown was charged with second-degree menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon at 8:33 p.m. Wednesday ...
The Fenton History Center celebrates 200 years of newspapers in the newly opened exhibit, “Read All About It!” The exhibit was created with the help of the Post-Journal’s long-time Publisher Mike Bird, retired Editor Cristi Herbst and content from historian Helen Ebersole’s book An ...
