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Jamestown, CVCS continue transportation agreement

Two area school districts have entered into a shared services agreement for transportation services, to help with the increasing challenges in staffing bus drivers that are continuing to occur both locally and nationally. Jamestown Public Schools and Cassadaga Valley Central School approved a shared services agreement at the Jamestown Board of Education’s August 11 meeting, and Cassadaga Valley’s August 12 board meeting. The agreement will be used on an as-needed basis and came about due to Cassadaga Valley having needs to collaborate with other school districts last year sometimes ...

Ellery supports Bemus Creek dredging application

The town of Ellery is supporting a county grant application that would pay to dredge a portion of Bemus Creek. Dave McCoy, Chautauqua County Department of Planning watershed coordinator, recently addressed the Ellery Town Board regarding the county's pursuit for a state Local Waterfront ...

County DA to address license plate reader issue

Chautauqua County’s district attorney has been receiving some criticism regarding some License Plate Readers, commonly referred to as Flock cameras, that were recently installed in the village of Fredonia. Those criticisms continued at Wednesday’s Chautauqua County Legislature meeting. ...

Finishing touches

Three schools in the city have been undergoing construction work throughout the summer, and while construction projects are still being worked on, all three schools are expected to be open for students and staff for the beginning of the school year. Dr. Kevin Whitaker, Jamestown Public ...

Plans for Hadley Bay Road property discussed

STOW - A property on Hadley Bay Road in Stow will have to wait a bit longer for a special use permit from the North Harmony Town Board. The property is located just off of Route 394 before Interstate 86. The North Harmony Town Board and town Planning Board have had discussions in recent weeks regarding the Leighton Properties proposal for the property. Existing basement apartments in the building will be removed to become dry storage only while showers will be removed from two apartments to be used as commercial spaces only. The Leightons also want to make the building state Fire ...

UCAN director eyes retirement — again

Dec. 31 is a target date the executive director of the United Christian Advocacy Network (UCAN) City Mission has kept on his radar for some time. Bruce Baehr has been at the helm of the city mission located at 7 W. First St. through periods of expansive growth, programming expansions, ...