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Silver Anniversary

The Toys for Tots campaign in Chautauqua County is celebrating its 25th year of bringing holiday joy to children in need. Since 2000, local volunteers, businesses, and residents have united to ensure that thousands of children across the county receive gifts, hope, and the spirit of ...

Proud Panthers

PANAMA — After continuous conversations over the past year that followed off and on conversations in the village of Panama for about 10 years, the village officially has a sign honoring their state champions on the grounds of the school. The village of Panama has brought up the possibility ...

Carle Wants County To Meet As Hochul Declares Emergency Over SNAP

Both county and state leaders are expressing concerns about the possibility of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program losing its funds by the end of the week. Chautauqua County Legislator Tom Carle, D-Fredonia, who is running for county executive, said he has reached out to the ...

Banks And Retailers Run Short On Pennies As The US Mint Stops Making Them

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States is running out of pennies. President Donald Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is starting to have real implications for the nation’s commerce. Merchants in multiple regions of the country have run out of pennies and are ...

Benefits On Pause

With Supplementary Nutrition Assistance benefits not being distributed at the beginning of November due to the government shutdown, local food pantries are expecting to experience an influx of people in need of their services. At the moment, many pantries are already struggling to cover ...

County Govt. Efficiency Fund Not Focused Solely On Reduction

Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel says the newly established Government Efficiency Fund should be focused on efficiency and can extend to things outside of dissolving municipal government boards. In September, County Executive PJ Wendel announced that he wanted $500,000 from the county ...