Lois I. “Hammond” Swanson, 88, of Jamestown, passed away Sunday (Sept. 4, 2022) in Heritage Green Rehab and Skilled Nursing. She was born on Aug. 26, 1934, in Jamestown, the son of the late Bert and Ruth Hollister Saxton. Lois was employed for many years as a cashier at Quality Markets ...
A 40-hour work week is likely coming for farmworkers in New York state whether they like it or not. One day after the nation celebrated the Labor Day holiday, the Farm Laborer Wage Board voted in a 2-1 decision to recommend the state labor commissioner decrease the overtime threshold to 40 hours. That reduction would take place over the next 10 years and start Jan. 1, 2024. Roberta Reardon, state labor commissioner, now has 45 days to review the report and recommendations. That decision is expected to be influenced by Gov. Kathy Hochul. “The workers on whom we depend for the food ...
RECAP OF 2021 SEASON: After getting the job right before practices began a year ago, Mark Benton took over a previously winless team and immediately got hit with a COVID pause. Dunkirk did rebound with a win over Lake Shore, before six straight losses ended the regular season. The Marauders ...
AMHERST — Three-hundred and thirty-eight days. It didn’t take long for Jovany Ruiz-Navarro to come up with the number Tuesday afternoon. Its significance? The number of days since Ruiz-Navarro took his last snap for the University at Buffalo’s football team. Ruiz-Navarro remembers ...
MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the accomplished author had survived the attack. Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Hadi Matar said he decided to see Rushdie ...
An Ohio Supreme Court has affirmed the placement of wind turbines in Lake Erie as part of the Icebreaker wind project off the shores of Cleveland. By a 6-1 margin on Wednesday, the justices ruled the power siting board employed "a flexible standing in granting the requested certificate (that) ...
