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Fredonia Village Board Sets Hearings for Budget with Proposed 55% Tax Hike
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4/1/2025 1:23:22 PM
The Village of Fredonia has set a series of special meetings with department heads to discuss the village's proposed 2025-2026 budget. A total of five budget hearings were approved during Monday's Board of Trustees meeting, with the first one scheduled for Thursday. During the public portion of the meeting, former village trustee James Lynden expressed concern over the $8.25 million proposal, sa...read more
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Branch Elected Chair of Chautauqua Institution Board
2025-04-01 08:27
The Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees will have a new leader in the fall. On Tuesday, the board announced that Laurie Branch has been elected to succeed Candace Maxwell as board chair, effective October 1st. Maxwell will have completed three consecutive two-year terms as chair, which is the maximum allowed under the board's bylaws. Branch is a fourth-generation Chautauquan and a lifelong...read more
Survey Finds Most Excavators Do Not Call 811 Before Starting a Digging Project
2025-04-01 08:07
April is National Safe Digging Month, and UDig NY, the nonprofit that provides the 811 service for 55 counties in New York, has an important message for anyone planning a digging project: Underground utilities could be anywhere, and no project that involves digging is too small or shallow to place a free request to have the approximate location of buried utilities marked out. Earlier this year,...read more
County Launches PASS Initiative to Address Housing Crisis
2025-04-01 07:47
A new public initiative launched by the Chautauqua County Department of Social Services aims to further the county's effort to address rising housing insecurity and homelessness. DSS officials say the Public Assistance Shelter Supplement (PASS) initiative is designed to better support families, single adults, and childless couples struggling with housing costs, and will help bridge the gap betwe...read more
Jamestown Woman Arrested After Outburst at School, Attack on Officer
2025-04-01 05:19
A Jamestown woman is facing a number of charges following an outburst and subsequent attack on an officer within a city school building on Monday. Jamestown Police were called to the unnamed school shortly after 8:15 AM to remove 33-year-old Alyssa Payne, who had become disorderly and allegedly threatened staff in a student-populated area. When Payne was told to leave the building, she allegedly...read more
Schumer: Sweeping Tariffs Would Deal $7 Billion 'Gut Punch' to Upstate New York
2025-04-01 05:07
President Donald Trump has been touting Wednesday as "Liberation Day," when his sweeping tariffs, including reciprocal tariffs, are scheduled to take effect. However, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer says those tariffs would have devastating impacts across upstate New York. During a video conference call on Tuesday with statewide media outlets, including WDOE News, the New York Democrat sa...read more
Man Resentenced for 2018 Sex Crimes in Jamestown
2025-04-01 03:50
A Jamestown man whose March 2020 sentence for sex crimes was deemed illegal by a New York State appellate court was resentenced in Chautauqua County Court on Monday. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt says 40-year-old Dennis Park, Jr. was resentenced to 18 years in state prison for his conviction on a Class B felony count of 1st-degree rape and 25 years post-release supervision fo...read more
County's Jobless Rate Rises to 5.4% in February
2025-04-01 03:44
Chautauqua County's unemployment rate went up by two-tenths of a percent during the month of February, according to preliminary statistics released Tuesday by the New York State Department of Labor. The county's jobless rate clocked in at 5.4% for the month, which is higher than its 5.2% rate in January. It's also higher than New York State's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4.3%. One ye...read more
AG James, Coalition Challenge $11 Billion in Cuts to Health Funding
2025-04-01 02:26
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 22 other states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed a lawsuit over the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' slashing of $11 billion in funding previously allocated to states for public health, mental health and addiction initiatives. James says the cuts announced by HHS last week include $400 million for New York. In t...read more
Jamestown City Council Turns Down HOME Funding for Gateway Lofts Project
2025-04-01 12:21
The City of Jamestown will have to find another use for $640,000 in federal funding for remediation work at the site of the proposed Gateway Lofts housing project on Water Street. On Monday, the City Council rejected the seed funding for the $77 million project, which will still move forward with money from confirmed investors. Several people spoke during a public hearing and the council voting ...read more
Pinwheel for Prevention Campaign Kicks Off Child Abuse Prevention Month in County
2025-04-01 08:02
April marks Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time when communities come together to raise awareness and take action in the fight against child abuse and neglect. Last year, Chautauqua County received more than 2,100 reports of child abuse, according to the New York State Central Registry, and about one-fourth of those cases have been substantiated by the county's Department of Social Services. Co...read more
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