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Sheridan site wins Empire State Development funding

A Chautauqua County location has been selected for funding by Empire State Development under the Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York program. According to a news release issued Tuesday, the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency is receiving $675,000 for a town of Sheridan effort. This predevelopment project will allow for shovel-ready advancement of the long-vacant 657-acre Eagle Bay site. Funds will help expand upon work done during the 1990s, including environmental investigation, rezoning, surveying and real estate due diligence. This work will position ...

Grange history focus of Thursday program in Westfield

WESTFIELD — The history of the National Grange, with a focus on the organization’s first working grange in Fredonia, will be outlined during the Fireside Lecture Series on Thursday at Patterson Library, 40 Portage St. The program, presented by Pamela Brown, begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The Fireside Lecture Series, a collaboration between the Chautauqua County Historical Society and the Patterson Library, provides programs on local and general history. The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, founded in 1867 after the American Civil War, ...

Buffalo manufacturers, MAST commend Hochul’s climate efforts

The Buffalo Niagara Manufacturing Alliance (BNMA), and the Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier (MAST), today issued a joint statement commending Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposed adjustments to the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). As organizations representing New York’s manufacturing sector, the groups support Hochul’s pragmatic approach to address the challenges of implementing the CLCPA and her efforts to better align State policy with the economic realities of enacting the law. The Governor’s proposals include: extending key compliance ...

Clymer seeks funding for school merger talks

The Clymer Central School District is asking Chautauqua County to help finance the project underway for a merger among Clymer, Sherman and Panama school districts. On Wednesday, the county legislature will vote on a resolution for the county to give $100,000 to aid in the merger. The ...

Democrats push tougher price-gouging penalties

State lawmakers are again attempting to create harsher penalties for businesses that take advantage of market instability and keep prices unnecessarily high. Legislation (S.9372) proposed by Sen. Cordelle Cleare, D-New York City, proposes criminal charges as an option for price gouging, ...

$200,000 in funding available for Great Lakes applications

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and New York Sea Grant today announced that $200,000 in funding is available for projects benefiting New York’s Great Lakes basin by demonstrating the application of ecosystem-based management approaches to local watershed ...