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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 ...

Town discusses Dewittville water district extension project

Officials are hoping to start construction on a new water district extension in the Dewittville area by next year. During a recent Chautauqua Town Board meeting, officials held a public hearing on Water District I extension. According to Supervisor Don Emhardt, the water district would run along Route 430 from the water tower at Chautauqua Lake Estates to the village of Mayville. Some residents in the Sandalwood Area who already get municipal water directly from Mayville will now get it from the town of Chautauqua. Because they are now part of the water district, their rates are ...

Schumer brings businessman to State of Union address

On the heels of the Supreme Court striking down President Trump’s chaotic tariff war and as Upstate New York faces skyrocketing costs from tariffs, U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced he will bring Rochester’s Ben Pearson as his personal guest to attend the State of the Union. Pearson is a small business owner who manufactures science kits and other products for classrooms across America, but has suffered as Trump’s tariffs devastate his business, with nearly $1 million in increased costs per year. “Upstate NY’s families and small businesses are being ...