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Holiday window decorating winners announced

Over a six-week period from mid-November to mid-December, the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce promoted a countywide holiday window decorating contest for local businesses. 94 businesses signed up to participate, from Clymer to Silver Creek and many communities in between. Each business had to decorate their windows – visible from the outside – and each was assigned a number. We promoted the businesses, and they promoted themselves, and anyone could text in the number of the window they liked best. This text contest was hugely popular, with over 5,000 votes submitted. The ...

Bailey Manufacturing gets loan for new warehouse

A Forestville manufacturer will soon be expanding. During the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency meeting Tuesday, John Hines with Bailey Manufacturing was in attendance regarding a proposed $130,000 loan. They plan to use the money to construct a new 7,000 foot warehouse. IDA ...

Wrap up your shopping at locally owned businesses

How’s your Christmas shopping going? Are you still on the hunt for just the right gift? Have you checked out local stores to see what they have? Right here in Chautauqua County there are dozens of small locally owned businesses offering a wide variety of merchandise in a broad price range. And when you shop locally, there’s no need to worry about orders being filled correctly or deliveries arriving on time and intact. You just pick out your items, purchase them, and carry them home with you to be wrapped. It’s easy! Are you on the hunt for local works of art? Check out Chautauqua ...

Comptroller says state can move forward with both hope and caution

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli addressed the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting on Friday and pointed out the county has seen solid results in job development and unemployment in the last two years. But he also said while the impact of the COVID pandemic is mostly behind us it is not entirely gone yet. The hospitality and manufacturing sectors added jobs in Chautauqua County and are back to pre-pandemic levels. But government, including public education, is the largest employer in the county and is still below early 2020 levels. While New York State has ...

Chautauqua Mall tax assessment again decreased

The new owner of the Chautauqua Mall is getting a break on the property’s tax assessment — but not nearly as big a break as was originally requested. Earlier this year, Chautauqua Mall Realty Holding LLC. filed an Article 7 case in state Supreme Court seeking a reduction in the mall’s ...

Shop Small and Support Our Local Economy

Small Business Saturday is upon us, and we cannot stress enough the importance of supporting small locally owned businesses – not just for one day, but all year round. Our mission is to build vital connections, provide professional resources, and champion our local businesses in Chautauqua County. As a champion for local businesses, we are laser-beam focused right now on encouraging local people to support locally owned merchants. On Small Business Saturday, November 25, we are incentivizing local consumers to shop at small local businesses, and do a check-in on Facebook or ...