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Silver Creek lists honor, merit rolls

SILVER CREEK --- The honor and merit rolls for the third quarter have been announced by Silver Creek Middle & High School. 12th Grade Honor Roll --- Meadow Azzarella, Bella Banach, Kimberly Bauer, Kiele Boedo, Samuel Bowers, Lilly Carlson, Nathan Cross, Skyla Gates, Amelia Hammer, Ryleigh Hanner, Helle Havstrup, Irelynd Henry, Weronika Kolakowska, Takoda Marr, Mackenzie Mosher, Lucas Nosbisch, Alexandria Parks, Autumn Rice, Haleigh Salisbury, Colin Shumaker, Gwendolyn Souter, Brian Stull Jr., Elisabeth Tampubolon, Sophie Wickmark, Courtney Wolff, and Sebastian Yaskow. 12th Grade Merit ...

Sales include $1M worth of Villenova farmland

A little more than 200 acres of farmland in Chautauqua County has been sold for more than $1 million. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from Feb. 24-27. The county does not provide transaction ...

Fourth Grape and Wine Fest planning begin

Planning is underway for the fourth annual Westfield Grape and Wine Festival, scheduled to take place on Sept. 18 and 19 in Moore Park and at the Grape Discovery Center. An organizing committee has been meeting for weeks to finalize all the plans which promise something for everyone. The ...

City promotes PFAS money, water system

New payouts on a settlement over removal of PFAS from Dunkirk drinking water gave the city another chance to tout its water system. City Department of Public Works Director Randy Woodbury sent a press release about the two payouts totaling more than $40,000. “The city water treatment plant has been removing PFAS and other organic legacy contaminants using filtration by granular activated carbon (GAC) since the 1990s,” he stated. PFAS is a group of man-made “forever chemicals” that was “used in many items from fire-fighting foam to non-stick cookware, and it is now widely ...

SKF, Cummins Navigate Regulations, Global Unrest

National and global politics are helping shape the coming months for two of the area’s larger employers. Officials from Cummins and SKF talked recently with investor analysts about the effects things like tariffs, new environmental regulations and global uncertainty, particularly in the ...

Johnson Estate Winery celebrates 65th year with awards

WESTFIELD — While the winter was impressively cold and the spring weather worrisome for growing grapes due to early bud break and potential freezes, Johnson Estate’s commencement of its 65th anniversary year has been good. Last month, the winery learned it had been awarded 10 Gold Medal awards including four with Best of Class designations at the Los Angeles International Wine Competition. And then this week, we learned that the winery’s second vintage of Sparkling Rosé Ice Wine was rated Exceptional, 94 Points by the Beverage Testing Institute/Tastings.com. These awards ...