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Two charged after incidents at Falconer hotels

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FALCONER - Issues at Ellicott hotels drew a pair of police responses over the past week., including a woman who ran from police during a warrant check Sunday. Jasmine N. Calloway, 41, of Jamestown was charged with second-degree escape, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and two counts of petit larceny at 10:58 a.m. Sunday. Ellicott police report conducting a warrant check at a Falconer hotel where it is alleged Calloway had an active arrest warrant for her arrest. Calloway was taken into custody on the arrest warrant and shortly after being placed under arrest, ...

Fredonia officials debate filmed workshops

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Fredonia village officials recently questioned the continued videotaping of trustees’ workshops. Fredonia Fire Chief Joshua Myers said he thought it was decided that workshops would no longer be on camera. “It never happened, I’m not sure why,” Myers said. He was speaking at one of said workshops, with his comments still available to anyone with Internet access. Trustee Paul Wandel replied, “I think the reasoning for the concerns for having on camera, there were some sensitive areas of information that we didn’t want to have publicized.” Myers touched on the subtle ...

Fun at the fair

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This year’s Chautauqua County Fair theme is “Swing Into New Adventures With 4-H” and as fair week continues, the 4-H kids are doing exactly that. 4-H animal shows are held throughout the week, continuing Wednesday with some such as the Open Class Dairy and the Goat Showmanship shows. ...

Community Notebook

Community Notebook

Arkwright to hold Tire Amnesty Day Saturday In honor of America's 250 and as a show of appreciation to its constituents, the town of Arkwright will be hosting a tire amnesty day on Saturday, July 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.. The event is open to all Arkwright residents as well as non-resident property owners. Each residence or individual non-resident property owner may drop off up to 10 passenger/light truck size tires free of charge. Additionally, each residence is entitled to a coupon for a dog license which can be redeemed until the end of 2027. There will be dumpsters available ...

Council hears residents’ financial fears

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The Dunkirk Common Council passed just two resolutions at its latest meeting Tuesday, and heard out some more worrying about city finances. Reva Byczynski and Nancy Nichols, two regular speakers during public comment time at council meetings, needled city officials a bit over finances. Byczynski offered well-wishes for new city Comptroller Tracy Smith-Dengler. “I know her to be an honest, hard-working civil servant. Why she wants to get involved in this hornet’s nest at City Hall, I don’t know — but I wish you all the best, Tracy,” she said. Byczynski expressed a ...

SKF sees demand rising, warns global turmoil clouds outlook

Business

SKF is seeing profits and operating margins increase despite largely flat sales while warning investors that ongoing global turmoil is still clouding its outlook. SKF, which operates the SKF Aeroengine USA plant in Falconer, saw adjusted operating profit increase to 3.22 billion Swedish ...