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Brant couple sentenced for animal cruelty

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Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane announced this week that Bonnie L. George, 75, and Donald L. George, 78, both of Brant, were sentenced yesterday evening before Evans Town Court Justice Dennis P. Glascott. Donald George was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 2 years’ probation and $2,500 in restitution to the SPCA Serving Erie County. Bonnie George was sentenced to 15 days in jail and 2 years’ probation. As a condition of their sentence, our prosecutor requested that the Court impose a lifetime securing order that prohibits the defendants from owning, harboring, or having ...

Chautauqua County trolley car talk tonight

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MAYVILLE – Tonight, Sept. 17, Bob Johnston, will be giving the Chautauqua Town Historical Society’s September talk in the Chautauqua Municipal Building. Bob Johnston is a local historian and volunteer best known as the founder and driving force behind the Jamestown Street Railway ...

School chief offers promising student stats

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Dunkirk’s superintendent of schools offered a set of positive student statistics at the city Board of Education’s September meeting, Brian Swatland began his report by congratulating two August graduates, Angelisse Cruz Santiago and Luis Montero Ayala, who did not want a ceremony. He ...

Fredonia counselor earns statewide honor for her work

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A Fredonia counselor has earned statewide recognition for her work with students and the campus community. Ivory Brooks-Seay, mental health counselor with the Counseling Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia, is the 2026 recipient of the SUNY Council of Senior Student ...

RTPI Plein Air Festival culminates in weekend sale

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The Roger Tory Peterson Institute’s annual Plein Air Festival is ongoing right now, with artists spending their time outdoors across the area painting and making art of a place in nature locally that inspires them. Following this year’s festival is a sale at the end of the week, and one ...

Community Notebook

Community Notebook

Family breakfast returns Sunday Forest Lodge 166 F&AM is back up and running for the season, and holding its monthly Family Breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday. This all-you-can-eat breakfast will consist of eggs made to order, pancakes or French Toast, sausages, fruit cocktail, juice, milk, coffee and tea. Adults and teenagers 13 and up $13; children, 5-12 $6. Youth under 5 are free. This breakfast is open to the public, and everyone is welcome and cordially invited to attend, (all you can eat is eat-in-only). Anyone with interests in, or has questions about Free Masonry ...