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Ferguson talks village issues, housing effort with Hochul

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Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson, North Tonawanda Mayor Austin Tylec, and Ithaca Mayor Cantelmo Thursday joined Amherst Supervisor Shawn Lavin at the state Capitol in Albany to advocate for state Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Let Them Build agenda. Hochul’s ‘Let Them Build’ plan would make it ...

17 Democrats ask court to enforce CLCPA

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Seventeen Democratic Party members of the state Assembly are asking an appeals court to require New York state to proceed with regulations to further implement the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. The CLCPA mandates a 40% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 ...

SUNY alumni named as commencement keynote speakers

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Speakers named for the May 16 Commencement in the State University of New York at Fredonia’s Steele Hall are alumni Jim Ranney and Craig A. Harris. Ranney, speaker for the morning ceremony, serves as Director of Communications and Senior Advisor to New York State Senator Patrick Gallivan. ...

Local officials react to announcement

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County officials were involved for nearly a year trying to prevent the closure of eSolutions Furniture’s plant on Mason Drive in Ellicott. Those efforts, according to County Executive PJ Wendel and Mark Geise, county IDA director, included working with Empire State Development, Upstate ...

Bush Industries to close its doors

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One day after saying it had no public information to share, Bush Industries closed its doors. Employees were told during a 9 a.m. meeting Thursday that the Jamestown plant — and longtime headquarters of the company — was closing. Rumors had been running rampant throughout the community ...

Hotel attorney responds to threat

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The lawyer for the motel targeted for shutdown by Fredonia Mayor Michael Ferguson has offered a lengthy response. Richard Morrisroe, counsel for Dunkirk Hospitality, LLC, owner and operator of the former Econo Lodge motel on Bennett Road (Route 60), called on the village of Fredonia to rescind ...