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Sales include $1M worth of Villenova farmland

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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 ...

Person dies after stabbing Sunday in Jamestown

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JAMESTOWN --- Jamestown police are investigating a Sunday stabbing that has left a person dead. On Sunday, May 3, around 4:30 a.m. city police officers responded to the area of Lakeview Avenue and East Eighth Street for a report of a stabbing victim. Once on scene, officers located an ...

Fredonia hotel owner fights closure

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Dunkirk Hospitality LLC is fighting the village of Fredonia’s attempts to force those staying at the former Route 60 EconoLodge to leave the building. The company filed an Article 78 lawsuit Friday asking the state Supreme Court to annul and vacate Fredonia’s April 27 direction to vacate ...

By popular demand: Spring Thing returns to CVCS this weekend

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SINCLAIRVILLE — Graduates of Cassadaga Valley Central School from the 1970s and ‘80s may remember the school-wide community showcase event that was known as Spring Thing. The event has not been held in many years, but Cassadaga Valley administrators and students have been working to bring ...

Police report on tamer Fred Fest this year

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SUNY Fredonia students’ annual May party weekend passed this year with no violent crimes, but dozens of arrests, according to the Fredonia Police Department. Police Chief Gregory Myers sent over the department’s annual report on “Fred Fest,” an unofficial and non-sanctioned ...

Public, private sector rift keeps escalating

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Chautauqua County is well known for its north-south divide that has been evident for more than a century. It is a tiresome and defeatist attitude that residents in Dunkirk-Fredonia and Jamestown cannot work as one more often. In recent decades, efforts by the CHQ Chamber, the Chautauqua Sports ...