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Village revenue outpaces costs, but fund balance worsens

Fredonia Treasurer Erlyssa LeBeau offered a report on the village’s 2025-26 fiscal year at the most recent Board of Trustees meeting. Mayor Michael Ferguson called the report “Not always perfect, but certainly better than last year.” Fredonia’s main budget line, aka “general fund,” wound up in positive territory by $504,595. The village’s revenue was $9,011,886 and its expenses ran to $8,507,290, according to LeBeau. (Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar.) That represents a significant improvement over the 2024-25 closing total of minus $224,677. However, the ...

Rice retires, Helmer steps down as athletic director

SILVER CREEK — After 29 years with the Silver Creek Central School District, serving in a variety of roles as a coach and an educator, Kevin Rice has elected to retire. The Board of Education accepted his resignation from the roles of English Teacher and Dean of Students at a recent ...

Locally-made Cummins engine to hit market in 2027

It’s been two years since full production of a new line of X15N engines began at Cummins Inc.’s Jamestown Engine Plant. Now, the X15N engine is ready for market after clarification from the U.S. EPA - no pun intended - cleared the road for its deployment. In July, the EPA issued a rule ...

Two charged after drug raid in Jamestown

Two Jamestown residents face charges after a search warrant was executed at 6:33 a.m. Thursday on Falconer Street. Around 6:33 a.m. Thursday, the Jamestown Police Department SWAT team was activated and executed a search warrant at 352 Falconer St., Jamestown. Once the SWAT team made entry, officers allegedly found Alexis Morales-DeJesus and Niderah M. Manuel along with three youths .Once the residence was secured, detectives searched it and allegedly found two revolver style handguns, a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, fentanyl, digital scales, packaging materials and a quantity of U.S. ...

Jamestown man found with crack cocaine, charged

A Jamestown man faces drug charges after a search warrant was executed on North Main Street on Thursday morning. Joel I. Rosario-Negron, 44, of Jamestown was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia at 6:10 a.m. Thursday. According to a police report, narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office and Jamestown Police Department executed a search warrant at 1107 N. Main St., Jamestown, with Jamestown Police SWAT making entry into the house. Located inside the ...