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Gowanda notes Red Ribbon Week

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Gowanda Middle School emphasized drug-free lifestyles for all students in grades 5-8 during Red Ribbon Week from Oct. 27 to 31. Many students created submissions for the Red Ribbon poster contest. Winners for 2025 are: Arian Rice, Carter Nobles, Isabella Franz, Jassidy Eddy and Rinoa Bolen. ...

Club donates to Dwyer Group

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On Oct. 8, the Mayville/Chautauqua Lions Club presented DreAnn Csorba, Director of the Jamestown Dwyer Group, with a check to help support local veterans. The regular meeting was held at Lake Chautauqua VFW Post 8647 at 6:30 p.m. where Csorba gave a presentation about the Dwyer program and ...

Man tied to deaths of women found in county sentenced

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A Buffalo man connected to the deaths of two women whose bodies were found in Chautauqua County has been sentenced. Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane announces that Richard J. Fox, 62, was sentenced Thursday morning before Erie County Court Judge Suzanne Maxwell Barnes to 40 years ...

State OKs partial Collins closing

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A Western New York facility is part of a prison downsizing plan announced by the New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. In a news release issued Tuesday morning, officials noted the partial closing of the Collins Correctional Facility. Plans are for the location ...

Welch building conversion work targeted for spring

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For 20 years, the former CE Welch building in the village of Westfield has remained vacant. A proposal to turn it into apartments and commercial space could begin in the late spring with plans for it to be open by 2027. Sam Savarino, the chief executive officer of Savarino Companies, ...

Jamestown council speaks of ‘tragic’ death

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JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown City Council began their normally scheduled work session with an unscheduled moment of silence Monday night acknowledging the tragedy that took place in front of Fletcher Elementary School that morning. Leanna Herrera, a 4-year-old, died after she was struck by a ...