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Discover Cassadaga: Annual Labor Day Festival expanding

CASSADAGA – For several years, the village of Cassadaga has held its own Labor Day festival. Now it’s expanding with fireworks, a lawn mower dice run and a new day called “Cassadaga Days.” The Labor Day Festival will begin on Friday, Sept. 4, with a street dance at the American ...

SUNY Fredonia graduate takes FCS science job

Ava Waterman won’t have to travel far for her first teaching job. This fall, she makes the jump from SUNY Fredonia to the Fredonia Central School District as Fredonia’s new Science Teacher. Waterman graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a Bachelor’s Degree in Adolescence Education: Biology ...

District Attorney grilled on Fredonia Flock cameras

Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt vigorously defended his office’s use of Flock Safety cameras in Fredonia. The village residents who jammed the Fredonia Board of Trustees room to hear him speak Monday were not impressed. Schmidt said the cameras help catch criminals and ...

Area Police Reports

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE - MAYVILLE - Heather R. Coon, 33, of Mayville was charged with third-degree criminal mischief at 1:03 p.m. Monday after deputies responded to an address in the town of Chautauqua for a report of an altercation. Coon allegedly damaged the property of another person valued at more than $250. Coon was taken to the Sheriff's Office for processing before being taken to the Chautauqua County Jail for centralized arraignment.

Jamestown, CVCS continue transportation agreement

Two area school districts have entered into a shared services agreement for transportation services, to help with the increasing challenges in staffing bus drivers that are continuing to occur both locally and nationally. Jamestown Public Schools and Cassadaga Valley Central School approved a shared services agreement at the Jamestown Board of Education’s August 11 meeting, and Cassadaga Valley’s August 12 board meeting. The agreement will be used on an as-needed basis and came about due to Cassadaga Valley having needs to collaborate with other school districts last year sometimes ...

SUNY JCC receives donation from Scandinavian Heritage Foundation

JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown American Scandinavian Heritage Foundation recently donated the two-volume reference work, "Swedish Contributions to American Freedom, 1176-1783" to the SUNY Jamestown Community College Hultquist Library. Written by noted Swedish-American historian Amandus ...