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Village ‘incorrect’ on Flock issue, Schmidt says

Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt denies that a Flock Safety camera outside Fredonia Village Hall was put up without the village’s knowledge or consent. “With all due respect to the (Fredonia Board of) Trustees, it is factually incorrect to assert that the camera at ...

County delays vote on retirement benefits for managers

MAYVILLE – County managers are going to have to wait a little longer to see if they can get retirement health benefits as good as some union employees. For the second month in a row the Chautauqua County Legislature has tabled a vote amending a local law which would permit a retiring ...

Pelletter continues push for Hanover pharmacy

HANOVER — When Rite Aid shut its doors in the village of Silver Creek, residents all throughout the town of Hanover were met with a significant inconvenience. The people of Silver Creek and Hanover were left without a pharmacy in town. Since then, Hanover Supervisor Lou Pelletter and ...

Donations keep Centaur Stride’s mission possible

When everyone assumes somebody else will take responsibility, sometimes nobody does. There is an anonymous saying that captures this tendency to pass responsibility along: “This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to ...

Library notes Native American Heritage Month, dedication

For the past 10 years, the Anderson-Lee Library in Silver Creek has dedicated programming each November to celebrating Native American Heritage Month. What began a decade ago as an idea shared by the late Cristine Huff and fellow library staff has grown into a much-loved community tradition. ...

Alum makes special return with band, chorus

Thursday’s free concert with the Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus was a homecoming for one member of the ensemble. Maj. Philip Tappan, deputy commander of the United States Army Field Band, earned a master of music in Music Performance (Orchestral Conducting) from Fredonia in 2010 ...