Eighteen school districts using your taxpayer dollars are continuing to prove they are major economic engines for Chautauqua County. Each year at this time, they expect a stamp of approval from residents when it comes to spending plans. When the annual vote occurs across the state on Tuesday, ...
Two Democratic county officials want to see the clerk’s pay cut in the future as well as see legislators' automatic pay raises eliminated. CLERK PAY Chautauqua County Legislator Bob Bankoski of Dunkirk has prefiled a local law to reduce the county clerk’s pay from $89,300 to $79,300 but ...
PORTLAND — Certain topics can take just the smallest spark and turn it into an inferno. That’s the case in Portland following a resolution passed by the Town Board on March 11 that expressed “general support” of a potential data center project at the Sugar Hill Golf Course. The ...
The Route 5 bridge over Canadaway Creek in the town of Dunkirk will be closed for the foreseeable future, as the State Department of Transportation (DOT) begins its complete reconstruction of the bridge that has stood for over 90 years. The Route 5 bridge replacement project was to get ...
FORESTVILLE — Two of the most influential teachers at Forestville Elementary School will be moving on after this year. After impacting countless lives for more than three decades at Forestville Elementary, when school is out for summer, Gary Worosz and Michele Dolce will be saying ...
Disagreement over the future direction of Dunkirk’s financial governance marked this week’s Common Council Finance Committee meeting. Councilman-at-large Nick Weiser convened a two-headed discussion on local state legislators’ plan for a Fiscal Recovery Act renewal and a proposal to add ...