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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 ...

Buffalo man charged in Villenova drug bust

VILLENOVA --- A Buffalo man has been charged after an investigation into narcotics activity on Friday morning. Narcotics investigators from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office and the Jamestown Police Department executed the search warrant at 8061 Route 83 in the town of Villenova ...

‘Shortage’ plea highlights food insecurity in region

A recent Facebook post highlighted a need in the Dunkirk community that stretches far beyond just the city itself. The Chautauqua County Rural Ministry shared that it is “facing a critical food shortage”. The shelves of its food pantry were nearly empty as a plea went out to the area to ...