Other WNY
- Financial concerns may threaten wind farm projects
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By Kathy Kellogg
CATTARAUGUS CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- FARMERSVILLE — Noble Environmental Power’s wind-energy projects in Cattaraugus and Allegany communities face an uncertain future both because of the global financial crisis and a legal snag.
- Board OKs bids for capital project
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By Susan Chiappone
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- SILVER CREEK — Silver Creek School Superintendent David O’Rourke says the bids on the district’s capital improvement project are “a season of light” in view of the dim economic news.
- COMING UP
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- PAN-AMERICAN EXPO: Librarian Raya Lee will discuss the Pan- American Expositionat a meeting of the Cheektowaga Historical Association at 7 p. m. today in Alexander Community Center, 275 Alexander St., Cheektowaga.
- Early winter ushers in the Western New York ski season
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By Janice L. Habuda
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 9:19 AM
- This week’s 28-inch snowfall in the Southern Tier is triggering an avalanche of early-season business at local ski resorts, beginning with today’s partial opening of Holiday Valley in Ellicottville.
- Dunkirk roadway resurfaces
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By Susan Chiappone
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/19/08 7:03 AM
- DUNKIRK — Millennium Parkway, a proposed roadway that would connect South Roberts Road and Bennett Road (Route 60) in the city’s 4th Ward, is back on the drawing table.
- 10 percent tax rate increase projected in next budget
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By Kathy Kellogg
CATTARAUGUS CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- OLEAN — A tax rate increase of almost 10 percent and a drop in assessed property values are reflected in the Olean city auditor’s advance summary of a 2009-2010 budget outline handed to members of the Common Council’s Finance Committee on Tuesday night.
- Millennium Parkway resurfaces
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By Susan Chiappone
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- DUNKIRK — Millennium Parkway, a proposed roadway that would connect South Roberts Road and Bennett Road (Route 60) in the city’s 4th Ward, is back on the drawing table.
- Board hears of looming state cuts
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By Holly Hewitt
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- FREDONIA — The Fredonia Central School District stands to lose more than a half-million dollars in state aid if Gov. David
- Holiday Valley to open ski season Thursday
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- ELLICOTTVILLE — Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen: Get ready to step into your bindings.
- GCC Skills Training Center awards $108,000 in grants
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- BATAVIA — Genesee Community College’s Business Employee Skills Training Center has announced grants of $108,000 to be shared among three firms for leadership development and employee training.
- Dwyer gets third term heading GCC Foundation
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- BATAVIA— John C. Dwyer, of Batavia, has been elected to his third one-year term as president of the Genesee Community College Foundation, which funds scholarships for students at the two-year college.
- COMING UP
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- PAL AUCTION: Former Buffalo Bills running back Thurman Thomas and former Sabres Rene Robert and Rick Martin will serve as honorary cochairmen of the annual Police Athletic League auction fundraiser from 5:30 to 8:30 p. m. today in Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, 6461 Transit Road, Lancaster. Some items include: vacations, golf outings, sports memorabilia and more. Tickets are $50 and include an open bar and food. For more information, call 851-4615.
- Assault brings 2-year prison term
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By Donna Snyder
CATTARAUGUS CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man was sentenced to two years in prison for assault Monday during sentencing in Cattaraugus County Court.
- Hearing set on firm’s plan to move
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By Susan Chiappone
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- SILVER CREEK — Rem Tronics, a Silver Creek company that makes small electronic components, wants to move to the Empire Development Zone in Dunkirk and is asking the Silver Creek Village Board to OK the relocation.
- Town Board revises wind farm regulations
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By Kathy Kellogg
CATTARAUGUS CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- FARMERSVILLE — The Farmersville Town Board voted Monday to replace its 2007 town law regulating wind farm projects with a shorter and more general version, while also lifting last month’s temporary moratorium against wind energy facilities.
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