In an era of big-box stores and online shopping, Small Business Saturday is intended to help the little guy. “Small Business Saturday is a national movement intended to encourage folks to look to their local retail businesses for their holiday shopping needs as opposed to looking to the ...
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The city of Jamestown has a little way to go before it takes the top of western New York’s tax rankings. According to a recent report by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, the city’s $51.66 effective property tax rate ranks ninth in western New York behind Cheektowaga in Erie County and the Allegany County municipalities of Wellsville, Andover, Alfred, Almond, Burns, Cuba, and Alma. Jamestown’s effective tax rate is the highest in Chautauqua County. Chautauqua County towns populate the ranks of the lowest effective property tax rates, with the town ...
The county’s budget will be out for public review in a week. Commissioner Ben Kafferlin said during Wednesday’s meeting that the commissioners would be voting on the 2020 spending plan on Dec. 26. County code requires a minimum 20 day period for public review. Kafferlin said that a draft of the budget was completed by Fiscal Director Eric Hern for the commissioners to review over the weekend. He said those revisions would be incorporated into the document that goes out for public review by noon on Dec. 4. Hern noted that with new finance software that the 2020 budget will ...
Darling’s Home Care has announced that it has been named the recipient of the Ability HomeCare Elite for the second consecutive year and HHCAPS Honors for the third consecutive year. Additionally, Darling’s Home Care has been named to the Top 500 of the HomeCare Elite for 2019 – ...
Northwest Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Northwest Bank, and Jim Sundahl, President of Sundahl & Co. Insurance, jointly announced that they signed a definitive agreement, dated November 1, 2019, under which Northwest Insurance Services will acquire Sundahl & Co. Insurance, a property and casualty insurance firm headquartered in Bradford Pennsylvania with locations in Warren, Grove City, and North East. The deal is expected to be finalized on December 1, 2019. Founded in 1911, Sundahl & Co. Insurance has grown through a series of acquisitions to be one of the largest insurance ...
