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WJTN News Headlines for Sept. 5, 2019

A business partnership in Chautauqua County has put out a new brochure to help market and recruit workers and residents to the county....  

The publication -- entitled "Find Yourself in Chautauqua County" -- was recently released by the C-H-Q Partnership.  County Executive George Borrello says most businesses that recruit have good publications of their own but, those included little about the county in general.

Borrello says the brochure talks about attractions, schools and colleges, recreation and other opportunities.  He says it also promotes the affordable life-style of the area.  In addition to the brochure, he says there is an on-line, downloadable version of it and, that can be found at CHQpartnership.org.  Borrello says the publication includes a number of facts that often aren't available on-line.  He says on-line searches very often lead to bad or negative information.  He says the brochure came out of his 100 businesses visited in his first 100 days in office.  Borrello made his comments for this week's "Community Spotlight" program on the six Media One Radio Group stations.


A significant upgrade is in the works for the Fieldbrook Foods in Dunkirk....  

Mayor Willie Rosas says Wells Enterprises has plans for an approximately $100-million dollar upgrade at Fieldbrook's Dunkirk facility.  Rosas says the north county city has been working with the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency... and, state officials to help make the project happen.

Rosas says the project involves a variety of improvements, including upgrades to loading docks, internal and parking lot improvements, and, a new electrical substation.  Rosas adds the expansion is also expected to include more than 50 new jobs.  Wells Enterprises, which is based in Iowa, acquired Fieldbrook Foods in April.


The parent company of Fieldbrook Foods -- which also makes Blue Bunny ice cream -- is also buying a plant in Nevada, making it its fifth U.S. production facility....  

Wells Enterprises said Tuesday that the Uni-lever plant in Henderson will help Wells meet the growing demand for its products in the western United States.  Besides Blue Bunny ice cream, Wells makes Bomb Pops and private label ice cream and packs products for other companies.  The family owned Wells declined to say how much it is paying for the Henderson plant, which has about 250 employees who are expected to be retained.  In addition to it's Dunkirk plant, Wells has two manufacturing plants in Le Mars, Iowa and, it's fourth is in Lakewood, New Jersey.


Local Congressman Tom Reed and two Salamanca officials are blasting Governor Andrew Cuomo for not paying the city the casino revenues it's owed by the state....  

During Reed's weekly telephone conference call with regional media, the three called on the governor to pay the Cattaraugus city the $6-million it's owed this year so it can meet it's budget, and get it's public safety program back to normal.  Reed says the most frustrating part is that Cuomo okayed giving Niagara Falls the $12-million it's owed from the Seneca Nation.
  
Mayor Michael Smith noted that he had talked with members of Cuomo's administration about Salamanca receiving it's money three times and, was told initially they would get it.  However, that hasn't happened.  The Salamanca Fire Department has been reduced from 20 to 16 full-time firefighters and, Chief Nick Bocharski says they've had to make due, even utilizing police to help put out fires.  In one instance, they could not get a properly trained firefighter to a recent emergency call for a 40 year-old person who had a heart attack and, that person later died.


A Jamestown woman was arrested for drug possession during a traffic stop in the Town of Ellicott Wednesay morning....  

Town Police say they stopped a vehicle on Fairmount Avenue and, investigation revealed the passenger in the car -- 31 year-old Stephanie Dellahoy -- was allegedly in possession of methamphetamine, suboxone and subutex.  She was taken into custody on three counts of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and, issued appearance tickets for Ellicott Town Court at a later date. 


A group of New York inmates is suing the state prison system, saying its efforts to crack down on prescription drug abuse have gone too far.... 

Eighteen prisoners said in a suit filed Monday that they are living with chronic pain because it has become too hard to get approval for some medications.  The suit blames a policy adopted in 2017 that requires an extra layer of approval by senior prison system medical staff before inmates can get prescriptions filled for commonly abused drugs.  The lawsuit says those approvals are rarely given, leading to hundreds of prisoners being cut off from drugs used for legitimate medical conditions.  The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says the agency is "committed to battling the opioid epidemic and stemming the tide of addiction."


Canada goose hunting season is open throughout most of New York state.....  

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos says the September goose hunting season is designed to help reduce the resident Canada goose population, which has expanded to nuisance levels in some areas.  New York's population of non-migrating Canada geese has grown from 80,000 in 1995 to more than 340,000 today.  Hunting seasons have been liberalized in efforts to curb population growth.  The September Canada goose season runs from September 1st through September 25th in upstate goose hunting zones.  Hunters are allowed to take eight to 15 birds a day depending on the zone.