JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities is warning customers to be on the lookout for a phone scam. Officials say they’ve learned that an unidentified person has been calling area residents and stating that their electricity would be … [Read more...]
Residents will Receive New BPU Recycling Bins Starting this Week
Specially equipped bins will allow BPU to offer monthly $10 credit to residents that recycle JAMESTOWN - Residents who get their garbage picked up by the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities will be getting special new recycling bins starting this … [Read more...]
[VIDEO] United Way Hits Campaign Goal
JAMESTOWN - With Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s book The Giving Tree as the call-to-action, the 2013 United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Campaign came to a momentous close Tuesday in the Sarita Weeks Reception Room at Jamestown Community … [Read more...]
BPU Customers To See 2.5 Percent Increase in Water Rate for 2014
JAMESTOWN - Board of Public Utility costumers will be seeing a slight increase in their water rates for 2014. But, according to BPU General Manager David Leathers, the 2.5 percent increase in water division rates is the only increase in any of the … [Read more...]
United Way Helps Boys & Girls Club Partner with Local Business for Energy-Saving Solution
JAMESTOWN - The Winifred Crawford Dibert Boys & Girls Club of Jamestown is getting 267 new energy-saving lights thanks to the IBEW Local no. 106, Ahlstrom-Schaeffer, and Jamestown BPU. The undertaking is part of United Way of Southern Chautauqua … [Read more...]
BPU Gives Approval to Sharing 2013 Profits with City
JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities will share $475,000 - roughly 10 percent - of its 2013 profits with the city of Jamestown. That after the BPU held a meeting on Tuesday afternoon to finalize its 2014 budgets for both the electric … [Read more...]
Jamestown BPU to Decide on Dividend Sharing with City
JAMESTOWN - The issue of whether or not the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities will be sharing its profit with the city of Jamestown will be settled today. The BPU will hold a meeting Tuesday afternoon at its offices on Steele St. to discuss the … [Read more...]
City Council Approves 2014 Budget that Includes 1.9 Percent Property Tax Increase
JAMESTOWN - Property owners in the city of Jamestown will see their property tax payment go up by 1.9 percent for 2014. That after the Jamestown City Council Monday night approved next year’s $33.5 million spending plan by a vote of 8 to 0, with … [Read more...]
BPU Unable to Finalize 2014 Electric, Water Budget; Dividend Sharing Remains Sticking Point
JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities is going to wait a few more weeks before deciding whether or not it will hand over $475,000 in the form of a dividend payment to the city of Jamestown. The BPU held its November meeting on … [Read more...]
Larson, Prieto Run for Legislature’s District 12 Seat
JAMESTOWN - A former representative in both city and county government is looking to get back into the political arena, but he’ll have to defeat a local businessman in order to do so. Among the contested races for the Chautauqua County Legislature … [Read more...]
