JAMESTOWN - It’s time once again to take out the trash during BPU Spring Clean-up, during the week of May 5 – 9. Place clean-up items at the curb - in bags when possible --- after 6 p.m. the night before your normal garbage pick-up day. Items … [Read more...]
Larson Tapped as Second Jamestown City Judge
JAMESTOWN - Long-time local attorney Fred Larson will become the second city judge of Jamestown. Mayor Sam Teresi announced Larson as his selection during Monday’s Jamestown City Council voting session, saying that considering there were a number … [Read more...]
Power Outage on Willard Hill Impacts Hundreds of Residents
JAMESTOWN - Residents in the Willard Hill area of Jamestown experienced a temporary power outage early Tuesday night. The outage affected nearly 1000 people and was restored within 20 minutes. According to the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities, a … [Read more...]
Jamestown BPU Warns of Possible Phone Scam
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...]
