Panama News

I saw in the June 9 edition of The Post-Journal that in the last year the Panama School's ranking has dropped 14 positions.

A 16-year-old female was charged with petit larceny Wednesday after she was allegedly caught stealing several items from the Family Dollar store in Brooklyn Square around 6 p.m. She was taken to the city jail and held awaiting arraignment.

Maplevale Farms will sponsor the first of two 2009 appearances by the American Sprint Car Series Patriot Sprints this Saturday at Busti, N.Y.'s Stateline Speedway.

M.A.C. Truck Parts and Chad's Ring & Pinion will sponsor the Jen Carlson Memorial Outlaw Cadet Special Saturday at Stateline Speedway.

MAYVILLE Talking with Chautauqua County residents in an informal and comfortable setting is a priority for County Executive Gregory Edwards, and so he has visited a number of coffee shops and restaurants around the county over the past several months.

Four men and a woman have been arrested in Panama in a plot to kill a United States drug enforcement agent, prosecutors in New York said Friday.

Emily Trisket was given an award for third place at the Congressional Art Competition's reception in Buffalo.

Eleanor C. Wood, 84, of 45 Panama-Bear Lake Rd., Panama, died at 6:00 P.M. Sunday in her home.

Marie S. Martin, 73, of 75 Andrews Ave, formerly of Panama, N.Y., passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, May 30, 2009 in Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, Buffalo.

The world's swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.

Brookelynn at the Cloak & Dagger boutique. Photo: Melissa Hom Park Slope-based designer Brookelynn Starnes hasn't had the quite the same uphill struggle as most aspiring young designers.

The Chautauqua County Board of Elections has completed its annual voter registration outreach to county schools.

Art shows and concerts were held Tuesday at several school districts around the area.

The Super Sportsman division will be highlighted this Saturday at Stateline Speedway, sponsored by the Sugar Shack in Sugar Grove.

The Cayman Islands are well known to those seeking sun, sand and sea--and for their hospitality to US corporations seeking to escape taxes, launder money and use other discreet financial services.

The Super Challengers will be in the spotlight this Saturday at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y., in the Super Challenger Extra sponsored by the House of Television.

When I was 23, I fell in love with a birdwatcher. I'd just finished college and was living in rural Vermont, not because I loved mountains and open space, but because I'd gotten a job as a reporter at a small-town newspaper.

Panama Central School officials recently announced the school's April Students of the Month.

Three alleged Colombian guerrilla fighters arrived in New York yesterday to face terrorism charges.

Three men accused of being members of the Colombian rebel group FARC were extradited from Panama on Friday and charged in federal court in New York with conspiring to support a terrorist organization.