UPDATE (10:15 a.m., Nov. 19, 2015) The Prendergast Library board has cancelled its meeting for Thursday due to a lack of a quorum. The meeting will not be rescheduled. Instead the board will resume discussing its budget during its next regularly … [Read more...]
City Officials Continue to Review 2016 Budget as Deadline Nears
JAMESTOWN - The Jamestown City Council continued the 2016 city budget process Monday night with a public hearing on mayor Sam Teresi's version of the proposed spending plan, as well as with continued deliberations on the budget during its work … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library Director to be Featured on WRFA ‘Community Matters’ Program
JAMESTOWN - The newly appointed executive director of the James Prendergast Library Association says she ready to help continue to make the library a community destination in the 21st century. Prendergast Executive Director Tina Scott was officially … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library, CCLS to No Longer Share Executive Director Position
JAMESTOWN - The James Prendergast Library will soon have its own executive director. Yesterday the Prendergast Library Association (JPLA) Board of Directors voted on splitting the Executive Director Position between the JPLA and the … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library Board Approves Appointment of New Trustees
JAMESTOWN - The board of trustees for the James Prendergast Library will have several new faces the next time it meets in January. During Thursday’s monthly meeting, the board approved the appointment of four new trustees to the board. They are Karl … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Library to Make Final Fundraising Push for 2012
JAMESTOWN - Members of the James Prendergast Library Board of Trustees are hoping that the month of December will yield more donations. The board held its monthly meeting Thursday afternoon and discussed several items, including fundraising. Board … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Fundraising Down 30 Percent at Prendergast Library
JAMESTOWN - Officials at the James Prendergast Library in Jamestown say fundraising for this year is significantly lower compared to last year. During the October board meeting of the library’s board of trustees, board treasurer Tom Rankin told board … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library Holds First Meeting Following Ouster of Exec. Director
JAMESTOWN - The James Prendergast Library board of trustees held its first meeting following the ouster of embattled executive director Linda Mielke Thursday afternoon. The meeting began with comment from the public, including local resident Pat … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library Board to Meet Today
JAMESTOWN - The James Prendergast Library Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting today since the ouster of its former executive Director. Linda Mielke, who was hired to serve as director of the library and the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library … [Read more...]
MORNING NEWS: Prendergast Library, Chaut-Catt Library System Severe Ties with Director
JAMESTOWN - The woman who was hired as the Executive Director of the James Prendergast Library and Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System less than a year ago is no longer at that position. Officials with the Prendergast Library board of trustees … [Read more...]
