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Trustee and Chautuauqa County Dispatcher Marv Cummings speaks at the Silver Creek community forum on Monday night. Cummings was the board member tasked with organizing the meeting.
SILVER CREEK In response to the vandalism that has been happening in the village and the rest of Chautauqua County, the Village Board, Sheriff Jim Quattrone and Investigator Eric Vara held a community forum on Monday night at the Silver Creek baseball field.
The forum also provided an opportunity for Vara, Quattrone, and trustee and county dispatcher Marv Cummings to update the community on what has been happening with the case thus far. “No one has been arrested,” Vara said. “We are following several leads and reviewing several camera footages. I’ve been up and down Main Street trying to find camera footage.”
SILVER CREEK In response to the vandalism that has been happening in the village and the rest of Chautauqua County, the Village Board, Sheriff Jim Quattro
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SILVER CREEK As New York state Guidance continues to change in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Silver Creek Superintendent Todd Crandall continues to welcome students back to school at a pretty good rate.
“Starting on Monday, May 3, approximately 86 percent of the elementary students will be back in person,” Crandall said. “We’ve done some pretty remarkable things this year.”
Silver Creek has had students in the buildings at all grade levels since the start of the year, and have constantly worked to bring more and more back. The big shift in why the elementary school in particular has been able to bring so many students back is the reduction of distancing in classrooms, allowing it to be under six feet.
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SILVER CREEK In a Facebook Live broadcast this month, Silver Creek Superintendent Todd Crandall, school nurse Jennifer Johnson, and school medical provider Dr. Steven Barnes, announced the plan for testing if state Gov. Andrew Cuomo moves Silver Creek and the surrounding area into a yellow, orange or red zone, based on the severity of COVID-19 in the area.
If Silver Creek does move into one of the colored zones, a certain percentage of students and staff have to be tested for COVID-19. If it’s a yellow zone, 20 percent of total students and staff have to be tested within two weeks of moving into the yellow zone, and the result has to be less than the regional seven day COVID average. If the area is moved to an orange zone, the same percentage of students and staff must be tested, but now they must be tested monthly on a rotating basis. Should Silver Creek be moved to a red zone, rotating monthly testing moves to 30 percent of students and staff.