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Unique Evening: Marvin House to host ‘Mystery at the Marvin’ Oct. 3-4

Guests will have the opportunity to take part in the upcoming Elizabeth Warner Marvin Community House presentation of “Mystery at the Marvin,” an original, interactive mystery experience at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3-4, at the historic home at 2 W. Fifth St., Jamestown. Presented ...

Sales include old house by Dunkirk vets club

A veterans club in the northern end of the county has purchased a dilapidated house that sat next to it so it could tear it down and improve the property. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from ...

Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)

**Note – Today’s narrative from the Bullpen is a rewritten version of one printed in the second week of September 11, 2011, ten years after the tragic occurrences which happened on September 11, 2001, twenty-five years ago yesterday. The title words above were penned by Country singer ...

The World Is A Different Place: A Week In Peru

Progress is evident everywhere. My husband’s company has just joined the United Nation’s efforts to implement green strategies into their business model and they’ve announced they’re hiring a storyteller. We’re not sure what kind of stories the storyteller will tell, but my ...

Fredonians recall unity, patriotism after attacks

 Speakers at Fredonia's service Friday remembering the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks asked Americans to revisit the unity, strength, patriotism and service they found immediately after that day. Fredonia Fire Chief Joshua Myers opened the service, held at fire department headquarters on Main ...

On devastating day, news coverage took center stage

Headlines and heartache filled this day exactly 25 years ago. Across the nation, stunned residents gathered in front of televisions or turned on radios for minute-by-minute updates on the horrors happening in our homeland. Another large segment of the population turned to newspapers — that ...