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Sales include former bank, beauty bar

“201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown” 201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown was sold in June for $70,000. At one time this was a Marine Midland Bank. A former south county bank that was planned to be a distillery has been sold. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from June 15-18. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are available for review at the clerk’s office. During this time period, TBT Holdings, LLC sold 201-203 N. Main St., Jamestown to ...

Aiming at ‘investment’

FALCONER - The Village of Falconer is seeking its piece of a $4.5 million grant from New York State. Members of the Falconer Local Planning Commission (FLPC) met at the Village Fire Hall Training Center, located at 115 Davis St., on Wednesday to better understand how to tap into a $4.5 ...

Where have all the bugs gone?

Have you noticed there aren’t many bugs around? What fascinates me most about the disappearance of insects is how quietly it happened. There was no particular summer when we walked outside and announced that the bugs were gone. There was no funeral for the moths around the porch light. Nobody held a memorial service for the bugs that used to splatter against our windshields. I used to run around our lawn on Chautauqua Lake growing up catching lightning bugs in mason jars. We had fly strips hanging from our kitchen ceiling. Running across the grass in summer was a good way to get ...

Inspiration from the Silver Screen

There are times in our lives when we have situations that cause some consternation in our hearts, minds, or souls, and we look for ways to deal with that feeling. We often look for paths to take to get rid of those feelings, or help someone deal with them if they’re having issues with them too. Sometimes we turn to words of philosophers like Aristotle, Confucius, Lao-Tzu, etc., or authors like Machiavelli or Voltaire, or sometimes we find words of inspiration in more simplistic ways, maybe through poetry, oral presentations, military strategists, song lyrics, television scripts, ...

Two centuries on one wall celebrate SUNY

Two centuries of history now cover a wall in Fenton Hall, where a large new mural by State University of New York at Fredonia alumna Erin Ruffino (’19) encourages everyone to find the people, places, and moments that connect them to the university’s story. The 8-by-43-foot Bicentennial ...

Unhealthy banter drives measles resurgence

How is it, in an age of vast technology and information, Americans keep tempting fate when it comes to medicine? One decade ago — a mere four years before the COVID-19 pandemic, who would have ever thought it intelligent to not get a vaccination for measles? In 2004, there were less than ...