On a foggy December night in 1951 a large passenger airplane crashed into a mountain ridge in Cattaraugus County, killing 26 people and leaving 14 survivors in the snow and cold for three days and two nights. It’s the longest stranding of a large group of airplane crash survivors in ...
DUNKIRK - The Common Council followed improper procedure in imposing a Battery Energy Storage System moratorium, Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz stated in her veto message. Wdowiasz wrote that she intends to share her own draft for a moratorium, following “procedural steps required for its lawful adoption,” such as adopting a local law. Wdowiasz laid out four main objections to the council’s moratorium, with supporting paragraphs. She first called the moratorium resolution “legally deficient.” Wdowiasz said that such a moratorium requires a local law and its accompanying ...
FREDONIA - The State University at Fredonia’s enrollment decline continues, though the pace of the decline has eased for a third straight September. Enrollment vice president Kathryn Kendall offered a report at the first University Council meeting of the 2026-27 school year, which showed a student body at 3,108 students as of Sept. 21. That’s down 76 students from the September 2025 “head count” of campus enrollees. The count was 3,201 in September 2024, and 3,236 in September 2023. However, that is at least an improvement from 2019-2022 when SUNY Fredonia lost hundreds of ...
LAKEWOOD - A Chautauqua Lake stormwater improvement project is going to be more expensive than originally thought. The Lakewood Village Board approved a measure to change a grant order at a Sept. 28 meeting. As previously reported in an April 2026 edition of The Post-Journal, the trustees ...
Three significant Dunkirk Department of Public Works budget lines are running in the red, according to department head Randy Woodbury. DPW’s director began his most recent Common Council Finance Committee report saying the department will be able to use Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding to pay for a bucket loader truck. Woodbury followed that news by saying three budget lines are running out of money with three months remaining in the year. “We are in the red on three lines,” he stated. The first line involves fixing broken infrastructure. “We ...
In celebration of its 75th anniversary — a Diamond Jubilee year — the Marvin Community House will host its all-season fundraiser fashion show, presented in partnership with GG My Love of Chautauqua Institution, at the historic Marvin House, 2 W. Fifth St., Jamestown. The show is an ...
