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Summer brings increase in Ellicott homeless issues

Winter brought a brief respite for the town of Ellicott and village of Falconer in dealing with homeless issues in the town. The issues have returned with a vengeance. During the Ellicott Town Board’s most recent meeting, Dan Ingrao, Ellicott police chief, told board members had ...

County won’t help Dawson Metal with bridge issue

Chautauqua County is declining a request by a Jamestown company for a new access road to replace a failing bridge, stating that the county can’t do the work to benefit a private business. David Dawson, president of Dawson Metal at 825 Allen St., said in a letter to the county that the ...

Mayor updates council on $10M DRI grant

Two weeks ago the city of Jamestown received funding from the state totaling $10 million as a part of Round Nine of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, marking the second time the city has received this type of funding. Monday, Mayor Kim Ecklund updated the council on what comes next during ...

Gies wins big in Democratic primary for District 23

Aaron Gies, Democratic and Working Families candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, defeated primary opponent, Kevin Stocker, with more than 71% of the vote. With 82% of the results in, 19,130 ballots have been counted so far across the large district, which ...

Steady Hand

John Panebianco is very thankful that he served as a member of the Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education. “I'm thankful for five things as a board member that the public voted for me to be on the board,” Panebianco said. “I am thankful that each board member was so patient with me ...