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This week’s announcement that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be spending $20 million to purchase grape juice from area farmers is welcome news for the region. Just last week, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer was trying to make juice out of sour grapes with his proposal to use the Section 32 funds provided by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 to purchase grapes from local growers hurt by the cancellation of their purchase contracts with Refresco. The same mechanism was used in 2025 to stabilize prices through a similar request through utilization of Section 32 funds, with ...

There are too many endangering the welfare cases in Jamestown

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It seems like we’ve read a lot about endangering the welfare of a child charges in the Jamestown area over the past few years. Data compiled by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services explains why that’s the case - more and more Jamestown adults are being charged with not taking care of their kids. Over the past two years, more than 65% of all of the charges of endangering the welfare of a child have come from the city of Jamestown. Through a quarter of 2026, that percentage is up to 73.9%. There are a lot of reasons for that, including high levels of poverty, ...

We’ve won a battle against phosphorus in lake, not the war

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8-25 JPJ Tuesday Chautauqua County celebrated quite a milestone recently with completion of the second phase of the South and Center Chautauqua Lake Sewer District’s Westside Sewer Extension. It won’t be long until there are public sewers all the way around Chautauqua Lake. It felt like one needed binoculars two decades ago to see the finish line when the idea of building sewers around Chautauqua Lake was first being discussed. Since 2017, when work on the first phase of the sewer extension began, sewers have been extended to Stow west along Route 394 toward the boundary with the ...

In Our Opinion

In Our Opinion

Flock Safety is at least acknowledging the privacy concerns that have been raised by members of the public and by civil liberties groups over the past several months by announcing changes to its platform. We aren’t sure those changes go far enough, though they do appear to be a step in the right direction. Flock operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of law enforcement agencies in 49 states can search and share Flock’s data across jurisdictions to aid their ...

All good men should aid their country

Letters To The Editor

To the remaining, true patriots in America … Acquiescence, my friends, acts as a silent stamp of approval that can be the death knell of humanity. German theologian and Lutheran pastor, Martin Niemöller, best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime, wisely advised his countrymen against remaining silent the in face of rising fascism when he wrote … “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for ...

Lakewood should fund additional EMS services

Local Commentaries

The Post-Journal editorial in the August 17, 2026, edition was right on point concerning the changing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) situation throughout Chautauqua County along with resultant governmental cost implications, including saying “But one thing is clear – we should get used to paying for a service that we used to get for free.” The question currently on the table is whether Chautauqua County should increase its payout to provide an additional EMS service for a specific portion of the county. Two aspects about such a payout arise. First, there is an on-going ...