Over the past eight years, there have been only 20 entries in the Chautauqua County Animal Abuse registry - though five have been added since December. All came from the city of Jamestown. Perhaps the creation of a new deputy position in the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office to focus ...

Jamestown is on track to spend all of the American Rescue Plan Act funding it allocated for housing demolitions by the end of the year. That means the city will meet the federal deadline for the use of that pot of money - though that should be the least of the city’s concerns, in our ...

The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days before a judge announced Freshwater Wetland Act regulations the CLP and Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association had been fighting in state ...

We noted last week that it is up to city residents - not city government - to rebuild the cohesive nature of Jamestown’s neighborhoods. A couple of days later, residents of Eighth and Fulton streets proved our point by becoming the first neighborhood to take the city and the Jamestown ...

Is Chautauqua County in a worse place than it was 15 years ago, as Democrats in the Chautauqua County Legislature contend? The answer to that question depends on one’s point of view. We've often said the government doesn't, by itself, attract jobs. It does, however, set the stage to ...

The redistricting wars are a relatively new phenomenon across the country. What began with President Donald Trump pushing Republican states to redraw their congressional boundaries to keep a Republican Congress has turned into a battle of political oneupmanship that New York just had to ...