On this Easter weekend, no one is alone in concerns and uncertainties they might be feeling. Many others are enduring similar anxieties, while others are feeling various degrees of emptiness because of circumstances in their lives — wondering how that emptiness might be resolved. This ...

The Biden administration’s proposed budget and plan to reduce the federal deficit by $3 trillion over 10 years is a step in the right direction. But only the tiniest step. As the U.S. House notes on its website, the plan still will add $14.4 trillion to the national debt while spending ...

For more than five years the proposed annexation of a Jamestown Board of Public Utilities substation in Falconer has been an unanswered question. It’s time for an answer one way or the other. The annexation case originally started in January 2017, including more than a year’s wait ...

The Chadakoin River is getting a lot of attention. Last year, Twan Leenders, Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy director of conservation, asked for and received emergency funding for both river improvements and to treat a tree of heaven infestation on the river’s banks. Last week, the ...

The fight against drug addiction has just gotten more difficult with the addition of drugs laced with xylazine being found in Chautauqua County. Lab testing of drugs seized by area police agencies confirmed the presence of xylazine, a horse tranquilizer that was first identified as an ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie didn’t say much during Sunshine Week, a yearly commemoration each March of open government and freedom of information. “New Yorkers deserve a government that works for them and does so in an open and transparent fashion,” the Brooklyn Democrat said in a ...