Call it a longtime exercise in futility. For more than a decade, this newspaper has written opinion pieces and editorials advocating consolidations, warning that numerous local governments and schools were becoming a burden for a shrinking Chautauqua County population. Elected officials of the ...

The state Senate overwhelmingly wants to keep state forests free from gas and oil drilling. S.1069 passed the state Senate last week by a 50-3 vote, with state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, voting in favor of the bill. Versions of the legislation have been kicking around the statehouse ...

The Jamestown Harmony Express will celebrate the Fourth of July 2026 with music - in Washington, D.C. George Jarrell, president of the Jamestown Harmony Express, announced the trip to perform the National Anthem and represent the state of New York during the Fourth of July parade in ...

Leigh Rovegno, Audubon Community Nature Center executive director, will step down on June 21 after nearly seven years for a new position as executive director of the Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation. Since joining ACNC in 2018, Rovegno has guided the organization through capital projects, ...

Chautauqua County continues to make progress in developing a new shovel-ready site for industry in the western area of the county, while expanding another site in the southern portion. Mark Geise, the chief executive officer of the county Industrial Development Agency and the deputy county ...

Chautauqua County Judge David Foley is contemplating whether or not a second-degree murder charge should remain against a woman whose 12-year-old daughter died from untreated diabetes. On Monday, arguments were heard in the case involving Ashley Bertino. 36, of Silver Creek. Her daughter Mya ...