Practically giddy, the leader of Chautauqua County’s smallest school district was pleased to announce that numbers are rising in the elementary levels. Superintendent William Caldwell said Ripley enrollment for those in kindergarten to grade six could increase by 10% this coming ...

Some significant and painful choices are on the horizon in the final four months of 2024. As August and summer rapidly move toward a conclusion, January will bring a vastly different landscape nationally and in Chautauqua County. Much of America’s attention at the moment revolves around the ...

Shortly after 8:15 p.m. Monday, the scanner call went out. Law enforcement officers along with the Dunkirk and Fredonia Fire Departments responded to a gunshot wound at the Econo Lodge off Route 60 just near the village limits. It marked the fifth shooting incident in five days in Chautauqua ...

Congressional candidate Thomas Carle considers himself a problem solver. Throughout his years of running large and small businesses in the private sector, his actions were driven by finding results that benefited management as well as the workers. For more than two decades, Carle’s ...

BARCELONA — He was seated at Route 5 and North Portage Road in this small hamlet that boasts a thriving summer shoreline and pier along Lake Erie. Holding a cardboard sign, the individual made a humble and desperate plea. “Homeless. In need of cash.” Residents and tourists who stopped ...

One of the most important employees behind the scenes in making a merger of the two Chautauqua County United Ways happen was not even in attendance for a historic meeting this week. Almost quietly, the north and south county agencies announced in January 2022 it would begin using Lisa Sunday to ...