Jamestown is making progress in creating places for those who need a helping hand. Recently, the Salvation Army held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a $5.7 million project, which will create a 7-unit, 19-bed temporary housing shelter. The new shelter will also offer counseling services, ...

It was encouraging to see the city and the union representing Jamestown police officers come to a contract agreement last week. The lawsuit challenging the city’s 22% health care premium increase made us wonder if the city was in for a lengthy arbitration with the police union, so seeing ...

The Chautauqua Lake Partnership got an unexpected gift recently when the state DEC approved more acres of Chautauqua Lake for herbicide treatment than CLP officials probably expected. Recent history has been that the CLP receives herbicide treatment permits for roughly one-third of the ...

Included in an agreement Monday night to resolve the state’s late budget includes a change in state law to allow hospitals to involuntarily commit mentally ill New Yorkers to their care if patients cannot meet their basic needs. It’s a change from the previous standard, which allowed ...

Bemus Point and Ellery have long been a key hub for boats on Chautauqua Lake. The village could find itself a key outpost on the lake for kayakers, too, with the opening of the Bemus Point-Ellery Paddle Trial and Blueway Course. Copies of the route are finished as town and village officials ...

Trust us, we can understand Fredonia Mayor Mike Ferguson’s feelings regarding recent comments made by State University at Fredonia students regarding the village’s handling of water issues and non Fred Fest. Fredonia students quoted in the student newspaper and an editorial written by a ...