Reaction was swift last week when the CHQ Chamber canceled the annual Mayville Winter Festival. Concerns over costs for insurance and lack of volunteers made hosting the festival too difficult - until the cancellation sparked a community reaction and renewed community involvement. A full ...

We’re glad to see the public didn’t have to wait long to see the latest study regarding the future of the Chautauqua County Airport at Jamestown. After a public presentation at the Chautauqua County Legislature’s December meeting, however, we’re left asking what the fuss was about. ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released its 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report: Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates. It’s results aren’t surprising, at least not to those who have been paying attention to what’s been happening in Jamestown over the ...

Americans elect their leaders on the premise that those individuals will be capable of making the right decisions on difficult, as well as easy, issues. An issue on which members of Congress might have to render a decision, possibly in the early weeks of the new legislative session, is the ...

It’s good to have goals. In the next few weeks, we’re going to be hearing a lot about our elected officials’ goals in the form of various agenda-setting addresses at the city, county, state and federal levels. The first such effort came from Pierre Chagnon, R-Ellery and chairman of the ...

Some Fulton Street residents are fed up - and we really can’t blame them. For the second time in the past few months, residents spoke before the City Council asking for something to be done to rein in unruly behavior on their street. Police are called, police respond, police de-escalate ...