It’s been a long few years for both Jamestown Community College and the Jamestown Area YMCA as both organizations look to raise the money necessary to build new buildings they see as necessary for their future. The need to find a new home for the YMCA has been evident for years as the ...

It is difficult not to be pessimistic about the possibilities for success of efforts in countries around the world to encourage larger families — that is, if you yourself believe many more couples should be opting for more than a child or two in this increasingly busy, expensive, complicated, ...

We can understand the Jamestown City Council feeling the need to weigh in on freshwater wind turbines in Lake Erie. It carries some weight for Rep. Nick Langworthy and state Sen. George Borrello to have Chautauqua County’s largest city’s governing body on the record opposing freshwater ...

New York’s Civil Liberties Union calls Proposal 1 “a critical tool for all New Yorkers to exercise their rights.” Labeled as the Equal Rights Amendment, the action would amend the New York state Constitution to include ethnicity, national origin, age, disability or sex, including sexual ...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is a familiar name for many in Chautauqua County. We wouldn’t say she’s a familiar face for county residents despite serving in the Senate for nearly 16 years. The incumbent senator has carved out a position in the national discussion on issues like sex violence ...

For the last six months, it has been a fairly uneventful race for the 23rd Congressional District. That speaks to a couple of prominent reasons. First, and most importantly, incumbent U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy’s campaign is flush with cash. His challenger in Thomas Carle is nowhere near as ...