During a probation check on Jamestown’s east side earlier this week, officers found a rifle with a defaced serial number in a home with a convicted felon who isn’t allowed to have firearms. Last week, two handguns - one stolen - were found during a drug raid on Whitley Avenue. A drug ...

Monday’s protest by some of the region’s homeless showed, without a doubt, that two things can be true at the same time. We agree with the homeless - more needs to be done. Transitional housing and more affordable housing is needed to help solve the reasons the homeless find themselves ...

It sounds as if some Mayville Village Board members are tired of hearing a yearly appeal from the Chautauqua Lake Partnership to use herbicides in the Mayville area of Chautauqua Lake. We’re sure the converse is true as well, with areas in the southern area of the lake hearing pitches for ...

Clymer is one of a few towns around the state that prohibit the sale of alcohol. Its status as a dry town was cemented in 1974 when Clymer’s elected Town Board passed legislation allowed under state law. Over the past 50 years Clymer residents haven’t chosen to change the designation as ...

Votes to levy a new tax through a school district to support libraries is nothing new at this point. Town and village budgets aren’t providing enough support for libraries to keep their doors open and provide the programs users want, so they use a provision in state law to levy a tax ...

It will be decades before Chautauqua County is in the path of totality for a solar eclipse again. But the lessons we learned from the county’s handling of the influx of visitors from this week’s event can provide some lessons the county, its residents and its businesses can learn from ...