Sheridan voters are being asked to consider downsizing the number of justices from two to one in the November general election. Though we back the idea, we do believe Chautauqua County is just dragging its feet when it comes to court consolidations. As we have seen in the town of Hanover, a ...

Robert Redford’s death early Tuesday morning in Utah has at least one connection with Chautauqua County that was noted earlier this month regarding a South Dayton celebration. Redford, who died at the age of 89, left a movie trail etched into land. He seemed to reside as much across the ...

Over a span of 10 days, there has been plenty to celebrate when it comes to Chautauqua County’s most significant crop. Just this past weekend, Silver Creek held its annual Festival of Grapes that included numerous events downtown — and the always popular parade. Not to be outdone, the ...

It’s easy to lampoon many proposals coming out of Albany as soft on crime. It would have been easy to do so with a proposal introduced recently by Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-Corona, that would place limits on police departments’ access to doorbell camera footage as part of crime ...

The Fredonia Village Board has voted on a water plan – but nobody in the village should expect that the issue is going away anytime soon. Village Board members made a difficult choice on Thursday in the face of loud opposition to seek out a deal to buy water from the North County Water ...

Americans today tend to have a short attention span. Important news often is quickly overshadowed by the latest nonsense posing as news that captures the nation’s attention. Yet some events are of such a magnitude that they remain seared in our memories. The attack at Pearl Harbor. Troops ...