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Coronavirus coverage

County DMVs return to full walk-in service May 17

Chautauqua County Clerk Larry Barmore announced Friday that starting on Monday, May 17, all transactions at the three Department of Motor Vehicles offices will be available for walk-in service. Persons requiring permit or CDL testing will no longer have to make an appointment. The following ...

Health care professionals reflect on pandemic year

The COVID-19 pandemic will go down in history for a number of reasons, including how many people it affected, from health to home life and everything in between. Many industries in the area have changed and adapted to the situation thrust upon them in 2020, none more-so than the health care ...

Vaccinations help our economy continue to open

As more and more New Yorkers get vaccinated, the state continues to lift restrictions for all types of businesses and venues. Governor Cuomo recently announced that effective May 19 most business capacity caps will be removed and businesses will be limited only by the space available for ...

Schools ramp up vaccinations

GOWANDA — The Gowanda Central School District, working with Cattaraugus County, will be holding a vaccination clinic located at the Gowanda Middle School. The clinic will be on Tuesday. Students ranging from the ages of 16 to 18, as well as staff members who haven’t been vaccinated, can ...

Partner’s death came after couple ‘avoided everything’

Carrie Wolfgang assumed the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic had passed. The numbers, released daily by the Chautauqua County Department of Health and reported by the media, had long come down from the early months of the pandemic when dozens — if not hundreds — of new confirmed cases were ...

More than half of adults vaccinated in county

More than half of Chautauqua County’s population over the age of 18 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state Health Department reported. To date, 43,765 county residents have completed their vaccination series, meaning they have received both doses of the two-shot ...