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Person dies after stabbing Sunday in Jamestown

JAMESTOWN --- Jamestown police are investigating a Sunday stabbing that has left a person dead. On Sunday, May 3, around 4:30 a.m. city police officers responded to the area of Lakeview Avenue and East Eighth Street for a report of a stabbing victim. Once on scene, officers located an unresponsive person who had been stabbed. The person was taken to UPMC Chautauqua and then transported to UPMC Hamot via STAT MedEvac for life-threatening injuries. On Wednesday, May 6, the person succumbed to his injury sustained during the incident and was pronounced deceased while at UPMC Hamot. At ...

Fredonia hotel owner fights closure

Dunkirk Hospitality LLC is fighting the village of Fredonia’s attempts to force those staying at the former Route 60 EconoLodge to leave the building. The company filed an Article 78 lawsuit Friday asking the state Supreme Court to annul and vacate Fredonia’s April 27 direction to ...

Police report on tamer Fred Fest this year

SUNY Fredonia students’ annual May party weekend passed this year with no violent crimes, but dozens of arrests, according to the Fredonia Police Department. Police Chief Gregory Myers sent over the department’s annual report on “Fred Fest,” an unofficial and non-sanctioned ...

Median incomes in state not keeping pace with inflation, DiNapoli says

Despite median household incomes increasing in every county from 2019 to 2024, they did not keep pace with the cost of living when adjusting for the 23.1% inflation during that time period, according to a report by state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “Household incomes for too many New Yorkers have not kept pace with the stubborn inflation we continue to feel today,” DiNapoli said. “When real incomes decline, people struggle to maintain the same quality of life. Continued focus on addressing the state’s affordability challenges, as well as efforts to increase the growth of ...

Fredonia eyes paving, including Central Ave.

Fredonia is set to repave some streets starting Monday, including part of Central Avenue. Village Department of Public Works Director Dave Bird told a Board of Trustees workshop that repaving of Central Avenue is set for Monday and Tuesday, from Newton Avenue to “the intersection.” He ...

Lawsuit service during session upsets council

The Dunkirk Common Council expressed disgust Tuesday that city-contracted attorney Elliot Raimondo served a resident with a lawsuit as she was about to speak at the previous council meeting. Raimondo handed a lawsuit to Jennifer Sasso immediately after she stood at the speaker’s podium. ...