HARTFIELD – It was the best outcome of the worst situation. Saturday evening the Hoitink family – mom Megan, dad Jeremiah, and their 11 children had just finished dinner and were watching television in their home on Route 430 in the town of Chautauqua. One of the children had stepped ...

Ripley and Chautauqua County rolled out a huge welcome mat Tuesday to commemorate a “whistle-stop” by the Union Pacific Railroad’s legendary Big Boy 4014 locomotive that chugged its way on the eastern leg of a coast-to-coast tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. The half-hour ...

Casella Waste Management will remain party to a lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2020 at the Chautauqua County Landfill in Ellery. On Aug. 3, 2020, Scott Deming was standing behind a large pile of garbage and debris he had just dumped at the landfill in Ellery when he ...

CASSADAGA — Now that things have settled in the village of Cassadaga, the village’s capital improvement waterline replacement project is ready to move forward again. Matt Zarbo of Square Engineering visited the latest Village Board meeting to provide an update on the project and discuss ...

With Big Boy about 10 minutes late getting out of Ripley, that only gave the crowd along Lucas Avenue in Dunkirk more time to grow. By the time the giant locomotive came through at 1:20 p.m., there were up to 300 people waiting for it in the area. Most gathered in the vacant lot between ...

A northern Chautauqua County resident's jury conviction on six counts of predatory sexual assault has been upheld by the Fourth Department Appellate Division Court of Appeals. In a ruling announced late Friday, the justices unanimously affirmed the jury verdict reached on April 10, 2023, ...