Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel proposed a merger of the city and town of Dunkirk with the village of Fredonia and the town of Pomfret at a Pomfret Town Board meeting this week. Wendel and other north county officials have talked about consolidating services for months. However, the ...

No one from Dunkirk attended a recent meeting held in the city on the homeless problem in the area, and Councilman Frank Torain has expressed displeasure about it. Torain questioned Mayor Kate Wdowiasz in the Common Council about the lack of city representation at the meeting, held at SUNY ...

GOWANDA — Behind every great leader is someone who inspired them, in one way or another. For Dave Smith, that person was his high school Spanish teacher, Sylvia Parrott Flynn. “She saved me,” Smith said. “She saved my life.” Smith lost his mother to cancer when he was in ...

New York state legislators are some of the luckiest in the nation already, earning the highest salary in comparison to any other state. Therefore it comes as no surprise that concerns would be had over the idea of raising that salary even further. Assembly Andrew Molitor, R-Westfield, and ...

Some Ripley and Westfield residents are speaking out against a proposed gravel pit. A 15-page letter with 13 signatures was submitted to the Chautauqua County Planning Board over the proposed Ripley Gravel Mine by Jamestown Macadam Inc. Jamestown Macadam is seeking a Special Use Permit from ...

A former Amherst resident has been sentenced to eight years in prison and five years of parole supervision for his role in a 2024 botched robbery attempt in the city of Jamestown. The incident resulted in the shooting death of a Dunkirk man, one of his accomplices, and gunshot injuries ...