“Not my child, not my problem,” I overheard someone say this week. On Friday, our first day of our new E.A.S.E.Growth Program (Equine Assisted Social Emotional Growth) in collaboration with the Mental Health Association of Chautauqua County, a mother of a 10-year-old boy with Autism ...

BROCTON — Students of the month have been announced for April by the Brocton Central School district. Brocton Middle School is proud to recognize Aria Donato, a seventh-grade student from Pomfret. Aria's parents, Stephanie Pati and Michael Donato, share in this well-deserved honor. Aria ...

A local independent insurance agency specializing in Medicare insurance no longer has its south county location. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from Feb. 1-10. The county does not provide ...

The new $223 million Brooks-TLC Hospital now under construction in Fredonia will have a smaller driveway off Route 60 than planners had hoped. The Fredonia Planning Board approved an amended site plan for the project Wednesday that allows for a one-way exit onto Route 60 from the new ...

John Forbes has cut more than $2.4 million from the first draft of the 2026-27 school budget. There is still a lot more work to be done to get under the tax cap. At the third presentation of the proposed 2026-27 school budget, Forbes revealed the district is still more than $760,000 over the ...

One segment of the local agricultural community that isn’t struggling for a market is the beef industry. Unlike grape farmers, who are dealing with Refresco canceling local grape contracts, farmers who are raising beef cattle are still seeing strong consumer demand and price increases in ...