While the official start of summer is later this month, it wasn’t that long ago that Chautauqua County residents were bundling up, trying to stay warm in a cold winter. It was a cold one. In fact, it was the coldest winter in a dozen years for our area. “The winter of 2025-2026 was ...

Dunkirk Mayor Kate Wdowiasz is pleased to announce a well qualified Dunkirk resident has accepted the new city comptroller position that Common Council approved in response to firm recommendations by the Office of the New York state comptroller. Tracy L. Smith-Dengler will bring her 26 years ...

At roughly 6:06 p.m. Thursday, deputies of the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office and New York State Police responded to Shumla Road in the town of Pomfret for a reported motor vehicle accident. As a result of the accident, one operator was transported by Cassadaga Fire/EMS to Brooks ...

WESTFIELD — The mission of the Westfield Stray Cat Rescue has always been to give cats a safe place to stay until they find their permanent home. In recent years, the shelter found itself in the same position, needing help in search of its own permanent home. That help came in the form of ...

The Dunkirk Common Council approved Tracy Smith-Dengler as new city comptroller this week. She got the job with a 4-1 vote, with Councilman Gary Frederickson dissenting, apparently because Smith-Dengler’s salary is unclear. Smith-Dengler is currently the central business office manager ...

Detailing a surge in violence, staff assaults, overdoses, exposures and deaths inside state prisons, New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association President Chris Summers declared the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to be in a “full-scale systemic ...