Since a crisis put Jamestown in a statewide spotlight in the summer of 2024, homelessness has become a major issue in Chautauqua County. A website poll finds that readers are in agreement. Last week’s question, “Are you concerned about the homeless problem in Chautauqua County?” found ...
In a town of fast-food restaurants, Starbucks runs and energy drinks, SUNY Fredonia has the potential to leave the trends behind and begin to make the community healthier. Sustainable food is the key to happier campus members, and eating locally and seasonally is the best way to support our ...
We still struggle to justify automatic pay raises each year for Chautauqua County lawmakers — though judging from last week’s vote Republican lawmakers have no such struggle. In 2024, the county legislature voted to increase the base salary of individual legislators from $9,000 to ...
Most people now call it I-86, but I still call it the “Southern Tier Expressway.” That expresses what it truly is. On an overcast day last fall, my wife and I were returning from the Syracuse area where one of our kids lives. It is quicker to take the Thruway to get home, but I always opt ...
Editor’s note: North county business and community leader Stanley Albert Star died Friday, May 29 at 89. Here is a column written in 2014 that highlights his work in creating Cliffstar. What started as a kosher wine business in northern Chautauqua County near the turn of the 20th century ...
On its own, it’s not the biggest news that the towns of Ellington and Charlotte are looking to merge courts and share one judge. In 2021, the towns of Sherman, Mina, French Creek and Clymer merged their courts to a single operation. That was followed by the towns of Harmony and North ...