Serving as lieutenant governor for seven years from 2015 to 2021, Kathy Hochul made her former boss Andrew Cuomo a little more tolerable. Seen as the friendly face of the administration for municipal leaders, she built relationships traveling across the state while learning the landscapes from ...

Management and department head salaries in the public sector appear to be under the microscope, especially considering the recent decisions in the city of Dunkirk and Chautauqua County. Though one entity’s council appears stuck in the 1990s, another is at least taking steps to make sure those ...

Unpolished Third Ward representative James Stoyle typifies a combative faction of Dunkirk’s Common Council that has been apparent during the last three years. Those who make up the current triumvirate quietly scurry about in their elected positions until there is a sense that their vindictive ...

Hourly pay will once again come under scrutiny across New York state. Beginning Dec. 31, the minimum wage will be rising from $13.20 to $14.20 — a 7.6% increase. Not only will the higher rate take a toll on numerous small and larger businesses, but some non-profits will be seeing a pinch as ...

It was supposed to be one of the wow moments in moving Chautauqua County forward economically during this calendar year. On June 21, a ribbon-cutting for the opening of the 181,000-square-foot Americold freezer storage facility operating in the town of Dunkirk on Williams Street Extension was ...

Editor’s note: John D. D’Agostino, the editor’s father, died Nov. 8, 2022. This column, which was first published on Oct. 3, 2014, is in his memory. Growing up in Geneva in the Finger Lakes as a youngster, there was not a lot of variety in our household when it came to music. We had one ...