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A couple of years ago, debris from Lakewood's fireworks show landed amongst the crowd in Richard O. Hartley Park. This year, the fireworks show...
As early as 1990 – six years before it opened – the idea of a Lucille Ball Museum was being talked about in hyperbolic terms. “In conjunction...
It became fashionable a few years ago for people to blame "misinformation" for others holding views they find wrongheaded. Social media...
The population of homeless in Chautauqua County didn't explode last year like it did in the last two-year study by Comptroller Thomas...
SKF officials have jumped into the humanoid robot market with a new joint venture with LeaderDrive, a Chinese company focused on high-precision...
Lakewood-Busti police are applying for a grant that would include funding for a camera at the intersection of Fairdale and Fairmount avenues. While we...
It was roughly six years ago that Chautauqua County made a pitch for an Amazon regional distribution center that, when completed, would have been one...
After weeks of debate and discussion, points and counterpoints, the Chautauqua County Legislature has decided that the number one economic development...
Even as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door to...
The state Education Department was right to ask the Salamanca City Central School District to pause its plan to launch a pilot program featuring a...
President Trump is taking Iran's threats to assassinate him seriously, as well he should. He reportedly switched Air Force One from the new Qatar...
It's been a difficult week for many in leadership positions throughout the city after the sudden passing of Tony Dolce. Today, Ss. Peter and Paul...
The hollowing out of New York state continues largely unabated despite years of warnings about the state's loss of population. While the state...
Many readers of a certain age probably remember the famous public service announcement at the start of the late-night news asking parents if they knew...
Change orders are nothing new in construction projects like the one taking place now at Jamestown High School. The Jamestown Public Schools Board of...
Chautauqua Lake has seen its share of potential invasive species over the past couple of decades. We had a close scare with the water chestnut, an...
It should come as no surprise to anyone except the most ardent supporters of the Jamestown Airport that the federal government has once again declined...
It is little secret that affordable housing in Jamestown is a problem, though in recent years the affordable housing crunch has shown up most publicly...
There was an interesting debate during a recent Chautauqua County Legislature meeting over the county’s ever-escalating safety net program costs....
It’s hard to imagine a time when the Chautauqua Belle wasn’t a fixture on the waters of Chautauqua Lake. But that’s exactly what our reality...
State lawmakers, largely Democrats, want to increase Open Meetings Law and FOIL request training requirements for local government officials. Given...
Falconer Mayor James Jaroszynski is pictured with Gov. Kathy Hochul after accepting a $4.5 million NY Forward grant. The fact that the village of...
Twice in recent weeks we’ve reported that local businesses are looking at possible expansion. The announcement that Jamestown had received money...
New York’s power grid spent last week in the spotlight as a four-day heat wave brought requests to moderate power usage – including requests by...
If you listen to political debate from the state capitol, you’d think the only way to have data centers in New York state is to power them with a...
With more than $30 million in potential Downtown Revitalization Initiative project applications listed, there will be a series of frank talks as city...
Today, we Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Our focus is what the document meant — creation of a new...
The New York State arms adopted on March 16, 1778, shows Justice wearing a gold-colored dress with a blue belt fringed in red. Her unbound hair is...
We find ourselves bemused by the wholly expected partisan reaction to news that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing New York for allowing...
There doesn’t seem to be much commercial interest in land on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in Mayville where a controversial condominium project was...
The fact that we have a mental health treatment capacity shortage in rural areas should come as no shock to anyone. Those in the health care industry...
City residents should have cautious optimism following the announcement that Jamestown has received another $10 million Downtown Revitalization...
Ten years ago city officials had high hopes for the redevelopment of the Furniture Mart building. At the time, the $19 million project was going to be...
We now should feel fairly comfortable that it’s not only possible to merge the Clymer, Sherman and Panama school districts, but generally beneficial...
A recent incident in Warren provides an example of just how easy it can be to skirt well-meaning laws written to keep guns out of the wrong hands. A...
Jamestown’s Development Department isn’t wrong to use social media to warn city residents about quality of life tickets for those who let their...
This weekend The Post-Journal celebrates 200 years of bringing readers the news. We’ve all changed a lot over two centuries. We started publishing...
Over the past eight years, there have been only 20 entries in the Chautauqua County Animal Abuse registry – though five have been added since...
Jamestown is on track to spend all of the American Rescue Plan Act funding it allocated for housing demolitions by the end of the year. That means the...
The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days...
We noted last week that it is up to city residents – not city government – to rebuild the cohesive nature of Jamestown’s neighborhoods. A couple...
Is Chautauqua County in a worse place than it was 15 years ago, as Democrats in the Chautauqua County Legislature contend? The answer to that question...
The redistricting wars are a relatively new phenomenon across the country. What began with President Donald Trump pushing Republican states to redraw...
There are a lot of questions regarding the siting of data centers in New York state. It didn’t seem like the questions were local ones until last...
An initiative like Be A Neighbor JTNY wouldn’t have been needed 20 or 30 years ago. Even if you didn’t necessarily like your neighbor, we could...
Twice this year we have seen federal charges brought in Western New York over threats to law enforcement officials. It’s two times too many, in our...
An entire corner of Brooklyn Square changed ownership earlier this spring. The $2,137,500 property purchase by 716 Rapid Rentals LLC prompts an...
No U.S. President has done more to confront Iran ‘s nuclear program than Donald Trump, and one reason is to avert a nuclear arms race in the...
It’s no secret that Jamestown has a deferred maintenance problem. Before the COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing $28.3 million ARPA shot in the arm,...
Debate in recent months over changes to the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act had us wondering if there was any common sense left...
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