It sounds as if some Mayville Village Board members are tired of hearing a yearly appeal from the Chautauqua Lake Partnership to use herbicides in the Mayville area of Chautauqua Lake. We’re sure the converse is true as well, with areas in the southern area of the lake hearing pitches for ...

Clymer is one of a few towns around the state that prohibit the sale of alcohol. Its status as a dry town was cemented in 1974 when Clymer’s elected Town Board passed legislation allowed under state law. Over the past 50 years Clymer residents haven’t chosen to change the designation as ...

Votes to levy a new tax through a school district to support libraries is nothing new at this point. Town and village budgets aren’t providing enough support for libraries to keep their doors open and provide the programs users want, so they use a provision in state law to levy a tax ...

It will be decades before Chautauqua County is in the path of totality for a solar eclipse again. But the lessons we learned from the county’s handling of the influx of visitors from this week’s event can provide some lessons the county, its residents and its businesses can learn from ...

It took four long years, but U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are finally ready to recommend parents should treat COVID-19 and its variants like any other respiratory illness. It is no longer a federal recommendation that students undergo isolation periods and ...

Bills like Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti’s truth in campaigning legislation introduced recently in the state Assembly aren’t new. They’ve existed in one form or another for decades. What’s changed is the need for them. We have former House Rep. George Santos to thank for that. In ...