A mobile home park in Sinclairville is under new ownership. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from April 1-7. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are ...
If there’s one thing I connect summers with in Western New York, it’s yard mowing. It’s so irretrievably linked in my mind, that even childhood memories occupy a corner in my cerebral cortex labeled “grass.” Mowing it. Fertilizing it. Complaining about it. Watching it grow six inches while you were away for a long weekend. There’s no doubt that by June, grass becomes one of the dominant forces in our lives. It quietly takes over Saturday mornings, fills hardware store parking lots with riding mowers, and gives you a chance to wave to your neighbors. Most of us don’t ...
In 1905 the Chautauqua County Humane Society was formed to prevent the abuse of horses in the city of Jamestown. While there are no longer any horses in the city, the Humane Society’s fight against animal abuse continues. Now there’s a new “tool” in that fight. During a news ...
WEBSTER — When Tryniti Card crossed the finish line she thought she had lost the state title with two girls passing her in the end of the Class C 800-meter race. However, her emotions quickly changed once it was announced those competitors came from private schools and she in fact was ...
Five individuals are facing charges after a fight in downtown Jamestown last week. Around midnight Wednesday, Jamestown Police Department officers responded to the area of the Wine Cellar for multiple subjects fighting. Upon arrival, officers attempted to disburse the crowd but located Marc Staples actively trying to continue the fight. Officers attempted to remove Staples from the situation at which time he became combative with officers. Staples was quickly taken into custody. While attempting to detain Rashid Jabbar, he also became uncooperative with officers and was taken into ...
A Jamestown man is facing charges after complaints of gunshots being fired last week. David J. Figueroa, 43, was charged with two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, fourth-degree criminal mischief and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Officers of the Jamestown Police Department responded to several calls of a gunshot complaint near a South East residential street around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Officers located Figueroa who was in possession of a 20-gauge shotgun. It was discovered he had fired two 20 gauge slug rounds in the direction of the victim and their child. ...
