Included in an agreement Monday night to resolve the state’s late budget includes a change in state law to allow hospitals to involuntarily commit mentally ill New Yorkers to their care if patients cannot meet their basic needs. It’s a change from the previous standard, which allowed ...

Bemus Point and Ellery have long been a key hub for boats on Chautauqua Lake. The village could find itself a key outpost on the lake for kayakers, too, with the opening of the Bemus Point-Ellery Paddle Trial and Blueway Course. Copies of the route are finished as town and village officials ...

Trust us, we can understand Fredonia Mayor Mike Ferguson’s feelings regarding recent comments made by State University at Fredonia students regarding the village’s handling of water issues and non Fred Fest. Fredonia students quoted in the student newspaper and an editorial written by a ...

Is the state’s early release of non-violent inmates going to immediately create a public safety issue throughout the state? Of course not. But state officials are deluding themselves if they think this won’t be the only time the state’s lack of corrections officers is going to mean ...

There is no downside to the developer’s forum being hosted by the city’s Board of Public Utilities next week. City officials hope to have about 65 developers, commercial bankers and those interested in housing development visit the city as part of an effort to drive interest toward ...

As Fredonia village officials struggle to whittle down a 65.3% tax levy increase, it’s interesting to note the village was also found not to be in fiscal stress in a state Comptroller’s Office review of village budgets released last week. We’ve said before that we think the Fiscal ...