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Sewers Around The Lake Nearly A Reality

It has been a long time coming, but recently financing has been achieved so that public sewers around Chautauqua Lake can be completed. Right now work is underway to complete the sewer lines up the west side of the lake. It is expected that most if not all remaining septic systems in the sewer district between Stow and Prendergast point will be replaced by public sewers this year. The final piece around the lake that had been missing was the area on the east side of the lake from Point Chautauqua down to Midway State Park. Recently, however, the county received a grant commitment of ...

We Must Act Together

I recently watched the new Netflix documentary that tells the story of the US Hockey Team and its journey to the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid; “Miracle: The Boys of the ‘80s”. I can vividly remember watching this play out on live television- a group of purely amateur American college kids who were given virtually no chance of winning any medal defeating the best “professional“ hockey players in the world including the Russians, who were touted as unbeatable by everyone. I’ll never forget the feeling of pride and joy that I felt as a result of this ...

Local Support For Air Service Needed

It’s been over two years since we sold our home on the north side of Jamestown, but we still frequent both the city and Western New York. And we continue to read The Post-Journal and follow the travails of the Chautauqua County (Jamestown) airport. This letter is one of many we have written to The Post-Journal over the years, remembering and relying upon the many times we were passengers on the local commercial air service to and from Pittsburgh and even Dulles Washington. Those days are long gone (as pointed out in your article of Feb. 4, 2026 -“Unused Jamestown Airport Terminal ...

Dunkirk Doesn’t Need A Nuclear-Powered NRG

George Borello wants you to spend hundreds of millions of dollars for electricity you don’t need. NRG shut down the Dunkirk plant in 2016 because there was no market for the expensive electricity it generated. George now wants to re-power the NRG plant but his recent editorial promoting the idea was filled with half-truths and misinformation. His claim that then Governor Cuomo bowed “to political pressure from the advocates on the far left” ignores the fact that the original repowering project was placed on hold in 2015 when another power company, the Entergy Group, filed a ...

Vehicle Plate Fraud Is Driven By NYC

When I was on the campaign trail for Chautauqua County Clerk, the news stories about possible wrongdoing at our county DMV locations were impossible to miss. County residents were receiving toll charges, in some cases thousands of dollars, for tolls and speeding infractions on license plates they’d surrendered to one of our DMVs. This was a terrible situation for the victims spending countless hours fighting fines and fees they weren’t responsible for. When I was elected, tackling this issue became my top priority. After taking office January 1, I visited all three county DMV ...

Humanity, Untelevised

By Margot Russell Remember this? In the weeks after the flooding outside Asheville, something unexpected happened. The headlines were grim at first—washed-out roads, shuttered shops, homes caked in mud. Social media did what it does: circulated dramatic footage, assigned blame, predicted long recoveries. But on the ground, a quieter story began to unfold. Restaurants that had lost power cooked everything in their freezers and handed out meals for free. Breweries turned into supply depots. Church parking lots became distribution hubs. Contractors showed up with their own equipment ...