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Target, Walmart Join Mall Seeking Assessment Cuts

Several Lakewood property owners aren’t the only ones unhappy with their new property tax assessments. Walmart is asking state Supreme Court Justice Grace Hanlon to reduce the store’s 2025-26 tax assessment from the $15 million that is part of the town of Busti’s property ...

Accounted For

The remains of the first Chautauqua County casualty in the Pacific Theater of World War II have been accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The agency said U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. John H. Mann, 22, of Stow, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Dec. 19, ...

Power Prices Prompt Oodles Of Legislation

Republicans and Democrats in the state Legislature can agree electric prices in New York are too high. What to do about the issue is the point of contention. The average price per kilowatt hour of electricity in New York state has increased since 2020 from 17.3 cents per kilowatt hour to ...

Albany-Area Legislators Seek Flare Gun Age Limits

State residents may have to show state-licensed identification to prove they are over the age of 21 before purchasing a flare gun in the future. Legislation has been introduced the state House and Senate (A.8920/S.8455) that would amend the state Penal Law and the state General Business Law ...

Lakewood Residents Filing Assessment Challenges

Assessments for several properties in the town of Busti - in particular the village of Lakewood - are being challenged in state Supreme Court. Assessment challenges aren’t uncommon, but challenges that reach court locally tend to be over commercial properties rather than residential ...

City Man Arrested In Thursday Shooting

A Jamestown man has been charged with assault and weapons possession after the city’s second shooting in less than a month. Xavier M. Ramos, 23, of Jamestown was charged with first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon after officers responded to a shooting at ...