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Sex Offender Registration Case Sent Back To County

A case involving sex offender registration for someone moving into the county is coming back to Chautauqua County Court. Last week’s decision is the latest in a string of Appellate Division rulings dealing with the county’s use of the foreign registration clause of the Sex Offender ...

Rape Conviction Sentencing Overturned On Appeal

An appeals court has vacated the 2020 sentence of a former Jamestown man who was convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree criminal sex acts. Dennis Park, 39, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in March 2020 as part of an agreement between prosecutors and defense attorneys, though ...

Raised Eyebrows

The past four years have been boom times for companies trying to capitalize on the transition away from diesel engines - including Cummins Inc. and NFI Group, owner of the New Flyer plant in Jamestown. It raised eyebrows among investor analysts how President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign ...

Electrovaya Plant Manager Comes Full Circle

Lee Gilmore remembers what it was like when he and his fellow employees at MD Electronics were laid off in 2017. Gilmore had spent about eight years with MD Electronics, which manufactured automotive cables that were used for cameras, navigation systems and other applications within ...

Electrovaya To Begin Production Here In 2025

Electrovaya likely could have had a better package of incentives for its Gigafactory elsewhere. But Chautauqua County had an ace in the hole - the Jamestown area’s manufacturing history and a boost from a company that closed its doors in 2018 at 1 Precision Way, Ellicott, in the Mason ...