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Wendel Eyes Balanced Fly Car Program Budget

County Executive PJ Wendel knows full well how valuable the county’s fly car EMS response program is. In the span of five minutes this week, fly cars were sent to respond to help someone having a stroke while another was sent to respond to a car accident in which a vehicle hit a tree. In ...

City Teen Faces Federal Charges

Federal charges for a Jamestown teenager are the latest in a string of charges over the past year. U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced Thursday that Raymond Medina, 19, was charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, which carries a maximum ...

Borrello Asks Hochul, Again, To Delay E-Bus Mandate

Joseph Reyda, Bemus Point Central School superintendent, is worried district voters’ defeat of a proposition to buy electric school buses and accept an EPA grant is a sign of things to come. Reyda wrote a letter to state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, in the wake of the September 5 ...

Court Rules In Favor Of Lily Dale Business Owner

The state Supreme Court has ruled against Lily Dale’s attempts for a quick court judgment to expel a business owner from the assembly’s grounds. Supreme Court Justice Grace Hanlon has again denied Lily Dale’s request for summary judgment in its case against Robert and Danielle ...

Zero For Four

Chautauqua County is now zero for four this year defending sex offender designations it has placed on sex offenders moving to the county from other states. An Ohio man was convicted of soliciting via telecommunications device another person who was between the ages of 13 and 16 while he was ...

'Reduce Youth Use': Ban On ‘Entertainment’ Vapes Proposed

Vaping shouldn’t be fun in New York state. That’s the basic gist of a new piece of legislation introduced recently by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-New York City. A.10713 would amend the state Public Health Law to prohibit the sale of what Rosenthal terms entertainment vapor ...