Public campaign financing is already making an impact in Chautauqua County, as the race for the region’s next state Assembly member stands to generate at least $100,000 in public funding. Bobseine for Assembly, the committee formed to support Democrat Michael Bobseine of Fredonia in ...
A long-discussed rental inspection ordinance has been passed by the City Council. Rental inspection has been discussed off and on for years The initiative picked up steam again last year when state lawmakers approved rental inspections statewide and attached funding to counties to help ...
To say Cattaraugus County lawmakers are upset by the escape of Edward Kindt from a halfway house in Dutchess County and Kindt’s return to Cattaraugus County is an understatement. One day after Kindt was captured by Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Deputies in Salamanca, county lawmakers ...
One of the first things Councilman Russ Bonfiglio, R-At Large, did after being elected last November was to take a ride-along with Jamestown police officers. It didn’t take long for him to see the issues homeless people are creating in parts of Jamestown up close. Second-shift officers ...
If anyone thought litigation regarding a landfill in the town of Carroll was over, think again. Attorneys for the town of Carroll and the Jones family filed memorandums in state Supreme Court late last week asking Justice Grace Hanlon to declare summary judgment to bring the case, finally, ...
Jamestown’s City Council president is making clear that Jamestown stands ready to work with organizations that want to help the homeless while the city comes to grips with an explosion in the number of homeless in the city. Tony Dolce, R-Ward 2 and council president, spoke at the end of ...