A pair of motions allowing two sexual abuse cases against Chautauqua County to move forward are being appealed by the county. The Adult Victims Act cases were filed in October 2023, with state Supreme Court Justice Grace Hanlon ruling in early May that she was not granting the county’s ...
Legal cannabis sales have increased 27% since the state began increasing enforcement actions against shops selling marijuana products illegally. None of those increased sales have come from Jamestown, however, which still doesn’t have a licensed marijuana shop open inside the city limits. ...
Conflicts of interest rules involving elections officials may be getting much more stringent. Both houses of the state Legislature have approved legislation (S.612/A.1244) prohibits any board of elections employee from engaging or participating in any trade or business that creates or tends ...
County Industrial Development Agency boards could be required to have a local labor representative and a representative of a county school district. Legislation (A.7532/S.4040) passed both the state Senate and Assembly in the closing days of the legislative session and will now be sent to ...
Assemblyman Joe Giglio was often quiet on the Assembly floor - but the Gowanda Republican has left a mark on his fellow Assembly members. Giglio’s final sponsored bill was A.6404/S.6110 to waive a residency requirement for the clerk and treasurer in the village of Portville. The bill was ...
Chautauqua County is being sued for damages after a man claims he was injured during a 2023 ride on a CHQ Transit bus. Richard Gariepy says he boarded the CHQ Transit bus using his motorized scooter. The driver, Gariepy’s attorney says, didn’t properly strap down and secure the scooter ...