Editor’s Note: This article is from the CWC archives and was originally published on April 2, 2016. Whether you love them or hate them, bats are incredible creatures. At over 1,300 species, they are the second most numerous order of mammals and make up almost a quarter of the entire mammal ...

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation and Community Heart & Soul are partnering to expand access to a new approach to community engagement. Community Heart & Soul engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, what future they ...

The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities Electric Division has earned the American Public Power Association Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2025. The utility earned the Diamond Level Award in the utilities category, with 157,936 worker-hours of annual worker ...

Jamestown High School officials recently named the school’s Students of the Month for March. They are: Josue Sanchez is a freshman at Jamestown High School and is the son of Jose and Yesenia Sanchez. Josue is a member of the freshman boys basketball and football teams, as well as Unified ...

The Fenton History Center has opened a new exhibit, Timeless Treasures, featuring jewelry from the Fenton Collection with examples of jewelry dating from the 1840s to the 1940s. Rings, bracelets, lockets, necklaces and watches from the early Victorian period through World War II are in the ...

The Women’s Giving Circle of Chautauqua County is launching a new initiative aimed at improving access to child care. The Childcare Innovation Challenge is designed as a collaborative, facilitated design process. Selected participants will engage in a series of three half-day sessions ...