A long-standing partnership between Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES and the Chautauqua Lake Central School District once again brought something sweet to fourth-grade students — sugar cookies shaped like New York state. The annual New York State Cookie Project began about 25 years ago ...

RANDOLPH – Randolph Town Board members recently approved a final budget for the 2026 fiscal year. While there is the expected slight increase in rates for the next year, the increase remains smaller than increases from past years. Despite ongoing projects within the town, it seems there was ...

A former drug store building has been sold at less than a third of its value three years ago. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the sales from Oct. 1-6. During this time period, OFP Wagradol NY, LLC sold 811 ...

The shutdown caused by the pandemic provided a father and son with an opportunity to give back to their community by volunteering together. Five years later, they’re still doing it. Bob Goold had been a regular volunteer at another area non-profit agency until the pandemic forced that ...

Something incredibly important happened three hundred years ago. It was right up there with the most important things that ever happened on earth: people across all walks of life became obsessed with reading. It is hard to overstate how radical that moment was. Historians call it the ...

I believe I mentioned back in July that the topic of this fictitious ”holiday” would be revisited later in the year, so being a man of my word… Well, Thanksgiving came and went last week, and back when things were “normal,” which, if you turn on the news, or tuned in to Christmas in ...