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Living inside autumn

It’s interesting to be writing about fall when I’m in the autumn of my own life. For many years now, fall has emphasized the quiet. The house feels big and empty. No hustling for the first day of school. No pencils to sharpen, no trips to the shoe store, no lunch sacks waiting on the ...

Sales include radio station properties

After a group of local radio stations were sold this spring, the building and properties that they operate out of were officially sold over the summer. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from July ...

Lavish, placid Republican legislators may be on hot seat

Right as the controversial data center issue began to ramp up in the spring, our newspaper received a communication from a fired-up individual. As part of the impassioned discussion, the caller made it clear what she was going to say would be important to the Brocton-Portland community. Why ...

Forestville resident protests sale of parcel from tax auction

A Forestville resident is asking county officials to reject a property sale at a tax auction, saying that it was sold without her knowledge. During the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Administrative Services Committee meeting, Kerry Vasquez-Marte at 927 Route 39, Forestville was in ...

Confusion with new Clymer school tax payment system

CLYMER — Tax collection for the Clymer Central School district is in session right now, running until October 2, but a transition in regards to payment of school taxes has been causing some confusion among district residents. At the September meeting of the Clymer Central School Board of ...