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My husband is my scoreboard

I really haven’t learned much about football in my lifetime. I haven’t needed to. I just watch my husband. I can tell by his pacing, the variety and number of swear words used, and his propensity to stand up during particularly agonizing moments to inform me exactly what is going on in the ...

Chautauqua Historical Society to host steamboat talk

MAYVILLE – Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m., Devon Taylor, Chautauqua town historian, will be giving the Chautauqua Town Historical Society’s monthly talk titled “The Steamboat Era on Lake Chautauqua.” The Chautauqua Town Historical Society’s speaker’s programs are normally the ...

UCAN, business owner provide manpower to clean graffiti on Harrison Street

After an incident involving graffiti on city-owned property last week, guests from the United Christian Advocacy Network (UCAN) volunteered to help with the cleanup project. The Jamestown Police Department was investigating the incident earlier this week. Mayor Kim Ecklund posted on social ...

Poverty rates take troubling toll on youth

As energy and grocery costs continue what seems as an unending climb, many households — even those working multiple full-time jobs — are experiencing more than just a pinch. It is an absolute cash gash. Within the last month, the New York State Association of Counties continued banging ...

Fredonia College Council hears no financial report

There was plenty of discussion about cutting the state University at Fredonia’s deficit at the latest SUNY Fredonia University Council meeting. Numbers were hard to come by - in part because the official who used to run them was reassigned. There was no financial report presented out ...

Lawmakers call for AG review of failed Bradford hospital sale

A pair of state lawmakers are concerned with the inability of Kaleida Health to complete an agreement to transfer ownership of the former Bradford Regional Medical Center campus to the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine - with both lawmakers calling on an Attorney General’s office ...