Christine Beichner-Miller of Southwestern High School has been named Jamestown Community College's 2025-26 College Connections Teacher of the Year. The College Connections program recognizes one instructor each year who best exemplifies its core standards. Beichner-Miller was selected ...
FREWSBURG - A longtime Frewsburg Central School District Board of Education member was honored for his years of service. For Thomas Fenton, a board member since 2005, Thursday was his last meeting as he is stepping away to spend more time with his family. “Thank you for your ...
In 1905 the Chautauqua County Humane Society was formed to prevent the abuse of horses in the city of Jamestown. While there are no longer any horses in the city, the Humane Society’s fight against animal abuse continues. Now there’s a new “tool” in that fight. During a news ...
A mobile home park in Sinclairville is under new ownership. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from April 1-7. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are ...
If there’s one thing I connect summers with in Western New York, it’s yard mowing. It’s so irretrievably linked in my mind, that even childhood memories occupy a corner in my cerebral cortex labeled “grass.” Mowing it. Fertilizing it. Complaining about it. Watching it grow six inches while you were away for a long weekend. There’s no doubt that by June, grass becomes one of the dominant forces in our lives. It quietly takes over Saturday mornings, fills hardware store parking lots with riding mowers, and gives you a chance to wave to your neighbors. Most of us don’t ...
Alex Karras was a former NFL football player who played with the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1970. He was inducted as a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020. He also had careers as a Professional Wrestler, a Sportscaster, and after sports, he became an actor, having been featured in the movies Blazing Saddles, and Victor/Victoria, and also various television sitcoms, before landing the co-lead with his real life wife, Susan Clark and child actor Emmanuel Lewis in the ABC sitcom , Webster. One of the ...
