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Briefly July 31, 2026

‘Cabinet Of Wonder’ To Hold Free Performance Sunday At Chautauqua CHAUTAUQUA - Natalie Merchant will conclude her residence at Chautauqua Institution at 3 p.m. Sunday with a free matinee family-friendly concert performance with a chamber orchestra ensemble of Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra musicians, under the baton of Principal Pops Conductor Stuart Chafetz, which will be free to the public. The concert will center on the music of Merchants’ Cabinet of Wonder, a joyful reimagining of Mother Goose developed in collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and will also ...

Jamestown native turns 100 today

Local News July 31, 2026

Jamestown native Dorothy Jean Fuller Lundeen and The Flor Hotel have something in common - they’re both turning 100 this year. Lundeen’s birthday is today. Her son, Daniel Lundeen said she was born Dorothy Jean Fuller on July 31, 1926, at WCA Hospital. She lived in Stillwater on a dairy ...

Challengers need to spice up insipid races

Editor's Corner July 31, 2026

As the month of July melts into the sunset, August begins to turn up the heat when it comes to this campaign season. In both Pennsylvania and New York, it appears incumbents are in complete control with the election 95 days away. Republican gubernatorial challenger Bruce Blakeman is hoping ...

Lakewood police eye camera near Walmart

Area Police Report

Police Reports July 30, 2026

JAMESTOWN POLICE - Jami Slater, 35, was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs at 10:40 p.m. July 24 after officers responded to a request to check the well being of a person at the Tim Hortons restaurant in Brooklyn Square after it was reported there was a woman in a car slumped over the steering wheel. Slater was charged, arraigned and released to be in court later.

Warren man’s motion to withdraw guilty plea denied in case involving Jamestown girl

Local News July 30, 2026

A Warren man’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea entered in May in relation to three felony charges related to a missing New York teenager has been denied. Michael J. Bundy III, 25, pleaded guilty in the Court of Common Pleas on May 7 to one count of second-degree statutory sexual assault: 8-11 years older, one count of second-degree felony aggravated indecent assault – forcible compulsion and one count of third-degree felony corruption of minors – defendant age 18 or over. The rest of the remaining 13 charges were not prosecuted. After the plea, according to online court ...