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Drug, harassment charges filed after downtown fracas

Five individuals are facing charges after a fight in downtown Jamestown last week. Around midnight Wednesday, Jamestown Police Department officers responded to the area of the Wine Cellar for multiple subjects fighting. Upon arrival, officers attempted to disburse the crowd but located Marc Staples actively trying to continue the fight. Officers attempted to remove Staples from the situation at which time he became combative with officers. Staples was quickly taken into custody. While attempting to detain Rashid Jabbar, he also became uncooperative with officers and was taken into ...

‘Core To Shore’: Jamestown awarded second $10M DRI award from state

Nine years ago, the city of Jamestown was one of the first municipalities included in a round of funding from the state under the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. On Friday, it was announced that they would again receive funding from this initiative as a part of Round Nine, totalling ...

State-backed CLP, NC State study begins

Work has begun in earnest on a state-backed study by the Chautauqua Lake Partnership and North Carolina State University. In April, the CLP announced that it had received $42,813 from the state DEC for a project that will focus on evaluating potential ecological trends and thresholds to ...

Randolph trims budget ahead of re-vote

RANDOLPH - An open budget forum will be held today at 6 p.m. in the Randolph High School auditorium in advance of Tuesday's re-vote on Randolph Central School's 2026-27 budget. The re-vote will take place from 2 to 8 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. The district is proposing a smaller budget than the one that was defeated in May. That budget totaled $27,021,901 budget and came with a 19.27% increase in spending and a 39.75% increase in the district’s property tax levy. The budget up for vote this week totals $25,996,501 and cuts the proposed tax increase to 19.75%. "The ...

City man jailed after gunshot incident involving child, car

A Jamestown man is facing charges after complaints of gunshots being fired last week. David J. Figueroa, 43, was charged with two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, fourth-degree criminal mischief and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Officers of the Jamestown Police Department responded to several calls of a gunshot complaint near a South East residential street around 8 p.m. Wednesday. Officers located Figueroa who was in possession of a 20-gauge shotgun. It was discovered he had fired two 20 gauge slug rounds in the direction of the victim and their child. ...

Hitting The Trails

Chautauqua County has had a lot of success in recent years in getting grant funds to help improve trails. Those improvements have helped generate a high usage of trails in the county. The Friends of Chautauqua County Greenways recently met to discuss various projects going on with a number ...