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Health officials discuss smoking, vaping challenges

The good news is that traditional tobacco smoking rates in Chautauqua County are declining. The bad news is that vaping appears to be taking its place. Members of the county Health Department recently gave a presentation at a legislature committee meeting regarding smoking and vaping. ...

Person Dies After Sunday Stabbing In City

Jamestown police are investigating a Sunday stabbing that has left a person dead. On Sunday, May 3, around 4:30 a.m. city police officers responded to the area of Lakeview Avenue and East Eighth Street for a report of a stabbing victim. Once on scene, officers located an unresponsive person who had been stabbed. The person was taken to UPMC Chautauqua and then transported to UPMC Hamot via STAT MedEvac for life-threatening injuries. On Wednesday, May 6, the person succumbed to his injury sustained during the incident and was pronounced deceased while at UPMC Hamot. At this time, the ...

Fredonia hotel owner fights closure

Dunkirk Hospitality LLC is fighting the village of Fredonia’s attempts to force those staying at the former Route 60 EconoLodge to leave the building. The company filed an Article 78 lawsuit Friday asking the state Supreme Court to annul and vacate Fredonia’s April 27 direction to vacate the property without Dunkirk Hospitality LLC having an opportunity to be heard. The village had given a deadline of May 6 for that to happen. The company is also asking the court to require Fredonia to hold an expedited post-deprivation administrative hearing before a neutral officer on a ...

SKF, Cummins Navigate Regulations, Global Unrest

National and global politics are helping shape the coming months for two of the area’s larger employers. Officials from Cummins and SKF talked recently with investor analysts about the effects things like tariffs, new environmental regulations and global uncertainty, particularly in the ...