BEMUS POINT – While the current zoning laws for the town of Ellery do include regulations on wind and solar farms, concerns have grown about the larger facilities that have been becoming more common. With both of these energy sources gaining prevalence due to pushes at the state level, ...

FALCONER – Village officials feel positive they may hear good news after a recent grant interview with state officials for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant and the NY Forward grant. Village Trustee Alan Gustafson Jr. discussed the interview at the meeting. Gustafson stated that ...

FREWSBURG - The Frewsburg Central School Board of Education has hired an interim middle/high school assistant principal. Daniel Bracey, a retired principal who served in the Jamestown Public Schools district, was approved Dec. 17 and began his position Dec. 4. According to Board President ...

A bed & breakfast establishment in the town of Westfield 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 Oct. 14-17. During this time period, Barcelona Lakeside B&B, Inc. ...

Jamestown resident Cynthia Corbelli celebrates her Polish heritage every Christmas Eve. “As a child it was always our tradition to have Wigilia. The traditional meal has more dishes, but we only had pierogi and mushroom soup with fried potatoes. It is always a meatless meal,” she shares. ...

FRENCH CREEK — On Route 426 in the town of French Creek there sits a house without a properly functioning septic system, something that has been causing issues for neighboring houses for a number of years. These issues had seemed to slow down for a while after the previous occupants moved ...