Thumbs up to the return of the Chautauqua County Fair this July. It’s been three years since the Chautauqua County Fairgrounds in Dunkirk have hosted the fair. Large group gatherings like the fair were canceled due to COVID-19 in 2020 and the state’s inability to finalize COVID-19 ...
City Council President Tony Dolce finds himself in a precarious position. The Ward 2 Republican is the longest-tenured member of the council, but finds himself in a position he hasn’t dealt with during his lengthy city political career. Typically, Dolce found himself in a well-respected, ...
It has been more than two years since federal officials began calling for American-made personal protective equipment to help us combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses all over the country pivoted to answer the call … or tried to, anyway. But the struggles they have faced since then ...
Cherin Mehs, David Hall and Cindy Hall have made a mark on Gerry every Memorial Day weekend. For two decades, Mehs and the Halls have helped make the Gerry Memorial Day Parade and cemetery service a community tradition. But that tradition is on the verge of ending, along with so many other ...
The Chautauqua County Legislature made the right move in turning away a $75,000 grant to address vaccine hesitancy. It did so for largely the wrong reasons, with legislators giving reasons that included not wanting to coerce people to get vaccines, not singling out certain community groups ...
The hills of Chautauqua County were alive with the sounds of, well, blasting, late last week. Such noise was necessary because the Ball Hill Wind project in Hanover and Villenova was created on defective foundations that have to be broken up and replaced. The project is a 100-megawatt wind ...