There are a lot of wonderful groups in our community dedicated to feeding the hungry. We’re written about a lot of them over the past several months - Conduit Ministries, the St. Susan Center, Chautauqua County Rural Ministries, countless church food pantries and, most recently, the ...

Persistence is finally paying off for the village of Falconer. Since 2017, village officials have been either demolishing, cleaning up or preparing for new development the sites of two fires that, all told, destroyed four mixed-used commercial properties, displaced six businesses and 16 ...

Passage of a Local Preservation Ordinance has popped up on the City Council’s agenda tonight - and in our opinion council members should tread lightly on this ground. For starters, the ordinance includes reference to a Jamestown Preservation Board, a board that to our knowledge doesn’t ...

ByteDance, a Chinese firm that the federal government says is essentially a front for the Chinese government, owns the popular social media platform TikTok, which is used by an estimated 170 million Americans. That’s a national security threat, says Congress, which last year passed a law ...

There were plenty of complaints - loud ones - about how the Jamestown Public Schools District handled cold, snowy weather over the past couple of weeks. It’s not like these are new complaints. We hear them every year - particularly in Jamestown when roads may be passable but sidewalks ...

In a few weeks, Nick Sirianni will add the title of Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame member to his already glowing resume. The Southwestern High School graduate has another prize in sight. We’re talking, of course, about the title of Super Bowl champion. Buffalo Bills fans had hoped the ...