Chautauqua County Sheriff’s deputies did a good job of quickly corralling a man who tried to escape from the Chautauqua County Jail on July 11. A perimeter was quickly set up after Eric Ryals made it to the jai’s roof. Unlike other jail escapes, deputies were actively chasing Ryals as he ...
Both Mayor Kim Ecklund and Councilman Jeff Russell are right with suggestions last week to cut down on the number of illegal fireworks going off during Independence Day celebrations in Jamestown. Russell said he heard from police officers that they suspect some temporary fireworks sellers ...
It should be obvious after the July 3 announcement of two Medicaid fraud cases totaling $3.4 million that the state must make major changes to its Non-Emergency Medical Transportation system. The system is a necessary one that relieves the stress of non-emergency transportation to medical ...
Almost lost in the avalanche of legislation passed in the closing days of this year’s state legislative session was a bill untying teacher evaluations from state-mandated tests. Good riddance to bad rubbish. We don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of creating ways to hold poor ...
Unfunded mandates, products of the federal and state governments, do not sit well with local-level units of government. Neither do those mandates sit well with school districts and institutions of higher learning, especially as they are trying to prepare and balance new budget ...
It would be refreshing to read a population report with positive news for New York state. We’d do backflips down the bike lanes on Washington Street if Republicans and Democrats could actually agree on measures to help slow down that population loss. New York lost more than $14.1 ...