Clymer, Sherman and Panama residents won’t necessarily be watching for results of their school budget votes next week. We would expect each of the three schools’ proposed budgets to be approved when district residents go to the polls Tuesday. Everyone will be watching, though, to see how ...

Jamestown officials are making a push to reverse President Donald Trump’s cuts that would largely eliminate the Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs. To be honest we can see both sides of the issue. City officials on an already thin budget don’t want to lose both the ...

Jamestown officials have received confirmation from the state that interim surface improvements on East Second Street are tentatively scheduled to begin the week of June 9. Parts of the street that were treacherous over the winter are at least passable thanks to cold patching that has stayed ...

The news that Rite Aid is likely to close its New York stores if it can’t sell them by June is going to be a problem for those who live in rural areas. Closing the Brooklyn Square and West Ellicott stores isn’t a huge inconvenience given that there are pharmacies very close to both ...

Four lawsuits have been filed across the state from groups and municipalities concerned about the effects of the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act. Concerns are nothing new to our readers. We’ve been reporting on them long before they were a concern throughout the rest of the state. While ...

We recently reported on a lawsuit filed against Chautauqua County involving the death of a Gowanda youth in the jail. The case is going to be heard in U.S. federal court because it alleges violations of the U.S. Constitution, but the case largely alleges county jail staff didn’t address ...