It’s obvious after reading the documentation required to be made public regarding the YWCA Jamestown’s day care program that changes need to be made. The YWCA’s Dandelion Room, which housed a universal pre-kindergarten program, is already closed after staffing oversight left children ...

We hope state Transportation Department officials have listened carefully to Lakewood residents’ concerns over a sidewalk extension project for Route 394 that is now being opposed by members of the Lakewood Village Board. The state Transportation Department has said improvements could ...

Voter turnout was through the roof a week ago, both in Chautauqua County, New York state and the country at large. It wasn’t unexpected. Voters always turn out when it’s time to vote for a president, and the 2024 race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was something we’ve never ...

It’s easy for discussion over the region’s population loss to feel as if it has no stakes. That’s because population loss tends to happen more like a trickle than a burst pipe. But it’s there nonetheless, our population dripping away like a leaky faucet. Jamestown’s population in ...

Chautauqua County has a new face as its Republican election commissioner - though she’s no stranger to the county’s elections. Nacole Ellis, a Chautauqua County Board of Elections employee, has been appointed by Republicans on the Chautauqua County Legislature to replace the retiring ...

We reported over the weekend on the sad case of a woman who had suffered a stroke and found herself homeless in the park across Second Street from The Post-Journal. We didn’t share the story for a pat on the back - though the employees who did what they could to help the woman until they ...