A sale is in the works that could result in activity in the former Jamestown Brewing Company building by as soon as March. The county Industrial Development Agency approved a loan earlier this week to Wicked Jimmy’s LLC, owned by the owners of Wicked Warren’s, to support the purchase of ...

Only good things can come from a revived town supervisors and mayors association in Chautauqua County. Jeff Molnar, Bemus Point mayor, hosted a meeting of about 20 supervisors and mayors in December in an attempt to bring back semi-regular meetings of the area’s town and village leaders. ...

If Chautauqua County’s Republicans were as fiscally responsible as they say they are, they’d immediately dismiss recommendations by the latest Salary Review Commission. The commission has recommended increasing the county executive’s pay by 14.5%, the county clerk’s by 26.7%, the ...

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli put the Northern Chautauqua County Water District on notice regarding its finances. Unfortunately, some of its board members are not getting the same information. That was part of last week’s discussion that involved David Hazelton, who said he — as a ...

We all have experience with New Year’s resolutions. We make them. We break them. We forget them. By the end of the month, we will have heard the last of the local government version of New Year’s resolutions in the form of Mayor Kim Ecklund’s State of the City address and County ...

Though the Republican National Committee’s online platform summary does now contain not one, but two, references to “America’s greatness” and what “makes America great,” it is conspicuously lacking a tenet many political conservatives still hold dear: When it comes to government, ...