We couldn’t agree more with an attempt by Mike Laurin to streamline site plan approvals and change the city Planning Commission’s overall focus. Laurin has been on the Planning Commission for a few years, but took over as the commission’s chairman this year. During the commission’s ...

We’ve seen enough municipal branding attempts to know their payoff is typically pretty small. It’s better than nothing - though how much better than nothing is frankly up for debate. So we hope there is a payoff to the county’s Live CHQ and Choose CHQ programs that were launched ...

For most Curbed Your Enthusiasm fans, the use of the name Journey Gunderson was just another example of Larry David and his writing team coming up with a name for an off-camera character that one will surely remember. It’s a lot like another one of David’s characters from Seinfeld, the ...

During a probation check on Jamestown’s east side earlier this week, officers found a rifle with a defaced serial number in a home with a convicted felon who isn’t allowed to have firearms. Last week, two handguns - one stolen - were found during a drug raid on Whitley Avenue. A drug ...

Monday’s protest by some of the region’s homeless showed, without a doubt, that two things can be true at the same time. We agree with the homeless - more needs to be done. Transitional housing and more affordable housing is needed to help solve the reasons the homeless find themselves ...

It sounds as if some Mayville Village Board members are tired of hearing a yearly appeal from the Chautauqua Lake Partnership to use herbicides in the Mayville area of Chautauqua Lake. We’re sure the converse is true as well, with areas in the southern area of the lake hearing pitches for ...