We were heartened and encouraged by The Post-Journal’s recent editorial (August 16, 2025) noting that comedy is Jamestown’s unique strength – and we couldn’t agree more. The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, now in its 35th year, once again welcomed visitors from 43 states and brought some ...

I read someplace, a long time ago, that this phrase was once used by former General and President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in describing who an American was. Ike is purported to have said something along the line that: “Americans are people who enjoy having a barbecue in ...

Recent newspaper reports of well-known national big-box retailers demanding huge reductions in their real property assessed values by Chautauqua County towns is not a new phenomenon. In 1998, then County Executive Mark Thomas and the Chautauqua County legislature saw these huge corporations ...

CHAUTAUQUA—If you think economics is boring, Stephen Moore proves the opposite. ♦♦♦ On Aug. 7, the White House chief of staff called Moore, co-founder of the Club for Growth and a Fox News contributor, and asked that he meet with the president, whom he has known since 2016. “I ...

One of the joys of living in Western New York has been the lifelong friendship that we have had with our next door neighbor, Canada. Back in the days when I was a bit more mobile, we would take a yearly trip to Canada for a week or two of wilderness canoeing. You had only to drive a few hours ...

The July 4th weekend was an “Absolute Nightmare” on Chautauqua Lake for Burtis Bay, Sherman Bay, Ellicott and Fluvanna residents as broadcast by Channel 4 WIVB Buffalo to all of Western New York. Several broadcasts followed from impenetrable weed-choked areas of the lake now designated ...