Westfield Police arrested a Sherman man after he had allegedly exposed himself in public on Sunday. Officers responded to a call of a suspicious person on Main Street Beach at around 2:14PM, and further investigation determined that Peter Baker had allegedly exposed himself in a lewd manner. Baker was arrested charged with public lewdness and exposure of a person. Baker will appear in Town ...read more

Firefighters were dispatched to a reported structure fire in the Town of North Lake. On Tuesday around 4:45PM, the North Lake Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire on 6807 Plank Rd. Responding firefighters had requested a second alarm with heavy fire and smoke showing. Several mutual-aid departments also assisted with the fire department, including Stockton, Westfield, Sher...read more

The House adopted a resolution to rein in President Donald Trump's Iran war powers for the first time since the start of the conflict, by a vote of 215-208 on Wednesday. GOP Representatives Thomas Massie, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Barrett and Warren Davidson voted in favor with all Democrats. Though this is a rebuke of the President’s handling of the war with Iran, the resolution is symbolic...read more

Jamestown Public Schools officials and construction partners officially broke ground on Phase A of the district’s $123 million dollar Capital Improvements Project on Tuesday afternoon at Persell Middle School on Jamestown’s west side. District taxpayers approved the project in December 2023. The project marks another summer of construction across several Jamestown Public Schools...read more

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive will be making a stop in Chautauqua County next week as part of the United States’ 250th anniversary celebration. The Union Pacific’s famed Big Boy No. 4014 is expected to arrive at the State Street crossing in Ripley on Tuesday, June 9th at 12:00 PM and will depart at 12:30 PM. Prior to arriving in Chautauqua County, the train will ...read more

  A Dunkirk man has been taken into custody on multiple counts of rape. Chautauqua County Sheriff’s deputies say they were called to reports of a crime in progress in Forestville at about 3:30 AM Wednesday and located a vehicle occupied by a juvenile and 44-year-old Vernal Carpenter. After further investigation, the Sheriff’s office determined that Carpenter and the juvenile alle...read more

A Mayville man was arrested and faces several drug related charges after driving with a revoked driver's license. On Monday around 5:00PM, Deputies with the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle for an observed traffic violation on Parker Rd in the Town of Chautauqua. The operator was identified as 36-year-old James Mawhir, and further investigation found that ...read more

One person was transported to an area hospital after a motorcycle struck a deer in the Sherman area Monday evening. First responders from Sherman were called to the scene on Mount Pleasant Road at about 9:00 PM and were later joined by Chautauqua County EMS, the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office, and State Police. The male on the motorcycle suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken t...read more

Chautauqua County's top elected official says there's some good and bad in the late New York State budget that was finally adopted last week, nearly two months late. County Executive P.J. Wendel says there will be some benefits to the county, namely in three areas from the $268.5 billion spending plan. He says two of those areas are 911 funding and Tier 6 retirement, the latter of which he says ...read more

An investigation into a report of a person with a weapon and a person who had been stabbed on Jamestown's east side late Monday night resulted in an arrest. Jamestown Police responded to the scene shortly after 11:15 PM. Officers determined that 26-year-old Brionna Bush went to the victim's house and allegedly forced her way inside, then engaged in a physical altercation. During the altercation,...read more