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Mar 4, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
Chautauqua County Sheriff James Quattrone said a recent trip to Arizona “opened my eyes” to the activities taking place on the southern border. But the trip, he said, also validated some of his beliefs born from serving as the county’s top law enforcement official. “I think there needs to be an overhaul on policies, but our political leaders in Congress need to work together to resolve this,” Quattrone said Monday, fresh from his days-long trip to Cochise County in Arizona.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
lockportjournal.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
Elaine Caflisch will likely come to learn that time indeed heals all wounds after she was violently thrown from a horse on Christmas Day. And yet, ironically, it’s also time that nearly took her life that afternoon. “You hear them tell you, two to five minutes later and you would have been dead. That’s kind of sobering news,” Caflisch recently said.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
Elaine Caflisch will likely come to learn that time indeed heals all wounds after she was violently thrown from a horse on Christmas Day. And yet, ironically, it’s also time that nearly took her life that afternoon. “You hear them tell you, two to five minutes later and you would have been dead. That’s kind of sobering news,” Caflisch recently said.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
auburnpub.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
Preparations are taking off for a solar eclipse expected to draw plenty of sky-gazing people to Chautauqua County in less than two months. A two-day event is being planned at Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport to celebrate the eclipse in which the moon will cast its shadow across a stretch of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and plunge millions of people into midday darkness.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
It’s not exactly clear when the whipped cream cans, dozens of them and seemingly spread out at random, began showing up along the shoulder of Route 62 spanning New York and Pennsylvania. Some white, others light blue and still others distinctly red, the cans can easily be mistaken for randomly discarded trash. But once you hear about them, they’re hard to miss.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
Introducing the Jamestown “Red & Green.”On the recommendation from the Nickname Committee, the Jamestown Public Schools Board on Tuesday officially adopted Jamestown High School’s new nickname. “We felt that ‘Red & Green’ bridges the gap between the tradition of our school and the new logo,” said Ben Drake, JHS athletic director. “It provides a connection to our storied past and also a bridge to the future.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
niagara-gazette.com | John Whittaker |Jamestown Post-Journal
The Massapequa, Wantagh and Wyandanch, Connetquot and Amityville school districts have each filed lawsuits in the U.S. Eastern District Court seeking to nullify Part 123 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education adopted on May 3 prohibiting the use of indigenous names, logos or mascots other than for classroom instruction. The state Attorney General’s office is attempting to combine the four cases into one case.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
niagara-gazette.com | Eric Tichy |Jamestown Post-Journal
New regulations that require state-conducted background checks for gun and ammunition buyers in New York state recently left one area resident in the lurch. The individual? Chautauqua County Sheriff James Quattrone. “On Sept. 22, I attempted to purchase two boxes of shotgun shells at a local sports store,” Quattrone told The Post-Journal.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
lockportjournal.com | John Whittaker |Jamestown Post-Journal
A state lawmaker wants to make it illegal to smoke marijuana near children. Assemblyman Phil Steck, D-Schenectady, has introduced A.8025 to prohibit the use of cannabis within 30 feet of a child or 30 feet of any location in which children reside or attend for any recreational or educational purpose. Steck's bill also includes additional penalties for those who are ticketed more than once.
