Jamestown News

A lifelong area resident, she was born April 26, 1961, in Jamestown, the daughter of the late Henry L. and Betty L. Morrison Seekings.

A Salamanca man is in custody after police say he stabbed a woman and fled into the woods Wednesday in the town of Poland.

The Chautauqua Region Community Foundation is turning 35, but there's no suggestion of a mid-life crisis anytime soon.

That was the chant heard throughout downtown Jamestown on Wednesday morning when members of the local Hispanic community participated in a peace march to raise awareness about the Hispanic services navigator position.

A 26-year-old woman from Sinclairville is accused of stealing a St. Susan's donation canister from a convenience store in Jamestown.

James L. Lindsay, III, 37, of 8 Cowing St., Jamestown, was sentenced to an indeterminate time of 2 to 7 years in state prison for first-degree reckless endangerment.

Fiscal stress is an issue that can be seen in cities, towns and villages across New York, including some in Chautauqua County.

Jamestownite, you say you were "on the system" years ago and knew you would meet some kind of stigma, yet in your next breath you call snap benefits "tramp stamps".

Steven was born in Jamestown N.Y., on March 24, 1950, the son of the late Kenneth Folke Fredrickson and Hedvig Magdalena "Madge" Fredrickson.

A lifelong Dunkirk resident, Mr. Krystofik served in the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1956.

For the first time in several years, a free lunch program will be provided at each site by Chautauqua Opportunities Inc. and is being made possible through a grant from the United Way of Southern Chautauqua County.

Williams, the Jamestown man who now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson, pleaded guilty in 1999 to statutory rape and reckless endangerment after police said he knowingly infected more than a dozen women with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.

Born in Limestone, N.Y. on Sept. 1, 1922, to Joseph and Grace White, he lived on Chautauqua Lake at Loomis Bay for many years, and then in Jensen Beach, Fla., for the past 30 years.

Nushawn Williams was convicted of statutory rape and reckless endangerment back in 1999.

A few thousand opponents of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas rallied on the steps of the state Capitol Monday - and a new public-opinion poll suggests they're gaining traction.

June 17th, 2013 A Jamestown, NY man found guilty of knowingly infecting women with HIV in the 1990's is back in court again for a new trial.

The Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program of Chautauqua County is once again hosting Evening in the Garden Programs the third Wednesday of every month throughout the summer and they would like to invite the public to the Kick-Off Party on Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. in the Demonstration Garden at the Frank Bratt Ag Center.

No one was injured Sunday following a motor vehicle accident that occurred around 1 p.m. in the city of Jamestown.

Crash. Warren based State Police said Racheal L. Anderson, 20, Jamestown, NY, was traveling southbound on SR 1015 on wet roads when the vehcile lost control, spun counterclockwise and traveled off the roadway stricking a telephone pole.

Muriel E. "Paula" Pacitti, 84, formally of Falconer, passed away Thursday in Heritage Village Rehab & Skilled Nursing Center, Gerry.