Chautauqua County

The City of Dunkirk has seen its waterfront battered in recent years due to an increasing frequency of severe weather. Through a U.S. House Appropriations bill, over $4 million has been secured to repair and improve the city's harbor breakwater.

It's called the Community Health Survey, Chautauqua County's effort to find out what residents see as the health issues of this time. They're being asked to fill out the survey, whether on paper or online, by March 15.

Both candidates for Chautauqua County executive say there are two major issues in the race, jobs and infrastructure, but with significant differences.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has announced over $13.7 million in federal funding to improve water infrastructure in New York's rural areas.

The Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office has announced a second set of human remains has been found near the Rails to Trails path off Woleben Road in the Town of Portland.

The Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services is hosting a foster parent and kinship recruitment event Saturday morning, hoping to attract new candidates to provide safe homes to children in need.

Thursday's Chautauqua County Health Department meeting may have been dominated by the new surge of COVID-19 across the county, but there were also problems with the water in Dunkirk and Fredonia, dirty restaurants, mosquitoes, West Nile Virus and the decrepit Busti Mobile Home Park.

Chautauqua County is gearing up for federal approval of a third dose of COVID vaccines, even as it starts giving booster shots to those who are immuno-compromised.

Chautauqua County will be participating in a national and New York State effort to halt the spread of raccoon rabies in 16 states.

The rodeo bulls and horses and riders have assembled in the small Chautauqua County town of Gerry this week, despite a pandemic that's canceled may other public events.