Chautauqua Lake

No, no, no. It's just the way Dunkirk resident Colin Barmore has envisioned it for months.

So at 7.30 a.m., he will leave Lakeside Park in Mayville and embark on a run That will take him around Chautauqua Lake.

For those keeping score at home, that's 42 miles, give or take.

When I first started running my sophomore year of high school, I realized how far I could take it, said Barmore, now 25.

He got a nice little spot.

Got a nice little spot up there at Chautauqua Lake.

He heard banjo music.

It's the only way you guys let me insert my penis in there.

As soon as we finished the record, Human Conflict No. 5, recording it, Jim Foti decides he has an offer to play with a steady gig with Junie Shank and Solid Gold.

Junie Shank owned his own club on Lake Chautauqua and would play there almost every weekend.

And it was a steady gig.

It was good paying.

And that owner that told us of how they had a landslide a few years prior.

And to prevent anything else from sliding, they shored up the side of that hill that was going into the lake, Lake Chautauqua.

And they were talking about how they carried the rocks down there and positioned them to kind of shore up that side of that hill.

I was like, I couldn't imagine doing that kind of work that had to have been labor intensive.

I grew up in Jamestown.

Bemus Point on Chautauqua Lake.

Oh, right.

Crazy.

In other business, Randy Edwards, Bemis Point Fire Chief, said the department has responded to 187 calls for service in 2026, with 110 being for the EMS, 15 for fires, 8 for motor vehicle accidents, 32 alarms, and 22 others, which includes water rescues.

Edwards also reported that Captain John Staley was named Firefighter of the Year, and the department would be supporting the Long Point State Park on Chautauqua Lake's annual Trunk or Treat, which is scheduled to take place on October 24th.

Bemis Point Street Superintendent Joel P. Dahlberg reported that at the end of next week or before October 1st that his department was planning on pulling out the public dock.

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Jamestown was growing rapidly in the 1870s and 1880s, but its streets were notoriously muddy and difficult to travel.

A street railway offered a much more reliable way for workers, shoppers, and residents to move around town.

The first Jamestown streetcar made its inaugural run on June 19, 1884, operating from the Sherman House in downtown Jamestown to the board boat landing on Chautauqua Lake.

The first car was filled with company directors and invited guests.

When I saw that on your website, I was like, only Susie Wu would be able to get on that.

a paddle, a paddle wheel ship on Lake Chautauqua in Chautauqua, New York.

Only you, only you could do it.

And I thought, what? It's mind blowing.