Chautauqua County has approved the tax auction sales of 130 properties throughout the county – but the decision wasn't unanimous.

Nor, in our opinion, should it have been. There were enough complaints from property owners of properties ending up at the tax auction with a lack of notice or other issues that property owners say they weren't aware of to raise questions. The property sale the legislature didn't approve last week involved a property in which one of the bidders alleged the original property owner, who shouldn't have been allowed to bid on the property, drove the price up because county law states any........

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