Jamestown, like most other small Upstate New York Cities such as Dunkirk, Lockport, Lackawanna, Niagara Falls, Salamanca, Olean and Elmira, is faced with constant challenges that are often beyond its means to deal with. While these small cities find it very difficult to improve their ...

Last month I wanted to focus on the holidays. I wanted to be festive, and I wanted to help make the organizations and groups that I belong to reflect the holiday spirit. I wanted to decorate. I wanted to spend time with my family. Nationally, things have been going along pretty much as they ...

On Dec. 26, Trustee Jon Espersen, the victor of the recent elections, along with trustees Nicole Syracuse and David Bird, with very little consideration for the will of the people they supposed to represent and even less understanding and foresight, voted to effectively kill Fredonia’s water ...

Let’s pick up where we left off last week. One of the admirable — indeed, exemplary — qualities of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and of her successor, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is that one almost never has to read any of their sentences twice to understand ...

Spending $100,000 on murals and the construction of giant chairs sort of reminds me of work art projects commissioned by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration back during the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s. If Chautauqua County was not one of the most impoverished ...

He finished breakfast, then stood up to leave the restaurant with his friends. As he was pulling on his jacket near our table, I spotted his 49ers t-shirt. Sort of a camel color with red print and logos. I smiled up at him and said, “You are definitely the bravest man in this room.” ...