It doesn’t take much to find signs of the Jamestown area’s Scandinavian heritage. There are monthly events at Jamestown Community College, the yearly Scandinavian Folk Festival that brings hundreds of people downtown to celebrate the area’s Swedish roots and, of course, the Swedish flags ...
The initial steps taken this year by the communities of Clymer, Sherman and Panama toward a possible reorganization of the school districts has us thinking back to the last time we started this process. Of course, the last reorganization attempt only involved Clymer and Panama, districts ...
Every time I open my computer I get another message. One fine day I am not going to be able to write anything. I am working on a seven-year-old computer which by today’s standards is a dinosaur. The only thing I use my computer for is this column. For Internet access, reading and ordering ...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere in the narrows of Chautauqua Lake, you’ve probably heard complaints about the condition of the lake this summer - particularly conditions in the southern portion of the lake. We’ve gotten good at articulating the problems. Weed growth is ...
There have been three great migrations in our history. One is the Great Migration in Africa where over a million wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles every year cross the Serengeti in search of food and water. It still happens to this day. The second Great Migration, from 1916 - 1970 was after ...
While growing up on the farm, my father always stressed the importance of neatness in the way things were done. He didn’t make a lot of money in dairy farming, but he also never spared spending when it came to keeping the barn painted, maintaining the farm equipment, or mowing the lawn. To ...