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New Restaurant A Chance To Prove Airport’s Vitality

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County officials have spent the past several years trying to talk up the amount of activity at the Chautauqua County Airport at Jamestown. Those efforts have been part of efforts to both balance the airport operation’s budget and to convince the federal government to reinstate the Essential Air Service subsidy that would allow commercial air service to resume at the airport. We’ve heard about private flights for Cummins, the National Comedy Center, Chautauqua Institution and other area companies. The success of a new restaurant at the airport would say as much about the number ...

Stormwater Drainage Is More Than South Avenue Issue XXx

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Jamestown officials should absolutely work with the town of Busti to help a South Avenue resident deal with runoff that floods their yard and pool. The issue is somewhat difficult because South Avenue acts as a border between Jamestown and Busti, meaning crossing the street takes someone from Jamestown to Busti. South Avenue also has no proper drainage since it’s not a certified street with curbs, gutters and drainage. At the same time, city officials shouldn’t just look at South Avenue. Anyone who lives on the south side of the city knows drainage is a pain whenever we see ...

Beware Lessons Of MTG

Local Commentaries

I am one who likes to keep up to date with news and politics, but I tend to avoid the back and forth soap opera that comes from the personality and who said what of Washington. But lately I haven’t been able to avoid thinking about what has become of Marjorie Taylor Greene. The once MAGA loyal to a fault bombastic warrior of the House has decided to call it quits after speaking out against Trump. MTG has made the rounds on TV on a forgiveness tour, cleaning up her appearance while also voicing her objections to Trump fighting the release of the Epstein files. She has been doing this ...

For Old Times’ Sake

Local Commentaries

An old friend of mine, pretty much of the same vintage, sent me an email suggesting that the words of Auld Lang Syne (roughly translated as meaning “for old times’ sake”) might be an appropriate topic for a column at New Year’s. I will give it a try. Most of the research I have done attributes the song to the Scottish poet, Robert Burns in 1788. There were other similar songs written prior to that, but he made it famous. The other person who made it famous was Guy Lombardo and his band, the Royal Canadians, who started playing it on New Year’s Eve in this country in ...

Fingerprints From The Same Hand

Local Commentaries

If issues are only seen through a partisan lens, you’ll miss the fingerprints besmirching them. There’s the issue of billions in alleged fraud perpetrated by Islamic Somalis in Minneapolis ripping off taxpayers through phony Medicaid and autism claims. As Democrat Governor Tim Walz curries favor with this burgeoning voting bloc led by Ilhan Ohmar, the classically sarcastic Babylon Bee ran a headline saying how city officials are considering a name change for the Minnesota Vikings to the Somali Pirates. There’s the issue of Zohran Mamdani assuming the mayor’s office in ...

Celebrating 200 Years Of Sharing The Post-Journal With Our Readers XXX

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“Newspapers are the vehicles of useful information. The intelligence and character of the citizens of any given section of our county may be readily ascertained from the number and character of the newspapers that circulate in it.” Adolphus Fletcher, Volume 1, Edition 1 of the Jamestown Journal. On June 21, 1826, Adolphus Fletcher published the first edition of the Jamestown Journal. That means we’ve been here almost as long as Jamestown itself, first publishing near the current location of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on North Main Street. Fletcher built a two-story wooden ...