Traffic around Ring Elementary School, Washington Middle School and Jamestown High School have replaced Persell Middle School at the top of the list for City Council members. Councilman Jeff Russell, R-At Large and Public Safety Committee chairman, reiterated those concerns during a recent ...
City Council members will vote tonight on an agreement between the city and Jamestown Public Schools to provide school resource officers at city schools. A short work session will be held at 7 p.m. in the third floor conference room in City Hall followed by the work session at 7:30 p.m. in ...
City officials are waiting to see if $200,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding allocated to the Jamestown YMCA’s new building can still be used on the project. The Jamestown Local Development Corp. approved $200,000 in September 2023 for the YMCA’s project on Harrison Street. The ...
In May 2022, former Mayor Eddie Sundquist announced plans to create a gun violence unit by hiring three new police officers to be paid for with American Rescue Plan Act money. The announcement came at a time when the city had seen seven shootings and seized 25 guns in the first five months ...
Moving the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament to Jamestown Community College worked out fine this year, but the tournament’s sponsor is still eyeing a late-summer event downtown if the tournament doesn’t relocate back downtown in 2025. Pat Smeraldo, Collaborative Children’s ...
Law enforcement personnel and family members are mourning the loss of Rich Telford, Chautauqua County’s undersheriff. Telford was placed into the position in 2021. He was a 1988 Jamestown High School graduate who studied criminal justice at Jamestown Community College and briefly worked ...