The origin of Chautauqua County Society of Artists involved some prominent people. Jamestown-born naturalist, educator, artist and ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson and his relative Ernest Anderson, along with a few others, enjoyed spending time drawing and sketching. Eventually a member of ...

Rhonda Lookenhouse makes it clear that she would much rather bake than cook. “When I was a teenager my mom was a waitress. She would get dinner started (before leaving for work) and leave a note for us to finish it.” Today the mother of one is married to her high school ...

“I try to be a light wherever I am,” are the words of Danielle Keith of Sherman. “I tell my kids ‘you could be the only Christ someone sees.’” She has attended Sherman First Baptist Church since she was about seven years old, where she directs Awana Club Sparks, is in charge of ...

My father came from tough immigrant Scandinavian stock, no nonsense people, salt of the earth. Though he was the apple of his Finnish mother’s eye and the darling of his sisters all their lives, he was not like them. He was always looking beyond. He was ever searching. There was something ...

As the city of Jamestown continues its renaissance, a collaborative effort is looking to give a “hand up” to the city’s most vulnerable people by turning a former factory, which was once Chautauqua Hardware and currently houses The Gateway Center, into the epicenter of social services ...

Kelley Liskow still remembers the yellow, soft-covered children’s cookbook where she got the fried bologna recipe she made frequently as a child. Her recipes and cooking skills have greatly expanded since then. Her interest in cooking grew when her boys were little and she found she wanted ...