"Did the curriculum that we helped purchase for the JPS Summer LitCamp seem worthwhile?" asked Jamestown Schools PROMISE Fund Advisory Board Chair, Dr. Lillian Ney. "I know the day that I visited LitCamp, students seemed engaged and were really having fun learning about literacy.""We had such ...

This past summer I attended the 45th year reunion of my graduation from Jamestown High School. It was a great two night event where we met and saw old schoolmates, and talked about teachers, lunch periods, school plays, and enjoyed some good food, good drink and lots of merriment.One of the ...

Those of you who have followed this column for years know that there were numerous periods in my life when there were hard times. I grew up in a single parent home when that was anything but the norm.The presence of my grandparents in the home made it multigenerational. That was a blessing ...

Perhaps my earliest memory is of a stay at Chautauqua's Hotel Atheneum with my cousin and our grandmother. Mimi was just at that age where enjoying the young elevator boys would have filled her days had she not, I'm sure, been put in charge of me. I was probably four or five. Grandma was ...

Last year, Jamestown Public Schools made a promise to invest in the people and programs of the school district by creating the Jamestown Schools PROMISE Fund. Local community members and school district staff formed the Advisory Board to assist in financing people, projects and programs not ...

Sometimes the best use of this column is to give others a voice.Today I am giving my space to Karen Dennerlein, who is secretary of the Chautauqua/Cattaraugus Library System Board representing the 38 member libraries in the two counties.Like many others, I am dismayed that the Busti board ...