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Five Leaders Take On New Roles Across JPS

Five leaders are stepping into new roles across Jamestown Public Schools as the district prepares for the 2026–27 school year. The appointments include Katie Russo as executive director of information and student services; Michelle Buccola as principal of Lincoln Elementary School; ...

JPS To Welcome Students Back On Sept. 2

Get those first day of school smiles ready! The first day of the 2026-27 school year for Jamestown Public Schools students will be Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. This will be a half-day for students. Please note the different start times depending on the level of school: Elementary Schools: ...

A good dog's last adventure

We’ve decided it’s time to send our dog over the rainbow bridge. It’s a hard decision when there isn’t a serious disease like cancer or organ failure—situations where you don’t really have a choice. A dog that grows really old is a dog that sometimes stays alive longer than it ...

Ice-cream cones, the ingenious invention of American immigrants

DETROIT (AP) — Read this quickly, before it melts. Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington spent $200 on ice cream, the equivalent of $7,259 today, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. By the 1800s, inventions like mechanical refrigeration had made ice cream cheaper and more accessible. But America's pushcart vendors needed a way to serve ice cream to customers. Enter "penny licks." Customers would pay a penny for a scoop of ice cream served in a thick ...

Flashbacks to Saturday mornings

Having borrowed Mr. Peabody’s Way Back Machine for this week’s VFTB, I thought it might be kind of nice to take another trip back to those Saturday mornings (by rule in our house, after our assigned chores were completed), and recall some of the animated adventures of some of our favorite ...