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The Rotary Club of Jamestown recently inducted its first corporate member – Weber Knapp. The special membership category includes four members of the Weber Knapp corporation who share responsibilities for membership in the local Rotary organization. The membership includes Wayne ...

Longtime Area Realtor To Retire

After 27 years of service, Becky Colburn of ERA Team VP Real Estate is retiring. Colburn began her career with ERA Team VP after a friend introduced her to the real estate business. One of the most remarkable aspects of Becky’s career is that her first and last clients were the same ...

Affluent Americans Are Driving US Economy, Likely Delaying Need For Fed Rate Cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year to neolithic sites in Great Britain. “I really have more money to spend now than when I was working,” said Harris, 64, an engineer who worked 29 years for the federal government and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Back then, she and her now-ex-husband were ...

Avelo Airlines CEO Describes The Challenges Of Starting A New Carrier

It’s not easy to break into the U.S. airline industry, which is dominated by four big carriers and a sprinkling of other niche players, but that didn’t scare away Andrew Levy. Neither did a pandemic that briefly caused air travel to plummet more than 90%. In April 2021, while COVID-19 still raged and billions of dollars from taxpayers were propping up big airlines, Levy launched Avelo Airlines with flights between Burbank, California, and Las Vegas. The airline saves money by flying older Boeing 737 jets that can be bought at relatively low prices. It operates out of ...

‘A Great Ally’

LAKEWOOD - In celebration of his new title, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, best-selling author James Patterson has selected 500 booksellers across the country to award a $500 bonus to. One of those booksellers is Bob Lingle, owner and operator of Good Neighbor Bookstore ...