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The ride around the lake

I got to thinking about the ride around the lake the other day as we gear up for summer. It’s something I've done often in my life, especially when I was young and made the trip with my grandmother and great-grandmother on the occasional Sunday. Make no mistake: this was a big excursion. We'd pick my great-grandmother up at her house with the apple tree out front and she'd slowly walk to the car and get in the front seat with her wrinkled cotton dress and a little sweater folded over her arm. I remember that her ankles were often swollen and that I had this idea that she ...

There’s good, there’s bad, and there’s ugly

We’ve put ourselves in positions to be able to enjoy a variety of entertainment options in our retirement. As much as we don’t like cold winters (especially in recent years years), we’ve never had urges to be Snowbirds. We prefer to spread out our retirement activities/trips to cover much of the entire year. Since we’ve both been retired together (about five years), we’ve been able to enjoy a great number of indoor and outdoor concerts, we’ve seen a number of stage performances ranging from musicals, to dramas, to comedy-dramas, and more, on a variety of stages ranging ...

Sales include old plaza that is future Dunkirk apartment site

The price of part of an old shopping plaza that has been torn down in Dunkirk for future housing has been revealed. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from March 22-31. The county does not provide ...

School district honors retirees

Jamestown Public Schools honored 2026 retirees during a reception held recently in the JPS Board Room at the Deke Kathman Administrative Offices. Retirees were recognized with descriptions of their service by their principal or supervisor, and were awarded a certificate, a mug, and a lapel ...

New charges announced in Zaso drug ring

The investigation into a drug ring in Jamestown is now spreading to Rochester with new charges against a pair of Rochester residents. . U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo recently announced a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Quentin L. Yancey a/k/a Q, 39, and Johnny B. Mays a/k/a Blaze, 41, both of Rochester, with narcotics conspiracy. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life. In addition, Yancey is charged with using and maintaining a drug-involved premises and six counts of money laundering. According ...

JRC named downtown revitalization director

The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation has hired Michael Edwards as its new director of downtown revitalization. Edwards will officially begin in the role on July 1 and will lead efforts to strengthen downtown Jamestown through business development, placemaking, community engagement, ...