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Sherman without officer or safety adviser

SHERMAN — Sherman Central School District Board of Education members learned at their meeting in December, that the district is currently the only one in the area without either a School Resource Officer or a School Safety Adviser. District Superintendent Carrie Yohe told the board that ...

City Council Inauguration Meeting To Be Held Tonight

A new year brings together a new city council as four new members are set to be welcomed and inaugurated at tonight’s meeting. There are no committee meetings or the work session tonight, but the recessed meeting from Dec. 29 will take place at 6 p.m. with the Inaugural meeting to follow. ...

Flurry Of Options: Expanded Winter Farmers’ Market Reopening

The Jamestown Farmers’ Market will be reopening soon for the winter season. This season though, the market will be seeing a host of expansions to the available times that the market will be open. Additionally, due to receiving a state grant early this spring, works have already begun to ...

Sheriff’s Academy Presents Feather Memorial Award

The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Academy recently awarded recruit Richard Allen the Dan Feather Memorial Award, a $1,600 scholarship recognizing professionalism, character, and commitment to public service. Allen has been enrolled in the Sheriff’s Academy, which is hosted at Jamestown ...

It Must Have Been God’s Time

About six weeks ago the VFTB shared some of his thoughts, his learning, his history, and some of his religious traditions with those who may read this column weekly, or they just happen to run into it every so often, while perusing the weekend edition of the Post Journal. That particular ...

2026: Less Noise, More Life

I want to start the year off acknowledging what I do know and vowing to learn what I don’t. There are so many things I’ve wanted to master and never did — not piano or Italian, but the practice of patience and gratitude, an appreciation for silence, a more earnest pursuit of hope. The ...