A former Jamestown Fire Department captain and local history buff is honoring the memory of George D. Morton, the former city resident who is the namesake of the Morton Club. George Dewey Morton was born April 13, 1899, to Edgar W. and Mary T. Moynihan Morton. Of his four siblings, two boys ...
A little more than a month after announcing a record payment to Chautauqua County, the Western New York Off-Track Betting Corp. has announced it will close Jamestown’s OTB branch on Second Street. The OTB board plans to cut its branch operations from eight locations to two, with branches ...
Saturday Scandinavian Culture Day Lecture To Focus On Oscar Lenna John Everett Jones will present a lecture Saturday as part of Scandinavian Culture Day in the Hamilton Collegiate Center at Jamestown Community College on Oscar Lenna. This year marks the 150th year since Lenna’s birth. Lenna had a major impact on the Jamestown as well as Swedish community. Jones’ lecture is scheduled for 11 a.m. and is sponsored by the Scandinavian Studies Program with the support of JCC. There is no fee for the program. Other events of the morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. include celebrating ...
As members of Falconer’s girls tennis team gathered their belongings at the end of Monday’s match against Frewsburg/Southwestern at Southwestern’s tennis courts, Jamie Sposato could not wait to wish the Golden Falcons and head coach Jamie Glatz luck at Tuesday’s Section VI Division 2 ...
Challenge. Community. Strength. All three will be on display, beginning early Saturday morning. It’s just the way Dunkirk resident Collin Barmore has envisioned it for months. So at 7:30 a.m., he will leave Lakeside Park in Mayville and embark on a run that will take him around ...
Demolition of a former flower shop at 1519 Washington St. began Wednesday. The former Girton's Flowers and Gifts is being converted into a parking lot and storage facility for a local company, according to the demolition contractor. “JMI bought the property, and it is being converted ...
