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City Adjusts Plans Amid Shifting And Stagnant Funding Sources

The city of Jamestown won’t receive nearly $1 million in federal funding that had been allocated under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. City officials are working to adapt to both the discontinuation of certain funding programs and the prolonged stagnation of key recurring state aid. ...

The Whys Of Weights

When it comes to weight-resistance exercise, you can choose free weights such as dumbbells or barbells. Or weight machines, which are often driven by cables or levers. You can use resistance bands or tubes to build strength. Or try pushups and pullups — old standbys that create muscle ...

Christmas In July, Why Not Festivus Too?

Right on the button, at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, July 1, I turned on my television and selected channel 326 (Direct TV), to start my day with my usually scheduled day opener as I sip my coffee, that being The Andy Griffith Show, where much to my frustration, I was treated to the opening of a GFAM, a ...

Crossing Into The Wild: A Journey From New Hampshire To Maine

There’s a moment when you leave New Hampshire and cross into Maine that feels like a curtain lifting. The road doesn’t change much, nor does the forest. But the feeling does. It’s subtle—maybe a touch more pine in the air, or that slightly saltier breeze that hints you’re nearing the ...

Being Bitten By Travel Bug

Of all the bugs I’ve known – from ants to aphids, from fleas to fruit flies – I like my travel bug the best. I was bitten early. After college, when I absolutely couldn’t decide what I wanted to do with my life, I embraced my travel bug and became a stewardess. It was the perfect ...

Labors Of Love

The founder of the Jamestown Trolley Car 93 Restoration Project, Bob Johnston, has recently published a third book, once again to help raise funds towards the project, and this time the book focuses on old postcards and the photographers of those postcards. The restoration project for the ...