LAKEWOOD - With many cuts across all departments, village trustees have carefully pared down their tentative 2025-2026 spending plan. A public outcry at the April 14 meeting, and receiving incorrect numbers from the town of Busti assessor led to the board’s cuts. Three people from the ...

Interviews to fill the position of fire chief in the city of Jamestown have officially begun. During Monday’s City Council work session, Jamestown Mayor Kim Ecklund updated the council on the search progress so far. This search comes following current Deputy Fire Chief Matthew Coon’s ...

Starting with brushing his teeth before 4 a.m., influencer Ashton Hall says he also swims, meditates, journals, rubs his face with banana peel, lifts weights, submerges his face in ice water and accomplishes much more every day before breakfast around 9:30. A video of his morning routine has ...

Wow! Here we are, ending the fourth month of the year, a third of the way into 2025, and some may look back on the past four months, wondering where the time has gone, not just in 2025, but in our entire lifetime. Often, time, as it seems like the world and our lives are speeding by, not even ...

Every generation shakes its head at the next. It’s practically a rite of passage. The music is too loud. The clothes are strange. The values seem misplaced. We all remember our parents and grandparents raising eyebrows at our choices—and now, here we are, doing the same. But something ...

It’s just past 10:00 a.m. and Old Tom is standing in my backyard. He has been a shoveling, bending, tugging figure out there for almost 20 years. Like me, Tom moves slower today than when he first agreed to help me. Today he is wearing a floppy hat, jacket, Bermudas and work boots, his ...