Persell Middle School officials recently released the school’s Students of the Month for October. They are: - Eliza Vorse, fifth grade, is the daughter of Greg and Martha Vorse. Eliza likes to draw, sing, and listen to music. Her favorite subject in school is science and her goal in life ...

Alumni of the Jamestown High School A Cappella Choir came together ahead of the choir’s 100th anniversary A Cappella Alumni Vespers last December to raise money to refurbish the ensemble’s Baldwin rehearsal piano. Illos Piano Restoration of Buffalo completed the refurbishments over the ...

Randy Merrill, a 1997 State University at Fredonia graduate and Jamestown native, was mastering engineer for three 2026 GRAMMY-nominated entries. He was nominated as mastering engineer for two entries for Record of the Year – for Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” and Chappell Roan’s “The ...

Gathering around the holiday table might include turkey as part of your shared meal with family and friends. Whether it’s grocery-bought or hunted from the land, Wild Turkeys are much more than a delicious centerpiece at the dinner table. Wild Turkeys are known for their large stocky ...

It was a much simpler time when Rod Williams was growing up on Jackson Avenue in Celoron. He was born on October 10, 1931, in a Jamestown hospital, although he doesn’t know which of the two it was. His mother was a homemaker. His father was an auto and truck mechanic and with his brother, ...

The Chautauqua County Humane Society is in urgent need of help from the community following taking in 19 dogs from a cruelty case in Sinclairville earlier this week. The Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant at a residence and discovered the dogs living in poor ...