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Opinion

Safe Streets For All Is A Worthy Goal For City Officials

In Our Opinion

We’ve seen far too many fatal accidents involving pedestrians in Jamestown over the past several years for there to be no attention paid to the issue by city officials. Some may remember Complete Streets, which has been adopted as a lens through which to view public works projects for ...

Memorable Tales Of Lorna Doone

Local Commentaries

Lorna Doone is a historical romance novel that was written by R.D. Blackmore, and was first published in 1869. To be perfectly honest, that’s about all I really know about it. I do have, however, some very fond memories of a different Lorna Doone, and its place in my past, and present. Back ...

Telling Secrets To A Machine

Local Commentaries

I know people who are using ChatGPT as their personal therapist, and they always seem amazed by the quality of Chat’s answers. I’m guessing a great percentage of the questions posed to Chat go something like this: “This guy I like never called me back, and so I texted him, and he wrote a ...

Having A Sweet Tooth During A Blizzard

Local Commentaries

By Marcy O’Brien Running out of Werther’s hard caramels doesn’t qualify as an earth-shattering crisis. Unless the only hard candy left in the house are the candy canes hanging on the Christmas tree. And they of course contain sugar. I’m supposed to limit my sugar intake. Werther’s, ...

Republicans Should Stop Trump From Taking Greenland

In Our Opinion

President Donald Trump’s renewed, bizarre obsession with taking control of Greenland — and more to the point, his refusal to rule out using military force to do it — is straining America’s ties with its NATO allies to the breaking point, no doubt to the great cheer of the despots who ...

Readers’ Forum

Letters To The Editor

Point Chautauqua Opposition Protects County’s Golden Goose To The Reader’s Forum: I’m writing in response to your opinion piece in Saturday/Sunday paper, “Point Chautauqua Opposition Contains The Echoes Of Past Lake Projects.” The “Golden Goose,” as described by the ...