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Opinion

What’s The Next Wave Of Niche Businesses For Jamestown

In Our Opinion

It took years of painstaking work for Jamestown’s first cannabis dispensary to open. Lifted is set to celebrate its first anniversary in August - but in the past year the Main Street shop has been joined by Bob Natural Cannabis Dispensary on East Second Street, the Yeti Greenery in the ...

There’s Hope For Jamestown Yet

Local Commentaries

I’ve come back to visit my roots and am staying in a friend’s home on Lower Swede Hill. I grew up in Jamestown, graduated from JHS, and then went off to college. Like most of my friends, I settled elsewhere. I’ve lived in Tacoma Washington since 1974 and visited Jamestown only ...

When Things Look The Same

Local Commentaries

Life can sometimes get complex when things look the same. The other day, for example, my wife went to the lecture at Chautauqua and took a rollator...essentially a walker with four wheels that helps out when you have a limp or a bad leg. When she got home that day, she realized that the ...

A 10% National Sales Tax

Local Commentaries

In 2025, the United States has essentially imposed, for the first time, a 10% national sales tax on the wholesale value of everything imported into our country. Even agricultural products that we do not produce in the United States are now faced with a minimum 10% tariff, which ultimately is ...

State’s Hostility Toward Fossil Fuels Continues

Local Commentaries

CHAUTAUQUA—Suppose that you want to lay and connect a natural-gas line. According to press reports: Under longstanding New York law, a natural-gas utility may not charge you for this if the connection is within 100 feet of an existing natural-gas line. Yet now some protest that it’s ...

Can Stefanik Conquer State’s Big Blue Aura?

Editor's Corner

Western New York Republicans know the clock is ticking when it comes to the 2026 election for New York governor. During a political fundraising event June 30 in West Seneca, party leaders and supporters came to hear from their potential great hope to be the next leader of the Empire State: ...