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In Our Opinion

State Must Balance Doorbell Cameras’ Privacy Concerns With Usefulness

It’s easy to lampoon many proposals coming out of Albany as soft on crime. It would have been easy to do so with a proposal introduced recently by Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz, D-Corona, that would place limits on police departments’ access to doorbell camera footage as part of crime ...

It’s Time For Funding To Find New YMCA Building Project

Whether one is a member or not, we think most city residents would agree that the Jamestown YMCA serves an important function for many city residents - particularly youth. So it’s concerning to see that a second project to replace the YMCA’s historic Fourth Street headquarters is falling ...

9/11 Is A Day We Must Never Forget

Americans today tend to have a short attention span. Important news often is quickly overshadowed by the latest nonsense posing as news that captures the nation’s attention. Yet some events are of such a magnitude that they remain seared in our memories. The attack at Pearl Harbor. Troops ...

Serta Closure Shows Importance Of Constant Development Efforts

There is no smoking gun that explains why the Serta Simmons Bedding plant at the Mason Industrial Park in Falconer is closing. The plant’s closure is the confluence of factors far beyond local control. Serta has been in the midst of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization over the past two ...

Opposition Shown For Airport Resolutions

It strikes us as a bit funny that fiscal common sense is finally starting to dawn on some county lawmakers when it comes to spending on the Chautauqua County Airport at Jamestown. Fred Johnson, R-Westfield, questioned the $212,000 cost of designs for a terminal apron and $469,920 for 34 new ...

What’s Surprising About City Drug Ring Is Number Of Unfamiliar Names

The Post-Journal recently recapped the number of arrests tied to Joseph Zaso, a Jamestown man who has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges involving heroin and fentanyl.. Zaso, also known as Joey Cracks, was first federally indicted on June 7, 2022, with using and maintaining a ...