Jamestown’s status as a federal entitlement community shows the depth of need in many pockets of our community. So it can be frustrating - for both city residents and those who administer the federal Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs - to see money sitting around ...

Jamestown’s second ambulance is in service - and with it Jamestown’s latest financial bet has really gone live. Putting a second city-based ambulance into service, manned with city firefighters, has long been billed as a way for the city to help recoup some of the costs of its fire ...

On Saturday, Chautauqua County will join the rest of the nation in celebrating Small Business Saturday. It’s a celebration too big and too good to pass up. Geared to the start of the holiday shopping season and coming on the heels of Black Friday blowouts at national big-box retailers, the ...

Too often, we prosperous, free Americans take our many blessings for granted. Nearly all of us enjoy material wealth that is the envy of billions of people in other lands. We are free to do nearly anything our hearts desire, as long as our actions do not harm others. Our nation itself is a ...

Grants often have strings attached to them - as Jamestown officials were reminded last week when talking about a culvert replacement project that will be aided with a $1.5 million state grant. Jamestown won’t have a problem covering its $350,100 share of the project as long as nothing ...

City Council members are poised tonight to pass a budget with much less of a tax increase than was proposed a month ago by Mayor Kim Ecklund. That’s good in the short-term. The increase in costs that we have seen across the board has pinched many homeowners’ budgets, so even small tax ...