If we had them to give, we’d give Sam Ognibene 40,000 thumbs up for his work spearheading an effort that led to 40,000 pounds of food to the St. Susan Center. Ognibene is no stranger to taking part in causes and events that help others, but his efforts to help secure the donation from the ...

Councilman Jeff Russell’s frustration with cost overruns on the city’s fleet maintenance garage and conversion to new financial management software was evident last week. Every additional dollar the city has to spend on the two projects is money that can’t be spent on something else ...

It’s been readily apparent to anyone attempting to buy a home the past few years that buying a house isn’t cheap in the Jamestown area anymore. There is a reason there has been such a visible increase in the number of people who need the county’s help finding emergency housing in area ...

It’s not just a United States thing; there are smokers around the world who wish they never had taken “that first puff” of a cigarette — for health or other reasons, including the cost of continuing what many call a habit. Regardless, smokers throughout this planet who have access to ...

We don’t disagree with the city’s decision to create fees for travel baseball and softball leagues that use fields in city parks. There should be a fee for travel leagues to use baseball and softball fields in the city. When the city built its ball fields the fields were typically used ...

Twice last week, the Jamestown community was rocked by news of unfathomable harm done to children by those who were supposed to be providing care. Both cases are heartbreaking. Lives that had barely begun were snuffed out with little explanation why. Both are worst-case scenarios that defy ...