Joe Town’s request for a loading and unloading zone in front of his Third Street business is certainly understandable. It’s annoying to worry about feeding parking meters if you’re unloading restaurant supplies. It’s annoying to get a ticket because you get a phone call or find ...

State Taxation and Finance officials have conducted numerous adult use cannabis inspections in Jamestown and Ellicott. So far, they’ve only cited one business, a smoke shop on East Second Street that state officials found were selling illegal adult-use cannabis. We have no doubt there ...

Last week, we opined in this space that we’d prefer tough questions about projects be asked before money has been spent, not after. That opinion hasn’t changed. But we are encouraged by the fact that Councilmen Jeff Russell, R-At Large, Bill Reynolds, R-Ward 5, and Regina Brackman, ...

There are more than a dozen options in the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities’ study of options to retool its district heating system. Three options make the most sense - exiting the district heating business altogether and letting 70 downtown building owners install their own boilers, ...

A new fire district in the Mayville area will provide an interesting test case for many rural volunteer fire companies in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. The Mayville, Hartfield and Dewittville fire departments are likely to have a merger completed by sometime in early July. The new ...

Society cannot prevent the maltreatment of children no matter how hard it tries. Not even a veritable army of Child Protective Services workers would be enough to be able to prevent the abuse inflicted on some children by the adults in their lives. Knowing that we cannot prevent adults ...