There has been a lot of bad blood over the seven years since the city and its Board of Public Utilities proposed annexing the BPU’s Dow Street Substation in Falconer. Annexing the substation made financial sense for the BPU and the city. Opposing the annexation made financial sense for the ...

Users of the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities’ district heating system have three options to consider as the BPU considers options to replace the system - do nothing, pay a lot individually for new heat sources or pay less through a sizable rate increase to retool the district heating ...

The Biden Administration, once again, is trying to use executive action to reduce student loan debt. And once again, the White House’s approach fails to address the root causes of this problem and ignores the historic avenues that allow such root causes or larger concerns to be aired and ...

The appointment of Marc Lentsch as Jamestown High School Marching Band director should put some minds at ease in the Jamestown community. Lentsch has served as band director at Jamestown High School prior to his current post at Persell Middle School while serving as co-director as the JHS ...

We couldn’t agree more with an attempt by Mike Laurin to streamline site plan approvals and change the city Planning Commission’s overall focus. Laurin has been on the Planning Commission for a few years, but took over as the commission’s chairman this year. During the commission’s ...

We’ve seen enough municipal branding attempts to know their payoff is typically pretty small. It’s better than nothing - though how much better than nothing is frankly up for debate. So we hope there is a payoff to the county’s Live CHQ and Choose CHQ programs that were launched ...