Typically, the rankings showing New York’s unfriendliness to business focus on the taxes people pay to live and work in New York. In the case of a Lakewood business owner, the state’s unfriendliness to business comes in being unable to get a straight answer for three years over a slice ...
Gary Templin has long waged a war on what he considers unnecessary noise in downtown Jamestown that he says interferes with his use of the Fourth Street home he has spent considerable time and money renovating. But the lawsuit Templin and his wife Donna recently filed in state Supreme Court ...
It wasn’t the snip of a ribbon that opened the National Comedy Center five years ago. It was the roar of Dan Aykroyd’s motorcycle, ridden by the famous Saturday Night Live cast member down West Second Street, that officially announced the National Comedy Center as a major player in the ...
No one can say for sure how long it might be before a Forever postage stamp costs a dollar — up from the current 66-cent price that went into effect on July 9. But more and more, it seems that the $1 first-class stamp price is destined to happen perhaps even five or more years before this ...
Seven years ago, Jamestown and Oswego made news as two of the first 10 cities in New York to receive $10 million through the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Oswego officials have spent their last DRI dollar, celebrating last week with state officials at an indoor water park that received ...
Both Mayor Eddie Sundquist and Kim Ecklund, his Republican challenger for mayor in the upcoming November election, want to revitalize the city’s neighborhood watch program. Sundquist launched Safer Jamestown N.O.W. in June in an effort to get the community more involved with policing. Among ...