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In Our Opinion

State’s Climate Chickens Come Home To Roost In City

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, ...

Can Right-Sizing Fire Protection Work Here?

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 ...

Legislature Should Increase Penalties For Child Manslaughter Cases

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 ...

Church Demonstrates Wonderful Generosity – But Let’s Not Stop Giving Yet

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 ...

Council Has To Bear Some Responsibility For Over-Budget Projects

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 Time To Get Serious About Housing

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 ...