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 ...

A student’s request to move Impact club meetings from after school to during students’ lunch period is an easy decision clouded mainly by the religious nature of the Impact fellowship. The religious nature of Impact raises questions for some about separation of church and state, but the ...

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 ...