An unexpected $1.6 million in temporary state aid will make Jamestown’s 2027 budget a lot easier on both the City Council and on city taxpayers. Gov. Kathy Hochul 2027 Executive Budget extends for one year the $50 million temporary program for cities, towns and villages. This program, ...
We can’t disagree with the state Legislature’s decision to clarify how the distance from a proposed cannabis shop to a school or church is measured. Lifted, the city’s first cannabis dispensary, had trouble with exactly this issue before it could receive its permit from the state to ...
Parent Of Special Needs Child Raises Issues To the Readers’ Forum: I am writing as a special needs parent who has reached a breaking point with the lack of access, communication, and basic respect within our local mental health system. My first attempt to seek help for my special ...
Cliches become a cliche for a reason, as author William Gibson is credited with saying, because there is always a bit of truth in them. If there’s one cliche in the discussion over Chautauqua Lake and its weed problems, it’s the one repeated by Dr. Allison Hyrcik of the Jefferson Project ...
It has been a long time coming, but recently financing has been achieved so that public sewers around Chautauqua Lake can be completed. Right now work is underway to complete the sewer lines up the west side of the lake. It is expected that most if not all remaining septic systems in the ...
I recently watched the new Netflix documentary that tells the story of the US Hockey Team and its journey to the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid; “Miracle: The Boys of the ‘80s”. I can vividly remember watching this play out on live television- a group of purely ...