Jamestown is projected to miss its sales tax budget for this year by about $544,643, or 6.1%, unless the city gets an early Christmas present. This is a problem that should have been avoided by either former Mayor Eddie Sundquist or the City Council. The shortfall discussed by the City ...
School starts next week - but for too many students that doesn’t mean vacation days will be a thing of the past. Dr. Kevin Whitaker, Jamestown Public School superintendent, told school board members recently that the district is making strides reducing rates of chronic absenteeism in the ...
It’s funny how bad decisions keep coming back to haunt you. Six years ago Chautauqua County needed to find a new home for its bus system after National Comedy Center officials asked that CARTS not use the area in front of the center as its downtown hub - even though that was one of the ...
I was out at a local pub when a heavily intoxicated man approached me. I was watching a football game on the T.V. The man was wearing a football team jersey that sported a familiar team. I referenced the team (not local) as one I supported. He couldn’t believe it. He turned to show me the ...
A couple weeks ago I did the children’s sermon at church. At that time, I shared one of my secrets with the children as well as the adults in the congregation. When I was in treatment for breast cancer, I had to lay very still for many of the tests. I told the children that I repeated Bible ...
Recent targeted sweeps of homeless, first in Ransom Alley and then this week in Brooklyn Square, needed to happen. Let’s not forget, this isn’t a recent problem. Our reporting on the homeless population really began three years ago. Many of the publicly visible homeless moved from ...