BEMUS POINT — Local high school runners descended on Long Point State Park for the Red Dragon Invitational on Saturday morning, and the predominant color displayed by a few of the teams was orange. As they have before, area student-athletes came together to support a cause — this time that ...

Richard Worth Alcorn, 90, of Owensville, Mo., formerly of Jamestown, N.Y., passed away Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, at his residence. He was born Aug. 23, 1932, to Worth and Jessie (Kerr) Alcorn in Titusville, Penn. He was united in marriage to Dolores Drake July 1956 in Titusville, Penn. She ...

The world was stunned — and I was left numb — when author Salman Rushdie was attacked and nearly killed as he prepared to speak to an audience in the Amphitheater at New York’s renowned Chautauqua Institution. Fortunately, he survived. But I was repulsed anew when I read a column ...

Lois I. “Hammond” Swanson, 88, of Jamestown, passed away Sunday (Sept. 4, 2022) in Heritage Green Rehab and Skilled Nursing. She was born on Aug. 26, 1934, in Jamestown, the son of the late Bert and Ruth Hollister Saxton. Lois was employed for many years as a cashier at Quality Markets ...

A 40-hour work week is likely coming for farmworkers in New York state whether they like it or not. One day after the nation celebrated the Labor Day holiday, the Farm Laborer Wage Board voted in a 2-1 decision to recommend the state labor commissioner decrease the overtime threshold to 40 ...

RECAP OF 2021 SEASON: After getting the job right before practices began a year ago, Mark Benton took over a previously winless team and immediately got hit with a COVID pause. Dunkirk did rebound with a win over Lake Shore, before six straight losses ended the regular season. The Marauders ...