Shayne Matteson didn't just want to follow in his father's footsteps, he reveled at the chance to pass him on the open road. The 25-year-old, born in Dunkirk and a resident of Cherry Creek, stated matter-of-factly to his parents even from a young age he wanted to drive tractor-trailers, just ...
Born in 1921, Ruth Hammond has witnessed events that many only read about in books. The Jamestown woman turns 100 on Saturday. Some may wonder how she stays so young. "What keeps me young? Walking, I suppose," Hammond said. "I like to do my own thing. (Before I couldn't drive) I was running ...
This… is… the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. In 2004, Katie Sekelsky, then with the Warren Area High School marching band, announced a goal to some day be on Jeopardy! After 17 years, that day was Friday. Sekelsky, now living in Kent, Ohio, appeared on the episode that aired locally at ...
Kaine Torres, a Jamestown High School freshman, received a new basketball hoop as the result of a local woman's efforts. Melissa Paterniti said she was at a friend's house on Sturges Street in Jamestown when she realized that the basketball hoop that a neighbor and her friend's son were ...
By Martin Crutsinger AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers absorbed another surge in prices in May — a 0.6% increase over April and 5% over the past year, the biggest 12-month inflation spike since 2008. The May rise in consumer prices that the Labor Department reported Thursday reflected a range of goods and services now in growing demand as people increasingly shop, travel, dine out and attend entertainment events in a rapidly reopening economy. The increased consumer appetite is bumping up against a shortage of components, from lumber and steel to ...
Paul Hannold and Dorothy Reed met when his family moved from Garland to Pittsfield in the mid-1930s. He was 11. She was 10. Theirs is a story of a friendship that sparked a romance that would be tested by — among other things — the second World War. But they’ve weathered those ...
