It’s easy to play Jamestown’s recent reminder about the city’s ban on farm animals in the city limits for laughs. The Old McDonald or Babe in the City jokes practically write themselves. But it’s no laughing matter for neighbors who suddenly find themselves living next to an alarm ...

No matter what is happening on this nation’s political and economic fronts - and much is happening - Memorial Day, the holiday we are observing today, should not and does not take a back seat. Only something truly catastrophic might cast today’s observance into the background, but even ...

President Joe Biden recently visited Sturtevant, Wisconsin, to speak at the site of a future Microsoft data center. As the Associated Press reported recently, the project is expected to create about 2,000 jobs. We understand that any president running for reelection will tout the successes ...

There’s something disturbing about the fact that, at a time when state Senate Democrats want to expand health insurance coverage to undocumented immigrants, we hear from City Council members that some retired Jamestown city employees can’t afford their insurance. Jamestown officials ...

Did Robin Hood get it wrong? Did the famous swashbuckling character created by Howard Pyle in the 1880s miss the boat when he robbed the rich to give to the poor? We don’t think so. But when it comes to the way electric vehicle rebates are handled in New York’s Sherwood Forest, the ...

This week marks the unofficial start of the summer tourist season - and with it comes several opportunities to hear several points of view regarding the health of Chautauqua Lake, a central cornerstone to the county’s tourism efforts. Jim Wehrfritz, a longtime lake advocate who has ...