It’s quite an eye-opener to see 6,600 households in Jamestown using the Affordable Connectivity Program. The federal program provides a discount of up to $30 per month toward broadband service for eligible households. The benefit also provides up to a $100-per-household discount toward a ...

Chautauqua County legislators will have a resolution before them Wednesday to spend $100,000 to create murals and place giant chairs throughout the county. County economic development officials want to place five or six giant chairs similar to one on Third Street in Jamestown that will ...

If the city is going to own and operate its parking ramps, then security lighting and cameras for the Cherry and Spring street ramps are probably necessary. The city can’t try to shunt people into the parking ramps to free up street parking for city shops and restaurants only to have lease ...

Thank goodness Joe Bellitto has been contracted to help untangle the mess that was made of Jamestown’s financial statements. It might have been months that an issue with the way state Consolidated Highway Improvement Program aid had been budgeted if Bellitto hadn’t been engaged to help ...

“We are trying to keep a balance.” That’s what Diego Torres, an activist working to assist immigrants in North Carolina, told a reporter for the Associated Press about tensions between immigrants who have been in the country, trying to obtain a work visa and solidify their legal ...

Nearly a decade ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the Independent Redistricting Commission would “permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self-interested partisan gerrymandering.” Oops. To be fair, Cuomo isn’t the only one who got it wrong. ...