To The Reader’s Forum: Jamestown was first called The Pearl City in the 1880’s, decades after the ash trade was over. I’ve asked the city to take that accursed error off their web site. Chautauqua does not mean bag tied in the middle. George Washington never came closer than 15 miles ...

To The Reader’s Forum: There are very few heroes in economics but for me the best of the best was Nikolai Kondratieff, who was shot by firing squad on the orders of Stalin in 1938. His execution was ordered because his academic work propounded that the capitalist system would survive the ...

To The Reader’s Forum: I think this is the appropriate time of year to offer my thanks to a group of unsung heroes who live here in our community, but all too often are taken for granted. The group I refer to are the first responders here in Jamestown; EMT’s, Starflight pilots and flight ...

To The Reader’s Forum: District Attorney Patrick Swanson recently appeared before the Public Safety committee, and requested support for a Resolution which would allow him to hire up to 4 assistant district attorneys from outside Chautauqua County. The reasons Mr. Swanson cited for ...

To The Reader’s Forum: I was recently reminiscing about a childhood memory of a name given to Jamestown — The Pearl City. I have often wondered about this name. A quick search on the internet revealed this about Jamestown’s history in the early 1800s: “During the clearing of the ...

To The Reader’s Forum: The year was 1918. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the armistice to end World War I was signed. Ten million military personnel had died. In Germany, one in three men who had been aged 19 to 22 when the war started was dead by November 1918. In ...