When the state Education Department made school districts around the state abandon high school mascots with Native American imagery, it could do so because it held all the trump cards when it comes to state funding. School districts had little alternative but to capitulate. The fight gets ...
June is Dairy Month. Our family was in the dairy business for four generations. First, my husband’s grandfather owned the farm. Then it went to my father-in-law. Next his daughter had that farm. My husband moved to the farm that we now call Meldick Farms. It is on Howard Road near ...
The early returns on a plan to pre-permit sites for new housing development in Jamestown are good. Crystal Surdyk, city development director, and Kacie Foulk, city deputy director of housing policy and development, have done a good job of coming up with an idea that could make neighborhoods ...
The importance of “esprit de corps” hit me recently as I was watching the workers on the sewer construction job now being built north of Stow on the west side of the lake. These French words refer to team spirit, to people respecting each other and working together for a common ...
In 2012 I packed up my possessions and left Jamestown to pursue a career and life in scientific research. My destination was Arlington, Texas, halfway across the country, where I had enrolled in the graduate program in biology at the University of Texas, Arlington. Aside from some short ...
The towns of Ellery, North Harmony, Stockton, Sherman, Westfield, and Ripley are being targeted by Bedrock Renewables. https://bedrockrenewables.com/projects/ Bedrock gets lots of Federal, State and local subsidy money if they succeed in erecting 600-foot industrial wind turbines across the ...