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Leading Ladies: Zonta Club Honors Four With Women In Leadership Award

The Zonta Club of Jamestown is honoring four area women with the club’s Women in Leadership Award recipients: Kayla Crosby, Stacey Hannon, Betsy Hite-Burgeson and Elizabeth Rowe-Baehr. At the club’s May meeting, each honoree was recognized for leadership, professional achievement and ...

Decoration Day vs. Memorial Day

Last Monday, we celebrated what is now called Memorial Day, honoring those who gave their “last full measure of devotion” to our country and their fellow Americans, in battles fought by our country throughout history. After the day of this Celebration of Honor was declared a National Day of ...

Making Summer Plans For 2026

What are you doing this summer? Around these parts, that question starts popping up almost immediately once the weather finally turns. And while some people are planning vacations, many others are looking forward to something far simpler — local concerts, festivals, fairs, lake events and ...

Motions Defeated: Automatic legislator raises, clerk pay to stay

An attempt by Democratic county lawmakers to eliminate automatic pay raises for legislators as well as an attempt to reduce the salary of the county clerk have failed. COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT FOR LEGISLATORS In 2024, the county legislature voted to increase the base salary of individual ...

North county meetings always ready for ruckus

It was an unusual police call on Monday, May 11 in Fredonia. Officers were being summoned to Village Hall — the same building where its headquarters are stationed on the lower level. After the public access cameras at the trustees meeting went dark, there was a definite commotion. ...

Promoter of canceled shows won’t be on future Reg schedules

A pair of canceled performances at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in recent weeks are not uncommon to Jamestown by the shows’ promoter. Moxie Events, the promoter of the canceled Magic of Motown and the Ultimate Eagle Tribute Concert, has had several such cancellations around the ...