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Money isn’t the sticking point for JHS kitchen issues

Change orders are nothing new in construction projects like the one taking place now at Jamestown High School. The Jamestown Public Schools Board of Education held a special meeting on Thursday to approve a $260,000 change order for the renovation project at JHS after two unforeseen issues were found in the JHS cafeteria kitchen. The problem the school district faces isn’t financial. The district had set aside $3.6 million for change orders on the project, with $1.2 million remaining. The additional money won’t be coming out of local tax dollars. There won’t be a future tax ...

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Many readers of a certain age probably remember the famous public service announcement at the start of the late-night news asking parents if they knew where their children were. It was a staple of Buffalo news stations in the 1980s and into the 1990s. The genesis of the “"It's 10 p.m.; do you know where your children are?" began as far back as the 1960s by WNEW-TV in New York City as a nightly reminder for parents to enforce the Big Apple’s curfews and to know where their children were at night. Fast forward 60 years, and it’s obvious that some parents in Jamestown need that ...

Good news, bad news when it comes to population loss

The hollowing out of New York state continues largely unabated despite years of warnings about the state’s loss of population. While the state pays lip service to doing more to make New York a less expensive state in which to live, people are still leaving in droves. The net outflow of New Yorkers to other states has topped the 1 million mark since 2020, E.J. McMahon, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote earlier this year for City Journal. While the state has seen more migrants come to New York than estimated following the COVID-19 pandemic, even that positive ...

Tony Dolce, ever the teacher, leaves a lesson for Jamestown

It’s been a difficult week for many in leadership positions throughout the city after the sudden passing of Tony Dolce. Today, Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church will be filled with family and friends saying their final goodbyes to a man who worked both publicly and privately for the good of the community. Dolce was a devoted family man, a teacher who was ingrained in the fabric of Jamestown High School, was heavily involved in his church - including helping save it from extinction, was an institution on the City Council and devoted his time on countless volunteer boards and ...

Other voices: President should reevaluate pulling Secret Service details

President Trump is taking Iran’s threats to assassinate him seriously, as well he should. He reportedly switched Air Force One from the new Qatar version on his return from the recent NATO summit on the advice of the Secret Service. How about a little concern, then, about Iran’s threats to kill his former national security adviser, John Bolton? The White House hasn’t confirmed the Air Force One switch, but it hasn’t denied the story either. Notably, the Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Times writers who reported the story to disclose their sources. That’s harassment ...

State’s data center moratorium is reasonable – for now

It’s reasonable to see Gov. Kathy Hochul’s one-year moratorium on data centers as a reasonable delay in order to develop appropriate protections and guidelines in state law to govern data centers. What the governor has done is no different legally than what local towns and villages have been doing over the past year by enacting - and in some cases extending - moratoriums on wind and solar projects and on battery energy storage systems. It’s reasonable to see data centers as an emerging issue that requires a pause to manage the development appropriately. Our concern is that ...