Grants often have strings attached to them - as Jamestown officials were reminded last week when talking about a culvert replacement project that will be aided with a $1.5 million state grant. Jamestown won’t have a problem covering its $350,100 share of the project as long as nothing ...

City Council members are poised tonight to pass a budget with much less of a tax increase than was proposed a month ago by Mayor Kim Ecklund. That’s good in the short-term. The increase in costs that we have seen across the board has pinched many homeowners’ budgets, so even small tax ...

Our county’s population loss is being acutely felt in rural school districts, where the fairly small but steady population loss makes it difficult to provide elective courses and extracurricular activities that were common as recently as the mid 1990s or early 2000s. Shared sports teams ...

The Jamestown area got an early Christmas present last week with the announcement that the final piece of funding is in place for Electrovaya to open its lithium ion battery Gigafactory in Ellicott. The Canadian company will create about hundreds of new jobs in a local economy that has long ...

Conduit Ministries and its partners have set quite a goal for themselves this Thanksgiving season. The Jamestown church is partnering with Bemus Point Methodist Church to raise enough money to provide 1,500 Thanksgiving meals to the community. Bemus Point members have already raised more ...

There are going to be changes to environmental regulations once President Donald Trump takes office in January. But we hope those changes don’t do much to damage the emerging green energy sector that is growing in the Jamestown area. Cummins Inc.’s fuel agnostic X15N engine is in full ...