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Opinion

Our opinion: JCC scholarship can assist

Our Opinion

Jamestown Community College officials have spent the past several years trying to find new students as its Chautauqua County enrollment decreased. A couple of new initiatives from the JCC Foundation could pay dividends for both the college and students from Warren, McKean and Erie counties. ...

Our opinion: No predicting fortune telling

Our Opinion

It’s telling that Rep. Greg Scott is trying to repeal a Pennsylvania law that makes it a crime to perform fortune telling and other “amusements” like tarot card reading. We’re not amused. That has nothing to do with Scott. In fact, the Norristown Democrat is doing his job. A ...

Our opinion: Will billing change have benefits?

Our Opinion

It made plenty of sense from a cash flow perspective for Warren County officials to split tax billing rather than send one bill later in the year for county, school and municipal taxes. There’s a reason why every other county in the state had made this change before Warren County - it ...

Readers Speak

Letters To Editor

Pumped up prices Dear Editor, I was in Erie last week, gas was less than $3.19 per gallon at most stations. Jamestown is $3.39 and Warren is $3.69. What a ridiculous difference. Maybe we should all go to Erie or Jamestown for our gas. Bob Silzle, Russell Selective Due Process? Dear ...

Editor’s corner: Etiquette can go south fast during town halls

Our Opinion

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Reed of New York knew he would be walking into a buzzsaw in 2017 during town hall meetings with constituents. In a New York Times video taken in North Harmony in February of that year, Reed stood calmly — and composed — while listening to concerns of those in attendance ...

View from Hickory Heights: Two-wheel riding

Local Commentaries

Do you remember learning to ride a bicycle? When I was about eight years old, I got a bicycle for Christmas. Since we lived where we had snow, it sat in the garage until Spring. I was not a natural at riding a bike. It took days for me to learn the balancing technique. My mother and my ...