Landscaping, porch repairs, painting, sidewalk replacement and many other projects will soon be underway in Jamestown’s neighborhoods as part of the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation’s fourth annual Renaissance Block Challenge. Seven clusters of neighbors are...
Here are the cleaning assignments organized by group for Hands On Jamestown. If you have any questions you can ask someone at the registration table tomorrow morning. Over 700 volunteers have signed up! See you tomorrow....
The “Third Thursday” summer concert series will continue for a third straight year at Winter Garden Plaza in downtown Jamestown, starting this week. The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation and the Active Artists Alliance have announced that the popular series will...
Click here to register for Hands-On Jamestown It’s a vicious cycle that begins small. Litter begets litter. Then graffiti appears. And before long, apathy and despair are knocking at the door. But the reverse cycle also starts out small. A sidewalk is swept. A...
The recent decision by Con Agra to shut down its Carriage House plants in Dunkirk and Fredonia, resulting in the loss of over 400 local jobs, reveals once again how decisions made in distant places can have a significant impact on the local economy. But what can be...
Over one million buildings, sites and objects in the United States are on the National Register of Historic Places, the Department of the Interior’s official inventory of historic resources. Among these, over 90 percent are located in one of 13,000...
As Jamestown makes the jarring transition from polar vortex to vernal equinox, subtle signs of spring are popping up around the city. Some of these signs remind us how green and colorful Jamestown will be in just a month or two, and about the close connection between...
Four years ago this week, the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation and its partners began a project that has changed the face of North Main Street: the demolition of Winter Garden Theater and the construction of Winter Garden Plaza. After years as a great movie house,...
[Editor's Note: This editorial is a follow-up discussion to a story published on March 2, 2014, about the National Comedy Center.] Cities frequently fall prey to the seduction of the "magic bullet," the project that promises to solve a slew of civic ailments in one...
In 2012, a group of citizens in Oswego, NY, decided to do something about the disinvestment that was steadily eroding stable neighborhoods in that city of 18,000 on Lake Ontario. As they explored their options, they came across some information about Jamestown. They...