May 3, 2021
JAMESTOWN The music department at SUNY Jamestown Community College will present two virtual concerts in May to showcase the college’s student musicians.
“JCC student ensembles have continued to make music in spite of the challenges brought by the pandemic, and the music department is pleased to be able to bring these live-streamed concerts to the public this spring,” said Dr. Neil Flory, coordinator of music at JCC. “We hope you can view the concerts, which promise to be wonderful events filled with a variety of great music.”
The department will host its “Spring Jam!” concert on Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m. The event will feature the JCC Rock Ensemble, directed by adjunct music instructor, Bill Eckstrom. The performance will also include a special guest band, Day Old Soup.
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Emelia Harley, UPMC Chautauqua vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer, is pictured this week inside the hospital’s emergency department. Harley has been a nurse for nearly 40 years.
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In her nearly 40-year career working inside hospitals, Emelia Harley has seen just about everything.
COVID-19, however, proved to be a once-in-a-lifetime battle for first responders, especially at the onset of the pandemic when it appeared local hospitals may be inundated with patients and supplies becoming scarce. Those days have since passed as hospitalization rates in Chautauqua County have remained low and personal protection equipment plentiful.
May 1, 2021
Jamestown Community College students and employees joined community members in celebrating Arbor Day on Friday by planting five trees on its Jamestown campus. Dr. Kirk Young, vice president of student affairs, delivered the Arbor Day proclamation and Chautauqua County Executive PJ Wendel made remarks congratulating the college on its Tree Campus Higher Education recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation. Assisting the city of Jamestown arborist and park manager, Dan Stone, in the planting of the trees were student Urban Forestry interns Bryanna Davis, Caleb Roller, and Jacob Bullich, and David Talkington, a student worker in the collegeás maintenance department. American larch, Kentucky coffee, and sassafras, and mulberry trees were planted across the campus. JCC became the first community college in New York to receive the designation 12 years ago for its commitment to effective urban forest management.
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Chautauqua County is closing in on 9,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with 24 new cases reported Friday. To date there have been 8,938 confirmed cases of the virus locally.
Of the new cases, 13 were recorded in the Jamestown zip code, two each in Ashville and Sherman and one each in Dunkirk, Fredonia, Brocton, Falconer, Gerry, Lakewood and Westfield.
There are currently 121 active cases along with 12 people with the virus in the hospital, 482 in quarantine and a seven-day positivity rate of 1.5%.
The level of transmission of the virus, according to the Centers of Disease Control, remains at “substantial.” To date there have been 8,668 recoveries and 149 virus-related deaths.
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The Jamestown City Council approved a retroactive contract agreement with the Jamestown Professional Firefighters Association Local 137 for 2018, 2019 and 2020 during its regular monthly voting session Monday.
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“It’s deja vu all over again,” is one of Yogi Berra’s most memorable “Yogi-isms” and could be used to describe the latest union contract agreement by the city of Jamestown.
On Monday during the regular voting session meeting, the Jamestown City Council approved a three year agreement 2018, 2019 and 2020 with the Jamestown Professional Firefighters Association Local 137. The reasons the contract agreement seems like deja vu the feeling that one has lived through the present situation before is because just last month the city reached a similar deal with the Kendall Club Police Benevolent Association.