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The Jamestown Public Schools District is taking matters into its own hands to get school staff members a COVID-19 vaccination.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that teachers, police, firefighters, public transit workers and other first responders can now get vaccinated, along with people age 65 or older, making more than 3 million people in the state eligible. The state is only getting about 300,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine a week, leading to long waits to get eligible people vaccinated.
There are two ways right now to schedule a vaccine. One is to visit the state’s Am I Eligible website at am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov or the Chautauqua County Health Department’s signup site for local clinics at chqgov.com/public-health/covid-19-vaccination-clinics.
dphillips@post-journal.com Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist will present his second State of the City address Monday, which will be posted on the cityâs website â www.jamestownny.gov/live â and on social media.
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Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist will present his second State of the City address Monday, which will be posted on the cityâs website â www.jamestownny.gov/live â and on social media.
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During Jamestown Mayor Eddie Sundquist’s swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 1, 2020, the first time mayor said, “Now more than ever, we need to get creative to grow and expand our city.”
Sundquist, at the time, didn’t know how creative he was going to need to be during his first year in office. However, because of COVID-19, Sundquist had to get creative on a daily basis, adapting to the changes brought on by the global pandemic.
Jan 1, 2021
Concerns over rising COVID-19 numbers over the holiday has forced the largest city school district in the north county to move to a remote model for at least the first two weeks.
In a post on its Facebook page, the district made the announcement. “Due to the ongoing rise in positive COVID-19 test results in the local community and resulting staffing issues the district will continue in a fully remote learning environment for the two week period beginning Monday … through Friday, Jan. 15. This means students in grades K-12 will not attend school in person during this two week time period.”
John Whittaker
Dr. Kevin Whitaker, Jamestown Public Schools superintendent, is pictured speaking to district parents in a video posted on the districtâs website.
The Jamestown Public Schools District is getting its testing swabs in a row in the event Chautauqua County enters one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s microcluster designations.
On Saturday, district parents received a phone call, text and email stating the district is reaching out to Jamestown families who have students attending school in-person to ask them to sign consent forms for elementary and middle school students to voluntarily take a COVID test.
The forms are due before students leave for winter break on Dec. 22.
Dec 12, 2020
It’s ironic that Mayor Edward Sundquist started this budget process saying there wouldn’t be much recreation or many events in the coming year only to end the budget process fighting to keep that very position in the budget.
Sundquist noted in his budget presentation that most city-sponsored events will again be canceled, both as a cost-savings measure and from a safety perspective.
“Our recreation coordinator will focus less on specific yearly events and more to fostering community involvement, lifestyle and year-round recreation,” Sundquist said in his budget proposal.
Frankly, the council should have furloughed the position last April when it became apparent that there would be no city events in 2020. The position was turned into a public relations/grant writing position. Grants are tough sledding right now given the dearth of federal and state money available. It’s funny, frankly, that a news release announcing Sundquist’s veto of the council’s fu