The Jamestown community was shocked to learn of the recent sudden passing of Vickye James.
Tributes have poured in in the wake of James’ passing noting her warm, open nature to those who needed help, her deep involvement in her church, her work with children as Jamestown’s Youth Bureau director and her civic involvement as a Chautauqua County legislator and Jamestown City Council member.
All of those things are true.
But perhaps the biggest hole James’ passing leaves is her perspective on the City Council. James is very much cut from the same cloth as Vivian Taylor, the longtime Ward 3 representative on the City Council. Like Taylor, some of James’ most important work was done when the council wasn’t in session answering constituent concerns, advocating for her ward to recieve its share of dollars the city had to spend on road work and infrastructure and marshaling the city’s resources to projects that benefitted her constituents, like the Jackson-Taylor Park upgr
Sergeants, sons, nurses, mothers: Stories of the 10,000 Alabama lives lost to COVID
Updated on Mar 03, 2021;
Published on Dec 16, 2020
Senior center director Vanessa McKinney speaks at a memorial service for the late Mayor Billy Joe Driver in Clanton, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Driver s death of COVID-19 shocked the central Alabama community, where residents say many people thought the illness caused by the new coronavirus was a big-city problem until he succumbed. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) AP
Twitter Share
Those lives are more than numbers.
They were war heroes. Police officers and prison inmates. Politicians and pastors. Medical workers and musicians. They were educators. They were couples who spent decades together only to die days, or even minutes, apart.
and she is quickly becoming a sensation today, thursday, august 12th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this crazy busy thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. that s right. i m ann curry. crazy and busy. in for matt this morning. because a lot of evidence of doom and gloom when it comes to the u.s. economy. especially in wake of those comments from the fed that the recovery has hit yet another snag. exactly. that news sparked fear on wall street and the dow plunged 265 points on wednesday. and according to that new nbc news/ wall street journal poll 58% of americans now believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. we re going to get the latest on all of this straight ahead. all right. some important numbers to get to. and also ahead some breaking news overnight. an arrest has been made in connection with that nationwide manhunt for serial stabber who allegedly killed at least five people in three states. so we ll
10-year-old at america s got talent with a voice beyond her years. and she is quickly becoming a sensation today, thursday, and she is quickly becoming a sensation today, thursday, august 12th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this crazy busy thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. that s right. i m ann curry. crazy and busy. in for matt this morning. because a lot of evidence of doom and gloom when it comes to the u.s. economy. especially in wake of those comments from the fed that the recovery has hit yet another snag. exactly. that news sparked fear on wall street and the dow plunged 265 points on wednesday. and according to that new nbc news/ wall street journal poll 58% of americans now believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. we re going to get the latest on all of this straight ahead. all right. some important numbers to get to. and also ahead some breaking news overnight. an arrest has been made i