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Retrospective

Twenty years ago — 1999

Because of encroachment from fast food restaurants and other commercial development, the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research Center in the town of Pomfret (East Main Road, across from Fredonia Central School) will eventually have to move. The Chautauqua County Legislature Agricultural Task Force is calling for the research center, sponsored by Cornell University, to remain in Chautauqua County because of its importance to local grape farmers. Research center personnel have been discussing the need to move the center for several years.

Thirty years ago — 1989

Groundbreaking for Chautauqua County’s unified office building in Dunkirk will take place. Dec. 13, the OBSERVER learned this morning. Trautman Associated of Buffalo made that promise in a letter to Chautauqua County Executive John Glenzer. Trautman was hired last week as architects and engineers for the $3.5 million, three-story office building to be erected on the northwest corner of Main Street and Lake Shore Drive East. It will house all county offices in the north except for Mental Health, which has its own quarters near Brooks Hospital. The north county building will be part of the Dunkirk harborfront project, which includes a hotel, condos, office buildings and stores.

Forty years ago — 1979

A new literary journal is being created in Fredonia by two students at Fredonia State University College who are attempting to provide an outlet to publish works by local writers as well as college students. The first issue of the bi-monthly publication, “Aevum” will appear in local bookstores in mid- to late-February. Reaction to the idea of a local literary journal has been positive.

Fifty years ago — 1969

Successful fertilization of a human egg outside a woman’s body may have carried science a major step forward toward test tube birth, scientific experts said in London.

The new catalog department at the J.C. Penney store in Dunkirk has been opened. Mrs. Virginia Lancaster is catalog supervisor.

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