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Fans hopeful Sabres will return to playoffs

OBSERVER Photo by Michael Rukavina Buffalo Sabres fans look on during the team’s season opener Friday at 41 West in Fredonia.
October 11, 2008

It’s been an unusual fall for Buffalo sports fans. Usually by mid-October, fans already have their full attention turned to the Buffalo Sabres. With the surprising start by the Buffalo Bills on the field, hockey fans are hoping to witness yet another big season turn around, on the ice. After winning in semi-dramatic fashion, via shootout for their season opener at HSBC Arena in Buffalo Friday night, fans expectations are high for the Sabres to make another run for the Stanley Cup this year. “I think it’s gonna be better then last year. They did sign all their key players; Jason Pominville to a great deal, Thomas Vanek and Ryan Miller,” said Sabres fan John Dudek of East Aurora. “The team doesn’t really have to prove anything now, they can focus on winning instead of trying to pad their paycheck.” Ryan Miller recorded 28 saves in Friday nights win and was solid in the final shootout, and fans feel the team will go as far as he will take them. When asked who will effect the outcome of

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Helping hands

October 11, 2008

Each year members of the Fredonia Potter’s Co-op gather to make a special collection of bowls, which are made available to the public to help feed the hungry.

This year the fundraising event will include a meal consisting of soup and bre

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County Home funding under review

October 11, 2008

MAYVILLE — Future funding for the Chautauqua County Home and staffing levels at the Department of Social Services are two of the biggest issues county legislators face as 2009 budget hearings wind to a close.

Recent Medicaid cuts have res

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Wounded soldier makes visit home

October 11, 2008

GOWANDA — Having waited almost half a year since U.S. Army Sgt. James T. Hackemer was critically injured in Iraq, family and friends in Gowanda were more than ready Friday for him to make his first visit home.

And so were a convoy of bike

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Ready to rise

October 10, 2008

It’s started — the SUNY Fredonia High Technology Incubator construction project that is.

The fanfare of an official groundbreaking will come a little later. Right now, the contractors on the project want to get started in an attempt to be

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Dunkirk City School District prepares for state aid uncertainty

October 10, 2008

With a call by Gov. David Patterson to cut $2 billion from the $53.4 billion remaining balance of the 2008-2009 budget, nothing is safe and that includes funding for education.

Area school districts are anxiously awaiting the results fro

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