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Most golfers dream of getting the chance to play at the best golf courses in the world and it doesn’t get much better than Augusta National Golf Club. The host of perhaps the most prestigious major championship, the Masters, Augusta is an exclusive course in which only the elite and very best ...

Kids enjoy Lew Mead Fishing Derby

Late June rainstorms delayed the 37th Annual Lew Mead Youth Fishing Derby at Cassadaga Lake on Saturday, June 28, and committee officials moved the derby to Sunday, June 29. More than 40 kids from three to 16 years of age participated in discovering more about the outdoors through the fun of ...

Tarp Skunks stay hot with 7-1 victory against Niagara

JAMESTOWN — It’s been quite a run for Jamestown in its last 10 games. Almost perfect, in fact. Five pitchers combined on a four-hitter and the Tarp Skunks scored all their runs in the first three at-bats en route to a 7-1 victory over Niagara in a Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League ...

Goodbye, Little League

My fifth and final year in Little League wasn’t that much better than my fourth year. My team, the underperforming USW-CIO Steelworkers, was a bottom-feeding, cellar-dwelling club in Dunkirk for a second year in a row. It was 1963 and the chief reason for our rank ineptitude was our ...

Gann brings a unique resume to Gerry Rodeo

GERRY — Rodeo kid … teenage bull rider … college student … school teacher … bull fighter … rodeo clown. That’s the unusual resume of rodeo clown and barrel man Rob Gann, who is headed to the 80th annual Gerry Fire Department’s PRCA rodeo for four performances, Wednesday ...