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WEDNESDAY. MAY 21 Tops NY 890 meeting First United Presbyterian Church, 35 Park Place, Silver Creek. Weigh-ins begin at 8:45 a.m., meeting starts at 9:35 a.m. All are welcome. Use the Main Street entrance. For details, call 716 680-0313. Dunkirk Professional Firefighters Local 616 Retirees; Fredonia Professional Firefighters Local 2931 breakfast meeting Demetri’s on the Lake, 6 Lake Shore Drive W., Dunkirk, 10 a.m. Takes place on the third Wednesday of every month. Darwin R. Barker Library presents: Mah Jongg (American) open play session 7 Day St., Fredonia, 1 to 3 p.m. No ...

Public invited to Comedy Center to meet Fluffy Iglesias Thursday

JAMESTOWN – Residents are invited to Jamestown this week to meet one of the most popular comedians in the nation. The National Comedy Center has announced that it will open its newest exhibit featuring Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias’ iconic 1959 VW Bus from his record-breaking Stadium ...

16 Acts are named CGT semifinalists

After three rounds, 16 acts advance to the semifinal round of Chautauqua’s Got Talent. Now, only two performances remain to crown a winner. On Monday, Chautauqua’s Got Talent once again lit up The Spire Theater as 24 performers took the stage in Round 3 of the county-wide talent ...

Leon Historical Society presents Harness Racing: The Sport of Farmers

LEON – The Leon Historical Society will be hosting an event titled “Harness Racing The Sport of Farmers.” During the mid 1800s our growing nation produced a growing number of roads and a growing demand for a road horse that could provide fast smooth transportation. That horse was the trotter. Local farmers began breeding faster and faster trotters until road horses became race horses. Harness racing soon became a popular sport and harness racetracks began popping up all over the northeast. Thoroughbred racing introduced to this country by the rich and noble gentry was ...

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Author Chat & Book Launch today BROCTON – The Write Focus writers' group will be hosting local author, Judy Shuler, for an Author Chat & Book Launch in the Ahira Hall Memorial Library at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7. Shuler will be discussing her newest book, You too Can Haiku: A Journaling in Three Lines. Haiku poems tell a story "Deeply spiritual, light-hearted, or somewhere in between, haiku can meet us where we are." Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. Gowanda School to hold budget hearing The Public Budget Hearing of the Board of Education of ...

An exhibition featuring works by 27 graduating students has opened in Fredonia’s Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery. “(Un)Limited Space,” the spring senior show, will include digital illustrations, animated short films, photographs, sculpture, and graphic design by graduating seniors ...