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MONDAY, APRIL 15 Darwin R. Library presents: Preschool storytime 7 Day St., Fredonia, 10:30 a.m. Stories, movies, crafts, play. All children welcome. No registration necessary. United Seniors luncheon Kosciuszko Club, 252 Nevins St., Dunkirk, 11 a.m. Send $15 to Linda Riley 264 King St., Dunkirk. Menu: corned beef and cabbage and sides. Sinclairville Free Library presents: Books Unlimited Adult Fiction Book Club 15 Main St., 7 p.m. This month: “Homer’s Odyssey” by Gwen Cooper. Call 716 962-5885 to reserve a copy. Village of Silver Creek budget public hearing VIllage ...

New Horizons to perform Wednesday at SUNY

The 50-member New Horizons Band of Western New York will present their Spring Concert at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The free concert will be in the Harry A. King Concert Hall on the SUNY Fredonia Campus. After opening the concert with Jack Stamp’s arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner as a “love song to the country” in a setting intended to portray the nation’s stirred patriotism following the attacks of 9/11, John Krestic will conduct Steven Reineke’s Main Street Celebration. This piece depicts the fond memories the composer had growing up in a small town just north of Dayton, ...

Works by 14 graduating seniors from the Department of Visual Arts and New Media will be on display when the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery at the State University of New York at Fredonia hosts the exhibition “Midnight Oil” from Friday to May 9. The exhibition, which opens with a ...

Opera House series to feature Midway State Park

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center continues the spring installment of its Chautauqua County History Lecture Series on Thursday at 7 p.m., with exploration of the history of Midway State Park. The program’s speaker, Park Manager Christine Wilson, will speak about ...

Student expands education through role at university arts center

Learning takes place in many different ways at the State University of New York at Fredonia, and Brody Brown is doing his best to take advantage of this fact. Brown, a sophomore from Lancaster, N.Y., is pursuing a Music Education degree with a minor in Arts Administration. His immediate goal ...

Dramatic recitation of Walt Whitman poem to be held at Jackson Center

A dramatic recitation of one of Walt Whitman’s famous poems, “When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom’d” will be held Saturday, the anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The poem will be read by Paul Leone, on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Robert H Jackson Center, 305 E. ...