The Studebaker name is a familiar one in Chautauqua County. If you’ve ever taken the tour of the Chautauqua Institution grounds, the Studebaker home along the shores of Chautauqua Lake is a highlight of the driving tour. Studebaker started building horse drawn equipment in 1852. Keeping up ...

The Dunkirk Fredonia Lions Club has been busy. On Aug. 19, the club had its member picnic at Russell Joy Park in Fredonia and invited several of the community’s blind and sight impaired citizens to join them. It was a chance to give back and treat the guests to an enjoyable evening with a ...

Seventy years ago, on September 11, 1954, Bruce Paschke married Sandra (Hayward) Paschke. Lifelong residents of Fredonia, they have three children, Heidi (Bruce) Mack, Scott (Kim) Paschke, Darrin (Nitida) Paschke, several grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. In their 90s, Bruce and Sandra ...

Robert McCarthy, a WKBW-TV political analyst, will deliver this year’s Constitution Day keynote “Freedom of the Press – It’s in the Constitution!” on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The address by the retired Buffalo News reporter, at 11 a.m. in ...

CASSADAGA — Norman Carlson from Busti, who now serves as the Chautauqua County Historian, was the guest speaker at the recent Chautauqua County Genealogical Society meeting in the Cassadaga American Legion meeting hall. Carlson has been the historian for more than four months now and wanted ...

The award-winning short film “The Worst Best Man Ever” will have its screening at The Rochester Fringe Festival on Tuesday, Sept.17 at 8 p.m. at the JCC Theater, 1200 Edgewood Ave., Rochester. “The Worst Best Man Ever” is a romantic comedy about Kevin, a bachelor, who asks his best ...