Thirty years ago — 1994 Would the former Cardinal Mindszenty High School on Central Avenue in Dunkirk make a viable unified north county government office building? The Roman Catholic diocese has been approached by a special subcommittee of the Chautauqua County Legislature’s Public Works ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Forestville High School Principal Charles S. Nebral has accepted a high school principal position with the Falconer Central School System to begin this fall. A native of Fredonia, Mr. Nebral received a probationary appointment as Forestville’s principal in 1989. ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Adam Czekanski and Peter J. Harvey, seniors at Silver Creek Central School, have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Class of 1994. The son of Michael and Diane Czekanski of West Lake Road, Silver Creek, Adam has received a three-year ROTC ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 The Rev. Timothy Peter Kesicki, S.J., was ordained a priest on June 11 at Gesu Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He will celebrate his first Mass at Holy Trinity Church on June 18. Father Kesicki is the son of Bob and Carmella Kesicki of Dunkirk. On Sunday, June 26, he will ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 The Chautauqua County Legislature has agreed to pay the estates of a Stockton mother and son killed in an accident in 1987 a total of $218,000. As part of settling that same lawsuit, insurance carriers for Murray Hose Co. 4 of Dunkirk and the Portland Volunteer Fire ...

The devastating news out of the empire to the north is that all of the Dunkirk, Fredonia and north county Catholic Church’s, with the exception of that strange building on Central Avenue, will close. It is reminiscent of the arrogant closing of Mindszenty High School in 1979. One can argue ...