Last month, the National Society United States Daughters of 1812, Celea Sampson Cole Chapter 507 held a ceremony to acknowledge a new headstone and to present a grave marker for Private Richard Strickland. Strickland was a pioneer of Pine Grove Township. He died on May 15, 1849, and was ...
LAKE VIEW — Hundreds of high schoolers sporting bright yellow hard hats dotted the sprawling IUOE Local 17 training grounds in Lake View for the 16th annual Western New York Construction Career Days. The popular event brings together students and professionals and has long been billed as ...
For the Westfield Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Thanksgiving season begins earlier than usual this year. As sponsors of “10 Days of Giving for WMH” Raffle, the Foundation Board of Directors would like to thank its many donors in the hospital’s 14 service areas and neighboring ...
I never kept a journal or photo album, so I have little to go on other than vague recollections of Fredonia 50-odd years ago. They come to mind like faded photographs of various settings around the village. Sometimes the images are audible, like in the auditorium of the Campus School, or ...
A few weeks ago, I walked out of work in a dreadful mood. Nothing drastic happened. It was just the accumulation of lots of small things that I couldn’t get ahead of. Crossing the parking lot, I spotted a fall-colored maple leaf. It was striking. A tie-dye combination of red and yellow ...
Special to the OBSERVER Earlier this year, Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a former pediatrics professor and a member of the board of trustees at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, donated $1 billion to her college, making medical school tuition free for the next generation of students. Although ...