Meet the candidates event planned

SILVER CREEK — The Town of Hanover Democratic Club will be holding a Meet the Candidates event with Aaron Gies, Tom Carle, Victoria Guite Wiliams and Alexandria Moss. The potluck dinner will be Wednesday, May 20 at 5 p.m. in the VFW 13 N. Main St. Tickets are $5. Call 716-560-2000.

Steel group gathers Friday

Roblin Steel Coffee group will meet on Friday at the Crossroads Diner in Sheridan at 9 a.m. Former employees and family are invited to attend.

Cemetery plans annual meeting

ARKWRIGHT — Burnham Hollow Cemetery will hold its annual meeting on Friday, May 15 at 10 a.m. in the cemetery on Bard Road. It will be followed by a spring cleanup work day.

Ripley school board meets

RIPLEY — A regular meeting of the Board of Education of the Ripley Central School District will be held on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Superintendent’s Office (Room 119) of the Ripley Central School for the purpose of any and all items that come before the board. The public hearing for the upcoming 2026-27 budget vote/election of board members will be immediately following the regular meeting.

Authors plan Saturday library visit

SINCLAIRVILLE — Several local authors will visit the Sinclairville Free Library on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. to introduce their books. Please join AK Coulter (Windblown), Richard Knott, Jr. (The House of Secrets) and Paul Leone (One Hundred and Fifty-Four Sonnets: Fairy Queen) at the library to learn about their new releases.

Coulter is a native of the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and has lived her entire life among military veterans and government employees. Aside from being a bookworm and a research nerd, she enjoys sharing God’s grace in both spoken and written form. She has taught writing, tutored, and worked with various non-profit organizations in editing and formatting their written publications. She is a member of the ACFW, Word Girls, My Book Therapy, the Sinclairville Write Circle, and the Busti Writers Group. Her fiction has earned several awards, most notably, the Frasier Bronze and the ACFW Genesis awards.

At a young age, Knott developed a love for storytelling, receiving encouragement from high school teachers. Always sensible, his parents encouraged him to enter the education field, realizing there would always be a need for teachers. He began using storytelling as a method to be utilized in his teaching. Thirty-five years later and retired, he once again has entered the world of storytelling, having written eight novels, of which The House of Secrets is his first.

Leone is a writer, accomplished storyteller, and with this volume a published poet. He has performed publicly, including poetry recitation, in many venues throughout New York and Pennsylvania. A former roster artist in the regional Council on the Arts, he has performed and taught workshops in most of the region’s schools. Self-described Shakespeare Freak, he has from an early age visited and revisited the Bard’s work both live and on the printed page.

Copies will be available for purchase and signing by the authors.