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Lodge planning Sunday breakfast Forest Lodge 166 F&AM will be holding its monthly Sunday Family Breakfast this weekend from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This all-you-can-eat breakfast will consist of eggs made to order, pancakes or French toast, sausages, fruit cocktail, juice, milk, coffee and tea. Adults and teenagers 13 and up are $12, children 5 to 12 are $6. Youth under 5 are free. This breakfast is open to the public, and everyone is welcome and cordially invited to attend. Anyone with interests in, or has questions about Free Masonry will be given a tour of the building at the ...

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Chautauqua Town Historical Society to host speaker MAYVILLE – The Chautauqua Town Historical Society will host Mayville resident Mary Elliott Bradford at its monthly meeting Thursday in the Veteran’s Memorial Meeting Room in the Chautauqua Town Hall, 2 Academy St. Bradford will focus on the Elliott family, local residents since the 1850s. Both the Elliotts and the Bradfords were originally from New England as were many of the early settlers in this region. The original house was on South Erie Street. The Elliott clan now numbers some hundred descendants of the original family, and ...

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County Health Board to meet Sept. 18 The Chautauqua County Board of Health will hold its quarterly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 6 p.m. in the Hall R. Clothier Building, fourth floor conference room, 7 N. Erie St., Mayville. Comments received from the public will be accepted as communications, and not read during privilege of the floor. Public comments at the meetings during the privilege of the floor must be made in person. Members of the public may view the meeting live via the Chautauqua County Health Department’s YouTube channel at ...

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Cassadaga Library hosting calligraphy workshop CASSADAGA – The Seymour-Cassadaga Library will host a calligraphy workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 17 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. A demonstration in lettering arts, the interactive, hands-on event will allow participants to use various styles of pen and inks. The demonstration aims to determine a series of classes in selected disciplines to be taught in the future, so all interested individuals are encouraged to attend. Patricia Greenstein, a Cassadaga resident and calligrapher, will lead the event. Greenstein has studied calligraphy for more than 13 ...

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Sons of the American Revolution to hold dedication The Chautauqua County Sons of the American Revolution will be dedicating a Patriot Memorial Marker at the Evergreen Cemetery, Park Street, Sinclairville, on Saturday, Sept. 13 at 9:30 a.m. There are four American Revolutionary War veterans buried in the Cemetery. The regular monthly meeting of the Chapter will follow at 12:30 p.m. at the Stockton Hotel, Stockton. Unitarian Universalist to celebrate new congregational year The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northern Chautauqua (UUCNC), located at 222 Temple ...

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School Board meeting rescheduled RIPLEY – The regular meeting of the Board of Education of the Ripley Central School District scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 6:30 p.m. has been rescheduled to Wednesday, Sept. 17 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. Roblin Steel Coffee Club to meet The Roblin Steel Coffee Club will be gathering at Demetris Restaurant, Dunkirk at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 12. All former employees/family/friends are always invited to attend. Access ...