Thirty years ago — 1994 The Gowanda Nursing Home will be expanding with the addition of a 40-bed wing. The project is slated for mid-May construction. The wing will be built off the front of the existing facility into what is now parking space. Gowanda Village Board members unanimously ...
Grass-roots and volunteer efforts play a larger role in making a community viable than work by government. High costs are usually associated with a municipality when it takes on an event. That’s not the case with those invested, which is why a small business expo at Valley Outdoors. It was ...
Note of gratitude for donations Editor, OBSERVER: Thank you to all who made donations for the Roger Lombardo benefit on April 13. The businesses and organizations include: American Legion Post 62, Dom Polski Club, Columbus Club, First Ward Falcons Club, Fourth Ward Falcon Club, World War ...
In a county with a dwindling population, it’s expected that some businesses will vanish and modest luxuries we once enjoyed may start to disappear. Humans with a traumatic injury or a complex health problem almost always are transported out of the county for tertiary medical care. ...
Thirty years ago — 1994 Chautauqua County will not seek federal funding to help make the “Rails to Trails” project a reality as the legislature voted 14-11 against the funding. The vote brought cheers and applause from some 75 opponents of the plan. The number of people on hand to both ...
We’ve seen enough municipal branding attempts to know their payoff is typically pretty small. It’s better than nothing — though how much better than nothing is frankly up for debate. So we hope there is a payoff to the county’s Live CHQ and Choose CHQ programs that were launched ...