Twenty years ago – 1994

Tina Swanson of Stockton is a prime example of the non-typical farmer’s wife. She and husband Steve are the third generation of Swansons to own and successfully operate the family’s dairy farm on Bowers Road outside of Cassadaga. Tina does not do any milking, but she drives a 10-wheel dump truck. She also operates a home-based computer into which she has transferred all of the farm’s accounts. Tina also uses the computer for her job as a woman’s fashion consultant.

Thirty years ago – 1984

Bush Industries Inc., whose present headquarters is in Little Valley, will build an $11 million corporate office and manufacturing plant in the South County Industrial Park in the Town of Ellicott, just outside of Jamestown. The announcement is the biggest industrial news in the county since the purchase of Allegheny-Ludlum by its employees in Dunkirk to form AL-Tech Corp. and the move into the old Art Metal plant in the Town of Busti by Cummins Engine. The new plant will create at least 500 new industrial jobs, 250 of them in the first year.

Forty years ago – 1974

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a grant of $1,753,000 for the construction of a new sewage treatment system in Dunkirk, making the total federal assistance for the project $4,980,987. The total estimated cost for the project is $17 million.

Fifty years ago – 1964

Plans are under way for the Fredonia State University College $27 million campus master plan expansion program. College President Dr. Oscar Lanford met with Ieah Pei, senior partner of the I.M. Pei Associates architectural and planning firm, which designed the master plan.