Retrospective
Thirty years ago — 1991
Chautauqua Opportunities Inc. plans to break ground this spring on four duplex housing units for pregnant and parenting women in the Dunkirk area. The project is expected to cost $500,000. The COI homes are to be located on the campus of the former St. Mary’s School for the Deaf on Route 60. The four brick, one-story homes are to contain two five-room apartments each.
Forty years ago — 1981
A Hamburg woman, Debbie Koshinsky, and a Westfield businessman, Donald Sineway, have purchased Ludeman’s Department Store in Silver Creek. Sineman is the owner of the Ben Franklin Store in Westfield. The new business will remain a department store and will be called, “The New Ludeman’s.”
Fifty years ago — 1971
Michael Woloszyn is the newly installed president of the Kosciuszko Polish Home in Dunkirk. Other officers include Alex Uszacki, Peter Bienko, John Bienko and Edwin Graminski.