Retrospective
Thirty years ago — 1993
In an OBSERVER photo, Tim Gibbons, a clerk at the Atlantic A plus mini market in Dunkirk, holds up a sign brought to his store by three local teenagers who are participating in the “No Proof — No Puffs” campaign, which is a county-wide effort to remind store owners that it is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under 18. Teens in the photo are Caress Kohlepp, Ann Formanowicz and Carolyn Sobilo.
Forty years ago — 1983
Construction of the proposed railroad underpass on Lamphere Street in Dunkirk at the Norfolk and Western Railroad crossing is expected to begin in the spring of 1984 as a result of a letter Dunkirk Mayor Edwin Gregoreski plans to send today, authorizing the project to be carried out. Initial design plans, as well as the state and federal money for the project, have been ready since last fall, but the project was waiting on the mayor’s approval.
Fifty years ago — 1973
Eugene M. Kaczor, Lake Shore area marketing manager of the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, has been appointed as associate chairman of the Corporate Gifts Division of Catholic Charities Appeal for the Dunkirk-Fredonia area this year.