Thirty years ago — 1994

After finishing a tour through Iowa, Julie Milazzo, a student with “Up with People,” has left for a tour through Europe where she will perform. She has successfully completed training with “Up with People” in Denver, Colo. The European tour will include stops in Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, France and Belgium. The tour will next visit the West Coast before the group departs for Australia. Julie is a graduate of Fredonia High School, Class of 1993, and is the daughter of Theresa Milazzo of Fredonia and Dr. Richard Milazzo of Dunkirk.

Forty years ago — 1984

David C. Bryant, co-owner of the White Inn in Fredonia and partner in the renovation project there, has been named Business Person of the Year by the Fredonia State University College Business Club. Although Mr. Bryant came to Fredonia to teach philosophy at Fredonia State in 1970, he left teaching in 1975 to become a project engineer for Silver Creek’s entrepreneur Albert Newman.

Fifty years ago — 1974

Van Buren Road, on both sides of the Penn Central and Norfolk and Western Railroad tracks in Pomfret, is being considered as the possible site for an $800 million generating facility for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation.