Thirty years ago — 1994 Police briefly handcuffed former Buffalo Bills star running back O.J. Simpson and questioned him for three hours after the bloodied bodies of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, 25, were found outside her condominium early on June 13. Simpson ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 A store where so many people bought gifts that last forever is closing its doors for good. Holliday Jewelers, 35 East Main St., Fredonia is going out of business, owner/operator Marlene Holliday announced today. Her late husband Howard established the Fredonia ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Another chapter in the ongoing Dunkirk waterfront saga was opened when the owners of the Sheraton Harborfront Inn filed a State Supreme Court lawsuit seeking in excess of $6.6 million in damages for what it called a breach of contract by the city. The suit claims the ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Mark Gugino’s doubts about playing professional baseball are over. The 21-year-old Fredonia native has signed a contract with the Florida Marlins organization and was assigned to Elmira. Gugino, a junior outfielder at the University of South Carolina, had been ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Gowanda village residents came out in large numbers as they voted to keep the village police force. The results were 372 to 214 in favor of keeping the village police. More than 50 percent of the eligible votersturned out for this special election. By their vote, ...

Thirty years ago — 1994 Fredonia native Dianne Walsh Astry has been awarded the American Lung Association’s Award of Excellence at a conference held in Boston, Mass. The award recognized Walsh Astry’s development of the Health House Project in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1993, which has ...