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Back to Dunkirk for Little League
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For my third season of Little League baseball, I returned to Dunkirk after a summer of glove with the Fredonia Police team. Brother Tom, now off crutches, was joining the league in 1961 for the first time as a 9-year-old. We both performed at tryouts on the Woodrow Avenue field. I ...
WNY’s best
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The Dunkirk baseball team won its first sectional title in over a decade and several players have earned recognition for that accomplishment. Selected by the coaches, Dunkirk senior pitcher Greg Orcutt and junior infielder Josh Lemanski were named to the All-Western New York Large School ...
Walleye contest winners take home prizes
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The post-polygraph results are in, and the official results for the Southtowns Walleye Association's 41st annual 9-day walleye marathon fishing contest that ended on Father's Day are posted. Hundreds of walleyes were measured for weight at multiple weigh stations across our Lake Erie ...
80 years and counting for Gerry Rodeo
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GERRY — Many thought that the idea of a rodeo wouldn’t succeed for even one year, but they were certainly wrong for when July 30 rolls around this summer, the tiny hamlet of Gerry, just north of Jamestown, New York, will celebrate the opening night of its 80th annual professional rodeo, ...
Same faces, new places
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Chautauqua Lake/Westfield/Brocton, Randolph, Southwestern/Frewsburg and Jamestown met for 7-on-7 scrimmages at Strider Field on Wednesday ahead of the start of their summer passing league next month.