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Retired pastor celebrates his 90th birthday

Happy 90th birthday to Reverend Rodney Houck: Born in Wind Gap, PA on Sept. 4, 1932, he graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1954, earning a BA in Liberal Arts. That same year he enlisted in the US Air Force, and later attended Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he earned a ...

Community notebook

LoGuidice Educational Center to host open house FREDONIA — The community is invited to the LoGuidice Educational Center Open House at 9520 Fredonia-Stockton Road, Fredonia, on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 5:30-7 p.m. Speak with career and technical education instructors, tour classrooms, and witness job demonstrations. Food trucks and a chicken barbecue will be on-site, along with pumpkin carving and sale to benefit NTHS. American Legion Post 434 to host dinner Oct. 28 BROCTON — On Oct. 28, the John W. Dill American Legion Post 434, Brocton, will host a dinner for the American ...

SUNY Fredonia film wins Award of Excellence

The Broadcast Education Association’s Award of Excellence won by a team of students enrolled in COMM 464: Fiction II during the spring semester will be collected by their course instructor, Department of Communication Associate Professor Ros Smith, at the 2022 BEA conference at Colorado ...

New York State Not all benefit from rising wage

State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon says a $1 an hour minimum wage increase for much of New York state to $14.20 an hour helps businesses and workers. We’re not so sure. The idea behind doing so is pretty simple — when things cost more, increase how much money workers at the lowest end of the pay scale bring home. That’s certainly Reardon’s logic this year. The Labor Department says an average of 200,000 New Yorkers in these upstate counties will benefit from this wage increase, 44% of which are full time workers and of those, nearly 25% are supporting children below age ...

Retrospective

Thirty years ago — 1992 An effort may be made to sell land at the Eagle Bay development site in the Town of Sheridan to the State Thruway Authority so it can develop it into an industrial park under its “Thruway 2000” project. A Thruway interchange has been proposed to serve the site. The site, originally purchased and still owned by Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. as an alternative site for its Lake Erie Generation Station, embraces 1,200 acres. Forty years ago — 1982 Tefft Glass Inc. is celebrating the grand opening of its Fredonia branch behind Pucci’s Carpets and Furniture ...

Murder charges filed in Jamestown shooting

Murder and attempted murder charges were announced for a 22-year-old city resident previously tied to a shooting that left one man dead and another seriously injured. Kevin Roldan-Pantojas was arraigned Tuesday in Chautauqua County Court in front of Judge David Foley on a five-count ...