The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center opens its 2022 Cinema Series with the semi-autobiographical “Belfast.” It will be screened Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Opera House Executive Director Rick Davis notes that “due to the continued high positivity rate of COVID in ...
Anne Lamott wrote of quilting: “We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand.” The local chapter of Quilts of Valor is doing just that across Western New York by creating quilts to honor veterans. The chapter is ...
GOWANDA POLICE DEPARTMENT ¯ Cory Brainard, 25, of Cattaraugus, was charged with expired inspection and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation. On Dec. 19 just after 1:30 p.m., Brainard was stopped by patrol for operating a vehicle with an expired inspection. During this stop, patrol observed that Brainard’s inspection expired on Oct. 31. Further, a DMV computer check found that Brainard’s license was suspended on Aug. 26 for failing to answer two traffic citations in the town of Ellicott and was suspended on Nov. 28 for failing to answer a citation in the town of Friendship ...
PORTLAND – Pastor R. Gordon Spiller, 73, of Portland, N.Y., passed away peacefully on the evening of Dec. 24, 2021, at St. Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., following a brief illness. Visitation will be held at the MORSE FUNERAL HOME, 51 Highland Avenue, Brocton, N.Y., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, from 1 until 3 p.m. A full obituary will be in the Wednesday edition of the OBSERVER.
The Audubon Community Nature Center is having a holiday open house that is all about the animals, celebrating Christmas with the Critters on Wednesday, Dec. 29. Area residents can come to the nature center for a live experience between 10 and 11:30 a.m. or enjoy the animals virtually from 2 ...
Author’s Note: This Christmas column first ran in 2020. ı ı ı The course of history can change through what initially seems like ordinary events. Chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke tells the story of the birth of a child two millennia ago. The birth of any child is wondrous. Yet this was an extraordinarily special birth of an extraordinarily special child. It occurred in a region of the world with many wealthy, powerful families. Yet this birth didn’t occur in a wealthy or powerful family. It occurred in a region where humanity had built grand structures. Yet this birth ...
