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Mayville park paving project nears completion

MAYVILLE – While there have been a number of complaints from village trustees, Mayor Rick Syper said the paving for Lakeside Park project should be completed shortly. During the Mayville Village Board’s June meeting, Syper discussed the project. “A lot of progress has been made in ...

Mays’ day

WEBSTER — Coming into Sunday’s competition, Silver Creek/Forestville senior Nate Mays was overall leader in the pentathlon at the New York State Track & Field Championships and was in good position to secure the Class C public school title courtesy of first-place finishes in high jump ...

Always leave the stable while still a bit hungry

Alex Karras was a former NFL football player who played with the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1970. He was inducted as a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2020. He also had careers as a Professional Wrestler, a Sportscaster, and after sports, he became an actor, having been featured in the movies Blazing Saddles, and Victor/Victoria, and also various television sitcoms, before landing the co-lead with his real life wife, Susan Clark and child actor Emmanuel Lewis in the ABC sitcom , Webster. One of the ...

Mobile home park, thrift store building sold

A mobile home park in Sinclairville is under new ownership. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from April 1-7. The county does not provide transaction information, but real estate documents are ...

Everything you didn’t want to know about grass

If there’s one thing I connect summers with in Western New York, it’s yard mowing. It’s so irretrievably linked in my mind, that even childhood memories occupy a corner in my cerebral cortex labeled “grass.” Mowing it. Fertilizing it. Complaining about it. Watching it grow six inches while you were away for a long weekend. There’s no doubt that by June, grass becomes one of the dominant forces in our lives. It quietly takes over Saturday mornings, fills hardware store parking lots with riding mowers, and gives you a chance to wave to your neighbors. Most of us don’t ...