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BUFFALO SILVER BAND SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2:30 P.M., AMPHITHEATER With a history stretching back more than 100 years, the Buffalo Silver Band is a unique presence in the Buffalo-Niagara music scene. As the only British-style brass band in Upstate New York, the Buffalo Silver Band continues the ...

A Better Life

When Jose Rodriguez left Guanajuato, Mexico in 2001, he was in search of better job opportunities, better pay and a better life for his family. While living in his native land, he had worked with his father making mud bricks for construction. “The process takes one month. Two people make ...

Life Before Water, Power

Christine Martin was born on Nov. 28, 1922 at her parents’ home in Chesterfield, Pennsylvania. The first 20 years of her life were spent without the luxury of electricity. Her family of twelve knew no other way, therefore they didn’t see this as a hardship. “There was no electricity ...

Gypsy Wagon

Kim Mason has many interests and many talents. Since his retirement from Blair Corporation after 34 years, where he worked as a master technician, he has been doing a little of everything. “Now he’s the CEIO of my company,” says his wife Linda. “He carries everything in and carries ...

How It Once Was

Not only was the world a much different place when Marion Wade grew up in East Randolph, but the little village was as well. When the 93-year-old woman was born in the former WCA Hospital, her family lived outside of East Randolph but eventually moved to Main Street and then to Church ...

10 Years Later

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at the status of the major figures in the life and death of Michael Jackson after 10 years, starting with the King of Pop himself: MICHAEL JACKSON: Jackson, who would be 60 years old were he alive, was rehearsing for a tour intended to rehabilitate his career, ...