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Grange history focus of Thursday program in Westfield

WESTFIELD — The history of the National Grange, with a focus on the organization’s first working grange in Fredonia, will be outlined during the Fireside Lecture Series on Thursday at Patterson Library, 40 Portage St. The program, presented by Pamela Brown, begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The Fireside Lecture Series, a collaboration between the Chautauqua County Historical Society and the Patterson Library, provides programs on local and general history. The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, founded in 1867 after the American Civil War, ...

Former Mayville Rite Aid Sold

A former drug store building in Mayville has a new owner. The Post-Journal and OBSERVER have been analyzing real estate sales in Chautauqua County and recently looked at the transactions from Jan. 2-13. The county does not provide this information but is available by reviewing real estate ...

Maple Grove Junior Eyes Future In Heavy Equipment

When Ava Millett enrolled in the Conservation/Natural Resource Management program at the Hewes Educational Center, she knew she wanted to work outdoors and do something hands-on. What she didn’t realize was just how many opportunities the program would open for her. A junior from Maple ...

Thanks, Reginald, For Lending Me A Song

Around this time of year, Sally and I have a four-week period of time, which we could call our Celebration Trifecta, as we remember our Wedding Day on March 22nd, Sally’s Birthday on April 2nd, and my trip Around the Sun Anniversary on April 23rd. While celebrating these special days, we don’t do the conventional gift giving, and we do the same for Christmas, as well. We use our Guardians Baseball Package, and whatever concerts, or stage shows that we may want to see pop-up, or if we just want to do a getaway weekend somewhere, and gift those to one another as our Birthday, ...

The Old Immigrant

I met him on a playground by chance while visiting my daughter—an old man who had grown up in Cuba, under the rule of Fidel Castro. “You have no idea what a paradise America is,” he told me after we’d chatted for a while. “I walked into a grocery store my first week here and I couldn’t believe it. Food! From ceiling to floor! In Cuba, cream was an expensive luxury. I can count the times on my fingers that I had cream.” He pauses and looks in the direction of his house, somewhere past the trees. “You can’t see America the way I do,” he says “because you don’t ...