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Sherman school ready to welcome circus

SHERMAN - The circus is coming to Sherman Central School on Thursday, Oct. 22. Billy Martin's Cole All-Star Circus will perform in the Sherman Central School gymnasium at 6:30 p.m. The all-new show, Slinko's Big Birthday Bash, will feature Slinko and special guest stars. The event is a ...

St. Luke’s to host MLK theatrical performance Thursday

St. Luke's Episcopal Church, located at 410 N. Main St., will host a free-to-the-public theatrical performance of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail: If Martin Were Here Today” on Thursday at 7 p.m. Presented by the Buffalo-based Typography of Women, the production reimagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” through a conversation with a younger, 21st-century version of King. The performance includes music, spirituals, dramatic readings and commentary. “Dr. King’s letter still asks something of us: to recognize injustice, to ...

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Genealogical Society meets Oct. 21 Change of venue for the Oct. 21 meeting of the Chautauqua County Genealogical Society. The meeting will be held at Darwin. R. Barker Museum 7 Day St., Fredonia. The business meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Steele Room. At 7 p.m. Max Walters, Curator of the Museum, will speak on the “Founding of the Fredonia Academy.” According to Walters, Fredonia had some form of higher education since 1826, when the Fredonia Academy opened to an original cohort of just 15 students. Within one year, the Academy had 136 students — 81 boys and 55 girls. ...

Assemblywoman proposes tighter limits on screens in schools

The reaction was swift earlier this year when the Salamanca City Central School District proposed using a Realbotix educational robot and digital avatar designed to support teaching and learning in its high school STEAM program. That project was quickly shelved after widespread criticism, ...

GOP candidate for Ward 2 eyes programs, services for families

Bryan Bigelow is making children and families a hallmark of his campaign for the Jamestown City Council’s seat on Ward 2 - though housing and the homeless are certainly issues the recently seated interim councilman knows need to be addressed. Bigelow was appointed to fill Tony Dolce’s ...