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Diamond Dawgs seek 8U coach

Diamond Dawgs Travel Baseball is currently looking for players and head coach for an 8U team for the 2027 season. Diamond Dawgs is a local travel ball organization that is completely tuition-free and fundraiser-based and focuses on player development at all ages. Interested players cannot ...

Walleye Duel, Con Club team up for “Lake Erie Team of Year”

Two of Eastern Lake Erie’s premier walleye tournaments are joining forces this summer, creating an exciting new competition that rewards traditional trolling anglers while crowning the first-ever “Lake Erie Walleye Team of the Year.” The Walleye Duel in Dunkirk returns Saturday and ...

Orange and Blue skies

At 3 a.m., Lower Manhattan is usually quiet — even by the standards of the city known as “The City That Never Sleeps.” On this particular morning, however, the silence was replaced by the energy of thousands of New York Knicks fans who had already lined the streets in anticipation of ...

81 years later, Gerry Rodeo not such a ‘crazy idea’

GERRY — “That’s a crazy idea” was the response of many, when in 1944, Jack Cox, a new member of the recently formed Gerry Volunteer Fire Department, suggested a rodeo as a fundraiser for the department. Cox, a former working cowboy, who had moved to this area from the West to help build ...

Balancing the deer herd in New York

New York’s deer herd continues to grow across much of the state, and the Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing the most significant package of deer management changes in years to address the trend. The proposed regulations are intended to increase the harvest of antlerless ...

Silakowski to attend IU-South Bend

Southwestern senior Ariana Silakowski recently completed her celebratory signing letter to attend Indiana University at South Bend and compete on the softball team next year. Ariana is flanked by her mother Danielle Zukowski-Culver and stepfather Rob Culver. Joining Ariana, standing, from left, ...