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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, ...

Tarp Skunks drop third straight

Friday’s Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League game got away from Jamestown when Niagara scored six runs in the top of the third inning on its way to a 10-2 victory at Diethrick Park. The loss was the third straight for the Tarp Skunks, who fell to 11-5 on the season. Cal Noonan ...