150 Years

• June 17, 1875: HEAVY FROST — One of the most severe frosts ever known for the time of year occurred Sunday and Monday nights (June 13 and 14). Considerable damage was done to potatoes, beans, tomatoes and the more tender vegetables. In some localities, the freeze was sufficient to injure grass, but generally, the meadows and pastures were not harmed. The unparalleled cold was quite general throughout this State. The extent of its damage in this county cannot yet be ascertained, but we trust that it is not as great as has been apprehended.
• June 17, 1875: (SALAMANCA —) The strawberry and ice cream festival (minus the strawberries) held in Flint’s Hall Tuesday evening (June 15), by the ladies of the Baptist Church, was a most enjoyable occasion, and a fair success. The receipts amounted to about $40.00. The ice cream manufactured gratuitously by Mr. Farman, was very nice.

100 Years

• June 12, 1925: (SALAMANCA —) Early opening of a camp on South Mountain, near the old Parker place, locally known as “old stone house,” was announced today by Chairman A.T. Fancher, of the Allegany State Park Commission. Work will be started within three days, and the camp will be ready for use by the local public within a week, Mr. Fancher said. Immediately the new road, which winds up South Mountain, became passable local motorists in large numbers began to drive over it for the beautiful view which it affords and for the “cool air on hot days.”
• June 13, 1925: Salamanca’s new city hall bids fair to seem entirely topo small at no later a date than Monday night, adn there is just a possibility that the Cattaraugus County Farm & Home Bureaus, which came to Salamanca from Olean with the promise that they were to be provided with quarters by this city, may be left out in the cold. Loss of the bureaus would mean not only loss of the offices, but loss of prestige in the surrounding country and loss of the patronage of farmers and their wives who are drawn here in large numbers.

50 Years

• June 14, 1975: With appropriate ceremony, Mayor Keith Reed and city officials welcomed the public to Salamanca’s new municipal service center this morning. Originally proposed as a Dept. of Public Works garage and nearly canceled when the bids were too high, about eighty persons gathered in the warm sunshine in front of the municipal center at 9 a.m. for the dedication of the new $1½ million structure. The mayor and city officials led spectators on an inspection tour of the new facility following the ceremonies. The conference room adjoining the mayor’s office included a display of color aerial photographs taken of the city.
• June 18, 1975: (SALAMANCA —) The owners of the two Heads Together “unisex” hair styling salons have been ordered to cease cutting men’s hair. In response to an anonymous complaint, an inspector for the Buffalo office of the state bureau of licensing visited the Salamanca shop Tuesday (June 17) and issued Bea Laskowski and Phyllis Paquet a violation sheet listing three violations. One of the items cited the hair styling service for men at the two salons, which violates a state law that forbids hairdressers from cutting men’s hair.

25 Years

• June 13, 2000: SALAMANCCA — The Salamanca Area Chamber of Commerce will move back to the city’s west end Wednesday (June 14) and will temporarily share space with the Salamanca Area Historical Society. While Chamber officials are still looking for a permanent site, concerns over being available to tourists entering the city from I-86 at the west end led to the acceptance of an offer from the historical group to share space at its office in the Weast Plaza, 696 Broad St.
• June 14, 2000: GREAT VALLEY — Ellicottville Central School District voters rejected a $10,314,000 school upgrade project — just weeks after turning down the school budget proposal as well. The project was defeated 364 to 241 and would have raised taxes an average of 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
• June 16, 2000: SALAMANCA — School tax refunds of more than $13,000 will not be given to several city residents and former residents as requested. The Board of Education Tuesday (June 13) unanimously rejected 14 requests filed by people who had paid taxes during a lease dispute with the Seneca Nation of Indians. The claimants contended since they didn’t own the land during the period in question, they should not have had to pay taxes on it.

10 Years

• June 18, 2015: SALAMANCA — Several city residents questioned the Common Council during last week’s meeting regarding the state of the Salamanca Area Senior Center’s roof.

During the Board of Public Works meeting, which immediately preceded council, the department’s superintendent Rob Carpenter reported the senior center’s roof required an emergency patch last week due to heavy rains.

However, the senior center has struggled with roof leaks over the course of the last three years and a full-scale overhaul has yet to be completed, although the project has been out to bid several times.

• June 18, 2015: LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County agreed Wednesday, June 10 to become co-owner with Erie County of a new $22 million bridge spanning Cattaraugus Creek over the Zoar Valley gorge. The new bridge, when completed in two years, will sit more than 200 feet above the bottom of the gorge and be almost 650 feet long.

Two lawmakers objected to the memorandum of agreement between the New York State Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) and the two counties: Carl Edwards, R-Limestone, and David Koch, D-Salamanca, who called replacing the old Route 219 bridge a waste of taxpayer money.