150 Years

• July 29, 1875: (LITTLE VALLEY —) The J.F. Thompson building, on Railroad avenue, is to be overhauled and repaired under the direction of H.S. Thompson. It will be converted into a store, with new front, &c., and to all appearances will be a new building. Work upon it has already commenced.
• July 29, 1875: (SALAMANCA —) If a stranger steps up to you any of these days, and shakes your hand with the utmost cordiality, inquires anxiously after your family, and finally entreats you to go and “take a cigar” with him, don’t be at all alarmed. He is neither insane nor idiotic, but is only a candidate for some office, and desires your assistance. By exercising a little strategy, you can very easily keep your pockets well filled with the very best of cigars.
• July 29, 1875: A picnic for the benefit of the new Catholic Church will be held on the site of their new church on West River St., Monday, August 16. In the evening, a festival will be held in Flint’s Hall. The worthiness of the object should call out a large attendance of our citizens.

100 Years

• July 24, 1925: (SALAMANCA —) On recommendation of the City Fire Commission that they can purchase for $4,000 a combination chemical and hose truck of one and a half tons in every way suited to the needs of the Fire Department, the city council last night voted unanimously to submit the proposition of making that purchase to the taxpayers. The present chemical truck has outlived its usefulness and carries but 500 feet of hose.
• July 28, 1925: The inhabitants of Great Valley are somewhat stirred over the proposition for forming a central school district under the law enacted by the last Legislature. Under the proposed plan, five school districts would unite as one district and be under the supervision of a board of five members elected by the voters of the whole district. It would be necessary to add two teachers to the central school and the grade of the school could then be increased to a full four-year high school.

50 Years

• July 25, 1975: YORKSHIRE — A tornado-like storm struck the Meadowbrook Trailer Park here about 3 p.m. Thursday (July 24), destroying three trailers and injuring six persons. Mrs. Elsi Jane Beck, Cattaraugus County Civil Defense director, reported that one trailer was “completely slivered.” A second large trailer was rolled completely over before coming to rest on its side. A third trailer was ripped of its foundation and pushed up against another mobile home.
• July 26, 1975: LITTLE VALLEY — The 133rd annual Cattaraugus County Fair doesn’t start until 9 a.m. Sunday (July 27), but the fairgrounds today looked as busy as opening day. 4-H members arrived throughout the day with their animals, showing off as they led their prizes to assigned stalls. Workers in the Grange, Education, Domestic and 4-H buildings labored to get every item nailed, taped or glued in place.
• July 30, 1975: LITTLE VALLEY — Summer theater will come to Little Valley during the third week of August, courtesy of some of the village’s own residents. The production, hopefully the first of many of the newly formed “Village Players,” will be “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves of the Black Forest.”

25 Years

• July 24, 2000: SALAMANCA — Sandra Krantz, R.N., of the Salamanca City Public School System and its Prospect Elementary School is the recipient of Cattaraugus & Wyoming Counties Project Head Start’s 2000 Award of Distinction. Mrs. Krantz joined with the Salamanca school district in 1989, having started part-time and becoming full-time in 1992. She works with children at kindergarten screenings, including those done at the Salamanca Head Start Center.
• July 25, 2000: SALAMANCA — Dr. Srinivas Thandla and Mary “Libby” Smith will relocate to new offices in the community when the Salamanca Healthcare Complex closes Oct. 15, Olean General Hospital officials announced today. Both of the practices will move into the Center for Regional Excellence building on Route 219, just north of the city in the town of Great Valley.
• July 28, 2000: SALAMANCA — City officials are trying to decide the best way to address the removal of trees from a recreational path on the southside. The Forestry Department of the Seneca Nation of Indians has identified several “hazardous” trees along the trail between Parkway Drive and NAFCO, although the city portion only extends to Center Street Extension.

10 Years

• July 30, 2015: ELLICOTTVILLE — Throughout Amanda Dackowsky’s time with the Cattaraugus County 4-H program, she said she learned a variety of life skills that help her in life today. So in a world that often comes full circle, it’s fitting she is using those skills to give back to the world she so lovingly belonged to as a girl through a new job now as 4-H program assistant through the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
• July 30, 2015: RED HOUSE — Cross-country skiers on Allegany State Park’s Art Roscoe trails can feel safe knowing they are in the hands of the second-highest ranked ski patrol team in the country. The Allegany State Park Nordic Ski Patrol was recently named second in the nation for Outstanding Nordic Patrol by the National Ski Patrol. This is the highest accolade received by the group since its inception in 2002.
• July 30, 2015: LITTLE VALLEY — Patrons of the Little Valley Memorial Library will likely experience a new way of checking out their books and other materials beginning in August. Expected to go into effect Aug. 3, flipping the switch on the system will culminate more than three years of work to sort books and add barcodes to the library’s material.