150 Years

• Sept. 2, 1875: (SALAMANCA —) The surveyors commenced work in this village Tuesday morning (Aug. 31). The boundaries of the leases will be defined as rapidly as the somewhat mixed condition of affairs will permit. No serious trouble is anticipated, although it will be necessary for the lease-holders to “bear and forbear” to some extent, before they let their angry passions rise.
• Sept. 2, 1875: The latest newspaper venture hereabouts is the Bradford New Era, an edition of the Forestville Farmer with a Bradford department. The Bradford department is edited by Major Haffey, a gentleman of culture and ability. The New Era is printed at Forestville and is probably intended to hold the ground for something more permanent, should the new oil district turn out to be all that is expected of it.
• Sept. 2, 1875: EXCISE MATTERS — At a meeting of the Excise Commissioners Saturday evening (Aug. 28), licenses were granted to D.E. Blair and John Hammacker for the sale of liquor. Mr. Blair’s license is for the Dudley House. Hammacker’s takes the place of Geo. Casey’s licensed, he having recently purchased the store and saloon of Mr. Casey near the Atlantic House.

100 Years

• Aug. 31, 1925: A grant of $5,000 has been made by the Millbank Memorial Fund to the Cattaraugus County Tuberculosis and Public Health Association for the erection of a permanent pavilion in the Children’s Health Camp conducted by the Association in the Allegany State Park. The erection of the pavilion will virtually make a preventorium of the camp and provide much-needed facilities, it is said.
• Aug. 31, 1925: (SALAMANCA —) The new fangled whistle autoists are attaching to the exhaust pipe of the cars in lieu of a horn proved the undoing of two men who stole the automobile of Michael Cunningham from the garage on Birch street Saturday evening. Unable to turn off the whistle, the auto thieves sped along the Olean-Salamanca road with its shrill blasts calling attention to their speed, according to a story here.
• Sept. 1, 1925: (SALAMANCA —) Charges that the cost of paving Sycamore avenue between the new city hall and the E.S. Brown garage from Main street to the end of the city property is excessive, and further that the assessment of a third of such cost on Mr. Brown is illegal on the grounds that no bids for the paving were received.

50 Years

• Aug. 28, 1975: RED HOUSE — “This is such a rich area, it’s a shame to go untapped,” explained Bill Forness, one of a handful of Allegany State Park naturalists who before summer’s end will have taken 20,000 persons on nature walks throughout the vast park. The program, now in its third summer, is an overwhelming success due to the dedication of Conrad Guenther, program director, and Jeff Puilan, assistant recreation specialist.
• Sept. 2, 1975: (SALAMANCA —) Seneca Lanes, the Seneca Nation’s $660,000 bowling facility located on Broad St. Ext. in Salamanca, is scheduled to open Saturday (Sept. 6) at noon. The L-shaped building houses 16 lanes, a 1,200 square foot lounge with an 80-person seating capacity, a pro shop, child care and game rooms, and a fast food snack bar.
• Sept. 3, 1975: Enrollment in the Salamanca City Central School District has decreased for the fifth consecutive year, according to first-day enrollment figures. The enrollment level, as tabulated after the first half-day of classes, shows 2,081 students enrolled, fifty-six fewer than last year’s first-day total of 2,137. Only senior high school enrollment showed an increase, with 543 students enrolled, twenty-two more than last year’s total of 521.

25 Years

• Aug. 29, 2000: SALAMANCA — “Don’t get a ghost mad at you,” is one of the lessons to be learned from DuWayne Bowen’s latest book unveiled for the first time on Monday (Aug. 28). Known to his friends as “Duce,” Bowen has published his second book, “A Few More Stories — Contemporary Seneca Indian Tales of the Supernatural.” On Monday (Aug. 28), he donated copies to area librarians with his family on hand during a ceremony at the Seneca Nation Library Allegany Branch.
• Aug. 30, 2000: ONOVILLE — Two Cattaraugus County sheriff’s deputies have been patrolling the waters of the Kinzua Reservoir this summer with new skills and a safer personal watercraft. Working as a team, deputies Brian Mohr and Al LaFredo patrol the Kinzua Reservoir from the north end to the Pennsylvania state line, which bisects the lake. The two were trained in June at a patrol watercraft operator course in Waterloo and Cayuga Lake State Park. Besides classroom work, they were subjected to extreme physical workouts to prepare them for the occasional hardships they might face on marine patrol.

10 Years

• Sept. 3, 2015: QUAKER RUN — This may have been Elizabeth Sawin’s first time to Allegany State Park, but the 12-year Army veteran from Wheatfield promises it won’t be her last. Sawin, along with her husband, Doug, and daughter Abbigail, was the recipient of this year’s Allegany State Park Historical Society/Anderson Veterans Award. The family received a weeklong stay in the park and was honored Thursday, Aug. 27, during the weekly hootenanny at the Quaker Amphitheater.
• Sept. 3, 2015: Three Democratic candidates will face off in a Sept. 10 primary for two seats in the county legislature. While there are technically no incumbents in this race, current area representatives Susan Labuhn and David Koch, both Democrats, are running to serve the expanded district. They are joined on the ballot by former Salamanca mayor Carmen Vecchiarella, also running as a Democrat.
• Sept. 3, 2015: SALAMANCA — Students with empty bellies can’t be engaged learners, says the Salamanca City Central School District. To address this issue in an economically disadvantaged area, a free breakfast and lunch program was introduced school-wide at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.