by Leon Archer The first time I ever visited Niagara Falls was when Sweet Thing and I went there for our honeymoon way back in 1961. To say I was impressed and enjoyed myself immensely would be a huge understatement and the falls were nice, too, when we spent time enough to look at them.(…)
by Kate Rothrock Happy Halloween! Although students are not allowed to wear costumes to school today, students and staff will be recognizing Halloween by wearing orange. GRB’s fall play, “The Laramie Project,” was a huge success. Congratulations to the cast and crew of the Quirks Players for a wonderful play and the countless hours you(…)
by Jim Farfaglia Halloween 1960 The school bus is minutes away. Our kindergarten party awaits. My Freddy the Freeloader costume is in a brown paper sack, but lacking one thing: his floppy, torn top hat – and I cry at my incompleteness. So you get right to work with construction paper, cardboard and your(…)
by Roy Hodge When I was growing up in Syracuse, downtown was an exciting place to go. I would meet my mother after school at the bus stop at Midland and Newell streets, or walk there with her from our house. I would often go downtown with my grandmother for lunch and the movies. That(…)
by Leon Archer Tuesday morning found me in Redfield and it really looked like hunting season. The leaves are 70 percent gone from the trees and with the exception of some trees like the beech and oak, trees will be pretty much bare very soon. Hunters have no problem with being able to see deer(…)
by Jerry Kasperek In case you were wondering, like I did in my last column, whatever happened to the busts of Albert Lindsey Lee and his wife and the grandfather clock that used to keep us company when we sat in the lobby of our old Lee Memorial Hospital, well they were donated by the(…)
by Jin Farfaglia On Rainy Saturday Mornings On rainy Saturday mornings we’d get up early, my brother and I, and make our own breakfast: hot cocoa and toast with extra jelly. Then we’d tiptoe to the living room, turn on the TV low and flip through the three channels, amazed at all the(…)
