In 1909, William J. Maddox was tearing down his residence at 62 Allen St. and would erect on the site a handsome structure of pure colonial design. The new house would in a general way resemble the old, which was erected some time between 1846 and 1851 and which had frequently attracted the admiring attention of passers by.

John Cusimano, 26 years old, was seriously and, it was feared, fatally stabbed by his brother-in-law Angelo Cusimano the previous evening. Angelo was arrested. The stabbing was the outcome of a family quarrel.

In 1959, precision-timed State Police raids in more than a score of upstate communities were hailed by a top crime buster as "a powerful blow against big-time, organized gambling" in New York. Some 200 troopers burst into 79 bookmaking and lottery establishments in 28 cities and villages and arrested 142 persons. Troopers made their biggest haul in Buffalo, the state's second largest city. They took 86 persons into custody. Most of them were charged with conducting a lottery, a felony. Other cities hit in the crackdown included Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Troy and Jamestown.

A Catholic order, which would use Newton Memorial Hospital buildings as a teenage boys' boarding school for future priests and educators, successfully bid $125,000 for the County institution. The Augustinians of the Assumption, Inc. New York City, was the only qualified bidder at the public auction held at the hospital. It was the second time the former tuberculosis hospital in Cassadaga had been put to bid. Nearly a year ago, the Presbytery of the Buffalo-Niagara district was the sole bidder at $100,000, but later withdrew their bid.

In 1984, citing the family's hard work and refusal to cut corners, Dairylea announced that the Lewis C. Rice family of Kennedy had won its Grand Award for Quality Milk Production. The award was presented to the Dairylea members at the 65th annual meeting in Syracuse. In making the announcement, Dairylea director of Quality Control, Frank Balliet, said the family scored 500 percent better than the maximum score required by the state and federal standards. The Rices - Lewis, his wife Myrna, and children Jody, 19, and Douglas, 16 - operated a 217-acre farm.

After meeting in executive session, the Fredonia Board of Education approved a bond resolution for the demolition of the old high school on Chestnut Street and the construction at the site of two 20-student locker rooms costing $149,000. Board President Marilyn Maytum said current locker rooms at the site were in "deplorable condition." They were closed in May after the board inspected them and found hanging ceilings, cracked plaster and water leaking in the walls.

In 1999, an ambitious downtown Jamestown revitalization project conceived about four years ago was skating towards reality. The estimated $51 million project called for the redevelopment of an area bounded by Washington and Jefferson streets and West Second and West Fourth streets and would include a dual ice rink, hotel, convention center and possible associated businesses.

A freezing rain turned into wet snow as community members busily installed a playground at C.C. Ring Elementary School in Jamestown, which would eventually honor the late firefighter Gordon Hess. Julie Anderson, the school's Parent Teacher Association president, said her group got the idea for a new playground after realizing that the school's 16-year-old "jungle" gym needed to be replaced. An important contributor to the project was Dorene Hess, the widow of Gordon Hess, whose $4,900 donation to the school in March was the added push needed to complete the project. Mrs. Hess was an aide at the school.