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100 years ago the Clarence Center Volunteers Firemen Company was formed. E.W. Eshelman donated the land for a fire hall and the company se...

Today is the "History Day" part of the Clarence Heritage Days weekend celebration. That brings us directly to the front door of t...

Clarence alumnus ('74) Mark Putney passed away July 23, 2008 after a long illness. He counted the late Rich Beyer (Class '70) amon...

Clarence alumnus ('74) Jerry Gorman died yesterday morning, with his partner and caregiver, Judy Monin, by his side. From Judy's w...

Clarence alumna ('79) Becky Neiss passed away suddenly on July 4, 2008. She has been described by everyone as one of the nicest peopl...

Much has been in the news lately about the collapse and potential revival of the historic White Brothers Livery . Sam Savarino was able to ...

Back when Clarence was first founded everybody was building log cabins. The land had to be cleared and thus a ready supply of logs was avai...

It used to be that the foot of Main Street was where some of our parents threatened we'd end up, living in a cardboard box, if we didn...

For some reason or other the word "quaint" really grates on me. The usual words accompanying it - rus...

I asked a select group of people (my class of '72 classmates and relatives on my mother's side, many of whom graduated in the...

To recap, the following opinions (in 2 parts) are those of two Clarence alumni, members of the Massaro Family (and also of Massaro Cleaners,...

The following opinions (in 2 parts, today and tomorrow) are those of two Clarence alumni, members of the Massaro Family (and also of Massaro...

Clarence alumnus ('71) Kevin Miller passed away unexpectedly last month. He was a friend to many, both young and old, and he will be m...

I constantly get those whiny emails blathering on about having to press one for English and so on. It's ironic because most of their an...

Way back in the day, Clarence had a loose system of one room school houses to provide the basics for the children at the primary level. Som...

From Childs Funeral Home , Akron NY: Carl "CJ" Wolf Jr. Date of Birth: August 9, 1953 Date of Passing: March 25, 2008 Place...

Somewhere in the late 1980's retail establishments challenged item pricing laws (having to price each unit for sale individually). Scan...

Back on November 27th I wrote a post called " Harbison Brothers and Buffalo's First Gas Station ". I was using a small articl...

There was a great article in Sunday's Buffalo News regarding the Vitascope . This was the first motion picture theater actually designe...

Clarence alumnus ('01) Mark Spence was killed in a plane crash in northern Italy last week. From WIVB : "Staff Sgt Mark Spence wa...