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(originally published August 2009, I somehow put this back into "draft" status by mistake, and discovered that fact while looking ...

A few years back I had been wandering around Lockport looking for I don't remember what, and had stumbled upon an old building filled wi...

Mrs. Schmidt was one of my English teachers back in the day. May she rest in peace. From the Clarence Bee: "Mrs. Schmidt-Karkula wa...

Clarence alumni ('63) John Szulis passed away June 20, 2013 (photo from fb) SZULIS - John C. Of Clarence Center, NY, June 20, 2013,...

Feb. 26, 1941 – June 13, 2013 Robert Szulis, a longtime Clarence farmer and owner of Szulis Florists & Greenhouses, died in ...

Clarence alumna ('81) Sarah Wells Frank passed away on June 16, 2013. May she rest in peace. FRANK - Sarah Wells February 25, 196...

Clarence alumni ('72) Randy Capps passed away of natural causes on/about January 25, 2013. From the site of the funeral home, where you ...

There was a valid reason why I took down the blog, at least in my opinion, but now there is a compelling reason for its return. People had s...

Clarence teacher Robert Vehar passed away December 31, 2012. Many are mourning his loss, but yet celebrating the memories of his time in the...

Didn't want to leave on a down note! Labor Day weekend is synonymous with Clarence Center in the minds of many, and the time spent at th...

Obviously, I haven't been into writing the blog for quite some time now, so I'm going to take the suspense out of it and shut it dow...

Clarence alumnus ('72) Curtis Lipke passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. We had not been able to locate him, but I'm s...

Clarence alumna ('70) Gail Seiler Kohler passed away June 28, 2012. Rest in peace. KOHLER - Gail R., R.N. (nee Seiler) July 28, 2012, ...

Clarence alumnus ('66) Charles Cashmore passed away on July 27, 2012. Rest in peace. CASHMORE - Charles R. July 27, 2012, dearest fa...

It was 4 years ago today that Clarence alumnus ('74) Jerry Gorman passed from this world to the next. ALS  had taken its deadly toll ye...

My grandmothers were about the same age, but led different lifestyles and had opposite opinions when it came to the subject of old versus ne...

Many times I have walked by the cenotaph (person buried elswhere) erected in Forest Lawn in memory of Theodore Redlein. It is close to a roa...

The War of 1812 is all the rage now, as well it should be. The war started 200 years ago this week and Western New York was a large part of ...

Quite a while back I wrote about the Wilkeson House at 771 Busti, along with several other homes. They were purchased (after some browbeatin...

The last few days I've been hanging around just over the Buffalo border in Lackawanna, site of one of the last remaining vestiges of the...