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The Adventures of Troop 513

The Boy Scouts of America have been around for 113 years, and East Aurora’s own Troop 513 has been around for 100 years. The Boy Scouts of America is a program for boys and girls that teaches life skills, survival skills, communication skills and much more. Troop 513 is an active troop. The troop goes on campouts nearly every month, and they participate in engaging and educational meetings every Monday night at the First Presbyterian Church on Main Street in East Aurora.... READ MORE >

Inclusion Week Brings Understanding, Acceptance Into Focus

Inclusion Week came to a spirited conclusion at the Aurora Theatre on Friday, March 22, when Unified Clubs, made up of students with intellectual disabilities and those without intellectual disabilities from Iroquois and East Aurora Middle and High Schools, gathered to watch “Zootopia.” Inclusion Week organizers, East Aurora Unified Club advisor Tara O’Connor Arnold and Unified Club advisor Sean Lauber from Iroquois, brought about 100 students, faculty and aides and even a few alumni to the theatre, which was provided at no cost by owner Scott Bieler and manager Julia Foit.... READ MORE >

Ormsby Graduate Becomes Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Justin Bulega learned from his Small/Large Animal Science teacher at the Wallace D. Ormsby Educational Center on Center Road in East Aurora that if you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. Bulega, a 2015 graduate of Holland Central High School and the Career & Technical Education program at Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES has taken that advice to heart. In February, he began working as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Orchard Park Veterinary Medical Center in Orchard Park.... READ MORE >

Iroquois Grad Wraps up Season at NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships with Career Year

Iroquois’ 2019 NYSPHSAA wrestling champion Cory Day finished with a 2-2 record in the NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships in Kansas City, Missouri from March 21- 23 at T-Mobile Center. While that .500 record didn’t get Day to All-American status, it did notch another level of improvement that saw the graduate student at SUNY Binghamton just a few wins shy of a spot on the podium and an All-American finish.... READ MORE >

Agonizer: Taylor Swift to Headline Borderland; Swifties Rejoice while Parents Take out a Second Mortgage

Organizers of Borderland Music + Arts Festival recently announced that although Taylor Swift bypassed visiting East Aurora and staying at The Roycroft Inn for the Buffalo Bills game in January, she's coming this fall to headline the music festival on Saturday, Sept. 32. The village hasn’t been this excited since 1989.... READ MORE >

Village Schedules Public Hearing for Cannabis Dispensary

East Aurora has scheduled a public hearing for a cannabis dispensary proposal on Main Street, but the board may not make a decision that evening to authorize the Special Use Permit. The public hearing is scheduled for April 15. The application was submitted by Eric Kennedy, who lives in Michigan, where he owns and operates two cannabis dispensaries.... READ MORE >

Transit Road Cazenovia Creek Bridge History – Part I

Replacement of the US Route 20 Transit Road bridge over Cazenovia Creek on the border of Elma and West Seneca has begun. You may have noticed the cones, barriers and markers along Transit Road between Seneca Street and Southwestern Boulevard as contractors get ready to widen the road from three lanes to five lanes with bicycle lanes and sidewalks like Transit Road currently has, north of Seneca Street into Depew.... READ MORE >

Community Gardens are Eligible for Free Soil Testing

Soil testing is available for community gardens through the 2024 New York State Community Gardens Soil Testing Program. The initiative was announced in Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2023 State of the State plan as recommended by the Community Gardens Task Force in its 2023 Annual Report and will allow eligible food-producing community garden members in New York State to send soil samples for testing up to one time per year without charge.... READ MORE >

Stand for Indigenous Land Justice: Stop STAMP

New Yorkers owe an unpaid debt to the Indigenous nations whose lands we occupy, and today we have a chance to take a stand for justice. Maybe you know that the Haudenosaunee now live on tiny scraps of their original homelands, from which they were forcibly removed. Maybe you know the painful history of how dams, toxic waste dumps and... READ MORE >

Donors Needed to Increase Blood Supply

As spring approaches, the American Red Cross urges donors to give blood or platelets to continue to strengthen the national blood supply. People of all blood types – especially those with type O blood – are critical to ensuring hospitals can meet the daily demand for lifesaving transfusions.... READ MORE >