Tonawanda News — 2003 — 10 years ago
• Lt. Eric Prep retired from the NT police Department after 30 years of service.
• Officers for the City of Tonawanda Police Underwater Squad included Kevin O’Connor, Rick Loucks, Jim Borzzilleri, Dennis Atkinson and Terry Clark,
1988 — 25 years ago
• No paper published.
1963— 50 years ago
• Someone put up a large home-made sign advertising “Free Snow” at Sheridan Drive and Dupont Street after a week of brutal weather and heavy snows.
• The flag at Robert Frost School in the Town of Tonawanda was flying at half-staff since the death of the school’s namesake. Children in the school were collecting newspaper items about the poet and his work.
1943 — 70 years ago
• No paper published.
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