Rick Ohler

Jan 22, 2025 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Rick Ohler

Two stories I had been meaning to cover came together nicely last week at the West Falls Center for the Arts (WFCFA) on Route 240. As part of their ongoing Musical Memories Café, Carolyn and Bill Panzica, founders of the center, hosted lunch for those with memory issues and their caregivers. They served pizza, salad and drinks as they have every first and third Wednesday for several years. Along with the relaxing lunch, they provided music.

Jan 9, 2025 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Rick Ohler

Posing for a fun photo on the court, Iroquois girls varsity basketball player Ava Driggs is held by fellow teammates and seniors, [L to R] Lydia Loos, Molly Mescall, Kylie Gowronski, Jill Massing and Felicia Peppes.Photo by Renea LauckThe Iroquois Lady Red Hawks returned from their holiday break with a solid 68-45 win over the Nardin Gators at their gym in North Buffalo. The non-conference win put Coach Steve Sokolski’s girls at 6-1 for the season with the ECIC Div. III season just heating up. ...

Jan 8, 2025 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Rick Ohler

East Aurora High School graduate, Grace Biron, had quite a year in 2024, winning both the United Professional Horsemen’s Assn. Senior National Challenge Cup and the 2024 U.S. Equestrian Federation Saddle Seat Medal Final in Kansas City in November. She followed up those victories in December by winning gold as a member of the U.S. National Team at the 2024 Saddle Seat World Cup in Parys, South Africa. At age 18, those victories bring her youth equitation career to a heralded close.

Dec 10, 2024 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Rick Ohler

When the thousands of people who support the Michael Phelps Foundation (MPF) receive their holiday greeting card this year, they will be looking at artwork by 13-year-old Maddie Tresmond from the Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora. From several hundred entries sent in by Boys & Girls Clubs members across the country, Maddie’s wintry drawing of a girl in a scarf and snowflakes was picked to grace the foundation’s card.

Dec 5, 2024 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Rick Ohler

As I’m writing this 513th epistle from Right Field, I am just a few hours removed from my seat at the Bills-49ers Sunday night game (although with that much snow we never actually sat). The outcome of the game made for much jocundity (RIP Snake) and hastened today’s grogginess, of course, but I was struck by how quintessentially Western New York the scene at the stadium was.