Sherman Days 2023 has been 200 years in the making. The town of Sherman’s Bicentennial was celebrated throughout the Sherman Day’s festivities, which ran fr
Apr 17, 2021
Ronald D. Reed, 82, of Findley Lake, N.Y., formerly of Sherman, N.Y., died Sunday April 11, 2021, at home. Ron was born Feb, 2, 1939 in Jamestown, son of the late Norvel T. Reed, Sr. and Eunice Harmelink Reed.
The year Ronnie was born, his dad, Norvel, and Lee Buesink formed a partnership and opened the Livestock Auction Salebarn on Route 430 in Sherman, N.Y., where he was brought up in the cattle business. In 1940, his parents opened a meat market on Main Street in Sherman and Ronnie was in charge of preparing the chickens to sell. At the age of 11, Ronnie bought his first cow and at the age of 14, he was so busy dealing in cattle that he had to hire a driver to get him from farmer to farmer.
Mar 8, 2021
Edwina May (Hancox) Finn, of Garland, P.A., formerly of Sherman, N.Y., died unexpectedly on Friday March 5, 2021. Edwina was born Sept. 13, 1944 in Oil City, P.A., the daughter of Gregory J. and Alice (Holt) Hancox.
On Dec. 23, 1961 she married Larry Finn, who passed away April 24, 2011.
A nature lover at heart, she enjoyed hiking and long walks outdoors. She was a bird lover and most importantly she passed this passion of nature on to her children and grandchildren. As a homemaker, a roll she truly relished, she enjoyed cooking, baking and knitting. Above all she was a loving wife, mother, grand-mother, great-grandmother and great-great- grandmother.
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RIPLEY Members of fire departments who frequently assist the Ripley Hose Co. have expressed their opposition to the proposed South Ripley Solar array project.
Town Supervisor Doug Bowen read letters from the chiefs of North East Fire Department and Stanley Hose Company of Sherman, both of which expressed serious concerns over their ability to respond to an explosion or fire involving the solar array battery storage area.
Dave Meehl, chief of the Crescent Hose Company in North East, sent a letter to Ripley Fire Cheif Mark Smith stating that, after a meeting with Issac Phllips of ConnectGen, “there were a lot of unanswered questions about the safety of this storage of the battery and how to deal with them in an emergency situation.”