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  • Town of Marilla Plans Vote on Increasing Supervisor Term

    Town of Marilla Plans Vote on Increasing Supervisor Term
    Jan 15 2026

    Town of Marilla residents will not have to wait until November to vote on lengthening the town supervisor's term. Town Board members agreed to set a special referendum to change the term from two to four years the night of Thursday, Jan. 8. They have not scheduled the referendum, but Supervisor Earl Gingerich, Jr. expects it to be set for the spring or summer. "We need to check with the Board of Elections," he said. No one spoke during the public hearing. The board plans to adopt the law in February, then schedule the referendum. Originally, the board planned to...

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    2 mins
  • East Aurora Hosts Early Electrified Tree Lighting

    East Aurora Hosts Early Electrified Tree Lighting
    Nov 28 2025

    By Historian Robert Lowell Goller On Christmas Eve 1914, East Aurora hosted what was likely among the first electrified Christmas tree lighting ceremonies in the world. Just a decade after the first recorded use of outdoor electric Christmas lights (on a tree in San Diego in 1904), and just two years after the first public tree lighting ceremony with electric lights (in New York City’s Madison Square Park in 1912), East Aurora flipped the switch on 250 electric lamps adorning a 35-year-old evergreen tree on the Roycroft Campus. Although the exact location of the pine tree is unknown, an account...

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    5 mins
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