Art Gala Planned for January 24 (East Aurora Advertiser)

The East Aurora Art Society will hold its third annual Crystal Moonlight Gala on January 24, 2009 at Absolut Care of Aurora Park in East Aurora. Members of the Gala Committee are putting together an evening for guests to remember. In the past two years the galas have been evenings of art, conversation and a time to break up the cold winter with a little color.

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Historical society acquires iconic photo (North Platte Telegraph)

OMAHA (AP) - The oldest known surviving photograph of the iconic Chimney Rock in western Nebraska has been found, of all places, on the Internet auction site eBay.

Hubbard Lamp Sheds Light on Roycroft Founder (East Aurora Advertiser)

No one at the Rago Arts & Auction Center had ever seen anything like it before. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp, but only sort of--heavy and tall, with a finial of a jumping horse, medallions with the initials NHS suspended around the circumference of the bronze shade, and a copper band mounted to the base bearing yet other initials in script, AGV.

Coming Up In Your Area (Observer-Tribune)

SUNDAY, Dec. 28 Breakfast will be served by Bernay’s Apgar Post 342,-Chester American Legion, from 7 a.m. to noon at the post home, 333 Route 24E. The menu includes pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, hash browns, Danish, juice, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Admission is $6.50, $3 for children 3 to 12, free for those younger.

AP News Minute (East Aurora Advertiser)

What Do You think? Art Gala Planned for January 24 The East Aurora Art Society will hold its third annual Crystal Moonlight Gala on January 24, 2009 at Absolut Care of Aurora Park in East Aurora. Members of the Gala Committee are putting together an evening for guests to remember.