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  • Portage Pie gets local news treatment

    In case you missed it, the family-owned Westfield business Portage Pie was in the news last week. Maki Becker, who covers Chautauqua County for Buffalo’s 7 News WKBW, visited the business on the day before Thanksgiving when the shop expected to sell at least 500 pies (yes, 500). While the written story is brief, there…

  • Update: Westfield Village Antique Center will remain in business

    Earlier this month I reported on the death of Laurie Wroda, owner of the Westfield Village Antique Center. Following Laurie’s death, her husband Jim announced the WVAC would close at the end of 2025. Well, as Lee Corso would say, not so fast! On Monday, the WVAC shared good news with their Facebook followers:

  • Westfield Village Antique Center owner dies; business to close end of 2025

    Some sad news I spotted on the ever-helpful Westfield Facebook group: Laurie Wroda, owner of the Westfield Village Antique Center, has died, according to a post on the Center’s Facebook page. An obituary shared by the Center states Wroda died of cancer on October 28, 2025, two days before her 60th birthday. Laurie’s husband, Jim,…

  • Allow myself to introduce … myself

    Hi all! My name is Michael De Dora, and I’ve just launched this news blog, the Forest Park Register. For those unaware: Forest Park is a small private lakeside cottage community along Route 5 in Western New York — about an hour south of Buffalo, right on the shores of Lake Erie, just outside of…

  • Hello Forest Park!

    Welcome to this news blog dedicated to providing updates from most important to most interesting for the residents of Forest Park, a private lakeside community in Westfield, NY, and the surrounding area.