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VAIL — With eight inches of snow in the last seven days at both mountains and with snow in the forecast, Vail Mountain and Beaver Creek Resort will expand

Read Article Robert Legendre, shown in 1919, was a star athlete at Georgetown University whose track and field career began in his native Lewiston, Maine. National Photo Co. Collection at the Library of Congress On the first day of competition at the Olympics in 1924, Lewiston native Bob Legendre took his spot behind a chalked line on the field of the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Paris. He wore boxy white shorts and a T-shirt with number 246 written across it. Two years after graduating...

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. The aphorism is often attributed to Mark Twain, though there’s no evidence he really said it. That’s OK. Sure sounds like the guy who was editor of the Buffalo Express 150 years ago. Steve McCarville knows all about history: He’s a former president of the Buffalo History Museum, which has been around since before Twain’s time here. And McCarville recognized history repeating itself – or at least rhyming – in Cheektowag...