Mike’s Deli Sandwiches is worth the trip
Mike’s Deli Sandwiches is a small place with its front door on the side of the building that faces Military Road across from the Fashion Outlets. There are two four-person tables, a counter with...
View ArticleContractor seriously injured in an industrial accident
NIAGARA FALLS – A 20-year-old contractor working on construction of the new Greenpac Paper Mill project at Norampac was seriously injured Thursday morning when his leg became trapped between two large...
View ArticleSecurity scare at Grand Island elementary school
Erie County sheriff’s deputies on Thursday investigated a threat of harm allegedly made at Kaegabein Elementary School on Grand Island, officials reported.School officials notified the Sheriff’s...
View ArticleState Thruway worker arrested in Albion
ALBION – A 55-year-old New York State Thruway Authority worker was remanded Thursday to the Orleans County Jail by Albion Town Justice Gary Moore after his arrest by New York State Police...
View ArticleFive Star secures top executives with agreements
If Five Star Bank were to be sold, the new owner would find it quite expensive to remove three of the bank’s top executives for at least a year after the deal.Five Star’s parent company, Warsaw-based...
View ArticleSynacor opens Boston area office
Synacor Inc. has opened an office in suburban Boston that will become one of three engineering hubs for the Buffalo Internet content provider, staffed by as many as 25 new hires.But a Synacor...
View ArticleBMHA may have broken transparency laws
Executives and commissioners of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority apparently violated open-government laws when they went into a closed-door session Thursday, apparently to discuss the recent...
View ArticleTotes coming to West Seneca and Lackawanna
It’s taken seven years, but the lid is about to slam shut on garbage-seeking rats in Buffalo’s first-ring suburbs.Bids will be opened this morning for garbage and recycling totes in the Town of West...
View ArticleRiverside raid nets 21 arrests, guns and drugs
Twenty-one people were arrested and police seized four guns, quantities of crack cocaine, heroin and crystal methamphetamine and more than $42,000 in a series of raids in Riverside that started late...
View ArticleBuffalo police seek public help in a homicide
Buffalo homicide detectives said Thursday that their investigation of the fatal beating of a man at Stanislaus Street and Woltz Avenue late Monday night could be helped by information from the public....
View Article‘Body Worlds’ exhibit returns to Buffalo Museum of Science
A new installment of the popular “Body Worlds” franchise – the Cirque du Soleil of the science museum circuit – opens today and runs through the summer at the Buffalo Museum of Science.The focal point...
View ArticleCity firefighters approve new contract
Buffalo firefighters voted Thursday in favor of a proposed new contract worked out with City Hall officials last week. Under a confidentiality agreement signed by officials of firefighters Local Union...
View ArticleU.S. ordered to pay Senecas for health care
WASHINGTON – A federal judge here has ordered the U.S. government to pay $7.4 million to the Seneca Nation of Indians to make up for underfunded health care services in 2010 and 2011, the Senecas said...
View ArticleLockport Council debates naming park after Officer Parete
LOCKPORT – There were plenty of suggestions but no decisions this week, as the Common Council met with a former high school classmate of Buffalo Police Officer Patricia Parete to discuss his...
View ArticleOhio Street reconstruction to start this fall
Ohio Street will remain open next year during an $11.3 million reconstruction that will transform the industrial street into a tree-lined parkway.The new parkway, which was previously announced, will...
View ArticleEighth-graders 'man up' on Gentlemen’s Day
The boys lined up, dressed like churchgoers, waiting for the next girl to step out of the limo.“Go give her your arm.”“Get her books.”Nearby adults mimicked etiquette adviser Emily Post as they...
View ArticleFrom the blotter / Niagara County police calls
NIAGARA FALLS – The owner of a city taxi company told police he was ripped off for nearly $1,000 recently by someone who forged one of his personal checks. The owner of Taxi Unlimited on Buffalo...
View ArticleWhere We Live: Evans
The Lake Shore Central School Board will hold a work session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the conference room of district offices, 959 Beach Road.Also this week:The Evans Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. on...
View ArticlePeople Talk: A conversation with Kevin K. Williams
As an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and Science Education at SUNY Buffalo State, Kevin K. Williams is a geologist who studies the evolution of planets. But he really is a...
View ArticleCity’s skewed priorities punish gifted street artists
On a chilly walk home from Kleinhans Music Hall in late January, with the sounds of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s tribute to Mozart still ringing in my ears, I noticed out of the corner of my...
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