Elma hopes flood-prevention plan draws Corps of Engineers’ attention
Elma officials are hoping a new mitigation plan to prevent the flooding and erosion caused by two sand bars in Buffalo Creek will get the attention of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which they say...
View ArticleLockport aims for town master plan by fall
LOCKPORT – A new town master plan, including possible zoning changes, is coming this year.“Our goal is to have our master plan done by this fall,” Councilman Mark C. Crocker said.Supervisor Marc R....
View ArticleKennedy spends Sundays on new political turf
State Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy found himself in the front row of Bethel AME Church on Sunday morning, clapping in time to the joyous hymns rocking through the historic congregation at Michigan Avenue...
View ArticleTown of Lewiston examines costs of maintaining Joseph Davis State Park
LEWISTON – The Town of Lewiston has maintained Joseph Davis State Park on Lower River Road for the last three years after budgetary constraints forced the state to either turn over the park or close...
View ArticleTown boards of Newstead, West Seneca hear concerns about sex offenders at...
Two town boards – Newstead and West Seneca – addressed concerns Monday night about newly opened group homes where registered sex offenders are among the residents.In West Seneca, town officials said...
View ArticleA winter without end
You aren’t imagining it.This unrelenting winter has been truly that.Temperatures have been frigidly low. Snowstorms have sprung at us out of nowhere. The slush and ice have been everywhere – in our...
View ArticlePolice seek information in bank robbery
Depew police are seeking information on a man who robbed the Citizens Bank at 2040 George Urban Boulevard about 12:35 p.m. Monday. The man is suspected of also having taken part in earlier robberies...
View ArticleVictim of drive-by shooting take to ECMC
Buffalo police late Monday were investigating the drive-by shooting of a man at Strauss and Sycamore streets just before 7:30 p.m. The victim, whose name and age were not immediately available,...
View ArticleSuspect arrested in menacing
A 30-year-old Lasalle Avenue man was arrested in the 2700 block of Bailey Avenue about 2 p.m. Monday and charged with menacing a neighbor man with a handgun as the neighbor was shoveling snow in the...
View ArticleBuffalo man admits to Lockport DWI felony
LOCKPORT – A man facing sentencing in Buffalo City Court on a felony driving while intoxicated charge pleaded guilty to the same charge Monday in Niagara County Court.Raymond A. Black Jr., 49, of East...
View ArticleStudent ‘sit and stare’ policy during tests is debated in...
The Lancaster School Board meeting turned heated late Monday over the district’s state testing policy and its recent decision to insist that students who choose not to take the tests remain in the...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to theft of rifle, shotgun
LOCKPORT - A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing a rifle and a shotgun April 18 from a house on Lake Road in Wilson.Kristopher L. Buehler, 29, of 18th Street, admitted to fourth-degree...
View ArticleSupermarket in limbo, poets and bagpipers and the two cheapest...
The Dashwey way Inside the supermarket formerly known as Budwey’s, on Kenmore Avenue, it’s weird, because it’s as if Budwey’s never left. A friend calls it “Dashwey’s” and had told us that everything...
View ArticleVolunteers fund Clarence Schools’ clubs and sports
When clubs and modified sports were axed from the Clarence School District budget last year, the community jumped in to help.And has it ever.The Clarence Schools Enrichment Foundation – created by...
View ArticleCPS workers to monitor child abuse cases at two hospitals
Investigators from Erie County’s Child Protective Services will now be assigned to Women & Children’s Hospital and Sisters Hospital to be available for immediate consultation in cases in which...
View ArticleRegents’ response to Common Core backlash gets mixed reaction
Today’s fourth-graders would be the first required to meet higher new state graduation requirements tied to the Common Core learning standards.And teachers in school districts that were slow to roll...
View ArticleSharpton to speak March 2 in Delaine-Waring Church
The Rev. Al Sharpton will speak at “Remembering the Struggle” at 2:30 p.m. March 2 in Delaine-Waring AME Church, 680 Swan St. The activist, author of “The Rejected Stone” and host of “Politics Nation”...
View ArticleChef’s Restaurant boosts ‘Feed the Need to Read’
Chef’s Restaurant has donated enough to the “Feed the Need to Read” First Book-Western New York Literacy Campaign to provide up to 400 children with new books. The program makes it possible for...
View ArticleGoodwill to share $5 million for veterans job services
Goodwill Industries of Western New York and nine other Goodwill agencies will share in a $5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to continue a job services program for veterans and their families...
View ArticleCleveland Hill, Cheektowaga to hold joint Band Festival
The high school bands from the Cleveland Hill and Cheektowaga Central school districts will hold their fourth annual Band Festival on Thursday.A total of 150 students will perform in the joint...
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