Time Warner Cable raising rates by 6.4 percent
Time Warner Cable is raising cable television and Internet rates by an average of 6.4 percent, including a new fee to cover the rising cost of carrying the local broadcast television stations.The...
View ArticleSchool leaders still feel pain of state budget gap 4 years ago
They’re three words that can make eyes glaze over: gap elimination adjustment.But school leaders say the state aid funding change put in place four years ago to address a state budget gap has...
View ArticleCommunity Fund helps scholarship in memory of Cattaraugus deputy
OLEAN – A scholarship that was started in memory of a canine officer with the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office will be getting some help from the Cattaraugus Region Community Fund.The Wayne Krieger...
View ArticleFour arrested for drugs in Ullman Street raid
Three women and a man were arrested on drug and marijuana charges during a joint raid on an Ullman Street home Tuesday morning by Buffalo police and Drug Enforcement agents. During the raid at 8:45...
View ArticleSuspect in armed robbery of Falls gas station charged in 2 home burglaries
NIAGARA FALLS – A suspect in gas station armed robbery is additionally facing two separate burglary charges, including a case where he allegedly broke in and tried to climb through a window while a...
View ArticleMan charged in fight over a handgun
A 26-year-old Langmeyer Avenue man was arrested early Tuesday for allegedly stealing a silver handgun with a pearl handle that he allegedly took during a fight with another man in a Woodlawn Avenue...
View ArticleWilson teacher discipline case drags on amid hearing officer’s health...
WILSON – For five years, the Wilson Central School District has been trying to fire a teacher and have his teaching certificate revoked.But major health problems for the state hearing officer who is...
View ArticleNiagara County revises bids again, plans to hire Lucent dealer for data...
LOCKPORT – Over protests from its information technology director and the Niagara County Legislature’s senior Democrat – but not for the same reason – a Legislature committee voted 3-2 Tuesday to...
View ArticleSchool Board candidates begin seeking petition signatures
What is expected to be a hotly contested race for the Buffalo Board of Education is now underway.Tuesday was the first day for signing nominating petitions. Eight candidates are hoping to be on the...
View ArticleWoman wounded in Niagara Falls police confrontation
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman allegedly charged at city detectives during a drug investigation about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday near 27th and Niagara streets, and another woman nearby was shot in the thigh when an...
View ArticleOrchard Park schools lay out proposed cuts to help close $2.2 million budget...
The Orchard Park School District is feeling its budget pain early for 2014-15 as it rolled out proposed cuts Tuesday night, including slashing 16 full-time equivalent staff positions, as part of its...
View ArticleInjured Sweet Home principal to miss some days
The principal at Sweet Home High School is expected to miss a couple of days of school, after she was injured while trying to break up a fight Monday.Sweet Home Principal Joleen Reinholz had to be...
View ArticleIBM venture a jump-start for catch-up in Info Age
There’s more to the plans to bring IBM Corp. to a new information technology center than the 500 software, engineering and data jobs that Big Blue promises to bring to downtown Buffalo.In the big...
View ArticleEducation group recommends adoption of pre-K plans from both Cuomo and de...
ALBANY – School districts outside New York City would be major beneficiaries of efforts to expand prekindergarten offerings if lawmakers go along with both – and not just one or the other – of the...
View Article‘Fracking’ draws local ire at hearing on state’s draft...
While the state’s draft energy plan is largely mum on hydrofracking, local residents were not during a hearing on the issue Tuesday at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Tomorrow on the North...
View ArticleCastellani Art Museum workshop to demonstrate Turkish art of paper marbling
NIAGARA FALLS – A master of ebru, the Turkish art of paper marbling, will lead a workshop in the technique from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, as part of the Master Makers and Players Series in the...
View ArticleHope for Tomorrow Foundation offers free cosmetic surgery for up to 5 children
The Hope for Tomorrow Foundation will donate cosmetic surgery for up to five children from Western New York whose physical appearance has caused them to become victims of bullying or suffer severe...
View ArticleSovran Self Storage’s profits jump by 34 percent as occupancy rises
Higher rents and a strong jump in occupancy helped Sovran Self Storage’s fourth-quarter profits surge by 34 percent, the Amherst-based company said today.Sovran’s funds from operations jumped to $31.3...
View ArticleTrattoria Aroma owner opening Amherst restaurant on North French Road
The Aroma group of Italian restaurants plans to open its third location in March, on North French Road in Amherst.To be called Aroma on North French, the new restaurant, seating about 120, will be...
View ArticleBooks for Kids kicks off annual drive
Since 1995, more than 2.2 million books have been distributed in Western New York through the efforts of Books for Kids, which kicked off its annual book drive Tuesday at the Olmsted Center for...
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