Hamburg Gaming spreads wings with 'Chick Tac Toe'
Think you’re smart enough to outwit a chicken?Drew Cerza is going to try. So will Lance Diamond and Ruben Brown.They’re going to be the first to play a new game at Hamburg Gaming: Chick Tac Toe.Yes,...
View ArticleNFTA officials surrender real estate to return to core priorities
There may have been no better way for transit commissioners to underscore their priorities Thursday than approving the sale of outer harbor lands to two state agencies, while also unveiling a massive...
View ArticleNo stone left uncurled
The first thing you should know about the sport of curling is that it’s harder than it looks.It’s awkward and clumsy trying to imitate the graceful lunge and slide of a curler.The polished granite...
View ArticleSalamanca Council gets earful before approving 2013 audit and amended reports
SALAMANCA – The Salamanca City Council last week approved audits for 2013, as well as amended reports for 2010, 2011 and 2012.The action comes as city officials work to improve bookkeeping skills, in...
View ArticleEast Side man robbed at gunpoint as he waits for bus
A Dartmouth Avenue man said he was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night as he waited at a bus stop in the city’s Grider neighborhood, Buffalo police reported.The victim said he was waiting for the bus at...
View ArticleEast Side burglars make off with safe containing guns, cash and jewelry
Two East Side residents reported that burglars stole a pair of diamond rings, thousands of dollars in cash and a safe containing five handguns sometime Saturday morning from their home on Goulding...
View ArticleNight on Chippewa ends in slew of charges for Buffalo man
A Stevens Avenue man is facing charges after police say he got into a fistfight on West Chippewa Street early Sunday, refused officers’ orders to leave, then resisted arrest and tried to kick out the...
View ArticleArchitect hired to do feasibility study for proposed Medical Campus High...
The Buffalo School Board has decided to hire a local architectural firm to do a feasibility study and preliminary design for the proposed Medical Campus High School.But there is still some confusion...
View ArticleTo this day, veteran from Blasdell still dreams of being in battle after D-Day
By Lou Michel News Staff ReporterAt age 12, Donald W. Seefeldt learned the definition of backbreaking work as a farmhand in Medina. His chores, before and after school, included milking cows by hand,...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell, born on this date in 1847, “Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is...
View ArticleInternal strife increases as Hamburg School Board members air fears
Drama continues in the Hamburg Central School District.In the latest episode of the soap opera-like dysfunction that has plagued the board for three years, two board members said they are afraid to...
View ArticleLack of law on medical marijuana vexing N.Y. as parents must leave state to...
ALBANY – Wendy S. Conte, of Orchard Park, returned from Colorado a few weeks ago after renting an apartment there, getting a Colorado driver’s license and setting up residency.“Officially, I’m a...
View ArticleEast Side theater wins state grant
A former movie theater has a lead role in helping revive a struggling stretch of Bailey Avenue on the East Side.On Friday, State Sen. Timothy Kennedy announced the Uptown Theater, 3165 Bailey Ave., is...
View ArticleNiagara air base boosters visit D.C. to push for new roles, equipment
TOWN OF NIAGARA – A delegation from the Niagara Military Affairs Council traveled to Washington last week to continue the work of promoting new missions and equipment for the Niagara Falls Air Reserve...
View ArticleWestfield church offers a homemade homeless shelter
WESTFIELD – Last fall, the Rev. Virginia Carr walked into the portico at the back entrance to St. Peter’s Church and found a homeless man sleeping inside. The man had piled up his belongings in the...
View ArticleElections in six Cattaraugus County villages set for March 18
LITTLE VALLEY – Elections in the Cattaraugus County villages of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Delevan, Franklinville, Gowanda and South Dayton will be held from noon to 9 p.m. March 18.The races shape up as...
View ArticleExtension of byway into Cattaraugus County hits speed bump over sign...
LITTLE VALLEY – The proposed extension of a scenic byway into Cattaraugus County has hit a speed bump because of a restriction on signs.The County Legislature voted, 15-6, last week to send the plan...
View ArticleLawtons woman pleads not guilty in attack on ex-boyfriend, woman
A 48-year-old Lawtons woman has pleaded not guilty before Cattaraugus County Justice Ronald D. Ploetz in Little Valley to an indictment charging her with trying to kill a former boyfriend and a woman...
View ArticleImproved energy efficiency recommended for Dunkirk sewage-treatment plant
DUNKIRK – Measures to improve energy efficiency at the city’s sewage-treatment plant were recommended last week to members of the Public Works Committee.John Partsch, account executive with Siemens...
View ArticleWeather issues cut short Sharpton’s visit to Buffalo
The Rev. Al Sharpton canceled his planned Sunday appearance at a Swan Street church after weather issues forced him to change his travel plans and fly out of Buffalo earlier than expected.The founder...
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