Niagara County wants to avoid low-income housing on Davison Road
LOCKPORT – Niagara County officials want to make sure low-income housing isn’t part of the development plan for the property on Davison Road that the County Legislature is expected to offer for sale...
View ArticleSanborn man faces two drunken driving charges
A Niagara County man faces a pair of drunken driving charges after he was stopped shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday on Route 240 in the Town of Concord, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office reports.Brian S....
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 ArticleHundreds take the plunge at the Olcott Lions Club’s Polar Bear Swim...
OLCOTT – Standing out in the crowd of zany participants Sunday afternoon at the Olcott Lions Club’s Polar Bear Swim for Sight was never easy, yet one young man in misty blue chiffon stole the...
View ArticleBuffalo man sentenced to five years in prison over East Side burglary, assault
A Buffalo man who broke into an East Side home with a crowbar, then used it to beat the homeowner before fleeing in a getaway car, was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.Edmund Bowie, 35, of...
View ArticleMan drives off Transit Road, sent to ECMC
A man who experienced a medical emergency while driving on Transit Road in Lancaster this afternoon went off the road into a field, ending up in a driveway, Twin City volunteer fire officials...
View ArticleState troopers seek help locating Randolph bridge vandals
JAMESTOWN – State police were asking for the public’s help Monday in tracking down the vandals who threw an object from the Archer Hill overpass on the Southern Tier Expressway at Randolph onto the...
View ArticleOne Machias woman helps troopers arrest another for DWI
MACHIAS – A 27-year-old Machias woman was arrested for aggravated drunk driving last week after another Machias woman alerted state police to the other woman’s driving problems, state police reported...
View ArticleUnivera makes incentive payments to area health centers
Forty-seven upstate New York hospitals and health care facilities, including 15 in Western New York, were awarded $24.5 million in incentive payments from Univera Healthcare and its Rochester-based...
View ArticleBuffalo man jailed for violating order of protection
A 48-year-old Buffalo man has been ordered to spend up to the next six months in jail by Cheektowaga Town Justice Paul. S. Piotrowski for his conviction for violating an order of protection the judge...
View ArticleSeneca Nation makes $2.7 million land purchase in Henrietta
ALBANY – The Seneca Nation, already the kings of casino gambling in Western New York, has taken another step in its gambling expansion plans with the $2.7 million purchase of a 32-acre parcel of...
View ArticleWinter forces highway chiefs to get creative on potholes
The Town of Tonawanda Highway Department, tired of the never-ending game of “whack-a-pothole,” took a drastic step last week.Instead of cold-patching individual potholes that pocked a stretch of...
View ArticleMan arrested for criminal trespass at Buffalo Casino
A 49-year-old Florida Street man was arrested on a criminal trespass charge when he showed up at the Seneca Casino on Fulton Street about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Ronald Newton was arrested after casino...
View ArticleBuffalo man who threatened to kill wife, children gets 15 years in prison on...
A Buffalo man who repeatedly threatened to kill his estranged wife and their seven children and even threatened female prosecutors and witnesses before his latest trial has been sentenced to 15 years...
View ArticleSalamanca residents get a shock from high electric bills
SALAMANCA – Salamanca residents were shocked when they opened their latest electric bills and discovered they owe much more for power than they usually do, in some case three times as much.“My house...
View ArticleChautauqua County Legislature approves funds for dredging harbors
MAYVILLE – The Chautauqua County Legislature last week unanimously supported sending $150,000 to the communities along Lake Erie.The funds will be divided equally among Westfield, Dunkirk and Sunset...
View ArticleNews cartoonist Adam Zyglis wins National Press Foundation award
Buffalo News staff cartoonist Adam Zyglis has earned a major award in the editorial cartooning world.Zyglis, a 31-year-old Buffalo native and Canisius College graduate, will receive the National Press...
View ArticleSilver Creek board updated on water line replacement project
SILVER CREEK – More than half the homes and businesses in the village have been connected to the new water meters, officials said Monday at the regular meeting of the Village Board on...
View ArticleWorkshop on design of Olean’s northwest quadrant set for March 12
OLEAN – Olean residents will have a chance to see what may be planned for areas of the northwestern part of the city at a design workshop set for March 12. The city’s northwest quadrant has a history...
View ArticleLockport master plan may allow development in Lafarge area
LOCKPORT – The town is about halfway done with its new master plan, Town Supervisor Marc R. Smith said at a Town Board session last week.The town’s department heads were given working copies of the...
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