Hunt’s high-end vision is to revive city’s tallest tower
Imagine a Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the biggest condos in Buffalo and a Tiffany’s jewelry store, all in one building, atop a new and much larger Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.Now put that all in...
View ArticleNiagara Falls City Council rejects proposal on parking lots
NIAGARA FALLS – For the second time in six months, city lawmakers on Monday night shot down a proposal to revamp the city-run parts of the downtown parking system.The City Council rejected, by a 3-2...
View ArticleGame center operators question fees in Village of Lewiston
LEWISTON – Licensing fees to offer coin-operated games in the Village of Lewiston were called into question Monday by Emery Simon and Harold Hibbard, who have opened the new Lewiston Event Center in...
View ArticleVillage taxes would go up 2 percent in Hamburg
Nearly half a million dollars in road repairs are planned in the Village of Hamburg’s proposed 2014-15 budget.The work is the final phase of the initiative to repair and resurface village streets, and...
View ArticleMonroe County man arrested for WNY bank robberies
The arrest of a Greece, New York, man for recent robberies of banks in Depew, Cheektowaga and the Rochester area, was announced late Tuesday. Joseph S. Cumbo, 34, of Red Hickory Street in the...
View ArticleTrial begins in rape, fatal stabbing of 13-year-old girl at house party
Lanasha Rollerson sneaked out of her house late one night last summer and went to a party on Hagen Street that didn’t end until early the next morning.When the 13-year-old girl’s mother got up the...
View ArticleFrozen waters causing ducks to starve to death
The waterfowl being found dead or dying near Western New York’s frozen lakes and rivers aren’t sick and they didn’t freeze to death, local bird experts say, although the cold weather is responsible...
View ArticleCattaraugus County justice sends woman, 23, to prison in two cases
Bethany A. Jackson, 23, of Salamanca, was ordered Monday to serve a state prison term of 2ø years by Cattaraugus County Justice Ronald D. Ploetz for her conviction on attempted burglary and harassment...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines pilot, combat vet named to Lockport Common Council
LOCKPORT – Ronald A. Franco, an American Airlines pilot and retired combat veteran of the Air Force Reserve, was appointed 2nd Ward alderman Tuesday.Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey said she chose Franco from...
View ArticleMarine Drive election is blocked
The League of Women Voters of Buffalo Niagara and the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority have been enjoined from holding an election of new tenant leaders at the Marine Drive Apartments. The election...
View ArticleBad turn of car leads to cocaine arrest
A 37-year-old Johnson Park man was arrested Monday evening on felony drug charges after allegedly making an improper turn at Military Road and Hertel Avenue.Demitrius Williams was charged with...
View ArticleDunkirk targets funds for home rehabs
DUNKIRK – Mayor A.J. Dolce hopes to rehabilitate some abandoned homes in disrepair throughout the city through funds in the Chautauqua County Land Bank Program. Dolce announced Tuesday that the city...
View ArticleWith boost at border, Obama budget offers ups, downs for WNY
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $3.9 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2015 that would be a mixed bag for Western New York. It proposes the second major boost in northern border...
View ArticleStorage of Niagara County voting machines an issue
LOCKPORT – Niagara County apparently will need a new place to store its voting machines.As Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, had promised last summer, he and his fellow Democrats...
View ArticleMongielo trial opens in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A retired Lockport police lieutenant testified Tuesday that David J. Mongielo was “looking for trouble” when he allegedly called police “Nazis” and used a cellphone to take video of them at...
View ArticleCity policy on workplace bullying is adopted by Council in North Tonawanda
NORTH TONAWANDA – Bullying has gotten a lot of attention among schoolchildren, but hostile work environments and bullying behavior in the workplace are now being addressed by a bill in the State...
View ArticleWilliamsville sets March 24 deadline for proposals for old mill site
Williamsville has set a deadline of March 24 for accepting proposals for the sale and use of the old mill property on East Spring Street.The village – which rescued the 1800s-era property from...
View ArticleCuts on the table in Frontier School District
Cuts in a dozen areas, from clubs to librarians, social workers and sports, are being talked about to close a $3.62 million budget gap in the tentative Frontier Central School District budget.“Nothing...
View ArticleDeficit in Ken-Ton school budget is projected as down to $3.4 million
Revisions to employee benefits, as well as savings through retirements, have helped reduce the projected deficit in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District’s budget for 2014-15 from...
View Article30 youngsters receive diplomas for completing FBI Youth Academy
The FBI’s Safe Streets Task Force is usually out putting drug dealers and other criminals behind bars, but Tuesday top agents took a break to celebrate the conclusion of an FBI Youth Academy on the...
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