Tim Horton’s career, on ice and in coffee, to be celebrated at unique...
If you looked into the rafters at your first Buffalo Sabres game and thought, “Hey, Tim Hortons bought advertising on a jersey,” this story is for you.Tuesday, the coffee shop chain and the Buffalo...
View ArticleChef Berdine of Black Rock Kitchen takes Dockside job in North Tonawanda
Dunbar Berdine, the chef who shaped Black Rock Kitchen & Bar into an Amherst Street fixture, has left for North Tonawanda.He’s running Dockside Bar & Grill (153 Sweeney St., 693-3600), across...
View ArticleSuicidal woman rescued from Canadian Falls
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – A suicidal woman was persuaded by a member of the Niagara Parks Police to return to the shore of the Niagara River after she had climbed over a wall and hung precariously about...
View ArticleNew stadium panel convenes, expects process to take months, if not years
The three co-chairmen of a new committee examining whether the Buffalo Bills should play in a new stadium or remain in a greatly retrofitted stadium in Orchard Park acknowledged Tuesday a sense of...
View ArticleVoters OK North Tonawanda Library budget, elect trustee
NORTH TONAWANDA – Voters Wednesday approved a budget for the North Tonawanda Library and also elected a trustee to the Library Board.The $1,372,896 spending plan was approved by a vote of 214 to 40 to...
View Article$2,000 bid approved to plug leaks at state police substation
The Boston Town Board accepted a bid of $2,000 Wednesday from Urban Insulation Corp. of Williamsville to repair water leaks at the state police substation in Boston, which is owned by the town and...
View ArticleHealth club offers to buy closed Lockport school
LOCKPORT – Ultimate Physique, a longtime Lockport health club, has offered to buy the closed Washington Hunt Elementary School for $65,000.The Lockport Board of Education voted unanimously and without...
View ArticleBuffalo News editor to address SUNY Fredonia journalism conference
FREDONIA – Buffalo News Editor Mike Connelly will deliver the keynote address Saturday as the SUNY Fredonia student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists presents its fourth annual...
View ArticleWNY native among 14 injured in Fort Hood shooting
A Western New York native is reported to be among the 14 people wounded during a shooting Wednesday at Fort Hood, Texas, in which four people died, including the alleged gunman.A report on the WIVB-TV...
View ArticleCleveland Hill school board approves budget with help from state aid
The final New York State budget delivered smiles to officials of the Cleveland Hill School District this week, with the Board of Education unanimously approving a $30.6 million 2014-15 budget proposal...
View ArticleSenior center plans and crowding considered
A plan to find solutions to the crowding at the Orchard Park senior citizens’ center led two speakers to offer differing points of view during the public comment section of Wednesday’s meeting of the...
View ArticleHamburg still looking for cuts to close gap in school budget
More than 20 positions would be eliminated, including 8.5 through layoffs, to help balance Hamburg Central School District’s proposed 2014-15 budget.But even with savings from retirements, layoffs and...
View ArticleTwo men arrested for trying to steal parked car at gas station
A 34-year-old Amherst Street man and a 43-year-old Delaware Avenue man were arrested for allegedly trying to steal at car at a gas station at Delaware Avenue and Amherst Street late Tuesday when its...
View ArticleBuffalo School Board votes overwhelmingly to fire 2 top administrators
The Buffalo School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to fire high-ranking administrators Faith Morrison Alexander and Yamilette Williams because they lack the certification to do their jobs.Education...
View ArticleGoing high-tech to solve museum’s longtime puzzle of a child mummy
It’s a boy. Or a girl.It’s about 600 to 1,000 years old, perhaps.And it comes with a tantalizing bit of enigma – a neatly shaped rectangular object, some 2 centimeters long, located over the back of...
View ArticleProbe of high electricity prices faced by upstate consumers sought
WASHINGTON – Western New York families are suddenly facing dramatically higher electric bills, and Sen. Charles E. Schumer wants to find out why.Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday called for a Federal...
View ArticleFort Erie Council rescues horse racing
Horses will be racing out of the starting gate at Fort Erie Race Track again this year come May 27.The Fort Erie Council has made sure of it.By a 6-1 vote, following a closed session, lawmakers...
View Article‘Performing Economies’ conference rethinks Buffalo’s...
Life in Buffalo’s post-recession economy is weird.Buildings are rising on the Medical Campus and waterfront, each one a new piece of evidence of the increasing fortunes of the city’s traditional power...
View ArticleIn ‘The Trojan Women,’ Lorna C. Hill brings ancient tragedy to...
You think you have problems? You don’t have problems. “The Trojan Women” have problems.If it’s perspective you’re after, you can’t beat a Greek tragedy. And few Greek tragedies are more gut-wrenching...
View ArticleThai House: An asian gem worth discovering
Hidden in the back of a used car lot across from Depew High School, Thai House does not yield its secrets easily. Open the menu and you’ll find most of the dishes you see on every Thai menu in town. ¶...
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