Events for people with disabilities
Western New York Independent Living is hosting its inaugural open house from noon to 4 p.m. Friday at 3108 Main St. to demonstrate the range of assistive services and programs to help those with...
View ArticleBuffalo residents, surgeons provide relief during weeklong visit to Haiti...
The baby girl was delivered blue and wrapped in her umbilical cord. Transporting the mother to the closest hospital in Port Au Prince would have taken at least four hours. She had been in labor for at...
View ArticleCabela's isn't fishing for tax subsidies
Sometimes, the power of the free market is just amazing.You couldn’t help but feel it on Monday, in the wind-swept parking lot outside the shuttered Wegmans supermarket across the street from the...
View ArticleFive Star Bank CEO says local banks are thriving
Martin K. Birmingham has worked for big banks before, but he likes what smaller community banks have to offer. Earlier this year, he was named president and chief executive officer of Financial...
View ArticleWilson’s ‘Amazing Race’ takes place Friday
WILSON – Contestants of all ages will meet at 6 p.m. Friday to register and compete in Wilson’s Amazing Race, where they will run a course throughout this small, lakeside village, looking for clues...
View ArticleMore than half of region's poor live in suburbs
Rows of neatly organized clothes on hand-made racks fill a second-floor classroom. A second room across the hall and lockers in the hallway quickly fill up with donations to be sorted and given...
View ArticleTwo of Buffalo’s Farmer Pirates are planting urban roots
Under a giant cottonwood tree on an unexpectedly wide swath of undeveloped land on Buffalo’s East Side, two pioneers in Buffalo’s small but growing urban farming movement will get married next...
View ArticleCopper thefts reported at several vacant properties in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – City police received reports of copper thefts at three vacant buildings. All three were bank-owned, abandoned buildings and the thefts were reported by a contractor for Niagara Removal...
View ArticleFalls man faces cocaine charges
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, accused of selling cocaine to a police informant who was wearing a recording device Feb. 6 in North Tonawanda, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County...
View ArticleDrunken driver accepts second chance at plea offer
LOCKPORT – Rodney W. Craft, 46, of Maple Terrace, North Tonawanda, pleaded guilty to a felony count of driving while intoxicated Wednesday, risking a trip to state prison when Niagara County Judge...
View ArticleNT man admits forging prescriptions
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man pleaded guilty Wednesday to forging prescriptions and attempting to get them filled Jan. 28 at a pharmacy in North Tonawanda.Zachary S. Gravell, 25, of Oliver Street,...
View ArticleWoman pleads to three theft charges, enters drug treatment
LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court to a felony and two misdemeanors regarding crimes in Niagara Falls April 7 and 8.Nita Snyder, 37, of Isherwood Drive,...
View ArticlePETA praises Sovran for glue trap ban
Sovran Self Storage is winning praise from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for banning the use of sticky glue traps to kill mice at its Uncle Bob’s self-storage facilities.Sovran is the...
View ArticleSentient Science welcomes officials to Buffalo headquarters
Sentient Science Corp., a firm that develops sensors and software used to test materials and components in the aerospace, defense and energy industries, will invest $10.5 million and hire 86 employees...
View ArticleMower agency hired to strengthen Canalside’s brand awareness
Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. has hired marketing and public relations firm Eric Mower + Associates to help create a stronger brand awareness for the Canalside redevelopment, while also reaching...
View ArticleJury to hear results of Nushawn Williams' HIV test
Lawyers for Nushawn Williams, the Jamestown man accused of intentionally spreading the virus that causes AIDS, will be allowed to offer evidence at his civil trial indicating he is not infected with...
View ArticleStrykersville man killed in one-car crash
A 34-year-old Strykersville man was killed when his car hit a pile of dirt and then a tree limb and overturned a number of times on Maple Hill Road in the Town of Wales about 1 a.m. Wednesday.Justice...
View ArticleErie County’s population stabilizes after years of losses
The population decline in Erie County has slowed the past couple of years, as fewer people than before are leaving and more immigrants are arriving, the latest estimates from the Census Bureau...
View ArticlePlayground to move off leased land in Olean
OLEAN – June 7 was a tough day for children and parents who enjoy a playground in Olean’s Homer Hill area.But city officials just received notification that that property had been transferred to a...
View ArticleForums to offer information on sale of Salamanca elementary school
SALAMANCA – Upcoming informational sessions will move the Salamanca City Central School District closer to selling Seneca Elementary School, according to district officials. Superintendent Robert...
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