State parks have a lot to offer in the great outdoors
Who isn’t looking forward to enjoying nice weather after the long, frosty winter we’ve just endured? And there’s no better way than to participate in the many outdoors programs the New York State...
View ArticleEvents for people with disabilities
Statler Career Center, a national program for Olmsted Center for Sight, provides individuals who are blind, visually impaired or physically disabled with the right tools to launch successful careers...
View ArticleFalls train station is back on track
NIAGARA FALLS – Decades-old plans for a new train station in the city appear to be finally coming to fruition.Groundbreaking on the last phase of a $41 million Niagara Falls International Railway...
View ArticleNight of entertainment in Falls will support Isaiah 61 Project
NIAGARA FALLS – A night of entertainment that will help support the Isaiah 61 Project is happening downtown this coming weekend.It will be the city’s premiere “White Party,” an event where attendees...
View ArticleTransplant surgeon bullish on Buffalo real estate
He’s not exactly one of the household names in Western New York development, but a Kaleida Health transplant surgeon is carving a reputation for himself in real estate by placing big bets on the...
View ArticleNew “Plentiful Partnership of Niagara” aims to reduce lack of...
LOCKPORT – When you drive by vast tracts of farmland and summer farmers’ markets, it can be easy to forget that, in some urban areas, access to fresh food is not taken for granted.Local farmers have...
View ArticleChicago hospice executive takes over Buffalo center
When Patricia Ahern took over as president and CEO of Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care in Park Ridge, Ill., 18 years ago, the organization had 30 employees and served 500 patients annually. By...
View ArticleThe seven worst lists about Western New York ever written
On Wednesday afternoon, Facebook feeds across the region flooded with the shocking news that Buffalo was the second-happiest city in the United States. This stunning development came via the website...
View ArticleFor many, Easter marks the beginning of the busy cemetery season
The Easter lilies at the grave site of Ettore and Lola Lazzaro at Mount Calvary Cemetery are a thank you from their son and daughter-in-law.Vincent Maciejewski’s widow left fresh carnations and...
View ArticleWindshield shattered during street fight
NIAGARA FALLS – The windshield of a woman’s car was shattered Easter Sunday afternoon after she parked near the scene of an ongoing street fight, police said. The victim, a Birch Avenue resident, told...
View ArticleCrash leads to DWI arrest
WHEATFIELD – A North Tonawanda man was charged with driving while intoxicated early Saturday after his car struck a utility pole in the 2600 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard, sheriff’s deputies...
View ArticleLockport developers revise subdivision layouts
LOCKPORT – Developers of two Town of Lockport subdivisions, both approved years ago but not yet built, presented requests to the town Planning Board last week to be allowed to construct the same...
View ArticleWWII engineer was involved in construction, destruction and much more
At 18 years old, Robert F. Batt enlisted in the family business of hanging wallpaper and painting with his dad, Eugene, throughout the Tonawandas.It was hard work, he recalled, “and you had to push...
View ArticlePolice identify man killed in Tonawanda crash
The motorcyclist killed in a crash Sunday afternoon on Parker Boulevard in the Town of Tonawanda has been identified as Dante Mancuso, 19, of the Town of Tonawanda.Mancuso was traveling north on...
View ArticleSpring showers may bring ugly algal bloom
This is a critical time in the calendar for Lake Erie.The lake is reawakening from one of its longest and most ice-encrusted winter slumbers in recorded weather history, and the next several weeks...
View ArticleDetailed profiles: Buffalo School Board candidates
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View ArticlePerfetto closes in Theater District
Perfetto has become the fourth restaurant to fail at 617 Main St., but landlord Nick Sinatra says the next restaurant will be different.Perfetto’s equipment is being auctioned off Thursday. The...
View ArticleJudge advises teen girl to punch Falls drug dealer in nose once he’s...
A judge on Monday advised a young woman whose nose was broken last year by a Niagara Falls drug dealer, after she had been reported missing and traveling with him, to do the same to her attacker once...
View ArticleSoul-rock legend Leon Russell comes to the Buffalo Iron Works
On “Life Journey,” his recently released follow-up to the 2010 duet album with Elton John, “The Union,” Leon Russell offers the listener an audio tour through virtually every stylistic nuance he has...
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