Teamsters urge Buffalo Common Council to keep Rural Metro contract
The unionized workforce of Buffalo’s exclusive ambulance provider came to City Hall today to urge the Common Council not to change providers. The union members, as well as managers at Rural/Metro...
View ArticleBuffalo United Artists takes up residence at Alleyway Theatre
Buffalo United Artists, the small theater company whose former home on Chippewa Street was torn down last month to make way for the new Delaware North headquarters, will take up residence in the...
View ArticleWoman charged in stabbing and robbery at Niagara Falls convenience store
NIAGARA FALLS – The owner of the Merry Mart convenience store survived a butcher knife attack in which the assailant left blood-smeared cash as she fled the shop Monday night.Police caught the suspect...
View ArticleHundreds left without power in Cambria after van hits transformer pole
CAMBRIA – Hundreds were without power after a Grand Island man drove off the road at 9:43 a.m. today and struck two power poles, including one with major transformer, at 3511 Ridge Road/Route 104,...
View Article$19.2 million in state budget for state parks in Western New York
Eight projects in state parks in Western New York will receive $19.2 million in the new state budget, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office announced today, though much of the work has been previously...
View ArticleDOT study will look at reducing Scajaquada traffic to 30 mph
Assemblyman Sean Ryan announced today that the state Department of Transportation is broadening its modeling to look at reducing the Scajaquada Expressway speed limit to 30 mph through Delaware Park....
View ArticleLackawanna School Board to hold special budget meeting Wednesday
The Lackawanna City School District’s Board of Education will hold a special budget meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Room 202 of the administrative office building, 245 South Shore Blvd.
View ArticleTwo men rob 7-Eleven, may have threatened with paint ball gun
Police responded to a robbery at a 7-Eleven, 2824 Pine Ave., at about 11:48 p.m. Monday.The store clerk said two black males – one very thin, about six-foot tall, wearing a blue bandanna, and another...
View ArticleErie County Executive Mark Poloncarz to read as part of Shakespeare’s...
In honor of the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth, a group of local actors and community leaders will take part in a day-long reading of the Bard’s works on Wednesday in the Market...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: According to railroad baron and senator Chauncey Depew, namesake of the Village of Depew and born on this date in 1834, “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is...
View ArticleBullying conference sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Niagara Falls on April 30
NIAGARA FALLS – A public forum on bullying sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Niagara Falls will be held at 6 p.m. April 30 at the Niagara Falls Boys & Girls Club, 725 17th St.Students in third-...
View ArticleAs region goes hotel crazy, it’s betting on the future
Buffalo Niagara is getting a little hotel crazy.There’s the new Marriott Buffalo HarborCenter taking shape next to First Niagara Center. And the Courtyard by Marriott is opening just across the street...
View ArticlePolonia bursts with pride
How big was Buffalo’s eighth annual Dyngus Day Parade?Too big to fit onto Clark Street, where the procession of more than 100 cars, trucks and marching groups officially started with a blessing at 5...
View ArticleDoctor finds a mission at home
Dr. Myron Glick, who hails from a traditional Amish community in Lancaster, Pa., planned long ago to be a medical missionary.He spent 11 years of his childhood in Belize, a small country in Central...
View ArticleSPCA coping with lots of cats, offers adoption special to try to find...
The pink sign on the shelter door said a lot about the feline predicament the SPCA finds itself in these days.“We cannot accept any cats at this time as every cage in this building is full,” the signs...
View ArticleSheltered workshops fading away
Colin Zgoda, a 21-year-old autistic student, will age out of high school this year. His post-high school plan was supposed to be like many other Western New Yorkers with developmental disabilities...
View Article‘Amazing shopkeepers’ beckon as Lakeview Village prepares for...
OLCOTT – A string of eclectic specialty shops draws visitors to the boardwalk overlooking Lake Ontario in this tiny hamlet, while the lure of the nearby carousel and other old-time rides, special...
View ArticlePeople Talk: Bringing creativity to the Fruit Belt
As a teenager Liz Van Verth attended Locust Street Art school where she established a foundation upon which she built her career. A native of North Buffalo, Van Verth went on to study illustration at...
View ArticleAfter a decade-long break, Buffalo gets its act together on public art
In Buffalo, one benefit of undergoing a regionwide renaissance is that you are forced to start following your own laws.Case in point: In 1999, the administration of Mayor Anthony M. Masiello – with...
View ArticleTwo former popes are canonized at the Vatican today
The Catholic Church’s newest saint walked the streets of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, slept in a Kaisertown rectory and dined on soup and cabbage inside the home of a Cheektowaga couple.During his epic...
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