Record-breaking funds raised in Buffalo School Board election
A $150-a-ticket cocktail hour at the Bacchus Wine Bar and Restaurant on Chippewa toward the end of April drew dozens of Buffalo’s wealthiest and most powerful people to support Larry Quinn’s bid for a...
View ArticleSchool Board candidates turn focus to getting out the vote
Two days before the most crucial Buffalo School Board election in recent history, factions from across the community are ramping up their efforts to get voters to the polls and hoping to drum up...
View ArticleBody found believed to be missing teen
The body of a 14-year-old boy was found Saturday in an abandoned and overgrown golf park in the city’s Black Rock neighborhood.Buffalo homicide detectives were summoned about 3 p.m. to Amherst near...
View ArticleGolisano's dinner with Brandon adds to intrigue
Another week of the post-Ralph Wilson era of the Buffalo Bills is now history, and with it came intriguing developments surrounding the team’s future.The week started with The News reporting that Gov....
View ArticleHistory centers team up for discovery weekend
Area residents will have an opportunity to travel through time by exploring history at seven cultural attractions all for one low price in the collaborative “History in Your Backyard” event next...
View ArticleGubernatorial candidate Astorino considering running mat with WNY ties
Former U.S. Attorney Michael A. Battle and Assemblywoman Jane L. Corwin are among those with Western New York ties contacted in recent days about running for lieutenant governor this year on the...
View ArticleCuomo urged to restore transportation contract to local firm
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is being asked to overturn a state Department of Health decision that could result in the elimination of more than 40 jobs based on Buffalo’s East Side and also jeopardize...
View ArticleNiagara County, tourism agency agree on three-year contract
LOCKPORT – Niagara County and the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. have agreed in principle on a new three-year contract for the NTCC to continue as the county’s official tourism promotion...
View ArticleUkraine's plight felt in Buffalo
The beating heart of Ukraine’s freedom movement fills the building on Genesee Street in Buffalo.The Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center, a gray, three-story structure that most of us pass without much...
View ArticleTwo arrested after high-speed chase into Niagara County
WHEATFIELD – Two men fleeing the scene of a larceny in Amherst were the target of a police chase that reached speeds of up to 100 mph in drive-time traffic Thursday afternoon before crashing at...
View ArticleScholarship available for aspiring black journalists
The Buffalo Association of Black Journalists is accepting applications for its 2014 Carl R. Allen Memorial Scholarship. The deadline is June 30.The Buffalo News and the Buffalo Newspaper Guild also...
View ArticleWith family business on brink, Skateland owners cling to hope as...
LOCKPORT – Lori and Brian Ferraro once were competitive roller skaters, with Brian winning a national championship, but now they need to come up with their toughest trick ever – finding enough money...
View ArticleStrobl’s book is a guide for young basketball players
The sound of shoes squeaking on a hardwood floor is music to Pete Strobl’s ears, not simply because it’s the unmistakable melody of basketball but for what it signifies: movement off the ball,...
View ArticleRoy-Hart sets budget hearing
MIDDLEPORT – The Royalton-Hartland School District will present its proposed $22 million budget for 2014-15 at a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday.The meeting will be held in the high school media...
View ArticleFalls YMCA faces grim future
NIAGARA FALLS – The YMCA’s Main Street branch will likely close in the coming years because of what the agency describes as unsustainable financial losses.YMCA Buffalo Niagara recently announced a...
View ArticleNewfane school budget makes staffing cuts to reduce costs
NEWFANE – The Newfane School District is planning to cut 13 full-time equivalent positions in an effort to reduce costs in its proposed $33.9 million budget for 2014-15.A public hearing on the budget...
View ArticleNiagara Wine Trail celebrating 12th anniversary
The Niagara Wine Trail is celebrating its 12th anniversary with the annual Wine Trail Blossoms event on Mother’s Day weekend, Friday through Sunday.Tickets include a tasting of three wines for each...
View ArticleArea’s history is part of Martinsville Soapworks
NORTH TONAWANDA – Back in the middle of the 19th century, Martinsville was a community unto itself at the eastern edge of North Tonawanda. It was also a time when making things by hand was a way of...
View ArticleDistance doesn’t deter this couple from getting together Jacob...
The bride is from Oklahoma, the bridegroom is from Western New York. But love bridged the geographic distance – and some rather unusual circumstances – for Monica Smith and Jacob Pietrzyk, who married...
View ArticleFired Buffalo school administrators to sue district
Fired Buffalo school administrators Yamilette Williams and Faith Morrison Alexander intend to sue district administrators and board members for what they describe as falsehoods, fraud and “selfish...
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