Party lines drawn on Niagara County tourism contract renewal
LOCKPORT – Two competing resolutions on a new contract with Niagara County’s tourism promotion agency are on Tuesday’s County Legislature agenda.The majority Republicans are proposing only a one-year...
View ArticleA firefighter’s stirring story
Dec. 29, 1995: Roof collapses on Rescue 1’s Donald J. Herbert at 6:54 a.m., trapping him beneath debris and starving him of oxygen for six minutes. Firefighters storm back into burning house and pull...
View ArticleHonor Roll / Recognizing the accomplishment of Western New Yorkers
Helen Ferraro-Zaffram received the Bar Association of Erie County’s 2013 Lawyer of the Year Award at the group’s 126th annual dinner Wednesday in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. Ferraro-Zaffram is...
View ArticleThe fight behind injured firefighter’s miracle
After almost a decade in a semiconscious state, Donald J. Herbert woke up lucid on a Saturday afternoon in April 2005 and was talking and catching up with family and friends – for nearly 16 hours that...
View ArticlePeople Talk: A conversation with Robert Clemens
Principal Robert Clemens doesn’t use the word “throwback” to describe his disciplined style of running an elementary school. Instead, when he tries to explain why his Buffalo P.S. 81 on Tacoma Avenue...
View ArticleCheektowaga Central to expand alternative school programs
Teachers and staff at the Pine Hill Education Center hope to spread the successes of the middle and high school alternative programs to the elementary school level.During a presentation for the...
View ArticleAround Town / Niagara County meetings and hearings this week
The Barker School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the district’s administrative offices, Quaker and Haight roads.The Planning Board will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in Town Hall, 4160 Upper Mountain...
View ArticleKickboxer is devoted to his community
Amer Abdallah has an ambition to become a world champion kickboxer, and he is determined to bring Western New York along for the ride.In his first fight since entering the World Kickboxing...
View ArticleNational Guard pitches in on Bond Lake ditches
LEWISTON – The trails and drainage ditches at Bond Lake Park are getting some attention these days in a project that benefits the county and also provides training to local soldiers.About 20 to 25...
View ArticleWhat do you know about Buffalo’s most famous politician?
t’s been a good couple of years for Grover.A new book, “The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland,” by John M. Pafford, lays out Cleveland’s life and makes the case that the two-term...
View ArticleFew turn out for annual reddit.com event
It was a day that was meant to unite virtual friends in the actual world. But in Buffalo, it could have used a few more upvotes.Saturday was the fourth annual Global reddit Meetup Day, an opportunity...
View ArticleVoters head back to the polls in six districts
Tuesday looms large in six school districts in Western New York.That’s the day they find out if they have to make more cuts to their educational programs.“We’ve kind of run out of things to cut,” said...
View ArticleJuneteenth brings out Buffalo natives and expatriates
For some, the parade – featuring everything from floats and antique cars to dancers and drill teams – was the best part.Others liked the booths and tents selling jewelry, clothing, musical instruments...
View ArticleNiagara Wheatfield tries second budget vote Tuesday
SANBORN – Voters in the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District will get the opportunity to vote on a second budget Tuesday – one that has been reduced by nearly a half-million dollars.Because the...
View ArticleLexington Co-op eyes expansion
The Lexington Food Cooperative, which is expected to reach important milestones this month in membership and sales, has hired a Realtor to look into adding a second grocery store or – considered less...
View ArticleMan beaten near bar on Allen Street
A Lockport man was beaten by five men near Main and Allen streets early Sunday.The 37-year-old victim told Buffalo Police he was chased and then kicked and beaten by his attackers at about 3 a.m.The...
View ArticleThree taken into custody in SWAT team incident
Three people were taken into custody Sunday night after an incident near Grant and Amherst streets in which the police SWAT team was called, Buffalo Police said.Officers had been pursuing a warrant...
View ArticleShots fired at East Side home
A home near East Delavan and Bailey avenues was riddled with bullet holes on Sunday afternoon, with the shots believed to have come from a neighboring home.An Ericson Avenue man told Buffalo Police...
View ArticleLockport’s downtown developers put rink plan on ice
LOCKPORT – Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano, the prime mover behind a plan to construct a twin-rink ice complex in downtown Lockport, said last week that demolition of the former supermarket on...
View ArticleWestern New Yorkers to join large anti-fracking rally
About 100 Western New Yorkers were scheduled to board buses headed to Albany today. Their mission: to demonstrate against hydraulic fracturing and to call for New York’s elected officials to do more...
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