Crunching the state test results
Three News staffers are working hard all day to make sense of the English and math standardized test results released by the State Education Department. Be sure to check back here for more...
View ArticleCentenarian shows she still has a sense of style and humor
Be slow to anger, quick to forgive and look good doing it.That’s the philosophy that Amanda Corrine Pugh Jackson has been following for the past 100 years.Tuesday, about 50 of her family members and...
View ArticleTug-turned-tall ship sails into town
The usual fleet of retired warships docked at Canalside is playing host to another vessel with World War II credentials early this week – but the newcomer looks nothing like the hulking battleships...
View ArticleCheck out the fried artichokes at Madonna’s restaurant on Allen Street
Madonna’s (62 Allen St., 768-1401) is an Italian restaurant in Buffalo, so there’s fried calamari on the menu. It’s a restaurant on Allen Street, though, so Chris Connolly wanted to make sure he took...
View ArticleFan favorite Jimmy Janowski returns for remount of ‘The Birds...
In the summer of 2011, Jimmy Janowski and his collaborators at Buffalo United Artists reached a level of camp absurdity that, at the time, seemed like it couldn’t be topped. Janowski’s original play...
View ArticleLewiston Art Festival takes over Center Street this weekend
One of the largest and oldest art festivals in the region kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday, when more than 175 artists will set up shop on the quainter-than-quaint streets of Lewiston for the village’s...
View ArticleMark Palmer is ‘Facing Facts’ in new Studio Hart art show
Recently, in the process of painting his abstract pieces, Mark Palmer noticed something strange: The structure of a human face would sometimes emerge, as if on its own, from his otherwise freehand...
View ArticleGoodyear Dunlop workers to vote next week
Workers from the Goodyear Dunlop Tires North America plant in the Town of Tonawanda will vote next week on whether to ratify a tentative agreement reached last month.Members of United Steelworkers of...
View ArticleI-Evolve buys Rochester tech firm
I-Evolve Technology Services has acquired E3 Technologies, a Rochester information technology services firm in a deal that will expand the Amherst company’s presence in the Rochester market.I-Evolve...
View ArticleBarkus Parade Sunday to inaugurate Wilson dog park
WILSON – The Wilson Lions Club is sponsoring the new Wilson Dog Park’s first event – a Barkus Parade set for 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. The dog park is located in the Calvin E. Krueger Park on Lake Road....
View ArticleGorzka is general chairman for annual Peach Festival
LEWISTON – Randy Gorzka has been named general chairman of Lewiston’s 56th nnnual Niagara County Peach Festival, Jeff Sanderson, president of the Kiwanis Club of Lewiston, announced. The festival will...
View ArticleDuPont to pay $440,000 over Clean Air violations
DuPont has agreed to pay a $440,000 fine as part of a settlement over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its plant in the Town of Tonawanda.The company also agreed to submit a new plan for...
View ArticleLancaster village officials cite old town records identifying Erie Street...
Lancaster village officials Wednesday pointed to two town documents identifying the deteriorating Erie Street Bridge, just east of Court Street, as a bridge and, therefore, the responsibility of the...
View ArticleTrial date set for 4 charged in Carroll home invasion, slayings
MAYVILLE – Trial has been set to begin March 11 for four men charged with killing a Chautauqua County couple earlier this year in their Town of Carroll home.A Chautauqua County Court judge set the...
View ArticleFalls Planning Board to hold hearing on Covanta projects
NIAGARA FALLS –The city Planning Board will hold a public hearing Aug. 14 about $30 million in construction projects at a waste incinerator facility that wants to bring in garbage from the New York...
View ArticleMan arraigned on attempted murder charge in Falls shooting
LOCKPORT – A man with a history of gun violence was arraigned Thursday on an indictment charging him with shooting a man in Niagara Falls on May 26.Cordarise M. Houston, 23, of 70th Street in the...
View ArticlePower rates could be lower if state didn’t raid NYPA’s funds,...
ALBANY – The state’s public power company has raised costs for consumers while regularly bailing out the state budget, having a payroll with 35 percent of its staff making more than $100,000 a year...
View ArticleGo-kart driver charged with DWI in Town of Sherman
SHERMAN – Call it a GKWI — go-karting while intoxicated.State Police based in Jamestown announced Thursday that Arthur Reid, 22, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Saturday after a trooper...
View ArticleMurder defendant’s mother charged in court disruption during sentencing
A woman was charged with disorderly conduct Thursday after disrupting a State Supreme Court session where her son was sentenced for murder.Devon “Ghost” Scott, 19, of Buffalo, previously pleaded...
View ArticleThieves get a workout in theft of gym equipment
WHEATFIELD – Thieves who cut a hole in the wall of a building being built for a Fitness Factory at 7330 Wheatfied-Pendleton Road overnight Monday made off with gym equipment worth $10,000, Niagara...
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