Man shot after refusing robber’s demands
Buffalo police have released the names of the three people injured in a shooting that left one man dead on the city’s West Side early Saturday.27-year-old Ervin Maye of Buffalo died after an unknown...
View ArticlePoet Heaney recalled as great poet, even better person
Just weeks before his death after a short illness in a Dublin hospital Friday, Irish poet Seamus Heaney was still recalling the warm welcome he received when he spoke at Canisius College last Oct....
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to tennis great Jimmy Connors, born on this date in 1952, “Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do...
View ArticleWest Seneca high schools to reabsorb alternative students
When classes resume in the West Seneca School District this week, students enrolled in the alternative education program will be back in a traditional high school setting.Sixteen years ago, saving...
View ArticleDark days at home and in Vietnam turn veteran into a poet
At 16, Larry L. Penrod went to war for a buddy caught smoking in the boys room at Tonawanda High School.“A teacher came in and started giving my friend a hard time for smoking. I said to the teacher,...
View ArticleStudent renters, University Heights residents band together at UB block party
Neighbors Mark Whitcomb and Rodney Johnson were rousted from their Tyler Street homes Sunday by the sound of raucous University at Buffalo students in the street.It wasn’t a loud house party, though....
View ArticleWNY construction boom bodes well for jobs
It’s becoming a good time to be a construction worker in Western New York again.From carpenters to sheet-metal workers, from laborers to bricklayers, from truck drivers to crane operators,...
View ArticleHoughton Park vandalism prompts offer of reward from Council president
Faced with costly and repeated acts of vandalism in an East Side park, one Common Council member is speaking out against the “senseless” defacement of public property – and putting $200 of his own...
View ArticleArea private high schools plant global roots
Facing a smaller pool of potential local students, the administrators at more private high schools in Western New York are looking beyond their traditional recruiting grounds.In some cases, they look...
View ArticleWomen dominate this year’s wing-eating contest
Three thin women ruled the U.S. Professional Wing Eating Championship on Sunday at Coca-Cola Field, eating a total of nearly 500 chicken wings in 12 minutes to easily outpace their seven male...
View ArticleWest Seneca man charged with DWI after almost hitting trooper
A West Seneca man was arrested for driving drunk early Saturday after he swerved out of his lane and almost struck a state police car, New York State Police officials reported Monday. 42-year-old...
View ArticleProperty missing after party at vacationing grandpa’s home
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A vacationing Ernest Road resident returned home Sunday after a warning from police, only to discover nearly $2,300 worth of property missing from his home.Sheriff’s deputies said...
View ArticleStorms hit Chautauqua, skip Buffalo
A narrow band of thunderstorms brought lightning and hail to communities along the south shore of Chautauqua Lake around midday Monday, leaving a couple of hundred residents without power.The storms,...
View ArticleLocal districts prepare to implement Common Core curriculum
Students returning to area classrooms this week will be greeted by smiling teachers and all the possibilities a new school year brings.They also will face what some are calling the biggest changes to...
View ArticleFelony DWI suspect chased through backyards on Cattaraugus Reservation
A driver who led Erie County Sheriff’s deputies on a foot chase through several backyards on the Cattaraugus Reservation was charged with felony driving while intoxicated.Desmond A. Jimerson, 40, of...
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to New England novelist and short-story writer Sarah Orne Jewett, born on this date in 1849, “God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for...
View ArticleMusic brings Silver Creek teens together
SILVER CREEK – Three young musicians from Silver Creek are combining their practice sessions with school activities to keep up their grades in their own version of “School of Rock.”Their band,...
View ArticleClose call in Machias lands Elma man with felony DWI charge
MACHIAS – An Elma man was charged with felony driving while intoxicated Sunday after state police responded to reports of hazardous driving.Charles W. Olday Jr., 54, of Elma, was stopped about 5:25...
View ArticlePlan for effluent storage site to be discussed by Wales, Marilla boards
Members of the Wales Town Board plan to attend a meeting with the Marilla Town Board and representatives of Quasar Energy Group at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Marilla Fire Company Recreation Hall, 1940 Two...
View ArticleMan loses wallet, cellphone in Schiller Park robbery
Three assailants attacked and robbed a man early Sunday in the Schiller Park neighborhood. The victim was walking on Doat Street near Zelmer Street shortly after midnight when the attackers approached...
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