Family and Children’s Service of Niagara Awards event celebrates 118...
Special recognition and awards will be presented to the following individuals:– Michael A. Piette will receive the E. Marie Davis Volunteer Service Award. Piette, a Lockport resident and partner with...
View ArticleIn Focus / Eva M. Hassett, Richardson Olmsted Complex
One of the region’s most recognized architectural icons is undergoing a transformation. The Richardson Olmsted Complex on Forest Avenue will be home to a boutique hotel, architecture center and...
View ArticleGoo Goo Dolls heading for Darien Lake
Buffalo's favorite musical sons are coming home. The Goo Goo Dolls will return to Western New York for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24 in the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center. Matt Nathanson will...
View ArticleStructural engineering reports on Dunkirk fire stations are due June 4
DUNKIRK – Structural engineering reports on the three fire stations in the city are due in the Mayor’s Office on Tuesday.Fire Chief Keith D. Ahlstrom reported that he took representatives from 17...
View ArticleTwo indicted for allegedly trying to intimidate witnesses in drug case
Two Buffalo suspects pleaded not guilty today to drug and witness intimidation charges linked to a drug case. During arraignments before Erie County Judge Sheila A. DiTullio the prime suspect, David...
View ArticleOne car crash in Wyoming County town of Eagle
WARSAW – A 30-year-old Nunda man was being held Tuesday at the Wyoming County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail on felony drunken driving and other charges for a one-car accident that damaged a utility...
View ArticleOnly one suspect convicted in Afro Dogs trial
The Afro Dogs drug trial, two years in the making and five weeks long, ended Tuesday with a guilty verdict against only one of the five defendants.The federal court jury in the high-profile...
View ArticleSilver springs man arrested for DWI in Wyoming County
WARSAW – A 46-year-old Silver Springs man was being held Tuesday in the Wyoming County Jail on felony drunken driving and other charges for his arrest while spotted driving erratically on State Route...
View ArticleFormer POWs from WWII share personal stories of triumphant spirits
It was like it happened yesterday.For former prisoners of war, the experiences of captivity in the hands of enemy forces can feel as vivid as the recent events and emotions.Some local veterans who...
View ArticleFour Salamanca men charged with stealing a Seneca Nation marshall’s SUV
Four Salamanca men are being held on grand larceny and other charged for allegedly causing almost $3,000 worth of damage to a stolen SUV that a marshall for the Seneca Nation was using on a called on...
View ArticleIn ad, super PAC sets its sights on Grisanti
ALBANY – A super PAC co-founded by Jonathan Soros has targeted State Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo, with a round of radio advertisements as it seeks to build support for a taxpayer-funded...
View ArticleUnprecedented drop in Lake Erie’s water level causes headaches
If you’re a boater, it might have hit home when you scraped the bottom off your vessel. As a beachcomber, you might have noticed more nooks to explore around rocks and piers.And if you’re a lakeside...
View ArticleECC again eyes North Campus expansion
It took more than three years – and a bit of controversy – to reach a decision, but Erie County and its community college have finally decided where to locate a new $30 million academic building.And...
View ArticlePublic hearing set on Hanover wastewater treatment plant project
SILVER CREEK – The Hanover Town Board will hold a public hearing on a project to repair and update the wastewater treatment plant. At the regular meeting Tuesday, board members agreed to set 7 p.m....
View ArticleRipping up of roadwork in Falls awaits word of consultants
NIAGARA FALLS – City officials have to decide soon how much of the work done by a former contractor on the southern portion of the Lewiston Road reconstruction project they want to rip out and...
View ArticleDEC orders more cleanup in Middleport; residents don’t want it
MIDDLEPORT – The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Tuesday ordered the excavation of the yards at about 180 properties in the Village of Middleport, mostly homes, to remove soil...
View ArticleKilhoffer Street shooting victim identified
A Buffalo man who was shot in the first block of Kilhoffer Street about 3 p.m. Monday has died in Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo Police Department announced Tuesday.Homicide detectives were...
View ArticleBuffalo man sentenced to 20 years for killing friend
A Buffalo man who admitted firing the bullet that killed one of his best friends last September apologized in court Tuesday to his victim’s family before being sentenced to 20 years in prison.“I do...
View ArticleRevised Clarence school budget is heavy on cuts
Cuts, cuts, cuts.That was the operative word Tuesday as school officials in the region’s wealthiest suburb presented their second budget a week after the first one was soundly rejected by...
View ArticleMan accused of stealing docs from History Museum
The personal papers of Anson Conger Goodyear, the Buffalo-born lumber and railroad tycoon turned famed art collector, are a prized possession for any collector.Yale and Stanford universities and the...
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