Where we live: Lackawanna
Lackawanna The Lackawanna Community Fun Days Health, Wellness and Resources Fair will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in Second Baptist Church, 18 Church St.The health fair will offer blood...
View ArticleWhere we live: Southern Erie County
Southern Erie County Candidates for the Springville-Griffith Institute School Board will be featured in a forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the high school’s library media center, 290 N. Buffalo St....
View ArticleWhere we live: Elma/Marilla/Wales
Elma/Marilla/Wales The Marilla Town Board will talk about possibly suing the state Department of Environmental Conservation over a permit issued to a farmer to store a controversial fertilizer in the...
View ArticleWhere we live: West Seneca
West Seneca Students, businesses and members of the community will be honored at Tuesday’s Community Awards Night in the West Seneca School District.West Senior High School, 3330 Seneca St., is...
View ArticleWhere we live: Orchard Park
Orchard Park The upcoming vote in the Orchard Park School District is the basis for several events this week.A candidates’ night begins at 7 p.m. Monday in the district office, 2240 Southwestern Blvd....
View ArticleWhere we live: Aurora/East Aurora
Aurora/East Aurora East Aurora native Kaitlin Hawayek, 17, won a gold medal in ice dancing at a junior championship in Bulgaria, a distinction that earned additional honors in the State Senate last...
View ArticleWhere we live: Hamburg
Hamburg The replica trolley stop at Legion and Clark streets will be dedicated at 11:30 a.m. Saturday by the Village of Hamburg and Imagine Hamburg.The ceremony, which is open to the public, will...
View ArticleDriver arrested on country club fairway
A Town of Basom man was arrested for driving while intoxicated about 9:30 a.m. Sunday after he ran his vehicle onto the 18th fairway of Dande Farms Country Club, 13279 Carney Road, Town of Newstead,...
View ArticleMuslim gets waiver from NCAA to wrestle
Muhamed McBryde has loved wrestling ever since he can remember, but when he had to choose between shaving his beard and competing for the University at Buffalo, the decision was easy.McBryde sat on...
View ArticleMercy Flight copter loses door in flight
A Mercy Flight medical helicopter landed safely in the Town of Boston about 5:45 p.m. Sunday after a door flew off while in flight, Margaret Ferrentino, the company’s vice president and chief...
View ArticleHonor Roll: Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers
Gail Mitchell, assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of New York, has been named to the Daemen College board of trustees.A former assistant attorney general for New York State, Mitchell has...
View ArticlePolice vehicles get beefier, roomier in Western New York
If you are picked up by police these days, you can expect some more legroom.Patrol vehicles are getting bigger, just like the officers and some of those getting into the back seats.Buffalo police last...
View ArticleParkside Walking Tour to be offered May 10
Streets lined with picturesque, century-old Buffalo homes will be the attraction in the Parkside Walking Tour, which begins at 10 a.m. May 10 outside the Church of the Good Shepherd, 96 Jewett...
View ArticlePoliticians, environmentalists warn of Lake Erie algal blooms
An annual explosion of toxic algae threatens to aggravate the Ohio communities along Lake Erie again this summer.Keeping Western New York from suffering the same fate brought Sen. Charles E. Schumer...
View ArticleTwo Orchard Park girls approached by stranger in truck
Two Orchard Park girls, both of whom were riding their bicycles on Hilltowne Drive, told police they were approached separately by a man in silver pickup truck at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.Both girls...
View ArticleAnti-SAFE Act plaintiff readies appeal
The lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state’s SAFE Act was in Buffalo Monday collecting signatures from some of the more than 1,250 other plaintiffs in the case to appeal an Albany judge’s...
View ArticleLackawanna to get three new police vehicles with federal funds
The Lackawanna Common Council Monday night greenlighted the purchase of three new police vehicles. The cars will be purchased with federal forfeiture funds at no additional cost to the...
View ArticleSpringville Board to set up panel to explore new fire garage
Springville officials have taken the first steps toward constructing a new fire garage in the village. The Village Board unanimously agreed to establish a committee Monday night to explore...
View ArticleHamburg man and West Seneca woman arrested on drug charges
A 21-year-old Hamburg man and a 22-year-old West Seneca woman were arrested on marijuana and drug charges after their car was stopped on Route 391 in Hamburg by state police for allegedly inadequate...
View ArticlePlan proposed to deal with toxic algae in lake
Toxic blue-green algae again threaten the Ohio side of Lake Erie and its shorelines this summer.In Buffalo, government officials and environmentalists on Monday took aim at stopping the cyanobacteria...
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