Orchard Park to examine former school for senior center
Orchard Park Town Board members are still looking into the old Baker Road school to see whether it is suitable to be converted into a center for senior citizens.The board has hired Wendel engineers to...
View ArticleFlood watch canceled
Creeks and streams were expected to barely stay within their banks across portions of Buffalo Niagara overnight as the result of the widespread heavy rain that fell across the region most of the day...
View ArticleNiagara leaders fire back in Greenway dispute
WHEATFIELD – The host communities of the Niagara Power Project responded with anger, sarcasm and a veiled threat of litigation Thursday to a proposal to confine Niagara River Greenway funding to the...
View ArticleTwo local truckers recognized for millions of miles of safe driving
It would take the average driver approximately 148 years to log 2 million miles in their vehicle. Tom Lyons has done it in about 20.That’s like driving to the moon and back more than four times....
View ArticleWreck & Roll festival brings food, music and fun to pier
DUNKIRK – Several public events are lined up for this weekend’s kickoff of the sixth annual Wreck & Roll Weekend on the city pier on Lake Erie.Buffalo’s fireboat, the Edward M. Cotter, will arrive...
View ArticleClosing statements set today in Hoskins’ animal cruelty trial
Attorneys in the criminal trial of Beth Lynne Hoskins on 74 counts of animal cruelty tied to alleged neglect on her Morgan horse farm three years ago will offer closing statements at 9:30 a.m. today...
View ArticleRacial disparities found in marijuana charges
If you are black and stopped by police in Niagara County, you are 7.5 times more likely to be arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession than if you are white.If you are black and in Erie County,...
View ArticleSummations made in three-year-old Hoskins animal cruelty case
Prosecutors said all the sidebar issues of money, hoarding and vendettas should be ignored and asked the judge to focus solely on the suffering of horses under Beth Lynne Hoskins’ care.The defense...
View ArticleNew heroin-fentanyl cocktail linked to deaths
A potent new cocktail, already popular with heroin addicts in Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit, is making its debut on the streets of Western New York.And killing people.The cocktail, a dangerous...
View ArticlePoloncarz hearing on county residency law is sparsely attended.
By Harold McNeilNEWS STAFF REPORTERAttendance was sparse early Friday for a public hearing on a newly adopted law that requires Erie County workers to reside in the county.Two residents, both of whom...
View ArticleResidents sue to maintain road
SILVER CREEK – Residents on a stretch of Stewart Avenue in Hanford Bay are going to court to force the Town of Hanover to maintain that section of the road. Robert Whalen, one of the residents, said...
View ArticleSale of BOCES-built homes nets $85,000
NEWS STAFF REPORTERA total of $85,000 was raised Friday morning in the sale of two modular houses built by students of Erie 1 BOCES’ Building Trades program.Separate auctions were held behind two of...
View ArticleKeeping her vow in the face of Alzheimer’s
“To love and to honor … “As a young bride I recited those words without much thought to the long-term meaning. My mind was on the reception to be held later that day, moving into our apartment, having...
View ArticleNew committee appointment for Collins is his third
WASHINGTON – Rep. Chris Collins, R-Clarence, has been appointed to a third congressional committee: the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.“I am both excited and honored to be asked to...
View ArticleElma native killed in Harlem traffic accident
Laura E. Rothfuss grew up in Elma, but life took her to New York City, where she went to design school and was just starting her career.“She was adventurous,” said her brother, Jason. “None of our...
View ArticleRoycroft to get $627,000 landscaping makeover
The Roycroft Campus, which is home to the turn-of-the-century artisan and reformist community that helped make East Aurora famous, will get a grassy makeover this summer. Landscaping to remove a “sea...
View ArticleWhere We Live: Evans
A former staffer for the Niagara Falls Water Board and Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority has been named finance director in the Town of Evans.Michael P. Kelly will serve as the town’s head of...
View ArticleWhere We Live: Aurora/East Aurora
On Friday, the Explore & More Museum will host its monthly “Au-Some Evening” of open play for families and children on the autism spectrum from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 300 Gleed Avenue.The program, on...
View ArticleWhere We Live: West Seneca
The latest project by the West Seneca Environmental Commission involves cleaning curbs near storm drains, then attaching aluminum medallions bearing the message: “No dumping – Drains to Waterway.” The...
View ArticleWhere We Live: Lackawanna
Clerical workers in Lackawanna’s City Hall have been awarded a new contract that gives them annual raises retroactive to 2009.The deal, approved at Monday’s City Council meeting, covers about 18...
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