National Grid freezes prices in February to avert spike from severe cold
National Grid is freezing electricity prices for its residential and small-business customers during February to spare them from a spike that would have driven up their power costs by as much as 19...
View ArticleCounty group prods state on deteriorated properties
The Association of Erie County Governments is urging the State Legislature to pass legislation that members say would help town governments to reduce the number of vacant and deterioriated properties...
View ArticleCSEA approves tentative deal with Erie County
Erie County government employees’ largest union – whose members have been working without a contract since Dec. 31, 2006 – has reached tentative agreement with the county on a contract.Union leaders...
View ArticleHolland school debate centers on closure, as referendum is sought
Despite being halfway through the second year of a reconfiguration that closed one of the Holland School District’s three buildings, the School Board spent much of Monday’s meeting revisiting that...
View ArticleEmbracing the cold: Warming up to Jack Frost’s long and wind-chilled...
As this January’s bitter single-digit chill seeped through winter coats, kept runners in and the cat from wanting out, Buffalonians either embraced the cold or found ways to think warm. Find the cold...
View ArticleFlying on a cloud of opulence, ‘The Donald’ comes to town today
It doesn’t quite rank on the grandiosity scale with Air Force One.And it won’t be crawling with Secret Service agents, though all sorts of aides-de-camp to the celebrity onboard are sure to emerge.But...
View ArticleHospitals by the numbers
KALEIDA HEALTH:Patients: 1 million a yearEmployees: 9,966Doctors: 1,830Local hospitals: Buffalo General Medical Center, Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, Millard Fillmore Gates Suburban...
View ArticleSnowmobiler, 70, found dead in Sheldon after extensive overnight search
A 70-year-old Marilla man who left home on a snowmobile Thursday morning was found dead near his crashed snowmobile in the Town of Sheldon early this morning after an extensive search that included...
View ArticleThis weird trick will change your life
Time-wasting, chicken-wings eatin’ Americans, listen up:You can save a whole 3-½ minutes consuming a plate of one dozen wings by turning to one of two highly efficient eating styles.The “typewriter”...
View ArticleECMC’s Lomeo named interim chief at Kaleida in dramatic restructuring
James R. Kaskie, who played key roles in the consolidation of Kaleida Health and construction of the Gates Vascular Institute, has been forced out as head of the hospital system, and officials are not...
View ArticleGowanda to receive $700,000 reimbursement for 2009 flood damage
The Village of Gowanda will receive $700,954 from the state to reimburse it for costs associated with the damage caused by a severe storm and flooding in the summer of 2009.“The money will be going to...
View ArticleHEAP season extended
The Erie County Department of Social Services is continuing to accept applications for Home Energy Assistance Program benefits after the state Office of Temporary Disability Assistance authorized and...
View ArticleGowanda man, son face drug charges linked to triple stabbing
A 55-year-old Gowanda man and his 19-year-old son were sent to the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley following their arrest Thursday night in Gowanda on multiple felony counts of criminal...
View ArticleKaskie instrumental in building Buffalo Medical Campus
The resignation of James R. Kaskie as chief executive officer of Kaleida Health comes at a time when the long-sought vision of a downtown medical campus in Buffalo is becoming a reality.Kaskie played...
View ArticleCheektowaga woman arrested for DWI in Orchard Park
A 43-year-old Cheektowaga woman was charged with driving while intoxicated at about 9 a.m. Thursday after she was found disoriented at the wheel of a car with the engine still running in the parking...
View ArticleState police plan crackdown on drunken driving over Super Bowl weekend
State police in Western New York will be cracking down on drunken and distracted driving over the Super Bowl weekend, according to Major Michael Cerreto. “Everyone knows that drinking and driving can...
View ArticleHamburg man arrested for assault at Orchard Park bar
A 27-year-old Hamburg man was arrested this week on a second-degree assault charged for allegedly hitting another man over the head with a beer bottle during an altercation in O’Neil’s Stadium Inn on...
View ArticleNew firm bringing 200 jobs to Hamburg
A company that could employ more than 200 people is poised to buy a 43-acre site at Lake Erie Commerce Center, Hamburg Supervisor Steven J. Walters announced at his annual State of the Town address...
View ArticleSuper Bowl rushing leader? Pizza shops
Football fans are not the only ones counting down the hours to the big game Sunday. Many people who work in pizzerias across Buffalo Niagara began to slice, dice and knead their way through the week...
View ArticleWest Seneca School District treasurer retiring; will serve in part-time...
The treasurer for the West Seneca School District was sent into retirement with plenty of warm wishes Wednesday night, but there was no need to actually say goodbye.Brian L. Schulz, who has worked for...
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