University Women accepting scholarship applications
The Buffalo Branch of the American Association of University Women is accepting applications for its Olga Marie Lindberg Scholarships from qualified women in their fourth year of college.Two awards...
View ArticleCommunity Missions to join Spring It On
Community Missions of Niagara Frontier will participate in Spring It On, a 24-hour, online fundraising event designed to raise awareness and money for nonprofit organizations throughout Western New...
View ArticleFalls drug dealer pleads guilty to multiple charges
A Niagara Falls drug dealer who was found last year in Angola with marijuana and cocaine, a loaded semiautomatic pistol and a missing teenager who said he broke her nose has pleaded guilty to drug,...
View ArticleWhy should kids just ‘sit and stare’? as parents, school...
A few weeks before third- through eighth-graders across New York take state-mandated tests that now, for the second year, reflect the new, more rigorous Common Core standards, a small but growing...
View ArticleMychajliw again warns of flagging sales tax totals
Erie County Comptroller Stefan I. Mychajliw is again warning about flagging sales tax totals, saying it would be “irresponsible” for the Legislature to ignore that December collections were down 6...
View Article28 will be honored Saturday as Outstanding Women
Twenty-eight women, from educators to artists to business owners, will be honored at the fifth annual Roses for Outstanding Women awards program at 2:45 p.m. Saturday in the Central Library auditorium...
View ArticleConstruction career fair to be held Wednesday
A construction career fair will be held Wednesday in the Buffalo Niagara Convention, aiming to attract students and others to the industry.The career fair will be open to high school juniors and...
View ArticleErie County authorizes social media tracking to protect children
Searching social media websites has become the newest means for selected Erie County Child Protective Services workers to track those who are under investigation for alleged child abuse.County...
View ArticleDiPietro to host education forum in Elma
Assemblyman David DiPietro, R-East Aurora, will host a State Assembly Minority forum on education in Elma on Saturday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Iroquois Middle School, 2111 Girdle Road,...
View ArticleAbandoned Jeep totalled when hit by freight train
Hamburg police about 10:30 p.m. tonight were investigating an abandoned vehicle that was struck by a freight train on tracks near Bayview Road near Willowdale Avenue.Police have located the owners of...
View ArticleKrebs re-elected mayor in Springville
Springville Mayor William Krebs easily won re-election to another term on Tuesday.Elections were held in six Erie County villages. Many of the candidates had no opponent, and incumbents were returned...
View ArticleMaple Weekend locations
Maple Weekend, which is held annually to draw attention to the maple industry, began in Western New York 19 years ago.“It has done a tremendous amount of educational and marketing of maple products to...
View ArticleMan leaves girlfriend’s Jeep on train tracks in Hamburg, where it is...
Talk about a crash ending to a relationship.Hamburg Police said a man drove his girlfriend’s Jeep on railroad tracks and left it there about 9 p.m. Tuesday night, where it was demolished by a Norfolk...
View ArticleBuffalo-area school kids get chance to see NCAA athletes up close
Josiah Harris and most of his classmates from Niagara Falls’ Gaskill Preparatory School have never been inside First Niagara Center, but they sat in the front row of the arena today, and from of the...
View ArticleMercy Flight helicopter makes emergency landing in East Aurora
A Mercy Flight helicopter on the way to pick up a patient made an emergency landing at the Bob-O-Links Golf Course in East Aurora at about 10 a.m. today when the pilot suspected some possible...
View ArticleRobert C. Potter, Bethlehem Steel diesel mechanic
May 3, 1931 – March 17, 2014Robert C. Potter, a diesel mechanic at the Bethlehem Steel plant for 33 years, died Monday in his Lackawanna home after a short illness. He was 82.Born in Buffalo, he...
View ArticleSchumer presses Army Corps to help with ice control plan for Buffalo Creek
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop an ice control plan to ease the flooding that has plagued West Seneca residents living along Buffalo...
View ArticleConcord man held without bail following standoff with deputies
A Town of Concord man accused of firing at authorities during a more than 12-hour standoff that started Sunday night at his home is being held without bail in the Erie County Holding Center.Matthew W....
View ArticleFate of decaying Price house debated in East Aurora
The owner of a decaying house where a Fisher-Price toy company founder once lived repeated his wish to tear it down at the same meeting that the Historic Preservation Commission accepted a request for...
View ArticleBuffalo Zoo wants you to “power down”
The Buffalo Zoo wants you to turn off non-essential lights, appliances and electronics for an hour next week to help save polar bears in the wild.The zoo says that “Power Down for Polar Bears,” held...
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