Where we live: Lackawanna
Lackawanna The Lackawanna School Board will hold a budget work session at 6 p.m. Monday in the Superintendent’s Conference Room 202 in the administration building, 245 South Shore Blvd.Also this week:...
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Hamburg Nominations are being accepted for the town’s Youth Bureau service awards, which honors people in several categories.The top award is the Michael J. Dundon Service to Youth Award, presented to...
View ArticleWhere we live: Orchard Park
Orchard Park Kindergarten registration for 2014-15 in the Orchard Park School District is being held by appointment only, Mondays through Thursdays.For information, contact central registrar Karen...
View ArticleWhere we live: Aurora/East Aurora
Aurora/East Aurora Eighty-two votes were cast in last week’s uncontested village elections. Mayor Allan Kasprzak won another two-year term Tuesday with 69 votes. Incumbent trustees, who also won...
View ArticleWhere we live: Southern Erie County
Southern Erie County The Town of Brant has dedicated its Town Court room to longtime Justice Peter F. Gugino, who died last Aug. 10.Gugino served on the Brant Town Board in the 1960s and 1970s. He...
View ArticleWhere we live: West Seneca
West Seneca An organ recital will be held this afternoon at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations.The concert, which begins at 2 p.m. at 3512 Clinton...
View ArticleWhere are they now? Looking up Billie Lawless, Jim Lorentz, Semyon Bychkov...
Billie Lawless On a late-November day in 1984, Buffalo artist Billie Lawless got word that his controversial public sculpture, “Green Lightning,” was being demolished on the orders of Buffalo Mayor...
View ArticleThree injured in Orchard Park house fire
Three people were injured in a house fire this morning in Orchard Park, police reported.The fire at 5242 Big Tree Road, near Abbott Road, was reported shortly before 5 a.m. A neighbor told police...
View ArticleTwo juvenile boys arrested in brutal beating
Two juvenile boys have been arrested for allegedly taking part in the brutal beating of a 12-year-old boy in Angola two weeks ago, Evans Town police sad Monday. The two boys whose names were not...
View ArticleSeasonal farmers market to open May 15 in West Seneca
With commitments from 23 vendors and possibly more on the way, a seasonal farmers’ market in West Seneca received the green light Monday to begin operations May 15.The Town Board unanimously approved...
View ArticleState seeks vendor to provide recreation programming along Niagara Falls...
NIAGARA FALLS – The state is looking for a partner to help reimagine the landscape of the City of Niagara Falls with a new range of outdoor activities as a way to grow the tourist economy.Things like...
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Schwabl's working to reopen after crash
By Andrew Z. Galarneau On Dec. 2, the century-old building holding Schwabl’s Restaurant was struck by a sports utility vehicle going 61 miles per hour. As the drywall work continues, Schwabl’s owners...
View ArticleLegislature chairman wins environmental award from state group
Erie County Legislature Chairman John J. Mills has been honored by the board of the New York Water Environment Association with its Frank E. Van Lare Award for Mills efforts to protect and preserve...
View ArticleBuffalo woman tracked by GPS device pleads guilty to drug charges
A Buffalo woman has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from her arrest last fall in her car with $7,000 worth of heroin after authorities placed a global positioning device on the vehicle to track her...
View ArticlePoloncarz orders flags in county to be flown at half staff for Ralph Wilson
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has ordered flags on all county buildings to be flown at half staff in honor of Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who died Tuesday at 95.“On behalf of the people of...
View ArticleHamburg Central parents, teachers to meet on state aid
A parent information night on the impact of the state aid, particularly the “gap elimination adjustment,” on Hamburg Central and its students, will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Hamburg High School,...
View ArticleDixon to have community meetings
Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, R-Hamburg, has scheduled two community meetings in her district this week.The community meetings will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Lackawanna...
View ArticlePatricia Ann Courtney, active in community, mother of former congresswoman
April 23, 1937 – March 22, 2014Patricia Ann Courtney, a longtime active member of the Hamburg community and the mother of former Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul, died Saturday at her winter home in St....
View ArticleAmid uncertainty, school boards pare budgets
Suburban school boards continue to pare down their budgets for the 2014-15 school year while they wait to find out whether financial aid will be increased in the New York State budget.Districts are...
View ArticleWilson was a player’s owner
Members of the Buffalo Bills past and present expressed their grief Tuesday over the death of team owner Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Then they expressed their admiration for Wilson’s ability to make them feel...
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