5 hurt in 3-vehicle crash on Tonawanda Reservation
Five people, including three Williamsville teenagers, were injured in a three-vehicle crash Saturday on the Tonawanda Indian Reservation.It was an ugly crash scene, but everyone is expected to...
View ArticleHolland School Board passes budget that ups tax levy, cuts jobs
The Holland School Board has approved a $17.9 million spending plan for 2013-14 that stays under the tax cap, but will mean cuts to programs and personnel.Among the cut are teachers in physical...
View ArticleMotorcyclist without helmet seriously injured in East Amherst crash
A motorcyclist – traveling without a helmet and in the wrong lane – collided with a vehicle Saturday evening in East Amherst.Philip J. Gaulin, 46, suffered serious head injuries and was taken by...
View ArticleMuch rests on Buffalo School Board race
Change is coming to the Buffalo School Board.Some of it is certain. Come July, two of the incumbents no longer will sit on the board. One decided not to seek re-election; the other was knocked off the...
View ArticleRenewable energy fair in Appleton
APPLETON – In an eco-friendly barn on Route 18, in the shadow of a towering wind turbine, Singer Farm Naturals will fittingly host a “Renewable Energy Fair” today in an effort to better acquaint the...
View ArticleNiagara Honor Roll / Recognizing the accomplishments of Western New Yorkers
Three Niagara County Community College students – Alexandra Gancasz of Barker, Charitie Bruning of Lockport and Kensia Russell of Appleton – were honored with the 2013 Chancellor’s Award for Student...
View ArticleNew Directions’ fundraiser features local wineries, samples from...
LOCKPORT – New Directions Youth and Family Services, which provides services for at-risk children and families, is holding an evening of wine, music and hors d’oeuvres at the fourth annual Wines of...
View ArticleEast Aurora prepares for Decorators’ Show House
The spotlight may be on the 2013 Decorators’ Show House at Knox Farm State Park over its three-week run that kicked off this weekend, but little East Aurora is piggybacking off the big event, which is...
View ArticleHoughton College plans night degree programs in Lockport, Falls
LOCKPORT – Houghton College will extend its nighttime degree offerings into Niagara County later this year, with classes at the Kenan Center in Lockport and the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in...
View ArticleMaking music at an old Italian social club
NIAGARA FALLS – Tony Marcolini spent most of his adult life working in factories, first at the Nabisco plant checking Triscuits and then across the country to Arizona and Washington.At the same time,...
View ArticlePost-prom party gives Falls students a night to look forward to
High school seniors plan all year for one of the biggest nights of their lives – the prom. And two Niagara Falls High School teachers spend just as much time planning for an all-night “post prom” so...
View ArticleOhio Street's rebirth is rowing on the river
In 1912, Buffalo had 14 rowing clubs, attracting many West Side and South Buffalo mill and factory workers who wanted to blow off some steam after a long day at work, almost the way softball teams do...
View ArticleChautauqua County event makes a big deal over Bigfoot
DEWITTVILLE – Mary Ann Roller is unabashed in describing the 7-foot creature she saw one morning in the woods behind her Chautauqua County home.“I know what I saw,” said Roller, a nurse who lives not...
View ArticleUB museum presents the human brain as science, art – and one...
It’s like gazing into a mirror.And a crystal ball.And, in some ways, a history book – all at the same time.The human brain offers an intriguingly triplicate view of ourselves, to those willing to...
View ArticleLauren Belfer finds her way back home
The Buffalo that Lauren Belfer will visit when she speaks at Larkinville on May 6 is far different from the one she couldn’t wait to leave as a young woman in the 1970s.That Buffalo, the one she...
View ArticleA flourishing cultural scene that knows no bounds
Since I started covering art and theater in Western New York in the winter of 2007, I have often wondered aloud and in print exactly when the remarkable growth of Buffalo’s cultural scene might...
View ArticleVillage hoping to lure Knox Show House visitors
The spotlight may be on the 2013 Decorators’ Show House at the Knox summer Estate over its three-week run that kicked off this weekend, but little East Aurora is piggy-backing off the big event which...
View ArticleLackawanna senior dies while on class trip
A Lackawanna High School senior died of unknown causes Friday while on a class trip in Florida, a school district official told The Buffalo News on Saturday.Jeffrey Cintron was one of 48 seniors and...
View ArticleFire stations hope ‘tryouts’ ignite interest in volunteering
Joe Tasker’s moment came Saturday when Tasker pried open a car door using the Jaws of Life, rescuing an imaginary victim in the back seat of makeshift car wreck at William Street’s Doyle Hose Co. 1 on...
View ArticleA battle for the streets
Tariq “Reek” Brown from the Bailey Boys gang thought he spotted rival gangsters at a picnic in Martin Luther King Park last May. Holding his pistol-grip assault rifle, police say, he sprayed bullets...
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