Medina firm receives tax breaks for move to Lockport
WHEATFIELD – The planned move of Trek Inc. from Medina to Lockport cleared another hurdle Wednesday, as the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency approved a 20-year property tax break on the...
View ArticleTwo teens face suspension and drug charges in Sanborn
SANBORN – Two Niagara Academy teens were charged by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies in separate drug-related cases Tuesday. Both boys were suspended pending a superintendent’s conference.One teen...
View ArticleDunkirk drug trafficking suspect arrested in buffalo
An accused Chautauqua County drug trafficker was arrested in Buffalo Wednesday, Chautauqua County sheriff’s and Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force officials announced.Brenda Carter-Ducett, 50, was...
View ArticleNews school superintendent takes charge in Batavia
BATAVIA – The City School District this week formally installed a new superintendent to oversee the system’s 2,400 students.Christopher J. Dailey, a resident of Pittsford and former high school...
View ArticleTuscarora man pleads guilty in fatal car wreck
LOCKPORT – A man who crashed his car into a tree on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation last summer, fatally injuring his best friend, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Pierce L. Abrams,...
View ArticleHome builder executive sentenced to probation
The vice president of a well-known luxury home building company in East Amherst was sentenced Wednesday to one year on probation after pleading guilty to third-degree sexual assault.Henry Jurek III,...
View ArticleFree tax services available in the Falls and Lewiston for low-income taxpayers
LEWISTON – Elderly and low-income taxpayers in the Niagara Falls area received more than $575,000 in federal and state income-tax refunds last year with free tax-preparation help from students in the...
View ArticleTonawanda City School Board picks superintendent
The Tonawanda City School Board decided to stay close to home and approved secondary school Principal James Newton as its new superintendent this week by a 6-1 vote.Newton, a South Buffalo native who...
View ArticleIroquois school chief defends handling of finances
Iroquois Superintendent Douglas Scofield directed the first in a series of budget workshops for less than a dozen people Tuesday, and emphasized that the district is not teetering near insolvency, a...
View ArticleSloma resigns as Niagara IDA chairman
WHEATFIELD – Henry M. Sloma, who has been chairman of the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency for more than seven years, resigned Wednesday.Sloma said he has a business opportunity that might...
View ArticleOfficials confident money will yield Granville’s killers
WASHINGTON – Big-money rewards led to the capture of two of Saddam Hussein’s sons and the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and State Department officials said Wednesday that they’re...
View ArticleAmherst flips from downsizing to upsizing
A resolution by Amherst Council Member Mark Manna to downsize the Town Board to three members has strangely evolved into an upsizing resolution to keep the board at six members.Confused? You’d be in...
View ArticleRepublican weighs bid for mayor amid flux
A Republican is seriously considering running for mayor in 2013, potentially undermining the recent GOP strategy of suppressing turnout in heavily Democratic Buffalo to boost the party’s countywide...
View ArticleGroup home placement eyed for sex offender
LOCKPORT – A developmentally disabled man, who had sex with a 15-year-old girl several times last year, was placed on 10 years’ probation Thursday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who said...
View ArticleHertel Avenue man pleads guilty in NT crack case
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man admitted in Niagara County Court Thursday that he dealt crack cocaine in North Tonawanda last summer.Jamar M. Harris, 24, of Hertel Avenue, pleaded guilty to fifth-degree...
View ArticleEast Aurora superintendent gets 9.4 percent raise
East Aurora School Superintendent Brian D. Russ received a two-year contract extension from the School Board this week, which boosts his yearly salary by 9.4 percent, to $145,000.The board approved...
View ArticleKloch forces end to North Tonawanda storekeeper’s suit against city
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Thursday forced convenience store owner Muwafek S. “Moe” Rizek to sign a document which apparently voids his civil rights lawsuit against...
View ArticleMedical waste disposal firm pays five local public entities
One of the nation’s largest medical waste disposal firms has settled with five local public entities among the hundreds across the state that it has been accused of overcharging for its...
View ArticleSchool Board reschedules vote on teacher evaluation plan
The Hamburg School Board has rescheduled its special meeting for 4:30 p.m. today in the Administration Building, 5305 Abbott Road.The board planned to meet early this morning to approve the teacher...
View ArticleFree workshop to be offered on dangers, detection of radon
A free workshop on the risks of radon gas will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the South Buffalo office of Neighborhood Housing Services, 1937 South Park Ave.Frank Scarpinato, Erie County’s...
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