Niagara River chamber settles into new home
LEWISTON – The Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce, which is just getting settled into its new home in the Lewiston Welcome Center and has elected a new chairman of its board of directors, is...
View ArticleTowns get aggressive on sidewalk snow clearing
Persistent complaints and bad publicity regarding the failure of property owners to comply with sidewalk snow-clearing laws have prompted a couple of communities to pursue tougher penalties.Members of...
View ArticleFlu concerns lead to change in visiting age
Hospitals and other sites in Western New York operated by the Catholic Health System are changing the minimum age for visitors to 14, in an effort to reduce the spread of the flu.The move was...
View ArticleKen-Ton School Board weighs returning to single polling site
Fifteen years ago, the Ken-Ton School District went from one polling place to three for annual budget votes, School Board elections and the occasional referendum.On Tuesday, a public hearing will be...
View ArticleOutdated high school sound system has East Aurora singing the blues
Two wireless microphones aren’t going to take you far in today’s world of high school musical performances.But those two mics compose East Aurora High School’s “sound system,” if you could describe it...
View ArticleBuffalo’s property taxes still frozen, but reserves are dwindling
Mayor Byron W. Brown has kept his promise to freeze property taxes, but has used $40 million in leftover surplus during the last three years, leaving just $12.2 million in unrestricted funds.As the...
View ArticleRise in pill-induced abortions stirs questions on both sides
WASHINGTON – Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that American women have a right to terminate their pregnancies, abortion is going underground again.After decades of confrontational...
View ArticleDeborah McElwain Rapp finds a new life and new waters
Deborah McElwain Rapp has made fewer regular stops in Niagara Falls in the years since her parents died.But even now , the city where she grew up is still influencing her passion for water that gave...
View ArticleMobile Command Center goes operational for Niagara County Sheriff’s...
LOCKPORT – After more than two years of planning by the Niagara County’s Sheriff’s Office, a new and improved Mobile Command Center became operational last week.Featuring the latest in communications...
View ArticleCalled to defend a Sept. 11 planner
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a bearded 40-year-old bank clerk from Yemen, faces a federal trial for mass murder that is unlike anything this country has ever seen.He is one of five men accused of plotting and...
View ArticleHead-on crash kills Albion driver
GAINES – An Albion man was killed early today when his car ran off the road in the town of Gaines and crashed head-on into a newspaper delivery SUV, according to the Orleans County Shefiff’s...
View ArticleBig winds bring only minor problems in WNY
Old Man Winter huffed and puffed in a big way across Western New York on Sunday, but the bitterly cold windstorm didn’t blow down anything major.Temperatures dipped into the 20s and a few flurries...
View ArticleFate of Evans assessor still unclear
Reappointment of the Evans assessor is still in limbo, at least until the Town Board has a chance to talk with her about accusations that she’s showing favoritism with some of her property...
View ArticleBuffalo police name victim in city’s first homicide of 2013
The grieving family of Christopher D. Cotton is grappling to understand what could have happened to the 42-year-old Buffalo man, after he was found shot to death in his car at an East Side...
View ArticleTeen recalls Dr. King in inspirational speech at Kleinhans
Drawing heavily on religious themes, the dreams of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the election of America’s first black president, Barack Obama, a 15-year-old boy delivered a message of...
View ArticleThree-way ‘pulpit exchange’ strengthens bonds
The Rev. Thomas Yorty wrote his sermon as usual last week. But the members of Westminster Presbyterian Church, where he is pastor, didn’t hear it on Sunday.Instead, Yorty delivered his talk Friday...
View ArticleSpirits rising at ‘a funky old building’ on East Side
The structure at 298 Northampton St. is “a funky old building” with a lot of history, including life as a laundromat and the former headquarters of Buffalo ReUse, said building manager Kevin Hayes.But...
View ArticleReporters’ Notebook
OLAF FUB SEZ: A good question from science-fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin, born on this date in 1929: “What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” ...Buffalo: Act III’d like to write...
View ArticleDay in court eludes families of Flight 3407
Nearly four years have passed since the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, and families of the victims are again wondering: How much longer will their legal battle with...
View ArticleVote on guns puts Grisanti back in forefront of activist ire
ALBANY – Go to State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti’s campaign Facebook page and you’ll find the usual: photos of the Buffalo Republican, a link to donate money and various tidbits of information.And then...
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