Getting ready for spring is horticulturist’s job
LOCKPORT – The growing season is over all too soon for Western New York, so it’s no wonder the anticipation of spring and the wish to end a long winter are on everybody’s mind.But for John A....
View ArticleNiagara Honor Roll
Seven members of Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc. have successfully earned the 2013 National Dairy Quality Award from a total of 53 winners nationwide. Additionally, two of the winners were organic...
View ArticleThree Niagara County villages hold budget hearings this week
Three public hearings are slated this week regarding village budgets for 2014-15.Public hearings are planned for 7 p.m. Monday in both Middleport and Barker, while Youngstown will hold its hearing at...
View ArticleDeputy, suspect tumble down Lockport hill
LOCKPORT – It was all downhill for a Niagara Falls man as he tripped while running from officers early Saturday after a reported fight at Main and Locust streets.Lockport police reported that when...
View ArticleArmed robbery at Lockport 7-Eleven
LOCKPORT – Two men, one of them armed with a gun, robbed the 7-Eleven store at South Transit and West High streets about 4 a.m. Sunday, Lockport police said.The men fled with an undetermined amount of...
View ArticleNiagara County Fair’s 2014 logo chosen
LOCKPORT – Matthew McAuley, 15, of Lockport, has been named the winner of the Niagara County fair 2014 logo design contest.Matthew, a sophomore at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, was chosen through...
View ArticleDeBacco named OB/GYN coordinator at Niagara Falls Memorial
NIAGARA FALLS – Laura M. DeBacco will join the OB/GYN Center at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center as its full-time coordinator, effective April 14.DeBacco will direct operations at the center and...
View ArticleNiagara County Health Dept. sets chronic disease classes
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Health Department and the county Office for the Aging are offering free six-week classes in managing chronic disease, beginning this week.One class begins Tuesday in St....
View ArticleUnited Way of Greater Niagara names award winners
NIAGARA FALLS – The United Way of Greater Niagara will honor several award winners Thursday for helping out during last year’s fund drive.The awards will be given at the United Way’s annual meeting,...
View ArticleBulk trash will be collected in Niagara Falls this week through May 9
NIAGARA FALLS – Starting this week and running through May 9, city residents will be able to dispose of bulk trash items with the regular weekly garbage pickup.Tree limbs must be cut in 4-foot...
View ArticleVolunteer firefighters win tax exemption, push other issues
WHEATFIELD – The state association representing volunteer firefighters saw some legislative success in the last year, most significantly in getting an income tax exemption for pension-type payouts...
View ArticleNiagara Falls Memorial board re-elects officers
NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Board of Directors has re-elected its slate of officers and given new three-year terms to four incumbent board members, hospital spokesman...
View ArticleLockport Public Library seeks 1.57% tax increase
LOCKPORT – The Lockport Public Library is seeking a 1.57 percent tax increase as it reduces its staff by not replacing retirees.Library Director Beverly J. Federspiel said Friday that the library also...
View ArticlePrayer protest brings fight to bishop's yard
Nearly three months after the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo announced that it would close 10 of its elementary schools in Western New York at the end of the school year, families from some of the...
View ArticleFour-vehicle crash on Transit Road injures three
Three people were injured in a four-vehicle crash near the intersection of Transit and Robinson roads in the Town of Lockport this morning, state police said. One driver was taken by Mercy Flight to...
View ArticleBlack media panel to speak at Buffalo State networking session
“Meet the Black Media,” a free networking event for all aspiring journalists and others pursuing careers in media, will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Bulger Communication Center at SUNY Buffalo...
View ArticleAul, Lockport banker, to join NCIDA board
LOCKPORT – Joan G. Aul, an executive of M&T Bank, is expected to be appointed by the County Legislature Tuesday to a seat on the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.Legislature Chairman...
View ArticleLockport health club plans $1 million renovation of closed elementary school
LOCKPORT – The owner of Ultimate Physique, a Lockport health club that plans to buy the closed Washington Hunt Elementary School, said it will cost him plenty to convert the two-story building into a...
View ArticleNiagara County shelves plans for new phone network
LOCKPORT – Niagara County has decided to drop plans to seek its own bids for a new telephone and data network, a key legislator said Monday.Legislator Anthony J. Nemi, I-Lockport, said the county is...
View ArticleTax rates go up in the 2014-2015 Village of Lewiston spending plan
LEWISTON – The Village Board proposed a $3.3 million budget for 2014-2015 that will raise village taxes from the current $7.12 per $1,000 to $7.26 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, an increase of 14...
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