State funds spur North Tonawanda in tech-aided plan to fix roads
NORTH TONAWANDA – The brutal winter and devastating frost cycle tore up highways throughout the area. In the City of North Tonawanda, a plan was unveiled Tuesday that will use additional state funding...
View ArticleSpecifics of Lockport golf tourney expenses weren’t authorized,...
LOCKPORT – Brian D. Doyle, the attorney hired by the city to investigate the questionable use of a city credit card, said Tuesday that it would be up to Mayor Anne E. McCaffrey to decide whether to...
View ArticleParents, parishes scramble to figure out fate of displaced students
Bracing for an influx of 100 or more students in September, the pastor and principal at St. John Vianney School in Orchard Park expect to hire at least four new teachers, build a new science lab and...
View ArticleNiagara Legislature recognizes veteran wrestling coach Lang
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature declared Tuesday “Dick Lang Day” in honor of the longtime high school wrestling coach who also served as a conservation law enforcement officer and Royalton...
View ArticleJuvenile charged in robbery of Lockport 7-Eleven
Lockport police charged a juvenile early this morning and charged him with the robbery of a 7-Eleven store on Sunday night.An officer noticed the young male about 1:30 a.m. walking in the parking lot...
View ArticleWheatfield 7-Eleven robbed today
The 7-Eleven store on Ward Road in Wheatfield was robbed early this morning by a lone man who threatened to use a gun, Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies reported.The clerk at the store at 6955 Ward...
View ArticleLockport announces yard waste collection schedule
LOCKPORT – The city will collect yard waste during the first and third weeks of every month, beginning April 21 and ending Sept. 15, City Clerk Richelle J. Pasceri announced.The only exceptions will...
View ArticleKidney Foundation honors health care professionals
Three local health care professionals will be honored as the Northeast Kidney Foundation holds its 2014 Gift of Life Celebration Recognition Dinner at 6 p.m. April 10 at Brookfield Country Club, 5120...
View ArticleState parks officials willing to consider moving Tesla statue
NIAGARA FALLS – State parks officials are willing to talk about moving the Nikola Tesla statue off Goat Island.In a written statement, agency representatives left the door open to finding a new spot...
View ArticleOcelot kitten debuts at zoo
Arieta, an ocelot kitten born in December at the Buffalo Zoo, is now on exhibit in the M&T Bank Rainforest Falls exhibit.The Buffalo Zoo officials said the kitten was born Dec. 10 to first time...
View ArticleWoman pepper-sprayed by would-be purse thieves outside Seneca Niagara Casino
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman was pepper-sprayed by two would-be purse thieves in the parking lot of Seneca Niagara Casino Hotel early Wednesday.The 41-year-old victim told piolice the two men asked her for...
View ArticleBills official to address Falls Housing Authority summit on Friday
NIAGARA FALLS - Paul Lancaster, director of player engagement for the Buffalo Bills, will be the guest speaker at Friday’s summit for African American and minority male teens sponsored by the Niagara...
View ArticleAdams’ ‘Myths and Lies’ explores beauty, gender and...
A new series of paintings by the prolific Buffalo artist Bruce Adams will go on view Sunday in Niagara University’s Castellani Art Museum. The show, titled “Myths and Lies,” takes ancient mythology as...
View ArticleState willing to discuss relocating Tesla statue
NIAGARA FALLS – State parks officials are willing to talk about moving the Nikola Tesla statue off Goat Island.In a statement, agency representatives left the door open to finding a new spot for the...
View ArticleExtension photo contest to zero in on Niagara County agriculture
LOCKPORT – The Cornell Cooperative Extension Center is inviting photographers to participate in its 2014 photo contest, “A Good Thing Growing – Celebrating Niagara County Agriculture.”Photographs...
View ArticleLockport woman who had child by teen boy chooses jail
LOCKPORT – The attorney for Christine Baez-Melendez said in Niagara County Court Wednesday that his client would rather go to jail than spend six years on probation for having sex with a teenage boy...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in copper caper
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree burglary Wednesday for his role in the June 20 attempt to steal copper plumbing from a vacant house on Haeberle Avenue in that...
View ArticleKloch ridicules repeat burglar before sending him to prison
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. said Wednesday he wasn’t impressed with the performance of career criminal Robert B. Patrick.“I could say you’re a professional thief, but...
View ArticleState legislators call for DEC to revoke Quasar permits
WHEATFIELD – The two state legislators who live in Niagara County called Wednesday for the state to revoke Quasar Energy Group’s permits to store or use a byproduct from its food waste and sewage...
View ArticlePlans for hotel on Rainbow Blvd. in Falls are approved by board
NIAGARA FALLS – Plans for a $3.5 million, 76-room Fairfield Inn & Suites on Rainbow Boulevard won approval from the city Planning Board on Wednesday night.The five-story, 46,000-square-foot hotel...
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