Dyngus Day’s neighborhood roots
Buffalo’s Dyngus Day celebration today will be bigger than ever, with a parade and polka dancing, kielbasa and pierogi feasting, and pussy-willow and squirt-gun flirting.But the tradition started out...
View ArticleFalls family makes Easter dinner for hundreds of the city’s needy
NIAGARA FALLS – The aroma of fresh, hot turkey, ham and chicken wafted through the open side window of the little house on Ashland Avenue, where a line of hungry people waited eagerly Sunday to...
View ArticleFalls teenager arrested in gun attack
NIAGARA FALLS – A teen-ager faces felony assault charges after reportedly hitting a man in the face with the butt end of a rifle and threatening to shoot him early Sunday in the city’s LaSalle...
View ArticleSubaru stolen from Pendleton driveway
PENDLETON – A 2013 Subaru was stolen from the driveway of a Beach Ridge Road home early Easter Sunday morning, sheriff’s deputies reported.The owner had left the car unlocked, with the key inside. It...
View ArticleATV taken from a barn in Barker
BARKER -- A Polaris all-terrain vehicle was among the items stolen from a Lake Road barn overnight Saturday, sheriff’s deputies said.A thief removed a lock from the barn door sometime between 10:30...
View ArticlePolice investigate a car burglary
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – Police are checking a gift card found at the scene of a Friday morning car break-in for clues to the identity of the suspect. Sheriff’s deputies said that sometime overnight,...
View ArticleWoman reports unauthorized withdrawal
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Chestnut Ridge Road woman told police Saturday that someone had made an unauthorized withdrawal from her bank account.It was unknown exactly how the perpetrator accessed the...
View ArticleWindshield shattered during street fight
NIAGARA FALLS – The windshield of a woman’s car was shattered Easter Sunday afternoon after she parked near the scene of an ongoing street fight, police said. The victim, a Birch Avenue resident, told...
View ArticleCrash leads to DWI arrest
WHEATFIELD – A North Tonawanda man was charged with driving while intoxicated early Saturday after his car struck a utility pole in the 2600 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard, sheriff’s deputies...
View ArticleLockport developers revise subdivision layouts
LOCKPORT – Developers of two Town of Lockport subdivisions, both approved years ago but not yet built, presented requests to the town Planning Board last week to be allowed to construct the same...
View ArticleWWII engineer was involved in construction, destruction and much more
At 18 years old, Robert F. Batt enlisted in the family business of hanging wallpaper and painting with his dad, Eugene, throughout the Tonawandas.It was hard work, he recalled, “and you had to push...
View ArticleSpring showers may bring ugly algal bloom
This is a critical time in the calendar for Lake Erie.The lake is reawakening from one of its longest and most ice-encrusted winter slumbers in recorded weather history, and the next several weeks...
View ArticleJudge: Drug dealer's victim should 'bust' his nose
A judge Monday advised a young woman whose nose was broken last year by a Niagara Falls drug dealer, after she had been reported missing and traveling with him, to do the same to her attacker once he...
View Article93-year-old woman safely removed from burning house in North Tonawanda
NORTH TONAWANDA – A 93-year-old woman was removed this morning from a burning house on Lee Avenue. No injuries were reported. North Tonawanda Fire Chief John Lapham said the cause of the fire in the...
View ArticleUndercover police stop in Newfane was justified, sheriff says
NEWFANE – The Niagara County Sheriff Department had questioned the validity of a stop by an unknown undercover officer in Newfane two weeks ago, believing the man in the unmarked car was not an...
View ArticleSchumer opposes change that threatens Niagara Falls block grants
NIAGARA FALLS – The City of Niagara Falls is in danger of losing out on $2.2 million in guaranteed money used for things like demolition of blighted housing and youth programs.The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleBolvin released from state prison
Jeremy Bolvin, a 27-year-old North Tonawanda man who was twice convicted of brutally beating babies, was released from state prison Monday after serving about two years and six months for the latest...
View ArticleA Mini Cooper, jewelry, electronics and silver service stolen in a Falls...
NIAGARA FALLS – A $15,000 car was among the items stolen from a garage on College Avenue while a family was on vacation.A 56-year-old man told Niagara Falls police Sunday that when they returned home...
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