Proposed Barker school budget carries 2.5% spending decrease
BARKER – The Barker School District will hold a public hearing on its proposed $18.5 million budget for 2014-15 at 7 p.m. Monday in the auditorium of the high school, 1628 Quaker Road. The proposed...
View ArticleWilson school spending hikes offset by cutbacks
WILSON – Anticipated spending increases in special education and benefits in the Wilson School District’s proposed budget for 2014-15 will be offset by the consolidation of two elementary schools,...
View ArticleGraduates of Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy ready for the streets
LEWISTON – Learning teamwork is a top priority for new graduates of the Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy, many of whom will take to the street immediately as rookie police officers. Niagara...
View ArticleDeliberations in Madore trial begin with jury confused on definitions
LOCKPORT – During a conference of more than an hour Thursday to decide what instructions to give the jury in Marc A. Madore’s attempted-murder trial, Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas...
View ArticleForeclosed Lockport office buildings may be sold
LOCKPORT – A deal appears to be in the works for three downtown office buildings, two of them leased by Niagara County, to be turned over to the mortgage holder for possible resale.“We’ve essentially...
View ArticleGarden Notes / News of area clubs and events
Evans Garden Club will hold its annual plant auction and sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Evans Center Volunteer Fire Co., Route 5, Angola. The auction begins at 11:30 a.m....A free...
View ArticleDEC accepting comments on CWM landfill expansion bid
The public can weigh in through early July on the long-anticipated application by CWM Chemical Services for a new hazardous waste landfill in Porter.CWM filed an application with the the state...
View ArticleNiagara University and Niagara Catholic High School create tourism academy
Niagara University and Niagara Catholic High School are joining forces for a “Hospitality and Tourism Academy” to offer high school students the opportunity to graduate from Niagara Catholic with up...
View ArticleCommunities agree on water supplier
SHERIDAN – Community leaders at a meeting of the Chautauqua County Regional Water Agency have agreed to a program using Dunkirk and Fredonia as water sources. Mayors, supervisors, county legislature...
View ArticleFalls man given chance to earn probation on drug charge
LOCKPORT – A man who pleaded guilty to a drug possession felony was placed on six months’ interim probation Friday, even though he has failed at five or six drug rehabilitation stints.“It will be by...
View ArticleBuffalo man jailed in Falls shooting incident
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man who fired a stolen handgun into a group of people outside a Niagara Falls bar two years ago was sentenced to a year in the Niagara County Jail Friday.Niagara County Judge Sara...
View ArticleJudge grants probation to “marginally compliant” burglar
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas granted a sentence of three years’ probation Friday to a burglar who didn’t quite complete the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug...
View ArticleSouth Transit Street in City of Lockport to be repaved next week
LOCKPORT – Weather permitting, work is expected to begin Monday on the milling and repaving of South Transit Street, Route 78, in the City of Lockport from the Tri-Way Bridge over the Erie Canal to...
View ArticleWheatfield man goes to prison for felony DWI
LOCKPORT – A Wheatfield man, who was sent to state prison earlier this year for a felony driving while intoxicated incident in the City of Tonawanda, received an identical sentence of one to three...
View ArticleLockport hires Albany law firm to battle firefighters
LOCKPORT – The city will use an Albany law firm in addition to its local counsel to handle the lawsuit against its firefighters union over the city’s efforts to reduce Fire Department staffing and...
View ArticleFalls man convicted in near-fatal stabbing of friend
LOCKPORT – Marc A. Madore was convicted Friday of the near-fatal stabbing of a friend after a day of heavy drinking in the victim’s Niagara Falls home.A Niagara County Court jury of nine men and three...
View ArticleLockport hires Albany law firm to battle firefighters
LOCKPORT – The city will use an Albany law firm in addition to its local counsel to handle the lawsuit against its firefighters union over the city’s efforts to reduce Fire Department staffing and...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man arrested for hitting woman at Children’s Hospital
A 37-year-old North Tonawanda man was arrested Thursday night at Women & Children’s Hospital after punching a woman and fighting with hospital security officers in front of a young child.Andre S....
View ArticleTown of Niagara Board to vote on new supervisor
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The Town Board will decide next week who will take over the supervisor’s position.During a work session Thursday, Deputy Supervisor Danny Sklarski said the board will wait for a...
View ArticleLockport Community Garden to be installed today
LOCKPORT – The city’s second community garden is to be installed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Ontario and Hawley streets. The project follows up on the first garden, installed last year at Washburn...
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