Niagara Wheatfield school budget continues three-year dilemma
SANBORN – When voters in the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District go to the polls this month, they’re bound to get a feeling of déjà vu.They may see the budget proposal for 2014-15 as a repeat...
View ArticleBook includes local toy wagons
A recently released book on vintage toy wagons includes a chapter on North Tonawanda’s Buffalo Sled/Auto Wheel Coaster Co. The book was provided to the North Tonawanda History Museum for its reference...
View ArticleYoungstown mayor race heating up
YOUNGSTOWN – The mayor’s race is heating up in this little village of barely 2,000 people, with former Republican Mayor Norm Swann, who served from 1987 to 2001, challenging current Democratic Mayor...
View ArticleLewiston standoff ends after man sets fire to home
LEWISTON – A 51-year-old village man was being questioned late Sunday after holding police at bay for more than 12 hours and setting fire to his West Lane home before surrendering, state police...
View ArticleCraft brewers hail local farmers’ role
Until recently, brewers in Buffalo’s growing craft beer scene have had to look outside New York for the barley and hops needed to make their small batches.But these brewers say they’re pleased that an...
View ArticleDriver faces three charges
NIAGARA FALLS -- A LaSalle man faces three charges stemming from a Friday night incident in which he nearly struck the unmarked vehicle of a Niagara Falls police captain, according to reports.Dylan G....
View ArticleMobile home broken into for second time
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A home in the Village Mobile Home Park on South Transit Road was broken into over the weekend for the second time in the past month.
View ArticleWoman is victim of fraud
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A Dysinger Road woman learned she had been the victim of fraud Thursday morning when she received her daily text update from her bank.The victim was told that her account balance...
View ArticleBurglar leaves window open; loss is $1,500
TOWN OF LOCKPORT -- A Rapids Road woman returned from work Friday afternoon to a cold house -- caused by a kitchen window left open by a burglar.
View ArticleMan pleads not guilty in Falls triple shooting
LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly shot two brothers and their mother in the legs May 17 outside a Niagara Falls gas station pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday in Niagara County Court.Rayquan M....
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in motel drug case
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, one of three arrested Sept. 13 in a raid on a room in the Caravan Motel on Niagara Falls Boulevard in the Falls, pleaded guilty to a drug felony Friday in Niagara...
View ArticleLockport man arraigned on drug indictment
LOCKPORT – Dustin T. Peace, 24, of Evans Street, Lockport, pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment Friday in Niagara County Court.Peace was arrested after a Nov. 23 traffic stop in Pendleton,...
View ArticleSpeaker derides Reid Petroleum tax break request
LOCKPORT – The only speaker at a Niagara County Industrial Development Agency public hearing Friday in City Hall lambasted Reid Petroleum for seeking a 10-year tax break on an expansion of its...
View ArticleBrownfield cleanup planned for North Tonawanda site
NORTH TONAWANDA – The state Department of Environmental Conservation opened a 45-day public comment period Friday for the remediation of a brownfield at 600 River Road, North Tonawanda.The 5.95-acre...
View ArticleDEC touts safety of biosolids at meeting with towns
The state Department of Environmental Conservation hosted a meeting with officials from several Niagara County towns this week to try to convince them that the state’s regulations on the use of...
View ArticleLewiston woman arrested for serving minor at Lockport bar
LOCKPORT –A 19-year-old employee of the Lockport Pub was the only bar worker arrested for serving a minor during the latest underage alcohol enforcement sweep by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office,...
View ArticleWoman accompanied by juveniles is charged with shoplifting, endangerment
NIAGARA FALLS – Police said a woman was accompanied by two juveniles as she tried to shoplift nearly $200 worth of items from the Super WalMart store on Military Road Friday afternoon.Audrey L....
View ArticleTraffic stop in Town of Lockport yields syringes, drugs
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Gasport woman faces drug charges following a traffic stop Friday afternoon on Lake Avenue.Melissa A. Walker, 25, of Orangeport Road, was charged with criminal possession of a...
View ArticleCopper pipe, lawn items stolen from vacant Niagara Falls house
NIAGARA FALLS – About 250 feet of copper pipe and other items were stolen from a vacant Michigan Avenue house during a break-in overnight Thursday, police said.The house had been vacant for about two...
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