FMC hosts Community Day Saturday in Middleport
MIDDLEPORT – The FMC Corp. plant on Route 31 will host a Community Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, offering plant tours and other educational, community and children’s activities. Free hot dogs...
View ArticleSoftball tourney is a success for Camp Hope
WHEATFIELD – The 2014 Niagara County Teachers Charity Softball Tournament, held Sunday in Fairmount Park, raised almost $2,000 for Niagara Hospice’s Camp Hope, organizers said.Starpoint won the...
View ArticleSize of bids puts Town of Lockport plans for sidewalks, sewers on hold
LOCKPORT – Plans to build new sidewalks near schools and to replace water and sewer lines in two subdivisions were placed on hold Monday, as the Town Board learned that bids far exceeded budgeted cost...
View ArticleTour de Cure fundraiser for American Diabetes Association set for Saturday
SANBORN – The annual Tour de Cure, the American Diabetes Association’s bicycling fund-raiser, will start and end at Niagara County Community College Saturday. A variety of scenic routes ranging from...
View ArticleRetirement is bittersweet for Lockport K-9 Officer Steven Ritchie
LOCKPORT – Longtime K-9 Officer Steven Ritchie stepped into retirement on Monday with handshakes and cheers from nearly 100 well-wishers from his department and others who lined the exit with an...
View ArticleFamily Safety Fair at Niagara Power Project Saturday
LEWISTON-The New York Power Authority will host a family safety fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Power Vista, the visitors center at the Niagara Power Project, 5777 Lewiston Road.The event...
View ArticleTargeting of emissions seen as N.Y. advantage
WASHINGTON – In its strongest measure yet to combat climate change, the Obama administration Monday proposed new rules that would dramatically cut carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants. It’s...
View ArticleWheatfield Town Board balks at limiting fowl in residential zones
WHEATFIELD – A law to limit the number of chickens and other fowl that can be kept in residential zones won no support from the Town Board on Monday.A 40-minute public hearing disclosed that the...
View ArticleLockport scholarship winners announced
LOCKPORT – Shawn M. Moore and Uriel Mandujano Ortiz of Lockport High School are this year’s winners of the Rotary Club of Lockport’s college scholarships.Shawn won an academic scholarship of $2,000...
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You probably know a couple just like Art and Marion Fowler, the long-married, middle-aged pair whose complicated and unexpectedly tender story Stewart O’Nan tells in his novel “The Odds.”You might...
View ArticleYoung woman is slashed in the face by a box cutter
NIAGARA FALLS – An 18-year-old Falls girl was cut several times on her face by a female using a box cutter as a weapon at 8:30 p.m. Monday in the 2700 block of Highland Avenue.The victim told police...
View ArticleFalls man charged following heroin sales investigation
NIAGARA FALLS – A two month long joint investigation by the Niagara County Drug Task Force and the Niagara Falls Narcotics Investigation Division into heroin sales has led to the arrest of a Falls...
View ArticleMiddleport woman charged with drunken driving
ROYALTON – A stop was made by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies early Monday after a car was observed weaving along the road.September L. Edwards, 55, of South Vernon St., was charged with failure to...
View ArticleSurveillance cameras are disabled prior to car theft
WILSON – A Dorwood Park resident told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Monday that sometime overnight someone disconnected her surveillance cameras which were set up to watch her front door and...
View ArticleAge progression photo issued in search of Wheatfield boy missing for over 30...
The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office hopes modern technology will help in the search for Russell Mort, who was 2½ when he disappeared May 5, 1982, from his fenced in backyard at 2080 River Road in the...
View ArticleWest Seneca town attorney suggests officials examine ‘equate’...
NEWS STAFF REPORTERIt’s been several weeks since lawmakers in West Seneca unanimously approved a six-month moratorium that applies to anaerobic digestion facilities and related issues.Town Attorney...
View ArticleNYPA hosts a family safety fair
LEWISTON – Children and adults are invited to the New York Power Authority’s Family Safety Fair with exhibits that range from constructing safety-related items like fire trucks and medical helicopters...
View ArticleMonument to be unveiled at Niagara almshouse cemetery
LOCKPORT – A ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday will mark the restoration of a long-forgotten cemetery that holds the graves of hundreds of people who died in the former Niagara County Almshouse, also known...
View ArticleFalls man takes 10-year sentence cap in shooting
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who shot another Falls resident with a rifle Sept. 2 accepted a plea deal Tuesday that limited his potential prison time to 10 years.Darrell L. Stewart, 32, of Cedar...
View ArticleSecond man pleads guilty to invading home of Falls pawnshop owner
LOCKPORT – Robert J. Thornton of Niagara Falls pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court to his role in the invasion of the home of a pawnshop owner.Thornton, 25, of Fairfield Avenue, admitted to...
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