A happy 50th anniversary ... times three
On Sept. 12, 1964, three area couples were married in separate churches. That day and for years after, they had no knowledge of each other. Fifty years later, they are close friends spending their......
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• Thrall Road, David Thruston; David A. Thurston to Tracy A. Kneeppel; Christopher W. Kneeppel, $210,000.• Shawnee Road, Kristen A. Johnstone; Kristen A. Gerstung to Thomas A.... Read More
View ArticleThree injured in head on crash in Pendleton
Three people were injured when a SUV and pickup truck collided on Campbell Boulevard in the Town of Pendleton late Saturday night, Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies reported.The SUV began to ... Read...
View ArticleWheatfield crash injures four
WHEATFIELD – Four people were injured and two drivers remained hospitalized in fair condition Sunday after a Wheatfield driver crossed into an oncoming lane and struck another car Saturday... Read More
View ArticleChemists tells concerned Wheatfield residents the EPA’s rules on...
Regulations on contaminants in a fertilizer made from treated sewer sludge are outdated and fail to test for the presence of a wide range of possibly toxic metals, pathogens and synthetic organic......
View ArticlePassenger in head-on crash now ‘critical’
One of three seriously injured individuals involved in a head-on collision late Saturday night on Campbell Boulevard in Pendleton was listed in critical condition today, authorities said.Carol J.......
View ArticleDinner-dance to benefit Federation for the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind scholarship program will benefit as the organization holds a dinner-dance Oct. 3 in the Holiday Inn Buffalo Airport, 4660 Genesee St., Cheektowaga.Tickets are......
View ArticleFlotilla to mark dedication of restored canal locks
LOCKPORT – Local boaters are invited to join a flotilla on the Erie Canal on Oct. 3 as part of the dedication of the canal’s nearly-restored Enlarged Locks 69 and 70.The flotilla will ... Read More
View ArticleOrleans, Niagara counties receive state mental-health funding
Orleans and Niagara counties will receive $199,030 from the state Office of Mental Health to boost crisis and mobile mental health services in the counties. The funding is a response to the closing...
View ArticleChemist tells concerned Wheatfield residents the EPA’s rules on...
Regulations on contaminants in a fertilizer made from treated sewer sludge are outdated and fail to test for the presence of a wide range of possibly toxic metals, pathogens and synthetic organic......
View ArticleNiagara Falls convenience store robbed at knife-point
NIAGARA FALLS – A man held up a 7-Eleven store at 2350 Hyde Park Blvd. at knifepoint at about 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.The clerk told police that the man entered looking for Motrin and... Read More
View ArticleHomeless and deaf man sentenced to prison in child pornography sentence
LOCKPORT – Louis W. Darling, 56, a homeless and deaf man facing child pornography charges in Niagara County Court on Monday was allowed to remove his handcuffs to communicate with the judge, ... Read...
View ArticleGeorgia rape suspect arrested at Rainbow Bridge
NIAGARA FALLS – A rape suspect from Georgia was detained at the Rainbow Bridge by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents Sunday, the agency reported Monday.Mohammed Ahmed, a U.S. citizen ... Read...
View ArticleFalls man received probation in an attempted robbery
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County judge gave a Niagara Falls man facing sentencing in an attempted armed robbery in Niagara County Court a second chance Monday. Marcus D. Hamilton Jr., 22, of... Read More
View ArticleThree Niagara Falls women agree to plea in a knife fight that injured four
LOCKPORT – Shortly before jury selection was to have started Monday in Niagara County Court, three women agreed to plead guilty in a knife fight that injured four people on July 10.The fight ... Read...
View ArticleOlcott man assaulted in a fight at Ransomville Speedway
RANSOMVILLE – A 34-year-old Olcott man told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that three men beat him up when an argument turned physical around a campfire on Brayley Road at the... Read More
View ArticleSanborn man gets new position with state Firemen’s Association
David F. Schmidt of Sanborn has been elected vice president of the board of trustees of the Firemen’s Association of New York [FASNY] Firemen’s Home, a specialized rehabilitation... Read More
View ArticleNearly $200,000 set aside for mental health services in Niagara, Orleans...
The state Office of Mental Health Services has allocated $199,030 for the expansion of crisis services in Orleans and Niagara counties. The funding will enable the counties to offer mobile mental......
View ArticleJury is told of drugging in Lockport rape trial
LOCKPORT – A Cottage Street man allegedly slipped drugs into a Lockport woman’s drink, walked her home and raped her while she was unconscious, according to the opening statement... Read More
View ArticleSnowmobile club plans show and swap meet
SANBORN – The Shawnee Sno-Chiefs Snowmobile Club will hold its 16th annual Snowmobile Grass Drags, ATV Races, Vintage Snowmobile Show and Swap Meet on Sept. 28 at the Shawnee Volunteer Fire... Read More
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