Afghan war veteran sentenced on one charge, arraigned on new ones
LOCKPORT – Joel S. Zsebehazy, who said he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder after serving in Afghanistan in 2003, was sentenced Friday to a year in jail for trying to choke a woman. He also...
View ArticleNiagara Falls Memorial’s medical staff elects officers
NIAGARA FALLS – Dr. Komal Chandan has been elected president of the medical staff at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, the hospital announced Friday. He will take office in January and serve a...
View Article'Your life can change in the blink of an eye'
Petite and soft-spoken with a hint of an Alabama accent, Sonia Whitlock tries to smile and look for positives. But she can’t stop the tears as she talks about a life-changing car crash and what that...
View ArticleAround Town / Niagara County meetings and hearings this week
Barker The School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the district’s administrative offices, Quaker and Haight roads. Cambria The Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Town Hall, 4160 Upper...
View ArticleLewiston animal shelter competing for grant from Ellen DeGeneres Show
LEWISTON – Heart of Niagara Animal Rescue was the vision of four Niagara County women who met while volunteering together at the Niagara County SPCA and left to form their own not-for-profit...
View ArticleNiagara County faith-related events Dec. 15-22
Today SERVICE: 2 p.m., Second Presbyterian Church, 71 Van Buren St., Lockport. Special service featuring Hands Up Ministries in partnership with lead pastor Al Robinson of Spirit of Truth Ministries....
View ArticleGroup home provides shelter for pregnant teens and at-risk new mothers
NIAGARA FALLS – A group home for pregnant teenagers and young mothers opened here recently to help address a growing problem in the city, which has the second highest teen pregnancy rate in the...
View ArticleInjury leads volleyball star to best place
Delaney Laper had her Division I dreams dashed in one freak fall.A standout junior on North Tonawanda High School’s powerhouse girls volleyball team in 2010, Laper was already being recruited by...
View ArticleRestaurant Review / A familiar spot takes on a new Latin/Mexican flavor
YOUNGSTOWN – When I heard that The Bistro at the Old Fort Inn was reopening under new management, I was intrigued. The old place had been one of our local favorites, after all. Would the new...
View ArticleNoted sculptor gains recognition with local work
An uncanny ability to discern subtle nuances and use them in bigger-than-life bronze statues of a wide variety of personalities has helped catapult sculptor Susan J. Geissler into the national art...
View ArticleTucker vows new concert series “won’t cost the city a...
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker is hoping to have an announcement by February of a new Friday night concert series in the City of Lockport that, unlike the former series, won’t be a cost item in...
View ArticleNiagara Honor Roll
Several community members were honored for their contributions to the Niagara County and Western New York communities at the Heroes of Niagara awards dinner held Dec. 5 at Niagara Falls Country Club...
View ArticleFalls will get ‘family-friendly’ park
NIAGARA FALLS – Next year, the city will have a new a pocket park that’s being dubbed “Niagara Falls Adventure Park.”The “family friendly” park will be constructed at 730 Cedar Ave., between Main...
View ArticleReliving drama from War of 1812 with a day of re-enactment, history and...
YOUNGSTOWN – Before the crack of dawn on a bitter morning 200 years ago this week, more than 500 British soldiers and their Native American allies stealthily arrived on the banks of the Niagara River...
View ArticleSchrader proposes restoring two Lockport city jobs
LOCKPORT – Employees in the City Clerk’s Office and the Highways and Parks Department, slated for layoff in the 2014 budget, would get their jobs back under terms of a resolution on Wednesday’s Common...
View ArticleSnow from the west to hit all of Buffalo region tonight
Forget the hype and spin, Justine Nadherny has the undeniable truth on her side.And in this case, the truth is 45 inches deep and powder perfect, ideal for skiing the slopes at Kissing Bridge.“We have...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• Shenk Road, Leo Benevento to Hunt & Associates, $504,000.• 3072 Shenk Road, Villella Associates Limited to Leo Benevento, $350,000.• Lower Mountain Road, Judith A. Schultz; Julie L....
View ArticleCorrection
Kelsey Russell, 20, was charged with five counts of petit larceny after a string of car break-ins in the Cambria area Nov. 7. The suspect, who was arrested Friday, was misidentified in a report...
View ArticleLafarge seeks 9.1-acre expansion of quarry in City of Lockport
LOCKPORT – Lafarge North America, which received a controversial approval of an enlargement of its stone-quarrying operations in the Town of Lockport a year ago, is making a similar request for its...
View ArticleLafarge seeks 9.1-acre expansion of quarry in City of Lockport
LOCKPORT – Lafarge North America, which received a controversial approval of an enlargement of its stone-quarrying operations in the Town of Lockport a year ago, is making a similar request for its...
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