Lockport officials vow to improve financial oversight
LOCKPORT – After a state audit charged the City of Lockport with keeping such poor financial records that the Common Council didn’t realize the city was running a deep deficit, officials are promising...
View ArticleAround Town / Niagara County meetings and hearings this week
Barker The Village Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Village Hall, 8708 Main St. Lewiston The Town Board will meet at 6 p.m. Monday in Town Hall, 1375 Ridge Road. Lockport The Town Board will meet...
View ArticleRoyalton Hartland Community Library adds new free service
MIDDLEPORT – The Royalton Hartland Community Library has added a new, free magazine service called “Zinio,” for patrons to use on its new computer and Internet station.Library Director Rose Bernard...
View ArticleLocal hospitals are being more innovative to reach out to patients
The days of hospitals waiting for patients to show up at their door are gone. Niagara County’s hospitals are branching out and changing in an effort to be more competitive by enhancing the patient’s...
View ArticleNiagara County faith-related events Jan. 12-19
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 ArticleCareer devoted to community action leads to Food Bank
Carol Palumbo has spent her career engaged in community action.The Lewiston resident is the new agency services director at the Food Bank of Western New York after a nearly three-year stint on its...
View ArticleRestaurant review / Fieldstone Country Inn
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – My wife and daughters stopped in at the Fieldstone Country Inn following a recent show at the Palace Theatre, and they raved about the place – so much so, in fact, that we had to...
View ArticleReplace Miller Park’s benches gets life from donor
NORTH TONAWANDA – Although picnics and barbecues seem far away at this time of year, the Nor-Ton Red Jacket Club is gearing up to replace eight new picnic tables and benches that will make the Donald...
View ArticleSilver Creek gets good news about hospital
SILVER CREEK – More than 1,000 people who crowded into the auditorium of Silver Creek Central School Saturday for a rally to keep Lake Shore Hospital from closing heard some encouraging news. A...
View ArticleCourt to decide who’s eligible to become Lockport fire chief
LOCKPORT – Who should be considered for promotion to fire chief was the question at the heart of a lawsuit the city filed last week against the firefighters’ union.The Lockport Professional Fire...
View ArticleThe answers to age-old questions about WNY
We know where the Amherst, Cheektowaga and West Seneca school districts are, but how about districts where the name doesn’t give you a clue, like Iroquois, or Starpoint?Most of the districts...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• Old Beebe Road & Ridge Road, Phyllis R. Orchard; Virginia I. Ferchen to McCollum Farm Partnership, $77,000.HARTLAND• Drum Road, Robert F. Kennedy; Patrick M. Balkin to Robert Westmiller;...
View ArticleNU ‘Short Play Festival’ coming
LEWISTON – Niagara University Theatre’s annual “Short Play Festival,” scheduled Friday through next Sunday, will offer theatergoers a smorgasbord of genres, served up in quick, 10-minute bites.Two...
View ArticleWould-be robbers flee empty-handed
NEWFANE - A McClew Road couple was confronted in their home Saturday night by a pair of masked assailants, one of whom displayed a gun.The would-be robbers entered the home through an unlocked kitchen...
View ArticleLabor Dept. investigating Niagara County sick-time case
LOCKPORT – The state Labor Department is investigating whether Niagara County leaders broke a law when they allegedly denied sick time to a county Health Department worker last year, a move that she...
View ArticleExpansion costs hit Taylor Devices on the bottom line
Taylor Devices’ expansion of its North Tonawanda facilities took a heavy toll on its second-quarter profits.The North Tonawanda shock absorber manufacturer’s earnings fell for the third straight...
View ArticleMiddleport native captures village’s porches on poster
MIDDLEPORT – A new hometown poster project photographed by a Middleport native captures the essence of life in a small village by featuring a collection of beautiful, residential porches.“Falling for...
View ArticleMan finds a burglar climbing out a window
NIAGARA FALLS – A 53-year old man called police when he spotted the silhouette of a man climbing out of his window in the 900 block of Grove Avenue at 1:25 a.m. Monday.The victim said he left at 12:30...
View ArticleLawyer’s office is burglarized
NIAGARA FALLS – A local lawyer, who provides public defender services in the city, was the victim of a break-in over the weekend.The owner of a building at 1520 Pine Ave., which houses the legal...
View ArticleProsecution rests case in trial of woman accused of fatal stabbing
LOCKPORT – The prosecution rested its case Monday in the Niagara County Court manslaughter trial of Jennifer R. Marchant, and the case could go to the jury today.Defense attorney Dominic Saraceno had...
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