Cousin of Falls hoarder expected to pocket nearly $1 million
NIAGARA FALLS – The first cousin of Theodore Wroblewski, a Niagara Falls man who lived a solitary life in a garbage-strewn house before dying in his basement, appears to be about to collect an estate...
View ArticleWindow panes project is moving forward at North Tonawanda History Museum
NORTH TONAWANDA – Despite being closed for the season, work is going strong behind the scenes at the North Tonawanda History Museum. This includes the window pane covering project designed to provide...
View ArticleNiagara Honor Roll
Dr. Rosalind Nolan Sulaiman has joined the primary care team at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and will begin seeing patients of all ages at Grand Island Family Practice on Feb. 10.A graduate...
View ArticleLockport guardrail repairs will cost nearly $10,000
LOCKPORT – A juvenile driver wrecked a guardrail in the Spring Street tunnel last week, and it will cost the city nearly $10,000 to replace it. A 14-year-old was at the wheel of the car that wrecked...
View ArticleCommunity Missions sees record need for homeless services in 2013
NIAGARA FALLS – Community Missions of Niagara Frontier provided a record number of nights of shelter last year.The agency saw a 20 percent increase, to 10,986 nights of shelter provided to the...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• Human Road, Norman L. Human to Guy R. Little, $167,000.HARTLAND• Ellicott Road, Alicia Luke; Jeffrey B. Luke to Brian J. Wagner; Amanda A. Wagner, $154,500.• Orangeport Road, Kelly L....
View ArticleVolunteer patrols defuse teen tensions
They walk the Walden Galleria on weekend nights, looking for roving clusters of teens getting out of hand.They patrol Chippewa Street on some nights, keeping an eye on the young people who may be up...
View ArticleNew York Times loves Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – The City of Niagara Falls is in with some nice company, thanks to an international media outlet.The New York Times placed Niagara Falls on its recently published list of “52 Places to...
View ArticleNFJC to recognize community leaders at awards luncheon
The National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York will present its community leader awards at a noon lunch Jan. 29 in the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.Awards in the following...
View ArticleCambria woman charged with driving while impaired by sleeping pills
CAMBRIA -– A woman who smashed a roadside business sign before driving her car into a guardrail early Saturday reportedly told police that she had taken sleeping pills and consumed alcohol in the...
View ArticleSmall fire damages Lockport area home
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Lockwood Drive resident got a lucky break Sunday morning when his house caught fire while he was trying to thaw frozen water pipes.Sheriff’s deputies said the 10:48 a.m. fire at...
View ArticleAlleged speeding leads to DWI arrest
NEWFANE – Speeding on Lockport-Olcott Road early Sunday led to the arrest of a Newfane man for driving while intoxicated, according to reports.Nick E. Turvey Jr., 23, of Chestnut Road, was arrested at...
View ArticleFor the DiBernardos of North Tonawanda, art is a family affair
To call art a family affair with the DiBernardos would be an understatement.On Sunday, painter Vena DiBernardo’s abstract landscapes and figurative imagery shared the walls of the Carnegie Art Center...
View ArticleStolen lottery ticket was worth only $2
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A thief may have thought he hit the jackpot when he stole a winning lottery ticket from a Buffalo woman’s car on Saturday. No such luck. Sheriff’s deputies said the ticket was...
View ArticleHit and run accident leads to arrest
LEWISTON – Aided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway....
View ArticleDriver charged after failing to signal for a turn
NIAGARA FALLS – Failure to signal a turn led to problems for a 24th Street man Friday afternoon, police said. Milton L. Daniels IV, 25, was pulled over at Hyde Park Boulevard and Ontario Avenue...
View ArticleMan widowed in 2004 crash charged in Va. fatality
Ten years ago, Dr. Michael J. Carlson’s wife was killed when another driver hit their vehicle head-on while the couple and their three young children were on a visit to his parents in North...
View ArticleBuffalonians sing praises of Dr. King
Amid the pageantry and soul-stirring music Sunday in Kleinhans Music Hall honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was one man whose actions in October some say exemplifies the life and legacy of the...
View ArticleHitting a high note for rights
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s – the backdrop for today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day – was built on the struggles and advances of those who came before them.The Colored Musicians...
View ArticleNT, Lyndonville men plead guilty to felony DWI
LOCKPORT – Men from North Tonawanda and Lyndonville pleaded guilty to felony driving while intoxicated in separate cases Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Ryan T. Allgrim, 31, of Robinson Street, North...
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