WNY home prices reach highest median ever
Western New York’s housing market is continuing on its hot streak this summer, driven by continued low interest rates, rising consumer confidence and a shortage of available homes for sale that is...
View ArticleNiagara Legislature shelves Mount View sale in face of lawsuit threat
LOCKPORT – After a threat by an attorney for a rival assisted-living facility to sue the county, the Niagara County Legislature withdrew from its agenda the sale of the former Mount View Health...
View ArticleMan charged in kidnapping after woman found bound with tape
LOCKPORT – City police responding to a call in the 100 block of South Transit Street found a woman face down in a car with her hands and feet bound by duct tape Tuesday night.Police released the...
View ArticleNo price cut for would-be Mount View buyer, Niagara County leaders say
LOCKPORT – David M. Tosetto’s hopes of buying Niagara County’s old nursing home at a reduced price are gone, county leaders said after the County Legislature meeting ended late Tuesday.After a...
View ArticleTwo arrested, four apartments condemned following police raids
NIAGARA FALLS – Four apartments in the 19th Street area off Pine Avenue were raided Wednesday and though no drugs were found, all four apartments were condemned and two people were arrested on...
View ArticleFour Lockport officers honored for rescuing man from burning house
LOCKPORT – Four City of Lockport police officers received awards for heroism during Wednesday’s Common Council meeting.Lt. Todd Chenez and Officers Michael Stover, Anthony Pittman and Heather Rohde...
View ArticleTown of Lockport estimates $30,000 tab to repair sewer cave-in, sinkhole
LOCKPORT – Repairing a caved-in sewer main and resulting sinkhole at one of Niagara County’s busiest intersections may cost $30,000, Town Supervisor Marc R. Smith said Wednesday.The work at South...
View ArticleNiagara Wheatfield School Board puts managerial raises in limbo
SANBORN – Pay hikes for a half-dozen managerial positions were put on hold Wednesday by the School Board, with some board members saying they shouldn’t take place at all.Raises of 2 percent to 3.7...
View ArticleFive Buffalo art galleries you’ve (probably) never heard of
On Buffalo’s hyperactive art scene, a new art or performance space seems to open its doors every month.We hardly have time to lament the closing of alternative venues like the Vault Arthouse, Sugar...
View ArticleLewiston Art Festival takes over Center Street this weekend
One of the largest and oldest art festivals in the region kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday, when more than 175 artists will set up shop on the quainter-than-quaint streets of Lewiston for the village’s...
View ArticleBarkus Parade Sunday to inaugurate Wilson dog park
WILSON – The Wilson Lions Club is sponsoring the new Wilson Dog Park’s first event – a Barkus Parade set for 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. The dog park is located in the Calvin E. Krueger Park on Lake Road....
View ArticleGorzka is general chairman for annual Peach Festival
LEWISTON – Randy Gorzka has been named general chairman of Lewiston’s 56th nnnual Niagara County Peach Festival, Jeff Sanderson, president of the Kiwanis Club of Lewiston, announced. The festival will...
View ArticleFalls Planning Board to hold hearing on Covanta projects
NIAGARA FALLS –The city Planning Board will hold a public hearing Aug. 14 about $30 million in construction projects at a waste incinerator facility that wants to bring in garbage from the New York...
View ArticleMan arraigned on attempted murder charge in Falls shooting
LOCKPORT – A man with a history of gun violence was arraigned Thursday on an indictment charging him with shooting a man in Niagara Falls on May 26.Cordarise M. Houston, 23, of 70th Street in the...
View ArticleThieves get a workout in theft of gym equipment
WHEATFIELD – Thieves who cut a hole in the wall of a building being built for a Fitness Factory at 7330 Wheatfied-Pendleton Road overnight Monday made off with gym equipment worth $10,000, Niagara...
View ArticleMan imprisoned for meth-fueled beating of his grandmother
LOCKPORT – A man who attacked his 83-year-old grandmother in what his attorney said was a methamphetamine-triggered assault was sentenced Thursday to one to three years in prison.Daniel J. Regan said...
View ArticleRaw honey is pilfered from a Hartland farm
HARTLAND – There’s a sticky-fingered thief in Niagara County who’s got sheriff’s deputies buzzing.A beekeeper reported to authorities that 300 pounds of raw honey had been stolen from one of his...
View ArticleNiagara County settles lawsuit over 2005 fatal crash in Newfane
LOCKPORT – Attorneys for Niagara County feared that taking a lawsuit over a fatal pickup truck crash to trial might result in a big damage award for the widow of the Newfane man who died in the wreck....
View ArticleState says Covanta early start on Niagara Falls project violated law
NIAGARA FALLS – A waste incinerator operator in the city violated state law when it started construction on a project before its permit application was approved, state environmental regulators...
View ArticleAnnual boating event sets course at Erie Basin Marina
A variety of high-performance boats will be on display to the public at 6 p.m. today as the Western New York Offshore Powerboat Association kicks off its annual Buffalo Poker Run at Templeton Landing...
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