Ex-homebuilder admits diverting $300,000
A former high-flying homebuilder whose affiliated commercial business stumbled severely during the financial crisis and the recession is facing likely probation after pleading guilty to four felony...
View ArticleThe Super Bowl rushing leader? Pizza shops
Football fans are not the only ones counting down the hours to the big game Sunday. Many people who work in pizzerias across Buffalo Niagara began to slice, dice and knead their way through the week...
View ArticleWNY school champions to take Spelling Bee written test Wednesday
School champions from several Western New York counties will take a written test Wednesday in hopes of qualifying for the 87th annual Buffalo News Spelling Bee. Twenty students will be selected...
View ArticleNiagara Health Department plans chronic disease workshops
The Niagara County Department of Health and the county Office for the Aging are offering free chronic disease self-management workshops, starting next week in Wheatfield and Newfane.Both will consist...
View ArticleCATCO wins Lockport Road bridge replacement contract
LOCKPORT – CATCO Corp. of Alden is expected to be awarded a contract to replace a bridge on Lockport Road in Wheatfield at the Feb. 18 meeting of the Niagara County Legislature.The contract for the...
View ArticleNiagara USA Chamber sets awards banquet
NIAGARA FALLS – Tickets are on sale for the Niagara USA Chamber annual awards banquet, set for March 14 in the Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel, 310 Fourth St.Tickets are $120 for chamber members, $135...
View ArticleHyde Park Business and Professional Association sets awards night
NIAGARA FALLS – The Hyde Park Business and Professional Association will hold its Valentine Installation and Awards Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Como Restaurant. 2220 Pine Ave.Honorees will...
View ArticleSpirited discussion: Lively Death Cafe meetings are anything but morbid
Just the name – Death Cafe – can evoke a gasp.There seems to be an inherent and irreconcilable contradiction between the images evoked by the two words. On the one hand, you have a cafe, an enjoyable...
View ArticleVeteran who has faced tough times makes it his goal to help other veterans
LEWISTON – Karl R. Hinterberger faced an uphill battle when he returned from the war in Bosnia. He joined the U.S. Army as a mechanic in 1995 and was in Bosnia from 1996 to 1997. He said he enjoyed...
View ArticleLecture planned on cabins of LaSalle
NIAGARA FALLS – Teresa Lasher-Winslow is looking for the public’s help as she continues to dig into the history of the former Village of LaSalle. Lasher-Winslow will give a lecture titled “Tourist...
View ArticleNew NU app to link world to the campus
LEWISTON – Niagara University has launched a new app that will connect the world to the campus, giving users access to news, events and scores, as well as an employee directory, course listings,...
View ArticleActivities to kick off ‘Heart Month’
LEWISTON – Mount St. Mary’s Hospital will kick off “Heart Month” with its annual Lipid Panel Screening next Sunday and continue with a series of events throughout the month, culminating with a special...
View Article1815 Lewiston map is key link to history
LEWISTON – Pam Hauth loves to tell about the day she discovered the oldest known map of the Village of Lewiston, hanging on the wall of the Townsend family descendants in Buffalo.“I just love it,”...
View ArticleSomerset touts online services for town’s residents
SOMERSET – Far from the hustle and bustle of city life, the 2,800 residents of rural Somerset are being encouraged to become savvy navigators of the information highway and consumers of improving...
View ArticleMaid of the Mist launches brand campaign
A statue of a seated President Abraham Lincoln wears the same blue poncho used by millions every year to keep away the mist of Niagara Falls.So do Lady Liberty and a few other important figures in...
View ArticleLockport schools to re-examine bus policy after Young Road flap
LOCKPORT – Lockport School Superintendent Michelle T. Bradley said last week that the district will re-examine its policy on bus pickups after parents on a dead-end road complained that their children...
View ArticleNU students and professor get hands-on Super Bowl hospitality experience
A Niagara University professor of sports management and 13 students are working behind the scenes at today’s Super Bowl.This is the fifth year that students from the College of Tourism and Hospitality...
View ArticleDescendant disappointed as Lockport rejects rename school for man who...
LOCKPORT – The great-granddaughter of Aaron A. Mossell, whose efforts are credited with desegregating Lockport public schools 78 years before the U.S. Supreme Court made that the law of the land, is...
View ArticleFalls airport flying high, as Southern destinations and bargains for...
NIAGARA FALLS – Despite the loss of Direct Air in 2012, Niagara Falls International Airport had a banner year in 2013, with two profitable airlines, Allegiant Air and Spirit Airlines, flying more than...
View ArticleSide business leads to a sweet deal for hairdresser
Sure, there was the game. The chicken wings. Now, maybe, a hangover.But the Super Bowl is mostly about selling stuff.Pepsi. Budweiser. Chobani. And then there’s Mary Ann Hess and her chocolates.Hess,...
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