North Tonawanda student artists on display at Carnegie Art Center
NORTH TONAWANDA – More than a 100 student artist ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade will be showing off their work in the North Tonawanda Student Spotlight Exhibition, beginning with a grand...
View ArticleLewiston Cocktail Festival stirs together history, specialty drinks
LEWISTON – Those who need a way to celebrate the end of winter can start with the Lewiston Cocktail Festival on Friday and Saturday in the heart of the village.The event provides a chance to sample...
View ArticleTwo moms take healing herbs beyond their own kitchens
NORTH TONAWANDA – Two Niagara County mothers began a friendship with their common interest in home-schooling their children, but the friendship literally blossomed with a shared belief in the healing...
View ArticlePower Vista offers electrifying program on “Sensational...
LEWISTON – The Power Vista’s “Sensational Saturday” program will focus on electricity from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the the admission-free visitors center of the New York Power Authority’s...
View ArticleLockport crash victim remains in critical condition in ECMC
LOCKPORT – An Elba man injured last week in a crash blamed on drunken driving remains in critical condition Sunday in Erie County Medical Center.Christopher W. Blake, 21, of Elba, a passenger in a...
View ArticleNiagara air base boosters visit D.C. to push for new roles, equipment
TOWN OF NIAGARA – A delegation from the Niagara Military Affairs Council traveled to Washington last week to continue the work of promoting new missions and equipment for the Niagara Falls Air Reserve...
View ArticleHundreds take the plunge in Olcott
OLCOTT – Standing out in the crowd of zany participants Sunday afternoon at the Olcott Lions Club’s Polar Bear Swim for Sight was never easy, yet one young man in misty blue chiffon stole the...
View ArticleNiagara County wants to avoid low-income housing on Davison Road
LOCKPORT – Niagara County officials want to make sure low-income housing isn’t part of the development plan for the property on Davison Road that the County Legislature is expected to offer for sale...
View ArticleSanborn man faces two drunken driving charges
A Niagara County man faces a pair of drunken driving charges after he was stopped shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday on Route 240 in the Town of Concord, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office reports.Brian S....
View ArticleAgency acquires 2 properties to serve homeless veterans
LOCKPORT – S.E.R.V. (Support, Empower, Respect Veterans) Niagara will move a step closer today to providing places to live for homeless veterans when it takes possession of two properties in the City...
View ArticlePower Vista plans program for Sensational Saturday
LEWISTON – The Power Vista’s “Sensational Saturday” program will focus on electricity from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Saturday at the admission-free visitors center of the New York Power Authority’s...
View ArticleWoman who drives into a ditch is charged with drunken driving
TUSCARORA RESERVATION – A passerby who stopped to help a truck driver who had just driven into a ditch, just after 6 p.m. Sunday at 4821 Blacknose Spring Road, told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies...
View ArticleA Lockport man is charged with faking his identity to steal his...
ROYALTON – State Police said they concluded a month and a half long fraud investigation on Monday with the arrest of a Town of Lockport man who allegedly faked his identity to steal his brother’s bail...
View ArticleFor a third time landscaping equipment is reported stolen in Newfane
NEWFANE – A variety of landscaping equipment, valued at $5,600, was reported stolen from a storage site at 5491 Murphy Road. The victim told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies this is the third time he...
View ArticlePembroke woman convicted of drug-dealing while baby-sitting her grandchildren
A grandmother accused of selling painkillers and cocaine while she was baby-sitting her grandchildren at her house in Pembroke was convicted Monday of two drugs charges.Also convicted was a nurse who...
View ArticleA man said he was robbed at gunpoint after he left an ATM
NIAGARA FALLS – A 73 year-old man said two men came up from behind as he was walking along Pine Avenue at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and pointed a gun at him and demanded he hand over the cash he had just...
View ArticleJohn P. Morse, Newfane teacher, WWII veteran
March 21, 1923 – Feb. 21, 2014John P. Morse, a retired industrial arts teacher in the Newfane Central School District, died Feb. 21 in Las Vegas, after a lengthy illness. He was 90.Born in Auburn, Mr....
View ArticleLockport master plan may allow development in Lafarge area
LOCKPORT – The town is about halfway done with its new master plan, Town Supervisor Marc R. Smith said at a Town Board session last week.The town’s department heads were given working copies of the...
View ArticleNiagara Falls City Council rejects proposal on parking lots
NIAGARA FALLS – For the second time in six months, city lawmakers on Monday night shot down a proposal to revamp the city-run parts of the downtown parking system.The City Council rejected, by a 3-2...
View ArticleGame center operators question fees in Village of Lewiston
LEWISTON – Licensing fees to offer coin-operated games in the Village of Lewiston were called into question Monday by Emery Simon and Harold Hibbard, who have opened the new Lewiston Event Center in...
View Article