Residents may bring court challenge to Lafarge expansion
LOCKPORT – A court challenge to the Town Board’s approval of an expansion of the Lafarge North American stone quarry may be in the offing.Residents who live near the affected area have retained Barry...
View ArticleElectronics and designer watches stolen in a Falls burglary
NIAGARA FALLS – Designer watches were stolen from a home in the 2200 block of Weston Avenue overnight Wednesday, police said. Someone smashed a kitchen window and then made off with a 60-inch...
View ArticleDriver lands on LaSalle Expressway after high-speed crash
A driver described by police as highly intoxicated drove his car up and over a 10-foot embankment before landing his vehicle on the LaSalle Expressway in Niagara Falls early Saturday.Tyler J. Rowland,...
View ArticleMan Tasered for DNA sample refuses to give another
LOCKPORT – Ryan S. Smith, the Niagara Falls man whose convictions for two robberies and a shooting were overturned because police Tasered him to obtain a DNA sample, has again refused to consent to a...
View ArticlePlan to build canal boat for Lockport locks is unfunded
LOCKPORT - The Buffalo Maritime Center, which is already building a reproduction of a War of 1812 naval craft, has been chosen to construct a replica of a mid-19th century Erie Canal packet boat for...
View ArticleVolunteer with style improves others’ lives
LOCKPORT– For the last year and a half, working as a volunteer – helping older people make trips to the doctor and hair salon – has improved Suzanne Federici’s mood.Unexpectedly, it also made her...
View ArticleRestaurant Review / Niagara’s biggest fish secret
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Back in the day, they used to say that to find an area’s best home-cooked meals, you just had to follow the trucks. The drivers of the big rigs know the best places to chow down.That...
View ArticleNiagara County meetings and hearings this week
The School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the district’s administrative offices, Quaker and Haight roads.The Village Board will meet for a work session at 6 p.m. Monday in Village Hall, 145 N....
View ArticleNiagara Honor Roll / Achievers and achievements
Niagara County Community College student Chad Szymczak was awarded a $1,000 scholarship through the Davey Foundation Arbor Grant Program, which awards 30 scholarships nationally to college students in...
View ArticleFrom the blotter / Police calls and court cases, Feb. 19 to 26
A Niagara Avenue man who was shot in the head in what investigators had called a drug-related shooting in December, was arrested Tuesday on felony drug possession charges.Michael A. Lorraine, 25, was...
View ArticleCommunity garden seeds being planted in Lockport by nonprofit group Imagine
LOCKPORT – An Erie County group with big ideas about how gardening could help Lockport’s most run-down neighborhood may get a chance to put its plans into practice soon.Imagine Community Gardens is...
View ArticleKeepsake coin to honor Tuscaroras, raise funds for monument
Two centuries after the British advanced on Lewiston and burned it during the War of 1812, there are undoubtedly descendants of some of those villagers who are alive today because courageous Tuscarora...
View ArticleTrying to solve an identity crisis, forum will focus on Main Street in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – When Tom Lowe and Matt Green think of Main Street, they don’t see the image of a ghost town. They see excited residents, busy stores and a bustling commercial strip.That vision exists...
View ArticleGun buybacks a success in Lockport and Niagara Falls
More than 300 guns were taken off the streets at gun buybacks in the cities of Lockport and Niagara Falls, as residents lined up at both sites to participate.Leaders from both cities said they were...
View ArticleCigarette distributors face lawsuit from state
ALBANY – The state’s attorney general is stepping up efforts to combat the movement of tax-free cigarettes from Indian-owned companies in Canada to New York tribes, including the Seneca Nation of...
View ArticleCanadian casinos offer lesson for New York
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Casino gambling made this city a boomtown, spurring hotels, restaurants and all the draws of a teeming tourism capital.But the glitzy casinos that tower over Niagara Falls are...
View ArticleParents seek aid for prescription drug addicts
ALBANY – When advocates get their way on an issue at the state Capitol, they usually disappear, quietly and happily.Not so with a group of Buffalo parents who helped lead the political push in Albany...
View ArticleBoth longtime and new officers honored at Niagara Falls Police Awards
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Police officers were honored for heroism, service and dedication to police work during the recent annual Police Awards Ceremony.Capt. John DeMarco, who has served for the...
View ArticleSwindled clients get $164,564 from lawyers’ fund
Two clients of disbarred Niagara County attorney Robert J. Niemel and a client of late Buffalo attorney Richard L. Baumgarten have been awarded a combined $164,564 through the New York State Lawyers’...
View ArticleUB goes to great lengths to recruit top medical talent to Buffalo
Recruiting top doctors and medical researchers to Buffalo is not unlike the Bills or Sabres going after blue-chip free agents.Buffalo may not be high on their list of destinations – or on their list...
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