GOP charges that timing of Smith’s departure is tied to health...
LOCKPORT – Republicans in the Niagara County Legislature charged last week that former Democratic Election Commissioner Nancy L. Smith’s upcoming retirement is timed to maximize her county health...
View ArticleNYSEG plans excavation of Lockport street to remove coal tar
LOCKPORT – LaGrange Street will be dug up – sometime.New York State Electric & Gas Corp. is planning a major excavation of the Lockport street to remove buried coal tar that is leaking into the...
View ArticleDEC plans Thursday meeting on capping ash in Lockport ravine
LOCKPORT – Memories of a long-forgotten city dump, which now will cost the state millions of dollars, will be stirred at a public meeting Thursday in City Hall.A $10.5 million remediation plan for a...
View ArticleA river rescue by Officer Daryl Truty
NORTH TONAWANDA – When Daryl Truty thinks back on it now, just three or four minutes went by between the calls for help and his rescue of the drowning man he has never seen or heard from again.As he...
View ArticleMist-ified by lawsuit? Pay attention as state, Falls boat tour operator...
NIAGARA FALLS – No one seems to know exactly what the new lawsuit challenging the Maid of the Mist will mean for Niagara Falls.It could spell the end for an iconic local company that has taken people...
View ArticleFour community leaders to be honored for contributions
Four community leaders will be honored as the National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York holds its 2013 Citation Banquet at 6 p.m. March 20 in Hyatt Regency Buffalo. The honorees...
View ArticleDollar General prepared to build in Wilson
WILSON – A Buffalo firm has been contracted to build a Dollar General store at 684 Lake St. and submitted a site concept plan to the Village of Wilson Planning Board.Plans call for a 9,100-square-foot...
View ArticleNiagara Wheatfield board votes to keep tax hike under limits
SANBORN – Niagara Wheatfield Central School District voters won’t be asked to break the state tax cap this year.The School Board has voted to keep any tax hike in 2013-14 within the maximum property...
View ArticlePicture a penguin and win a prize
NIAGARA FALLS – With their comical waddles and sleek, tuxedoed looks, penguins can make inviting photo subjects.That’s why the Aquarium of Niagara is now inviting photo submissions for a contest to...
View ArticleFrom the blotter / Police calls and court cases, Feb. 21 to March 2
A Buffalo couple told Niagara Falls police that property was stolen from their rental car overnight Thursday while it was in the valet parking lot at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel. A cellphone...
View ArticleDo Catholics care who fills Peter’s...
Jim Conrad of Clarence hopes to see an evangelical pope who emphasizes tradition and orthodoxy.Phylis Slattery of Williamsville expects whoever is elected as Benedict XVI’s successor to clean up the...
View ArticleGun-control laws create ‘stampede’ of weapon buying
At the Niagara Gun Range on the border of North Tonawanda, pistol permit classes are booked through May.People coming for target practice have had to wait an hour and a half to shoot.And the store can...
View ArticleVA reconsidering decision to scrap veterans games
Norman Verbanic, an 82-year-old Navy veteran from the Korean War era, has been working out for months to participate in the National Veterans Golden Age Games.So have many of the nearly 1,000 other...
View ArticleTourists loses a knapsack with thousands of dollars worth of gold and jewelry
NIAGARA FALLS – A New Jersey man told police Monday that he drove home and left his knapsack in restaurant on Portage Road on Sunday.The man said he called the restaurant to see if it was found, but...
View ArticleGasport man charged with stalking
GASPORT — A Gasport man was charged after he was caught allegedly looking into a girl’s bedroom window.Nicholas J. Heschke, 25, of West Avenue, was charged Tuesday with third-degree stalking, a...
View ArticleNT man, wanted for 25 years, appears in court
LOCKPORT – The past caught up with Keith R. Smith this week.Smith, 55, of Ganson Street, North Tonawanda, appeared Tuesday in Niagara County Court to answer a warrant for violating probation – in...
View ArticleOwen named president of Olmsted Center for Sight
The board of the Olmsted Center for Sight on Tuesday named Tamara Owen as the new president and chief executive officer of the 106-year-old agency dedicated to meeting the needs of the region’s blind...
View ArticleOlmsted Parks gives Herrera-Mishler seven-year contract extension
Thomas Herrera-Mishler will continue as president and CEO of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy through 2020.The conservancy’s board of trustees announced Tuesday that Herrera-Mishler’s contract...
View ArticleCuban may be deported after serving time for pot, fraud
LOCKPORT – Police said a Cuban national, in the United States legally for the past three years, may face deportation after he serves a state prison sentence of one to three years for using a machine...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to unemployment benefit fraud
LOCKPORT – A Hartland man admitted Tuesday in Niagara County Court that he collected $4,582.50 in unemployment benefits while actually holding a job.Garrett J. Oliver, 31, of Hartland Road, is to be...
View Article