Gun-show operators agree to new rules
Twenty-six gun show operators in New York State have agreed to put in place new rules designed to prevent the sale of guns to customers who can’t pass criminal background checks, State Attorney...
View ArticleSlight warm-up expected in area over next few days
About two weeks into the start of the season, spring’s warm-up arrives today.The high temperature is forecast to hover around 50 degrees, which is right where it should be for this time of year, said...
View ArticleNewfane home raided as a meth lab by state police and niagara county sheriff
A Hazardous Materials Response Cleanup team was dispatched to clear volatile meth lab chemicals from a Franklin Street home in Newfane after it was raided by Niagara County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force...
View ArticleBidding goes awry on Lockport parking ramp demolition
LOCKPORT – Friday’s opening of bids for the demolition of the closed downtown Lockport parking ramp featured an error that could cost the city $190,000, produce a lawsuit, or both.Scott Lawn Yard of...
View ArticleJudge bars Maid from work on storage site
A preservation group with ties to the Maid of the Mist’s Canadian competitor continues to make waves for the iconic local company.A State Supreme Court justice Friday put a temporary halt to...
View ArticleBeilein’s road to Final four started at ECC
ATLANTA – Thirty-five years ago Ralph Galanti played a hunch that would impact college basketball for decades to come. He entered the president’s office at Erie Community College and declared he had...
View ArticleTwo escape fire that heavily damages Newfane home
NEWFANE – Fire caused heavy damage to a house at 2380 Lockport-Olcott Road Friday evening, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies wsaid. Residents Jay M. and Stacie L. Hughes, who were in the house when...
View ArticleDisqualified Olympian sues maker of supplement over failed drug test
LOCKPORT – A lawsuit filed here last week pits a Hungarian discus thrower, who was barred from last summer’s Olympic Games in London because of a failed drug test, against a Canadian company that he...
View Article3 rescued after boat capsizes in Lake Ontario
YOUNGSTOWN – Rescue crews battled 5-foot swells Saturday afternoon as they raced to the scene of a capsized boat with three Allegany County men aboard in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, about four...
View ArticleWoodcock Brothers beer to be distributed
WILSON – Mark Woodcock estimates that his family brewery – Woodcock Brothers Brewery Co. in Wilson – sells 100 kegs of homemade brew a month to visitors to the spectacularly renovated, century-old...
View ArticleStepping up to bat for Niagara Hospice
Baseball players from four area high schools are teaming up to raise money for Niagara Hospice by holding a “Homerun for Hospice” tournament Tuesday and Wednesday at Lewiston-Porter High School and at...
View ArticleLewiston plans $8 million recreation center
LEWISTON – By the end of this month, a deal may be completed between the Town of Lewiston and the Lewiston-Porter School District for an $8 million town recreation center on the school campus.After...
View ArticleWater Board employee running for Falls council seat
NIAGARA FALLS – The field of candidates running for Niagara Falls City Council in November just got more crowded.Russ Vesci, a lifelong city resident, said last week he will seek one of three...
View ArticleTeen suicide prevention has allies at Mental Health Association
LOCKPORT – The recent focus on bullying has put attention on an even more distressing issue teens face – teen suicide – and a Niagara County-based mental health group has begun offering a new program...
View ArticleDoctors on call to serve up drinks
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Catch your favorites doctors and other Mount St. Mary’s Hospital staff members serving up drinks from behind the bar at Honey’s Restaurant on April 18 when the hospital’s St. Francis...
View ArticleVolunteers needed for Artpark concerts and events
LEWISTON – Artpark is celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer and has started recruiting for volunteers to assist in a variety of duties for the 2013 summer season, which begins in May and...
View ArticleQ&A with Rachel Hutchinson, founder of Taste of Jamaica festival
NIAGARA FALLS—Once Rachel Hutchinson married a Jamaican, she was so moved by his friends’ homesickness for food and family that she threw a backyard picnic.Then it grew and grew and grew. In the last...
View ArticleRestaurant review of Los Nino de la Casa Cardenas
LEWISTON – Maybe it’s appropriate for a place at the bottom of a hill, but that doesn’t make it right ... or good.The name of the (ostensibly) Mexican restaurant at the foot of Indian Hill is “Los...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues 3 men from frigid Lake Ontario
YOUNGSTOWN – Rescue crews battled 5-foot swells Saturday afternoon as they raced to the scene of a capsized boat with three men aboard in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, about four miles from the...
View ArticleDisqualified Olympian sues maker of supplement over failed drug test
LOCKPORT – A lawsuit filed here last week pits a Hungarian discus thrower, who was barred from last summer’s Olympic Games in London because of a failed drug test, against a Canadian company that he...
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