Lockport School Board adopts budget with 2 percent tax increase
LOCKPORT – Gambling that Congress will restore money cut from federal education programs, the Lockport School Board voted Wednesday to set the 2013-14 property tax levy increase at 2 percent.It...
View ArticleTown of Lockport seeks answers from Lafarge on quarry expansion
LOCKPORT – The Town of Lockport is seeking answers about Lafarge North America’s plans to expand its stone and gravel quarry on Hinman Road, according to a letter from the town released by the company...
View ArticleInfluential lobbying firm hired to protect against closure of Falls air base
LOCKPORT – Niagara County legislators announced Wednesday that the county has chosen a high-powered Washington consulting firm to help them stave off any closure threat against the Niagara Falls Air...
View Article10,000 students cheer state tax credit bill to help private schools
The cheers Wednesday morning in First Niagara Center were louder and heartier than the Buffalo Sabres have been able to elicit from fans this season.And they were all for a proposed state tax credit,...
View ArticleMade in America shop to open at Falls visitor center
Elma’s popular Made in America store will open a second location next week – one with a unique spin.Located at One Niagara visitor center near Niagara Falls State Park, the souvenir shop will stock...
View ArticleBuffalo News staffers win state awards
Buffalo News photographers swept up all top photo awards in the 2011-2012 New York Newspaper Publishers Association competition among the state’s largest newspapers.Chief photographer Derek Gee won...
View ArticleFive Guys Burgers to expand
Western New York is filling up with Five Guys Burgers and Fries.Rochester-based franchise owner Steve Christensen has opened seven of the fast-casual burger joints in the Buffalo and Rochester markets...
View ArticleJudge lifts restraining order on Maid of Mist work
A State Supreme Court justice today lifted the restraining order that had prevented the Maid of Mist operator from working on its new docking facility.The Maid of the Mist will be able to resume, at...
View ArticleOver $7,000 worth of electronics stolen in Falls burglary
NIAGARA FALLS –Television sets, a DVD player, computer, printer and telephone were stolen in an overnight burglary in the 2900 block of Ninth Street, police reported Wednesday.The 71-year-old victim...
View ArticleAutistic man remains in critical condition at ECMC
Marc Weinfeld, the autistic man who was a well-known figure in downtown Buffalo, where he sold his plastic-threaded boondoggles every workday morning, remained in critical condition and on life...
View ArticleFalls bust nets over 100 prescription drugs packaged for sale, loaded gun
NIAGARA FALLS – A long-term investigation into prescription narcotics being sold on Niagara Avenue led to the arrest of a suspected dealer.Niagara Falls Police narcotics detectives, the city’s...
View ArticleAttorney for alleged accomplice rethinking strategy in murder case
LOCKPORT – The attorney for the Buffalo teen accused of helping dump the body of a slain 5-year-old girl in a garbage tote said Thursday that he is rethinking a motion to have his client’s case tried...
View ArticlePopular programs at risk in Niagara Wheatfield
SANBORN – Significant cuts to some popular programs are expected in order to balance the Niagara Wheatfield Central School District budget for 2013-14.Programs such as full-day kindergarten,...
View ArticleJudge allows Maid of Mist project to continue; bidding issue unsettled
NIAGARA FALLS – A judge has allowed the Maid of the Mist Corp. to resume work on its new boat docking and service facility in the Niagara River Gorge, but the question of whether the company will get...
View ArticleTaylor Devices’ profits rise, revenues slip
Taylor Devices’ third-quarter profits jumped by 21 percent even though the North Tonawanda manufacturer’s revenues weakened by 28 percent because of a plunge in sales of the giant shock absorbers that...
View ArticleAmherst man’s gun permit reinstated after error
David A. Lewis, a college librarian from Amherst, got his pistol permit reinstated Thursday and is getting his seven guns back soon, but not before touching off a new round of debate over Gov. Andrew...
View ArticleColumn critical of vaccine for teen HPV stirs outrage
A column in a popular local monthly magazine that criticized vaccinating teenagers against the human papilloma virus has outraged area pediatricians and spurred Erie County’s health commissioner to...
View ArticleDinner, auction to benefit Cradle Beach
Cradle Beach will benefit from proceeds of the annual dinner and fundraiser Saturday evening of David McKeever Post 64, American Legion, in the post headquarters, 1770 South Park Ave.In addition to...
View ArticleMemorial Medical Center reaches accord with union
NIAGARA FALLS – A new three-year contract was ratified by members of the union representing most Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center employees in balloting whose results were jointly released late...
View ArticleFire hall to be made accessible so it can remain voting site
PENDLETON – Niagara County will spend $25,000 to make the Wendelville Fire Company hall handicap-accessible so it can continue to be used as an election polling place, Democratic Election Commissioner...
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