Gun group seeks injunction against state’s SAFE Act
Gun owners challenging New York State’s new gun-control law are asking a Buffalo judge to stop the state from enforcing the measure.In a motion filed this week, the New York State Rifle and Pistol...
View ArticleFalls Council to cut $35,000 from church-run youth program
NIAGARA FALLS – The City Council voted, 3-2, Monday to cut $35,000 from a program operated by a church to help young people with job and life skills.The city decided to make a cut in programs funded...
View ArticleApril 23 is deadling for YWCA scholarship
LOCKPORT – The deadline is April 23 for Niagara County women returning to college to apply for a YWCA of Niagara Munk-Human Scholarship.Applicants must be “nontraditional” female students with ties to...
View ArticleCanal Clean Sweep is this week
LOCKPORT – The city’s Canal Development Task Force will host the Lockport Canal Cleanup from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, starting at the Canal Street pavilion.It’s part of the State Canal Corp.’s...
View ArticleGala for Hope benefit set for Thursday
The third annual Gala for Hope Niagara will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Conference Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls St.The event, sponsored by the Child Advocacy Center of Niagara...
View ArticleNiagara IDA rejects tax break for Chevy dealership
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency board today shot down a request for a property tax and sales tax break to expand a car dealership.The co-owner of Ki-Po Chevrolet in...
View ArticleMemorial pool readies for summer
NORTH TONAWANDA- – The rusted steel frame of the aging water slide at Payne Park Memorial Pool will be spiffed up, sandblasted and repainted for the summer swimming season.The Common Council approved...
View ArticleTraffic issues, other impacts of Fashion Outlets expansion discussed
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Increased traffic around the Fashion Outlets of Niagara was one of the big concerns discussed Tuesday during a presentation on the proposed expansion of the shopping mall.Members of...
View ArticleMount View buyer seeks variance
LOCKPORT – The Youngstown businessman who wants to purchase Niagara County’s Mount View Health Facility for conversion into an assisted living facility will go before the Town of Lockport Zoning Board...
View ArticleCanadian company plans plant in Niagara County industrial park
WHEATFIELD – A Burlington, Ont., company last week agreed to purchase 7.5 acres of land in the industrial park operated by the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.Whiting Group plans to erect...
View ArticleTown of Lockport man denies pill charges
LOCKPORT – A Town of Lockport man pleaded not guilty to two drug felonies Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Jeffrey P. Anzalone, 45, of Badger Drive, is charged with third- and fifth-degree criminal...
View ArticleBooted from drug treatment, crack user goes to prison
LOCKPORT – An admitted crack cocaine user who washed out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday.Niagara County Judge Sara...
View ArticlePlea deal in Falls crash
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, originally charged with felony vehicular assault, pleaded guilty this week to a misdemeanor in Niagara County Court.Daniel W. Lounsbury, 53, of Portage Road, admitted...
View ArticleShot fired at house in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman told police Tuesday she found a bullet had struck the house in the 2200 block of Welch Avenue and then landed inside.The woman told police she heard a gunshot at about 1:30...
View ArticleSenate immigration bill unveiled with support of upstate farmers
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of senators Wednesday unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform proposal that won praise from upstate New York farmers and immigration advocates but vehement attacks...
View ArticleNiagara IDA rejects tax breaks for Ransomville car dealer
WHEATFIELD – The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency board Wednesday shot down a request for a property tax and sales tax break to expand a car dealership.Keith Lucas, co-owner of Ki-Po...
View ArticleNiagara Legislature OKs direct payment of rent to landlords with welfare...
LOCKPORT – Landlords who have welfare clients as tenants will receive their rent money directly from the county – unless the landlord happens to be a county elected official.The Niagara County...
View ArticleDionne questions constitutionality of majority not deciding gun vote
Nationally syndicated columnist and political pundit E.J. Dionne on Wednesday called the U.S. Senate’s inability to pass, by a simple majority, legislation to require background checks for gun...
View ArticleOld Falls Street Deli has room to improve
I worked in downtown Niagara Falls for 11 years, when the city was in the middle of its slide into the desolation wrought by the bulldozers of urban renewal and the construction of ugly, monolithic...
View ArticleNU professor to discuss his time as Somalia premier
LEWISTON – Abdiweli Ali, who took a two-year break from his job as a Niagara University economics professor to serve as prime minister of his native Somalia, will speak about his experiences in the...
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