PETA praises Sovran for glue trap ban
Sovran Self Storage is winning praise from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for banning the use of sticky glue traps to kill mice at its Uncle Bob’s self-storage facilities.Sovran is the...
View ArticleRequest to rename park for Parete is rejected by Council in Lockport
LOCKPORT – The Common Council decided Wednesday to refuse a request from high school classmates of the late Buffalo Police Officer Patricia A. Parete to rename a city park in memory of the Lockport...
View ArticleLockport parking ramp demolition gets green light as suit is dropped
LOCKPORT – The litigation over the demolition of the downtown Lockport parking ramp ended with a whimper Wednesday, and the ramp’s history will end with a bang in a few days.A lawsuit over the...
View Article‘Unusually high’ numbers of fish dying in many WNY waterways
This spring, Charlene Knoll and her young son, Grant, have noticed unusually large numbers of dead and dying fish in the Erie Barge Canal, along Old Niagara Falls Boulevard in the Town of...
View ArticleState, Seneca officials work to end casinos feud
ALBANY – Top Seneca Nation and Cuomo administration officials huddled into the night Wednesday in hopes of forging a deal to end a years-long $600 million dispute that could keep the tribe from facing...
View ArticleFalls planners OK construction of two buildings in retail plaza
NIAGARA FALLS – Plans by Benderson Development to build up a retail plaza at the northeast corner of Niagara Falls and Factory Outlet boulevards received approval from the city Planning Board on...
View ArticleYMCA to offer program of free summer fitness classes
The local YMCA is again offering free fitness classes in parks throughout the area this summer, through a program co-sponsored by Independent Health. This year, the program expanded into Niagara...
View ArticleSugartown Farms owners to discuss raising alpacas
LEWISTON – The next speakers in the Lewiston Council on the Arts’ Discovery Series are Timm and Helen Herman, the owners of Sugartown Farms, who will speak on the business of raising alpacas in a...
View ArticleState may aid Niagara County in capping landfill
LOCKPORT – The interim director of the Niagara County Refuse Disposal District told county legislators this week that the state might pay up to 50 percent of the cost of capping the county’s...
View ArticleNiagara County mortgage tax revenue rises 13 percent
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Treasurer Kyle R. Andrews reported this week that the county’s mortgage tax revenues are up 13 percent, or about $160,000, for the first half of the current fiscal...
View ArticleNew campaign aims to help local victims of human trafficking
The survivors, the ones who are damaged but make it out alive, are the ones we know of, the ones we can track and monitor.By all accounts, there are 400 of them, mostly women and young girls who over...
View ArticleStolen property found and man arrested
NIAGARA FALLS – Police responding to a harassment call found plastic totes full of electronics that had been reported stolen earlier Wednesday from a neighboring apartment in the 700 block of Eighth...
View ArticleBeating victim placed on probation in revenge burglary
LOCKPORT – A beating victim who broke into the home of his assailant’s father was sentenced to five years’ probation Thursday by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.Thomas J. Pembleton,...
View ArticleRainfall to finally give way to sunshine
Remember that dry stretch of weather back in April and May, when you said we needed rain? Yeah, we can't either.More than 4 inches of rain has fallen in Buffalo so far this June. That's more than what...
View ArticleFalls, Salamanca, Buffalo await long-overdue flow of casino cash
After more than three years of waiting, the Western New York communities that host the Seneca Nation of Indians’ three casinos will get the money they’ve been owed.Niagara Falls, the Salamanca area...
View ArticleProgress on renovation of schools in Lockport will be updated online
LOCKPORT – Monthly briefings on the city schools’ ongoing capital improvement projects will now be available on the district’s website, www.lockportschools.org.Voters have approved three major...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda urges Assembly to toughen sex-offender residency rules
NORTH TONAWANDA – Lawmakers in North Tonawanda urged the Assembly to back a bill toughening residency restrictions on all levels of sex offenders.“Time is of the essence,” Mayor Robert G. Ortt said...
View ArticleNational Fuel’s rates stable as PSC plans review of possible...
National Fuel Gas Co.’s rates will stay the same in the coming months, but customers could be in line for a refund – and potentially a rate cut – if state regulators later determine that the...
View ArticleRegional auto sales rise in May
Buffalo-area car sales stayed on their upward track in May.Sales at franchised-new car dealers who disclosed their sales – Chevrolet does not – reported a 4 percent increase from a year ago, to 4,998...
View ArticleN. Tonawanda man gets 15 years to life for killing girlfriend
LOCKPORT – Frank Rylowicz didn’t hold back Thursday in State Supreme Court when he confronted the man who murdered his daughter.“You’re nothing more than an egotistical, barbaric terrorist who should...
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