Moses Parkway plan offers bonus: riverfront access
NIAGARA FALLS – New plans for the Robert Moses Parkway call for the state to rip out two of the four lanes guiding motorists to and from Niagara Falls State Park.But it’s not that road change that is...
View ArticleAlex Domaradzki: Running center for kids is a ball
NORTH TONAWANDA – In the five years since Alex Domaradzki took over the Youth Center, his experiments to attract new kids have been working, with more coming for clubs that feature science experiments,...
View ArticleChella prepares to leave ... again
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Police Superintendent John R. Chella is retiring at the end of the year.And this time, he means it.Chella, 63, who has been with the Niagara Falls Police Department for 42...
View ArticleCambria Town Park beginning to take shape
CAMBRIA – The walking path is paved, the playground is up and running, and new baseball diamonds and soccer fields beckon for spring as finishing touches on the western half of Cambria Town Park were...
View ArticleSPCA of Niagara offering free dog adoptions
WHEATFIELD – The SPCA of Niagara is offering free dog adoptions until Christmas Eve at its shelter, 2100 Lockport Road.More than 40 dogs have found new homes in the past two weeks, but the supply...
View ArticleGOP plan for filling Niagara County Legislature committees will change
LOCKPORT – A Republican plan to alter how committee members are chosen in the Niagara County Legislature is to be changed after Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso pointed out it would prevent him from...
View ArticleLockport to reclaim Ulrich City Centre parking lot
LOCKPORT – A surprise chemical discovery that torpedoed developer David L. Ulrich’s proposed sale of Ulrich City Centre will result in the city reclaiming the parking lot there.The Common Council is...
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
LEWISTON• 310 Oneida St., William G. Clark; Bonnie H. Clark to Michelle Stevens, $185,000.• Lower Mountain Road, Franklin D. Silvernail to Robert Kavanaugh, $142,000.• North Hewitt Drive, Kenneth G....
View ArticleFalls man pistol-whipped in home invasion
NIAGARA FALLS – City and state police responded to a call of a home invasion in the 700 block of Division Avenue just before 10 p.m. Sunday and discovered blood splatters on the carpet in the living...
View ArticleWilson man charged with assaulting teen during neighborhood dispute
WILSON – A fight between two Dorwood Park neighbors over the weekend ended up with both arrested and both injured, according to Niagara County sheriff’s deputies.Robert L. Gualano, 47, of B Street, was...
View ArticleObservant neighbor helps Niagara County deputies catch a thief
WRIGHT’S CORNERS – A neighbor who saw something suspicious in the woods behind a store near her house alerted Niagara County sheriff’s deputies, which led to the arrest of a Lockport man over the...
View ArticleYMCA Buffalo Niagara names new chief
Olin B. “Buddy” Campbell Jr., an official of the YMCA of Greater Rochester, has been named chief executive officer of YMCA Buffalo Niagara, it was announced Monday. He will succeed John Murray, who is...
View ArticleJury gets home invasion case tied to DNA
LOCKPORT – A Niagara County Court jury will deliberate today on whether to convict a Buffalo man tied to a 2011 Niagara Falls home invasion by DNA on a pair of handcuffs used on the alleged victim.“You...
View ArticleGiving joy when we all need some
Atime came Friday afternoon when it became far too much to try to process the news coming out of Connecticut.So I turned away from my computer and the television in my line of vision, propped my elbows...
View ArticlePrison for pill dealer who failed in treatment
LOCKPORT – Romel L. Brundidge, an admitted drug dealer who washed out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in state prison Tuesday by...
View ArticleVehicles damaged in rash of vandalism in the Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Several vehicles were damaged in unrelated incidents over the weekend and on Monday, including a vehicle owned by a hotel security guard, city police reported.The security guard at the...
View ArticleMan shot in head at Falls intersection
Niagara Falls police detectives continue to investigate the shooting this afternoon of a 25-year-old man as he was in his parked vehicle at Highland and Calumet avenues.The victim told police two men...
View ArticleNighttime drivers: be ready to wait at the South Grand Island Bridge
Tonight and Wednesday night, drivers approaching the northbound South Grand Island Bridge may experience something that daytime motorists encounter all too often – a delay. The State Thruway Authority...
View ArticleLockport CSEA unit ratifies new contract
LOCKPORT – A five-year contract that will see all members begin to pay a portion of their health insurance premiums has been ratified by the Town of Lockport’s unit of the Civil Service Employees...
View ArticleMan acquitted in home invasion despite DNA sample
LOCKPORT – Finding the alleged victim more suspicious than the defendant, a Niagara County Court jury acquitted a Buffalo man Tuesday on all charges in connection with a May 16, 2011, home invasion in...
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