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Barker The School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the district’s administrative offices, Quaker and Haight roads. Cambria The Planning Board will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in Town Hall, 4160 Upper...
View ArticleJuly 14-21 / Niagara County faith-related events
Monday PRAYER: The Healing Rooms of Buffalo Niagara is open to pray for anyone who needs physical, emotional or spiritual healing, 7 to 9 p.m., Potters House Christian Community Church, 723 Seventh...
View ArticleSpecial edition of ‘Marble Orchard’ planned
LEWISTON – “The Marble Orchard: Spirits of 1813” offers vignettes of various historical Lewiston figures in full period costume, with special free performances planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
View ArticleCutting overgrown medians in Falls down to size
NIAGARA FALLS – They’ve been greeting visitors to downtown for a couple of months now.Slowly, they’ve been disappearing, but not as fast as many people would like.Tall weeds – sometimes as high as...
View ArticleFalls house fires damage two homes
Three adults required housing assistance from the American Red Cross today after fire ripped through the Niagara Falls home they were living in at 1967 Falls St.Niagara Falls firefighters responded to...
View ArticleSomerset motorcycle crash with deer hospitalizes two
Two people thrown from a motorcycle this afternoon after striking a deer in the Town of Somerset were taken to a local hospital, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said.Deputies did not identify the...
View ArticleGelatin Splash raised $115,000 for cancer society
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 24th annual Gelatin Splash last month raised $115,000 for the fight against blood cancers, organizers report.More than 1,000 spectators watched as 80 participants...
View ArticleLockport man takes plea deal in attack on 7-year-old girl
LOCKPORT – David L. Alfonso sized up his legal situation over the weekend and decided that he was better off taking a plea offer than going to trial July 29 for the attempted murder of his...
View ArticleBuffalo cop in bribery probe found dead after Pendleton standoff
A Buffalo police officer who was the subject of a federal bribery investigation was found dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Pendleton home Monday afternoon following a...
View ArticleBuffalo catches Bieber Fever
Savanna Heller, 16, flew here from New Orleans, and spent a day stuck in a Chicago airport after missing a connecting flight. Sarah Jorge, 17, took the weekend off from her cashiering job in Brooklyn...
View ArticleBuzz: Of beer, gambling and trivia
Conehead’s holiday Watching Conehead selling his beer at Bisons games, you always wonder: What does Conehead do in his spare time? Last week, we found out! Conehead came up to someone nearby, clearly...
View ArticleLewiston voters reject proposed recreation center
LEWISTON – Town voters gave an overwhelming thumbs-down to the town’s proposed new recreation center Monday.The special referendum on borrowing $8 million to pay for the construction costs of the...
View ArticleHousing authorities cut costs, hear complaints
The grass reached more than a foot high outside Mary Anderson Rodriguez’ Lackawanna Municipal Housing Authority apartment earlier this month when the longtime tenant put in a request to have the lawn...
View ArticleBrownfields redevelopment gets $350,000 from EPA
LOCKPORT – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted Niagara County $350,000 Tuesday toward its ongoing brownfields redevelopment program.The grant brings to $2.45 million the amount the EPA...
View ArticleZetes angrily withdraws from supervisor race
WHEATFIELD – An angry James P. Zetes dropped out of the race for town supervisor Monday after learning that the Niagara County Democratic Party planned to authorize Thomas J. Larson, a registered...
View ArticleVirtuoso announces bid for 12th Legislature term
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara County Legislature Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls, said he will announce his candidacy for re-election at 6 p.m. Thursday at a $35-a-ticket party in...
View ArticleWednesday concert series gets under way tonight
NEWFANE – A series of six free Wednesday concerts begins this evening at the gazebo on Main Street. Sponsored by the Newfane Business & Professional Association, Newfane Tourism and Wilson’s Pizza...
View ArticleAfter Taste: The best of the rest of Buffalo summer food festivals
With the massive menu of the Taste of Buffalo festival only a memory now, allow us to suggest a few more focused taste sensations that Western New York’s adventurous eaters may consider before summer...
View ArticleAlleged dealer faces trial for fatal overdose of heroin-fentanyl
By all accounts, Robert Runfola died quickly.It was late May, and Runfola was at his home on Delaware Avenue using a new heroin-fentanyl cocktail that had recently hit the streets of Western New...
View ArticleGas prices expected to keep rising into mid-August
John Courtney is already feeling the pain of rising gas prices.In a little more than a week, pump prices locally have jumped by 9 cents a gallon, squeezing the budgets of drivers like Courtney, who...
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