Almost back to school
For kids, it would be the week before Christmas – or maybe the one in June right before school lets out.For their parents, though, the time is now.We’re talking about the longest week of the year....
View ArticleLockport man jumped and robbed in hallway of his apartment building
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Dysinger Road man said he was lured out of his apartment in the 6600 block to meet with a woman he knew and then was struck by an unknown man who demanded his money just before...
View ArticleDriver stopped for speeding, charged with drunken driving
WHEATFIELD – A driver stopped for driving 63 in a 45 per hour zone at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 2100 block of River Road was found with beer cans under the front seats and had a blood alcohol level...
View ArticleTwo men charged in an attempted break-in at a Falls gas station
NIAGARA FALLS – Police responding to a burglary in progress at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday at a gas station in the 8600 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard arrested two men at the scene.Jason Laufenberg, 39, of...
View ArticleTwo more ex-Bernas clients reimbursed $300,427 by lawyers’ protective...
Two more former clients of now-imprisoned lawyer Kenneth P. Bernas have been awarded a total of $300,427 that he embezzled from them, according to the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection.The recent...
View ArticleCuomo aid to Niagara County flood victims stirs heartfelt response
LOCKPORT – Patricia Garver, of Lockport, opened the envelope Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo gave her Thursday, gasped and started to weep.It was a check for $31,900, the maximum under the state’s flood aid...
View ArticleWheatfield residents oppose Quasar fertilizer plans
WHEATFIELD – A proposal to build numerous small fertilizer ponds to store byproducts from a food waste digestion project proved extremely unpopular with residents at a public meeting Thursday.Quasar...
View ArticleKiddie rides resurrected at North Tonawanda’s Herschell Carrousel...
NORTH TONAWANDA – Many area residents remember begging their parents to stop at Page’s Whistle Pig Restaurant for a chance to go around on the kiddie rides, but after Page’s closed in the Town of...
View ArticleMaid of the Mist wins ruling for new boat site on U.S. side as judge...
A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that threatened the iconic Maid of the Mist’s continued operation of boat tours on the American side of Niagara Falls.State Supreme Court Justice Catherine...
View ArticleProject Homeless Connect to hold program next week
Dozens of agencies will offer services ranging from free haircuts to legal services at the fifth annual Project Homeless Connect event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Thursday in the Buffalo Niagara...
View ArticleHoliday to push back refuse collection a day
LOCKPORT – Because of the Labor Day holiday, garbage and recycling collection in the City of Lockport will be pushed back a day next week, City Clerk Richelle J. Pasceri announced.There will be no...
View ArticleBoard of Elections hours will be extended next week
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Board of Elections will be open extra hours next week to accommodate those wishing to cast absentee ballots for the Sept. 10 primary election.The office at 111 Main St.,...
View ArticleCarnegie Art Center taking entries for members exhibit
NORTH TONAWANDA – Members of the Carnegie Art Center are welcome to submit one piece of their artwork for a members exhibition. First place in the members art show will win a solo art show in 2014 and...
View ArticleFall Festival seeking vendors for Oct. 5 event
NORTH TONAWANDA – Vendors are wanted for North Tonawanda’s second annual Fall Festival to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 5, rain or shine, at the former Gilmore School, 789 Gilmore St. The event...
View ArticlePest proliferation: Experts blame moisture, warmer summer
You may have found carpenter ants munching through the timbers of your house.Or maybe you’ve been bitten by more mosquitoes than usual.Or, perhaps it was a huge, angry nest of yellow jackets in a...
View ArticleNiagara Falls police make one arrest, confiscate drugs and weapon
Niagara Falls police, aided by officers from four other agencies, teamed up to make one arrest and confiscate drugs and an assault weapon during a pre-dawn raid Friday of three suspected drug houses...
View ArticleHornblower to appeal dismissal of suit on Maid of the Mist deal
NIAGARA FALLS – The California company that challenged a deal giving the Maid of the Mist Corp. the right to build a boat dock and storage facility on the American side of the Falls said Friday it...
View ArticleFalls man to serve four years for molesting girl
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man was sentenced Friday to four years in prison and 10 years of post-release supervision for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl last year.Thomas R. Murray II, 38, of 87th...
View ArticleMan who torched Falls house assigned to mental health facility
LOCKPORT – A stint in a state mental health facility was ordered Friday for a Niagara Falls man who set fire Aug. 12, 2012, to a house on 20th Street in the Falls, from which he had just been...
View ArticleCounseling ordered for man who injured 4-year-old son
LOCKPORT – Counseling and parenting classes were prescribed Friday for a North Tonawanda man who dislocated his 4-year-old son’s elbow Sept. 4.Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas placed Daniel J....
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