Wellness walk and dog show encourages owners to walk with their pets
LEWISTON – Mount St. Mary’s Hospital will conduct its fourth annual “CardioCraze” from 8 to 11 a.m. Sept. 14 at Academy Park in the village.The approximately two-mile wellness walk is a fundraiser for...
View ArticleSpooky tours are back in Lewiston
LEWISTON – As the weather cools and the nights grow longer, the ghosts of the Village of Lewiston’s past come out to educate and entertain for the Marble Orchard Ghost Walks, an eerie, yet fun-filled...
View ArticleAround Town / Niagara County meetings and hearings this week
Lockport The Town Board will hold a work session at 1 p.m. Tuesday and a formal meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Town Hall, 6560 Dysinger Road.Also this week:The Common Council will meet at 6 p.m....
View ArticleNiagara County Real Estate Transactions
CAMBRIA• Upper Mountain Road, Mark Kellogg; Jennifer Kellogg to Jesse W. Schoelles, $139,500.HARTLAND• Ridge Road, John C. Williams to Jennifer M. Wiskemann, $120,500.LEWISTON• Forest Road, Theresa C....
View ArticlePolice investigate three pop bottle bombs
Three homemade pop bottle bombs exploded early today in Lockport and South Buffalo.Two of the pop bottle bombs were discovered on a cul-de-sac street in the Town of Lockport, police reported.One bomb...
View ArticleProperty missing after party at vacationing grandpa’s home
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A vacationing Ernest Road resident returned home Sunday after a warning from police, only to discover nearly $2,300 worth of property missing from his home.Sheriff’s deputies said...
View ArticleLocal districts prepare to implement Common Core curriculum
Students returning to area classrooms this week will be greeted by smiling teachers and all the possibilities a new school year brings.They also will face what some are calling the biggest changes to...
View ArticleSchools set to implement Common Core curriculum
Students returning to area classrooms this week will be greeted by smiling teachers and all the possibilities a new school year brings.They also will face what some are calling the biggest changes to...
View ArticleNiagara Falls teen shot three times on Pine Avenue late Monday night
A 19-year-old Niagara Falls man was taken to Erie County Medical Center late Monday night after being shot three times near Pine Avenue and Seventh Street, city police said. He was listed in serious...
View ArticleCar crashes at high speed into Niagara Falls house
NIAGARA FALLS – A car crashed into the corner of a two-story house at 1914 Hyde Park Blvd., struck the gas meter, a water meter and caused major damage to the structure at 11:04 p.m. Monday. The...
View ArticleFire set for Molotov cocktail that failed to explode extinguished in Cambria
A deputy who doused the fire with a patrol car fire extinguisher about 3:35 p.m. discovered a small liquor bottle atop a stack of newspapers, with metal mesh used as a wick.. Several patrol units...
View ArticleReed admits error in using campaign funds to pay Steuben County tax bill
WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Reed accidentally paid a Steuben County tax bill out of campaign funds last year, but he insisted Tuesday that the mistake – which broke House ethics rules but which he quickly...
View ArticleFalls mayor says 3 lawmakers are stalling on development project
NIAGARA FALLS - While the City Council majority says talks are progressing about a proposed $25.3 million downtown development project, Mayor Paul A. Dyster on Tuesday said the three city lawmakers...
View ArticleGratwick Riverside Park Marina begins final phase of improvement project
NORTH TONAWANDA – The North Tonawanda Common Council approved a contract Tuesday for $255,369 with Pinto Construction in Buffalo for Phase II of the Gratwick Riverside Park Marina Facilities...
View ArticleUnshackle Upstate seeks deep tax cuts, end to moratorium on shale gas drilling
The Unshackle Upstate business advocacy group Tuesday unveiled its prescription for the sputtering upstate economy: deep tax cuts and a lifting of the moratorium on shale gas drilling.The plan calls...
View ArticleJob fair set for Thursday in Jones Resource Building
NIAGARA FALLS – A fall job fair will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday in the Niagara Falls Housing Authority’s Doris Jones Family Resource Building, 3001 Ninth St.Employers scheduled to attend...
View ArticleSoldier who died at base in Missouri was from Falls
Officials have identified the soldier who died at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri last Thursday as Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Dolson Jr., of Niagara Falls.Dolson, 49, was found unresponsive Aug. 29 in a...
View ArticleCollins lays out details of measure on hard cider
A measure before Congress that would soften restrictions on producers of hard cider was detailed Tuesday by Rep. Chris Collins, R-Clarence, during stops at two cider mills – BlackBird Cider Works in...
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Falls Council tables train station resolution
NIAGARA FALLS - The City Council majority on Tuesday tabled a measure that would allow the city to be reimbursed by the federal government for some already incurred expenses of the new train station...
View ArticleDolores E. Marino, Niagara Falls teacher, library board member
April 25, 1933 – Aug. 31, 2013 NIAGARA FALLS – Dolores E. Marino, a retired language teacher and president of the Niagara Falls Library board of trustees for many years, died Saturday in Mount St....
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