In Focus: Sarah Fonzi, sculptor
It’s not often that you find bicycle builders, sculptors, craft beer brewers, furniture makers and other artisans plying their skills under one roof.The Foundry bills itself as an artisans’ incubator,...
View ArticleStudy shows pay raises hovering at 2.8 percent
U.S. employers are “staying the course,” according to a new survey of pay increases planned for 2014.A Mercer survey released Tuesday said employee raises averaged 2.8 percent this year and won’t...
View ArticleU.S. manufacturing output increases in June
WASHINGTON – U.S. factories cranked out more business equipment, home electronics and autos last month, boosting manufacturing output for the second straight month.The Federal Reserve said Tuesday...
View ArticleGM posts 3.9% gain in worldwide sales
Sales of General Motors Co. vehicles rose by 3.9 percent worldwide – to more than 4.85 million vehicles – in the first half of this year, although growth was slowed by declines in Europe and South...
View ArticleUB spinoff company moves from incubator to Amherst offices
A University at Buffalo spin-off company whose software helps university admissions officers sort and analyze data from thousands of applicants has moved out of UB’s Technology Incubator into nearby...
View ArticleSilver Creek to seek money to buy Falconer’s firetruck
SILVER CREEK – The Silver Creek Village Board approved a resolution Monday to seek funding to buy a 1993 ladder-pump firetruck from the Falconer Fire Department for $150,000.Mayor Nick Piccolo said...
View ArticleContested gym at Sacred Heart will move ahead
By Charlie SpechtNews Staff ReporterPlans for a new gymnasium at Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart, a sore point for neighbors who lived behind the project, will move ahead after a key approval...
View ArticleWoman killed as car, pickup collide in Depew
A woman died after her car crossed over the center line on Broadway in Depew and sideswiped a pickup truck on the other side of the street at about 8:30 a.m. today, Depew police said.Police identified...
View ArticleRetired News reporter saved in Lake George
LAKE GEORGE – A retired Buffalo News reporter is recovering in Glens Falls Hospital after he nearly drowned while swimming Monday afternoon off the eastern shore of Lake George at Huletts Landing....
View ArticleGrand marshals named for Pulaski Day Parade
Christopher Nixon Cox, a grandson of the late president, will join Town Supervisor Mary F. Holtz and Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, consul general of Poland, as honorary grand marshals for Sunday’s Pulaski Day...
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...
View ArticleN.Y. City-area officers assist Buffalo police in chase, arrest
NEWS STAFF REPORTERUnlikely law enforcement bedfellows joined forces Monday evening to nab two armed robbers fleeing the scene of an East Side pharmacy holdup in a stolen taxi, authorities said...
View ArticleBrown keeps far ahead of Tolbert in mayoral fundraising
Bernard A. Tolbert put the best face possible on his latest fundraising effort Tuesday, but new reports to the state Board of Elections show that overcoming incumbent Mayor Byron W. Brown’s huge...
View ArticleFalls man indicted on Lockport drug charges
LOCKPORT – George M. Stephens, whose Jan. 17 arrest was one of the triggers for the proclamation of an anti-crime “impact zone” in central Lockport, was arraigned on a six-count indictment Wednesday...
View ArticleMiddleport man imprisoned for indecent photos on his cellphone
LOCKPORT – David L. Vercruysse, 39, of Main Street, Middleport, was sentenced Wednesday to 1 1/2 to three years in state prison for having photos of a naked adolescent girl on his cellphone.Niagara...
View ArticlePembroke justice, daughter charged in missing Corfu court money
Pembroke Town Justice Robert E. Alexander and his daughter, Brandi A. Watts, were arrested after a state audit found $10,000 missing in Corfu village court, State Police reported Wednesday.Alexander...
View ArticleErie County Legislature’s election season starting to heat up
The annual ritual of filing designating petitions to qualify for the electoral ballot is nearing completion for 2013, and the thousands of signatures collected reveal a strong field of County...
View ArticleFisher-Price sales slip 3 percent in second quarter
Sales are down at Fisher-Price, but Mattel believes robust growth is on the horizon.Fisher-Price’s worldwide gross sales slipped 3 percent to $396.7 million as parent company Mattel Inc.’s...
View ArticleOlean School District’s cafeteria fund at risk of falling into the red
OLEAN – The school district’s cafeteria fund balance appears to be falling into the red, with no hope of recovery.“Our cafeteria fund balance looks to be in not as good shape as last year,” School...
View ArticleAudit finds problems with Cattaraugus County development fund
LITTLE VALLEY – Instability in reporting and a need to bring the process under the roof of the County Center topped the list of problems found in an audit of the Cattaraugus County Microenterprise...
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