Surge puts S&P 500 on track for ‘Perfect 10’ in 2013
NEW YORK – The stock market is poised for a “Perfect 10.”As stocks surge this year, putting them on course for their best annual performance in a decade, all ten industry groups in the Standard &...
View ArticleNews of area garden clubs and events
Hamburg House and Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Hamburg United Methodist Church, 116 Union St., Hamburg. David Clark, from Sieck Wholesale Florist, will present a hands-on program on...
View ArticleArt Trail is holding Holiday Gift Show
LOCKPORT – Eleven galleries and studios will be open from today through Sunday, as the Niagara Art Trail holds its annual holiday open house.The event is held in conjunction with the Kenan Center’s...
View ArticleAuthor from Barker will discuss history
LOCKPORT – C. Gordon Porter, of Barker, a self-described country boy, talks about his experiences growing up on a family farm amid the transformations of the 20th century and put his story to paper in...
View ArticleCollins sees health care threat to volunteer fire companies
WASHINGTON – Rep. Chris Collins, R-Clarence, is warning that volunteer fire departments may become unintended victims of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that many employers offer health...
View ArticleNational Grid to invest $4.2 million in upgrades
Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy has announced that National Grid will invest $4.2 million in infrastructure upgrades toward the conversion of Ohio Street into an $11.3 million, tree-lined parkway. The 1.4-mile...
View ArticleJacobs urges support of ‘Small Business Saturday’
Erie County Clerk Christopher Jacobs is not only urging motorists to renew their vehicle registrations locally, but he also wants shoppers to patronize local businesses as a means to help enrich the...
View ArticleWeekend craft show is a Winter Wonderland
ASHVILLE – The Chautauqua Children’s Safety Education Village is hosting its third annual Winter Wonderland Craft Show at the Safety Village, located at 2695 Route 394, Saturday and Sunday. This is a...
View ArticleDepew parent pleads for common sense instead of Common Core in classroom
When his now-fourth-grader grows up, Joseph Bashaw wants her to be able to look at a store shelf and automatically know that seven boxes of a product at $5 each equals $35 – he doesn’t want her to...
View ArticleLegislature delays pension payment to balance budget plan
In a vote that split along party lines, the Erie County Legislature on Thursday narrowly allowed County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz to delay $8.6 million in pension payments as a means to help close a...
View ArticleLancaster School Board hears Common Core complaints
Lancaster parent Heidi Indelicato told a heartfelt story Thursday of her 8-year-old son’s struggle last school year with the abrupt changes in school when the new Common Core standards began making...
View ArticleNews Staff Selections: Week 12
Tampa Bay (+9) at DetroitGaughan: Tampa BaySkurski: DetroitGraham: Tampa BaySullivan: Tampa BayDiCesare: DetroitNorthrop: DetroitJacksonville (+10) at HoustonGaughan: HoustonSkurski: HoustonGraham:...
View ArticleSabres notebook: Leino sees Buffalo-Philly parallels
PHILADELPHIA — It was May 2011 when the Sabres lost an epic, seven-game playoff series to the Philadelphia Flyers. Not that long ago really. But ages in hockey time.Philadelphia won Game Six in...
View ArticleBills look to get running game back in gear
The Buffalo Bills’ running game has an opportunity to get right coming out of the bye weekend.The Bills’ next three opponents – Atlanta, Tampa Bay and Jacksonville – rank 30th, ninth and 32nd,...
View Article50 years ago today, unease, then shock in Dallas, and a speech never delivered
DALLAS – On the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, Jerrie Smith and her husband, Fred, were headed to the Dallas Trade Mart, where President John F. Kennedy would deliver a speech after a motorcade parade...
View ArticleOllison, Canisius turn title game into runaway
For years and years to come, when the 2013 Monsignor Martin football champions from Canisius High School talk about one of the best nights of their football lives, they will talk about two plays. The...
View ArticleKaloyeros: ‘Like the Bills winning the Superbowl’
Leave it to Alain E. Kaloyeros, the salesman-scientist with the outsized personality, to succinctly explain how a clean-energy campus planned for a South Buffalo brownfield is connected to his...
View ArticleNolan sounds off after Sabres’ latest loss
PHILADELPHIA — Interim coach Ted Nolan has only been watching a week. Buffalo Sabres fans have been watching for 24 games. He gets it now.Turnovers. Missed coverages. Dipsy-do passes. Bad penalties....
View ArticleBuffalo’s future looks very green with state’s investment in...
The Cuomo administration is committing $225 million – the biggest single investment by the state in a new business venture in the Buffalo Niagara region – to try to turn Western New York into a...
View ArticleTractor trailer catches fire on I-190 in Buffalo
A tractor-trailer carrying carpets caught fire around noon Friday on the I-190 near the Clinton-Bailey exit.The fire appeared to have started in the cab. Buffalo firefighters initially brought the...
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