New York tribes’ casino revenues declining
ALBANY – New York’s Indian tribes saw the sharpest decline in gambling revenues of any state in 2011, as new competitors ate into their profits, a new report has found.The three tribes in New York...
View ArticleAlbany to Hollywood: You can still bring your big guns to NYS
By Tom Precious ALBANY – Call it The Terminator Amendment.State officials are looking at amending the state’s new gun control law to make it clear that movie companies filming in New York can continue...
View ArticleTonawanda Coke trial begins in federal court
Prosecutors say their case against Tonawanda Coke is about profits versus safety, and greed versus health.Defense lawyers say, no, it’s really about stacking the deck against a company that always...
View ArticlePoloncarz, lawmakers challenge audit of storm clean-up funds
Erie County officials and local members of Congress pushed back hard Wednesday against a federal audit that said the county should be forced to pay back $48.5 million in disaster aid that it received...
View ArticleCommunity garden seeds being planted in Lockport by nonprofit group Imagine
LOCKPORT – An Erie County group with big ideas about how gardening could help Lockport’s most run-down neighborhood may get a chance to put its plans into practice soon.Imagine Community Gardens is...
View ArticleKeepsake coin to honor Tuscaroras, raise funds for monument
Two centuries after the British advanced on Lewiston and burned it during the War of 1812, there are undoubtedly descendants of some of those villagers who are alive today because courageous Tuscarora...
View ArticleTrying to solve an identity crisis, forum will focus on Main Street in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – When Tom Lowe and Matt Green think of Main Street, they don’t see the image of a ghost town. They see excited residents, busy stores and a bustling commercial strip.That vision exists...
View ArticleNew rule may allow food trucks at Canalside
Food trucks at Canalside?That’s what the Common Council will consider as part of a larger discussion about mobile vending in the city, North Council Member Joseph Golombek says.Legislation providing...
View ArticleGun buybacks a success in Lockport and Niagara Falls
More than 300 guns were taken off the streets at gun buybacks in the cities of Lockport and Niagara Falls, as residents lined up at both sites to participate.Leaders from both cities said they were...
View ArticleElma nursery granted expansion of permit for storage
The Elma Town Board has granted a new temporary-use permit for Bryan Young’s Seasonal Nursery at 90 New Bullis Road.Young last year asked for the permit for storage purposes during the construction of...
View ArticleEden Valley Growers recognize general manager
One summer afternoon when he was 13, Gary Balone’s uncle told him Eden Valley Growers needed someone to load trucks.“So I hopped on my bike and headed down here, and that’s where I’ve been ever...
View ArticleFun and good cheer return as Sabres top Devils
It might have been a carryover from the lager-filled Shamrock Run a few blocks away. Maybe, as Patrick Kaleta said, Buffalo’s fans looked at the afternoon start time and wanted to revel in a...
View ArticlePominville and the home crowd come alive
Jason Pominville has never struck me as the classic hockey captain. He seemed too soft and unthreatening a personality to get in his teammates’ faces and demand they be accountable every night, on...
View ArticleHecht ends long goal drought
It had been exactly 15 months since Sabres winger Jochen Hecht had scored a goal in First Niagara Center and more than 14 months since he tallied anywhere in the NHL. Sure, Hecht scored five goals...
View ArticleBusiness Calendar
TuesdayBusiness groups• BNI Executive Marketing Team, breakfast meeting, 6:45-8:30 a.m., Milos Restaurant, 5877 Main St. Williamsville. Information 818-2526 or www.bniemt.com.• The Parachute Group, a...
View ArticleExecutive trading
CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORP.: Larkey, Roslyn R., officer, sold 2,949 shares of common at $65.11 each on Feb. 20 and now directly and indirectly holds 21,955. Halverson, Gary M., officer, sold 47,728...
View ArticleStocks in the News / Week of Feb. 25
INCREASED DIVIDENDSQuarterly unless noted otherwise Acadia Realty Tr .21 from .18 Amer Realty Cap Tr .075M from .07416M Bank of Montreal g .74 from .72 Big 5 Sporting Gds .10 from .075 CB&L Assoc...
View ArticleIPOs
Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. - Milwaukee, 11.5 million shares, priced $27 to $29, managed by Citigroup, Goldman Scahs, and BofA Merrill Lynch. Proposed NYSE symbol APAM. Business:...
View ArticleBrazen copper thieves target church
When a Buffalo police officer stopped a motorist and his passenger in North Buffalo early Friday morning, he noticed bent and crushed gutters shoved into the back seat of the car.The greenish sheen on...
View ArticleCigarette distributors face lawsuit from state
ALBANY – The state’s attorney general is stepping up efforts to combat the movement of tax-free cigarettes from Indian-owned companies in Canada to New York tribes, including the Seneca Nation of...
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