Sabres notebook: Leino bounces back with two goals
Ville Leino got benched for the final 40 minutes of Thursday’s game at Florida for taking an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that resulted in a power-play goal. Afterward, the Sabres winger didn’t...
View ArticleLeopold traded before Sabres lose in shootout
Ryan Miller wondered aloud this month whether veterans such as himself, Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek were still the Buffalo Sabres’ core. Given the team’s struggles, the goaltender didn’t know...
View ArticleWestern New York auto tech students revved for national finals
For high school students adept at working on cars, the National Automotive Technology Competition is a chance to show their stuff.Four area seniors – on two teams, with two members each – will compete...
View ArticleTax breaks for retailers are casualty of IDA excess
The state is throwing a lasso around its out-of-control industrial development agencies.After more than four years of doling out inexcusable tax breaks to car dealers, restaurants and wine shops, the...
View ArticleMore doctors are treating patients’ emotional, spiritual pain
Physicians may refer to it as the “bio-psycho-social-spiritual model.” Patients might understand it better as treating “body, mind and spirit.” The religious faithful simply see it as “the power of...
View ArticleBarker, Wilson, Lewiston to hold hearings Monday on village budgets
Three villages have public hearings on their tentative 2013-14 budgets slated for 7 p.m. Monday. Barker and Wilson will hold public hearings following reorganizing meetings welcoming two new mayors,...
View ArticleNew plans suggested for Rainbow Mall
NIAGARA FALLS – When it comes to developing Niagara Falls’ downtown core, few buildings loom as large as the former Rainbow Centre mall.“The building is, in a sense, a metaphor for downtown Niagara...
View ArticleFinding inspiration in beauty of flowers
LEWISTON –To Sharon Low, the purpley blue crocuses and spikes of new daffodil leaves in her garden are the tantalizing signs of the flower and garden show season ahead.“I am just getting really...
View ArticleBecker Farms shows how farming can be big business
HARTLAND – Some say the slogan for modern farming is “Get big or get out.”Oscar and Melinda Vizcarra of Becker Farms have certainly answered the call.The couple took a family farm that was down to a...
View ArticleLockport sees success with drug drop off program
LOCKPORT – Since the City of Lockport began participating in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Adminstrations’ National Prescription Drug Take Back Day four years ago, it has become one of the top two...
View ArticleVolleyball, softball player is Wilson High’s first to win Niagara PAL...
WILSON – Wilson High School senior Lindsay Bryer made history earlier this year when she was the first student from her school to earn the Niagara Police Athletic League’s Prep Athlete of the Year...
View ArticleHartland town board to discuss cart-based, twice-a-month recycling program
GASPORT – The Hartland Town Board will hold informational sessions at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Saturday to discuss its plans to go to a cart-based, twice a month recycling program.The meetings...
View ArticleGathering on Civil War history set for April 20
LOCKPORT – History buffs looking for new information on Niagara County’s involvement in the Civil War are invited to attend a gathering of local historians April 20 for discussions commemorating the...
View ArticlePotential pollution fines should stay local, Higgins says
If Tonawanda Coke winds up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for its conviction in federal court for numerous air and water pollution violations, the money should stay in Western New...
View ArticleCleveland BioLabs, Astronics lead Buffalo Portfolio’s turnaround
After sputtering through 2012, the Buffalo Portfolio is off to a rip-roaring start in 2013.Not only are the stocks of the publicly traded companies based in the Buffalo Niagara region doing better...
View ArticleGun-rights expert call local challenge to SAFE Act ‘significant’
WASHINGTON – In the marble-columned courthouse where five Supreme Court justices ruled that American citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, the gun-control law that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo calls...
View ArticleSpotters extend National Weather Service’s reach
They can tell the difference between grapple and snizzle.They brave the biting cold to record the snowfall in the teeth of a 50-mph wind.They run out into a hailstorm to measure the biggest chunk of...
View ArticleMunicipalities repairing weather-damaged streets as pothole season ends
They’re out there waiting for you.From a trickle of water that seeped through cracked pavement, they grew with every freeze and thaw of another Buffalo winter.Then, when the weather breaks, so do the...
View ArticleBills add Kolb to quarterback mix
The Buffalo Bills added a viable starting option to their quarterback roster Saturday night by reaching a contract agreement with free-agent Kevin Kolb. The full terms of a two-year deal for the...
View ArticleFive of nine Buffalo schools will get grants for upgrades
Five Buffalo schools have been awarded $4.5 million apiece in federal improvement grants – while another four schools’ applications were rejected, state officials announced.Harriet Ross Tubman,...
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