Category: Staten Island

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Looking to win big playing the lottery? Then you’ll have to be sure to pick lucky numbers — but its just as critical to know which numbers to avoid. Luckily, lottery experts have done some homework for us, compiling a list of those numbers that are least-often drawn. Experts at Lottery…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Looking west along Richmond Terrace, at Park Avenue in Port Richmond, this view shows some buildings still standing from the 1920s. A few of the old buildings have been renovated to house new businesses. The double-decker porched building, which was the site of the St. James Hotel, built in 1795, and…

The lone survivor. CSI/McCown is Staten Island’s only remaining representative in the PSAL AAA playoffs after Petrides and McKee/S.I. Tech were knocked off in Thursday’s opening round. Petrides made its first playoff appearance in seven years, but was down a pair of starters due to injury. MSIT, meanwhile, suffered a one-point defeat in its first…

DEAR ABBY: A relative recently moved to my state and wants to get together more than I care to. This person had more than a year to prepare for the move, but didn’t plan ahead for many of the tasks and now is overwhelmed, needy, whiny and complaining constantly. I’m now being asked for information…

DEAR ABBY: My husband has a poor relationship with our son and his wife. They want nothing to do with him and don’t want him around the grandchildren because of how he acts. My husband tells me I should stick up for him and tell them what they’re doing is wrong, and that he would…

Qadir Martin was in the rare position of entering the current season as the reigning Warren Jaques Award winner after sharing the 2022-23 edition of the prestigious accolade with St. Joseph by-the-Sea’s Christian Greeley. Naturally, the big question concerning Martin was what can he do for an encore during his senior year? Martin, for starters,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — To help combat New York’s emergency-level blood shortage, the John G. Chipura Foundation will host its annual blood drive on Saturday, March 2, in Tottenville. In cooperation with the New York Blood Center, the non-profit organization, founded in memory of Chipura, a New York City firefighter who lost his life responding…

A report from the National Weather Service was issued on Thursday at 7:10 p.m. for lake effect snow until 8 p.m. for Oneida, Onondaga and Madison counties. “At 7:10 p.m., a lake effect snow band was over Brewerton, or 10 miles northeast of Baldwinsville moving east at 35 MPH,” says the weather service. The warning…

Fans of “Royal Crackers” — a show that’s been described as the most watched new show on Adult Swim in 2023 — will be delighted to hear the animation comedy show has been renewed for a second season. According to the website, season two of Adult Swim’s hit show about a dysfunctional family fighting over…