Category: Western NY

With hordes of people headed to Buffalo and Niagara Falls this weekend for the solar eclipse Monday, it’s not the best time to shut down part of the Thruway. But that’s what’s happening. The Thruway’s eastbound lanes will be closed between Westfield, Exit 60, and Fredonia, Exit 59, for 14 hours – between 5 p.m.…

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition is renewing ties with KeyBank, following an acrimonious split in 2022 between the onetime partners. Jesse Van Tol, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based coalition, announced a $25 million agreement with Key to “work together to ensure greater levels of investment in minority and underserved communities.” The NCRC had…

Three veteran restaurateurs are teaming up to reopen the former Hatch and William K’s at the Erie Basin Marina on Buffalo’s waterfront. Two years after taking over the lease from the city to launch what would briefly become the Juicery at the Hatch, Angelo Canna Jr. is partnering with the co-owners of Liberty Hound and…

HBO is revisiting the Oklahoma City bombing with the premiere of an original documentary, “An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th,” at 9 p.m. Tuesday. It is directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (HBO’s “Stockton on My Mind,” “One Nation Under Stress”) and Katie Couric serves as executive producer. It also will be available…

Tim Martin had braved rain and heat and the gloom of night on his appointed rounds, delivering mail in Hamburg for years. But on New Year’s Eve in 2022, he braved smoke and fire. That fact brought Martin to the nation’s capital last week for a ceremony where the National Association of Letter Carriers named…

For some, Niagara Falls will be the only place to see the once-in-a-lifetime eclipse come Monday. Space.com listed the iconic cataracts as the most scenic spot in America to view the total eclipse, and National Geographic ranked it No. 11 on its list of the top 20 travel experiences in the world for this year.…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, has announced that it has scheduled a public information meeting prior to the start of remedial work at a radioactive waste disposal site in the Town of Tonawanda. The session will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on April 18 in the Town of Tonawanda Senior…

The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, after its support column was struck by a container ship, sent shockwaves through the United States as rescue efforts continued into evening to find six construction workers who fell into the Patapsco River around 1:30 a.m. It also prompted a question: Could something like it…

Despite all the warnings about not removing your eclipse glasses until the moon completely covers the sun on April 8, eye doctors at the University at Buffalo know there’s a chance some people still might look at the sun before totality, potentially damaging their eyes. That’s why UB ophthalmologists and residents are planning a post-eclipse…

The Buffalo Zoo development director is leaving one of Buffalo’s historic attractions for another – the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site.  Major work is currently being done at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site, including reconstruction of the building’s Greek Revival Spencer Morgan, 38, on Monday will become executive director of the Ansley Wilcox House, 641…