Category: Western NY

Elaine Matuszak Pasternak hardly saw it as a lifetime commitment. She was a teenager at Emerson High when a guy named Max Pohl, who ran a poultry and meat business at the Broadway Market, made this promise. Starting as a child, Pasternak had gone to the market every week when her mom, Theresa Matuszak, did…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a controversial former Democrat now seeking to run as an independent in the presidential election, is coming to Buffalo next month. The son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy will speak from 12:30 to 3 p.m. April 27 at Kotecki’s Grandview Grove, 4685 Seneca St.…

An investigation into the death last summer of a 21-year-old college student who was hit by a car while crossing the street found no evidence that the driver was distracted, intoxicated or speeding at the time, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office. But on Friday, more than eight months after Sydney C. Lohr…

Bradley Lohr parked along Elmwood Avenue last July intending to pick up his daughter Sydney, a 21-year-old college student, after she wrapped up a shift waiting tables at Cole’s restaurant. Instead, Lohr experienced a father’s worst nightmare come true, witnessing an SUV barrel into his daughter as she tried to cross Elmwood, near Forest Avenue.…

Buffalo-based ACV Auctions has expanded into India with the opening of a technology development center in Chennai. ACV has launched the center with 15 employees and plans to grow that figure to about 100 within a year, the company’s chief operating officer, Vikas Mehta, said in an interview with the publication Business Line. “The launch…

It is time to offer my 2 cents on the decision of former WGRZ-TV (Channel 2) anchor-reporter Heather Ly to decline the salary offer to become the anchor of the 4 p.m. program “Most Buffalo” after spending 17 years at the station. In a telephone interview Saturday, Ly said she was offered the job of…

An Israeli staff member of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo has been removed from his job after he was tied to social media posts that celebrated and mocked Palestinian suffering during the Israel-Hamas War. “The postings were shocking,” said Patty Simonson, JCC’s chief executive officer. “Even though they were private and personal opinions,…

The Buffalo church that in 1976 hosted Cardinal Karol Wojtyla – who became globe-trotting Pope John Paul II and St. John Paul II after his death – is the latest Catholic church in danger of being shut down because it can’t pay its bills. Parishioners of St. Casimir, a multi-domed architectural gem built in 1929…

A Dunkirk woman and man face felony drug charges after Dunkirk police and Chautauqua County sheriff’s investigators Thursday afternoon seized nearly three grams of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia from a home on West Lucas Avenue in the City of Dunkirk. Yajaira Herrera Hernandez, 46, was charged with third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance,…

The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office has opened a new substation at Wheatfield Town Hall. Sheriff Michael J. Filicetti said in a news release that the substation will improve response times and enable more patrol coverage and visibility in towns at the western end of the county. The new location at 2800 Church Road does not…