Category: Western NY

Niagara Falls is billed as THE place to be on April 8 to watch the total solar eclipse in Western New York. Niagara Falls is getting widespread praise as a prime destination for viewing the total solar eclipse, and Canadian and American civic leaders are bracing for hundreds of thousands of visitors on April 8.…

Yellow and blue will be emblazoned Thursday night on several structures in the region, including Buffalo City Hall, to mark World Down Syndrome Day.     Yellow and blue are the colors of Down syndrome awareness. The colors will show up on Niagara Falls, the Peace Bridge, Oishei Children’s Hospital, the Ford Water Tower, M&T Plaza and…

The Buffalo Water Board says it will resume adding fluoride to the city’s public drinking water by the end of August, nine years after the city quietly stopped adding the cavity-fighting mineral. “During August 2024 Buffalo Water plans to complete the process of Operator and Safety Training, with the goal to start up production and…

BurgerFest in Hamburg, the annual event to commemorate the birth of the hamburger, is reorganizing after three of the four groups that have run the event are withdrawing. The fourth, the Kiwanis Club of Hamburg, will carry on alone. “We’ve been involved for a very long time. That’s why we’re going to stick with it,”…

Aug. 9, 1934 – March 9, 2024 Dick Baldwin became a newspaperman at the age of 12. He not only filled his paper, The Journal, with news from his neighborhood, he also set it up on a miniature printing press in his bedroom, placing rubber type on pages with tweezers, then ran it off on a…

WASHINGTON – A radioactive remnant of the Cold War – the Guterl Specialty Steel plant in Lockport – will be cleaned up earlier than originally planned under President Biden’s proposed budget for the federal fiscal year that starts in October. While many of any president’s budget priorities never survive the congressional approval process, Army Corps…

The Olean Food Pantry, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary, is launching a campaign to raise $1 million to sustain its operations for the next 10 years, board president David Potter announced. “Community need has almost doubled in less than a half-decade,” he noted. A late January food distribution served a record 155 families, he…

The Catholic Club of Buffalo will host its 47th annual Can-Am Handball Doubles Tournament on Saturday. More than 40 highly-ranked players from the United States, Canada and Ireland will travel to Buffalo to compete in five different classes. The event will be in the historic health club located at 506 Delaware Ave., which was the…

Peaceprints of WNY and PUSH Buffalo will each get unrestricted $2 million gifts from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who has vowed to scatter most of her fortune across grassroots groups and foundations focused on America’s greatest needs.  “This gift has the potential to transform Erie County’s re-entry landscape,” Peaceprints CEO Cindi McEachon said Tuesday in announcing one of…

Developer Douglas Jemal’s company has agreed to buy the former home of The Buffalo News from Lee Enterprises. The planned deal for The News’ property at Scott and Washington streets consists of an office building, an adjacent production building and a parking lot across Scott Street. The property is under contact, with a proposed closing…