Category: Western NY

The Niagara Falls Ancient Order of Hibernians will kick off its 40th annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on Friday in the Niagara Falls Convention Center, 101 Old Falls St. Billed as the region’s largest St. Patrick’s Day party, the event starts at 5 p.m., 15 minutes after the start of what organizers call the world’s…

Dr. Leonard Egede made three visits to Buffalo while being recruited to serve as the new chair of the department of medicine at the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. The first two were in person and the last was supposed to be a Zoom meeting. But when Egede heard it…

Pleasant View Road will be closed twice next week for construction work, city of Madison and Middleton officials said. The road will be closed on Tuesday to set a pedestrian bridge over the road and on Thursday to pour the deck of the pedestrian bridge. Both closures will be between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.,…

Aliyah Johnson is a regular Metro Bus rider, who lives in the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood. She catches two buses every morning to work, picking up the first one on Bailey Avenue and then transferring to another. It’s not exactly a seamless ride, she said. “(Sometimes) I might miss my next bus because traffic is so busy…

Mayor Byron Brown said Wednesday that he and members of his administration were unaware someone under federal indictment got a $175,000 city contract to help make improvements in two city parks. “These contracts don’t come to me. They are handled in the Department of Public Works, which set up a selection committee that reviewed the…

West Herr Auto Group President Scott Bieler has made a substantial donation to Villa Maria College to fund a new academic support center to be named for him. Villa Maria President Matthew Giordano announced the future Scott Bieler Center for Academic Excellence with Bieler on campus Wednesday. They did not disclose the amount of Bieler’s…

A Town of Alexander man has been charged with sexually assaulting a child for nearly 12 years, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office said.  John P. Volpe, 71, was arrested March 7 at his residence on Buffalo Street Road after detectives and FBI agents executed a search warrant there, officials said. Volpe has been accused of engaging…

During a public meeting Monday, Hormoz Mansouri led the discussion about a master plan his company developed for Shoshone Park in North Buffalo, to be paid for with federal funds from the American Rescue Plan. Left unspoken was the 40-count federal indictment against Mansouri leveled in March 2022 accusing him of misusing federal grant money,…

The 62nd annual Variety Kids Telethon last weekend raised $1,041,775, the Variety Club of Buffalo Tent 7 announced Tuesday. It surpassed donations for the 2023 telethon, which totaled $1,025,808. Proceeds from the telethon will support Oishei Children’s Hospital and other children’s charities. The telethon was broadcast live from Variety Club headquarters in Lancaster from 6…

Buffalo is among 25 cities chosen as “Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities” by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which will put $200 million toward helping the cities access federal funding for infrastructure projects to fight climate change. Bloomberg Philanthropies did not say how much it would allocate for each city. If all the grants were equal, each of the…