Category: Western NY

To keep snowy roads from impeding the delivery of hot pizzas, Domino’s has awarded Buffalo and 19 other cities $25,000 grants to help pay for snowplowing.  Buffalo received a considerable number of nominations for the grant via plowingforpizza.com, an open call website where users nominate their city of choice by submitting their ZIP code and…

The Town of Hamburg is in “active negotiations” with properties to secure a new location for a community center, Supervisor Randy Hoak said. “We’re trying to provide a building and a center consistent with what we’ve become used to,” Hoak said at a recent Town Board meeting. “I’m optimistic we’re going to be able to…

Some Buffalo Sabres fans are being blocked from renewing their season tickets. The Sabres have notified season ticket holders who resell many of their game tickets on the secondary market that they’ll need to purchase a state-required $5,000 reseller license before they can renew their membership. In an email to these fans, the team said…

WASHINGTON – A bus rapid transit line will be built along Bailey Avenue in Buffalo from Main Street in the north to South Park Avenue in the south thanks to a $102.7 million federal grant to be announced Monday. The 7.5-mile route will feature dedicated bus lanes, an estimated 13 stations with waiting areas, improved…

Alexandria Granchelli has spent years showing people how a kickboxing workout can improve health. So why should the fact that she is eight months pregnant make any difference? In Granchelli’s case, it doesn’t. Some of her clients at 9Round Kickboxing Fitness on Transit Road in East Amherst were surprised that the impending arrival of Granchelli’s…

Alexandria Granchelli has spent years showing people how a kickboxing workout can improve health. So why should the fact that she is 8 months pregnant make any difference? In Granchelli’s case, it doesn’t. Some of her clients at 9Round Kickboxing Fitness on Transit Road in East Amherst were surprised that the impending arrival of Granchelli’s…

A winter weather advisory remaied in effect for southern Erie and Wyoming counties, with a winter storm warning and several inches of snow expected in the Southern Tier, after clocks sprang ahead one hour Sunday morning without any sign of spring. The National Weather Service reported scattered rain and snow showers across the region late…

The Buffalo History Museum will receive $50,000 in state funding to support its sponsorship of local and regional competitions associated with National History Day, Assemblyman Bill Conrad announced. Conrad – himself a former high school social studies teacher and member of the Assembly Committee on Education – said he secured the funds to offset the…

In a span of less than four hours on Friday, a man was arrested twice after acting in a disorderly fashion at two Jamestown businesses – at one of them he threatened an employee with a knife, according to the Jamestown Police Department. Ervin L. Mitchell, 53, was arrested around 10 a.m. after the first…

A 21-year-old Jamestown man is accused of allowing a toddler to consume marijuana. Elijah T. McBride was charged Friday night with endangering the welfare of a child after taking the 1-year-old out of the hospital before the child was treated, according to the Jamestown Police Department. McBride was transported to the Jamestown City Jail and…