Category: Western NY

From the 28th floor of Seneca One tower, Lighthouse Technology Services has enviable views of downtown and far beyond. Its offices are bright and colorful, with posters of movies made in Buffalo hung in one meeting room, and a game room aglow with Pac-Man and pinball. The technology staffing and services firm makes available snacks…

You think you’ve got problems? Poor Jimmy Kimmel. There’s a man with problems. Kimmel is the experienced ringmaster at Sunday’s 96th annual Oscar hoop-de-doo and it’s almost literally true that he can’t really win. Entertain, sure, but that’s about all. On one side, a crashing bore is waiting to be born and inject tedium into…

WASHINGTON – Deborah Hartman of Amherst will attend Thursday’s State of the Union address as a bit of a celebration. She will be looking down at a president and a senator who helped make sure she and thousands of other former food service employees get a solid pension. Meantime, Anna Corbett of Dansville will be…

Depew Police Chief Jerome Miller will retire from the department later this month, and the village is struggling to find someone to take his place. Miller’s last day on the job will be March 14 and nobody in the department is qualified to replace him, based on civil service requirements, Mayor Kevin Peterson said. Peterson…

It’s not for certain if Josh Allen saw London, but he’s definitely seeing France. And France may have gotten a rather … let’s say unique perspective of the Bills quarterback during the dinner hour on his visit this week to Europe. “My pants ripped at dinner,” Allen posted Tuesday night on X, the platform formerly…

When someone created an authentic-looking fake check in March 2022 that redirected $326,456 in Erie County taxpayer money to an out-of-state bank account, it was feared that money was lost to criminals forever since the theft wasn’t discovered until a year later. But on Wednesday, the U.S. Secret Service called the Erie County Clerk’s Office…

Three public meetings have been scheduled for this month to discuss a study of the proposed Riverline, a 1.5-mile nature trail and greenway near downtown. The study, a prerequisite for construction, will look at the social, economic, and environmental impacts the project will have on the community. The Riverline, a project of the Western New…

Looking at the impish grin on his face, one would never imagine the difficulties that Oliver Cope has endured since he was born on March 25, 2016. The 7-year-old Blasdell boy suffers from a genetic disease called osteogenesis imperfecta that makes his bones so brittle that he has already broken more than 100 of them.…

Erie County Medical Center has been awarded $500,000 in grant funding to aid the local community in its response to the ongoing opioid crisis, Erie County officials said. Both ECMC’s Corporation for Occupational and Environmental Medicine and its Center for Hepatology Care were awarded $250,000 each to support community-based programming to Erie County residents. According to…

A former Cheektowaga woman has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges for failing to provide proper food and water to 156 animals, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn’s office said. Kerisa J. Schmitt, 24, was charged in December with 308 counts of animal cruelty after SPCA Serving Erie County officers responded to a request…