Category: Western NY

Sister Rosemary Benson, OSF, a Franciscan Sister for 76 years who served parishes on the Southern Tier for many years, died March 1 in Mercy Nursing Facility at OLV, Lackawanna. She was 92. Born in Buffalo, the youngest of three girls, she was the daughter of Thomas J. and Martha Kock Benson and grew up…

Trash, like death, is a part of life. We may try hard to ignore its inevitability, but that is not easy. And it is fair to say that pretending trash doesn’t exist or that what happens to it doesn’t matter has become one of American society’s biggest mistakes.  We are paying the price now. Waterways…

The age of 27 is an age of possibilities. You’ve lived more than a quarter-century, enough time to make mistakes and learn from them. You’re old enough to have sown some wisdom, but young enough to hope for many more meaningful decades. Josh Allen is 27. The Buffalo Bills quarterback is now a seasoned NFL…

The “tech hub” bid submitted by Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse plans to use about $54 million in federal funds to bolster the semiconductor industry in upstate New York. Now, the three-region team will wait to find out if its entry is deemed worthy of funding, in a competition overseen by a federal agency. If the…

A portion of I-86 in Chautauqua County will be closed at times during the coming week because of an ongoing construction project, the state Department of Transportation announced. The closings will take place in the vicinity of the bridges over Chautauqua Lake, between Exit 9, Route 430, Bemus Point, and Exit 11, Route 430, Strunk…

Jan. 19, 1939 – Feb. 20, 2024 Ronald J. Colleran was working in maintenance at The Buffalo Evening News in the early 1960s when he saw a job posting on the company bulletin board. There was an opening for a staff photographer. Training would be provided. Already artistically inclined – he was an amateur photographer…

The timing was chance – tied more to pandemic delays, than anything – but Bill Crouse figures this kind of chance can sometimes be the best instructor. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are expected to pour into Western New York next month to witness a total solar eclipse. Some will undoubtedly find their way to…

After a state entity shelved the proposal for wind turbines in Lake Erie 14 months ago, opponents of the idea suspected it was only a matter of time before the idea would be recycled. “Western New York does not want these wind turbines in Lake Erie,” said David Adrian, an aquatic biologist and member of…

Another Catholic parish has been deemed financially insolvent and will close soon, although a date has not yet been set. A Buffalo Diocese spokesman confirmed on Friday that St. Lawrence Church at 1520 East Delevan Avenue in Buffalo will shut down due to fiscal struggles and a lack of sacramental ministries. Parishioners are grieving the…

A high school senior at Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart who was named the Distinguished Young Woman of New York for 2024 in December will compete in the 67th National Finals for Distinguished Young Woman on June 27, 28 and 29 in Mobile, Ala. Ekene Ezenwa of Clarence Center will join 49 other Distinguished…