Category: Western NY

The principal of a middle school in Virginia is returning to Western New York to become principal at Orchard Park Middle School. Mary Kathryn Graham will start her new job April 1. A graduate of West Seneca East High School and Buffalo State College, now University, she earned her master’s degree from the University of…

Alex Preisch was working at Niagara Chocolates when the candy manufacturer closed its Cheektowaga plant for good last year. Through its award-winning aQuiRe app, CaHill Tech is focused on training the next generation of construction workers in a way they’re already familiar with – through watching videos on their phones. It was a tough pill…

Buffalove, Drake style Drake doesn’t forget where he came from or how he made it back to Buffalo. The Canadian rapper’s path includes five Grammy Awards, 29 Billboard Music Awards and 24 albums and mixtapes, and wound through Amherst – notably Daemen University. “The second show that I ever did was in the lunchroom at…

Say what you want about the Buffalo Niagara region’s hot housing market, but home prices here are still pretty cheap. The local median sale price of $243,500 during the fourth-quarter of last year was 38% lower than the national median of $391,700, according to a recent report from the National Association of Realtors. That’s even…

Mohammad “Ravi” Ismail has seen firsthand how hard it can be to grab a jug of milk or loaf of bread close to home on Broadway on Buffalo’s East Side. Dollar Tree used to be an option, but that store never reopened after the December blizzard. Some people headed to the Walmart 5 miles away…

Columbus E. Brooks Jr., 18, lay bleeding from a gunshot wound on a sidewalk near Perkins Park when Buffalo firefighters and paramedics arrived to treat him around 9:30 p.m. July 5. It was a speedy response, given that a 911 call about a man getting shot in the abdomen came in at approximately 9:27 p.m.…

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for the 2022 rape of a 13-year-old child in the Town of Evans. Erie County Court Judge James Bargnesi sentenced Jacob Pearson, 39, of Wilcox, Pa. to 10 years of post-release supervision, as well. Pearson will be required to register as a sex offender…

A 37-year-old woman died Wednesday following a motor vehicle crash on Route 5 at Lakeview Road in Hamburg. Hamburg police said Jenny E. Zuhlke was killed in the accident at about 11:30 a.m. Anthony Rydzewski, 40, who was driving a second vehicle in the crash, was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center with…

Jammed cellphone signals. Traffic at a halt. Roadways too congested for ambulances to get through. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to travel to the Buffalo Niagara region next month for a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse – and first responders are hard at work getting ready for them. Preparations are underway in Western New…

With downtown Buffalo expected to be in the path of totality to view the upcoming solar eclipse, the Buffalo Bisons announced Thursday they have teamed with NASA to host the “Total Solar Eclipse at Sahlen Field,” a NASA-hosted viewing event that will be free to the public in the ballpark on April 8. How does…