Category: Western NY

When David Remington went back to the Red House sawmill at Allegany State Park five years ago, he said the walls radiated the personality of the building. “You can feel these people in here,” he said in a YouTube video. “You can feel the sweat and the work.” Remington, who grew up in the park,…

A local woman was severely injured last week at a concert in downtown Buffalo after a member of the band who was attempting to surf the crowd leaped from the stage and struck her. Bird Piché suffered a “catastrophic” spinal injury Tuesday at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place while she attended a concert by the Australian band…

A health care provider in Dunkirk and a redevelopment project in Westfield are the recipients of new federal funding, Rep. Nick Langworthy announced this week. The Chautauqua Center in Dunkirk has been awarded a grant of $3,197,348 under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Center Program to support the variety of affordable…

Duane Saetveit relished in the sound of power tools and smell of freshly applied paint wafting through the Longshed building at Canalside on Wednesday, as workers moved in lockstep to complete finishing work on the replica Seneca Chief line boat. The effort made its own kind of symphonic harmony for Saetveit, one of 15 volunteers…

Not long ago, Kelle Flem reposted a 2018 Facebook exchange with Thomas Rogers Riley. She was once a student of Tom’s – who retired from teaching English at St. Joseph-Notre Dame High School in Alameda, Calif. – and after she graduated, Tom did what he did routinely: He was always around when his students needed…

BOSTON – In this city dotted with landmark-filled communities, Charlie Jacobs has built one of his own. The history is shorter. The landmarks – like the statue of an exuberant Bobby Orr from the 1970 Stanley Cup – honor events that happened a couple of generations ago, not a few centuries ago. The neighborhood is…

A Kentucky Derby watch party on Saturday in Buffalo will support the Upstate Collective’s Summer Speed Reading Program for youth. The event, which is a partnership with the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation’s Queen City Pop-Up Program, will feature live music, drink specials and the Derby broadcast from 4 to 7 p.m. at Deco Lounge, 69…

Protests against Israel’s military actions in Gaza continued Friday on the University at Buffalo campus, with student organizers holding a rally in the afternoon and pledging to persist in their demands that UB divest of any investments that helped fund Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians. Media on the UB campus estimated that more than 400…

A pair of town halls for people to chime in on the state’s Master Plan for Aging will be held later this month in Western New York. The first chance for the public to provide input on issues facing older adults will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 28, and includes lunch,…

The Massachusetts Avenue Project will hold its annual Spring Seedling Sale on Saturday at its urban farm at 387 Massachusetts Ave. on Buffalo’s West Side. The event, which is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will feature more than 70 varieties of seeds for flowering plants, vegetables and herbs for sale at $4 apiece.…