When Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz urged the area’s multitude of volunteer
fire companies to consider mergers, his political brethren mostly kept their distance.
Fire volunteers feeling the heat
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
City may tighten rules on tobacco
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
One of the nation’s toughest sets of laws regulating the sale and advertisement of tobacco
products will go to the Buffalo Common Council for review this week, and a majority of
lawmakers look favorably on new rules that would crack down on vendors irresponsibly marketing
tobacco products.
City police stand by plans for Housing Authority force
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
Buffalo’s interim police commissioner is defending his decision to set up a special unit to
deal with crime problems in city-owned housing complexes.
Task force plants seeds of community renewal
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
Tulips and tiger lilies. Pansies and petunias. Marigolds and mums.
Low funding threatens July Fourth celebration
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
Financial difficulties threaten the future of one local Independence Day celebration, as a neighborhood group readies its 56th year of festivities for this July.
Bus tours of local farms, gardens being offered by AAA
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
Horizon Club Tours, a division of AAA Western and Central New York, is offering weekly Friday bus tours of area gardens and farms in conjunction with the first National Buffalo Garden Festival. Visitors can join each tour in downtown Buffalo, Amherst or Orchard Park. Prices vary. The fee includes lunch, a tour guide and a garden host.
Diocese, Canisius College to host leadership program
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
Canisius College and the Diocese of Buffalo’s Department of Catholic Schools will host a summer leadership institute for Catholic school teachers on June 29 and June 30.
5K run raises $125,000 for Jacobs Neurological
on Monday, June 21st, 2010
The ninth annual Jog for the Jake on Sunday morning raised more than $125,000 toward research at the Jacobs Neurological Institute.
A celebration of heritage at Juneteenth Festival
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Ayodele Ojumu smiled wide as she watched her son run around Martin Luther King Park on
Saturday during the 35th annual Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo.
Another take on Wienckowski’s death
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
A sordid set of circumstance has emerged, filling in some of the blanks for Amanda L.
Wienckowski’s final hours before her lifeless body was stuffed into a garbage can and
left to freeze two winters ago.
Bill to create land bank gains support
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
For Buffalo to grow and prosper again, it needs to reverse its abandoned-housing crisis, and experts say the best way to do that is to create a municipal land bank.
Hearing focuses on Saturday delivery
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Buffalo will be the site of one of seven public hearings throughout the country to hear discussion of the proposal to end Saturday mail delivery.
New procedures adopted on workers’ compensation
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Erie County Executive Chris Collins will begin a new safeguard involving county employees on workers’ compensation. Starting with the July 8 pay period, county employees out of work because of injuries will be expected to come retrieve their paychecks from their supervisors.
Harding Joyce elected to head conservancy board
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Anne Harding Joyce was elected to a two-year term as chairwoman of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy board of trustees at the conservancy’s annual meeting recently in Marcy Casino in Delaware Park.
Work scheduled Tuesday on Oak Street Thruway ramp
on Sunday, June 20th, 2010
The Oak Street ramp to the northbound Niagara Thruway in downtown Buffalo will close for several hours Tuesday for maintenance work.