Recently added articles from The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY):
Farms fear labor loss.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Janice L. Habuda Oct. 10--This year's harvest had a promising start. Migrant laborers were idled by the stalled home-building market in the Southeast, and the crop in this area appeared to be not as big as in other years. So plenty of workers were expected to ...
Aurora isn't eager to approve split of patio home project into 2 phases.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Karen Robinson Oct. 10--The developer of the 47-unit patio home project under construction in Aurora wants to split it into two phases, but the town is not rushing to accommodate the request. Supervisor Terence M. Yarnall on Tuesday announced that the town ...
Scholarship to remember late principal: KEN-TON SCHOOLS.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Janice L. Habuda Oct. 10--An annual scholarship that won't focus on grades will be offered at a Kenmore- Town of Tonawanda elementary school in memory of its principal who died last spring. At its meeting Tuesday night, the Ken- Ton School Board agreed to ...
Another indignity for Bills fans: The nightmare of losing never seems to end in Buffalo.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Andrew Z. Galarneau Oct. 10--After an improbable Buffalo Bills lead crumbled into a last-second Dallas Cowboys win on Monday Night Football, a lot of people woke up Tuesday realizing the game wasn't just a dream. For some, it was the queasy, burning feeling of ...
The Buffalo News, N.Y., Olaf Fub Sez column: Reporters' Notebook / Bits and pieces of news...(Column)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--OLAF FUB SEZ: In the words of the late great singer, songwriter, playwright and poet Oscar Brown Jr., born on this date in 1926, "I've always lived by this golden rule: Whatever happens, don't blow your cool." ---- "BABY CHARLIE" BENEFIT -- A benefit for 22- ...
Residents question rezoning: NORTH TONAWANDA.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Aaron Besecker Oct. 10--NORTH TONAWANDA -- More than three dozen people gathered in City Hall on Tuesday evening for a public hearing on the proposed rezoning of a Ward Road parcel targeted to become an assisted living development. The operators of Briarwood ...
'Nightmare' comes with 64 arrests.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Gene Warner Oct. 10--They're calling the Bills-Cowboys game a nightmare, and they're not talking about the final score or the heartbreaking events of the last minute. "From a law enforcement standpoint, it was a nightmare," Orchard Park Police Chief Samuel M ....
Activists discuss police brutality claims: EAST SIDE.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Harold McNeil Oct. 10--Local community activists met Tuesday to discuss allegations of police brutality and, simultaneously, to support a black police officer who said she was punched in the face by a white male officer during an on-duty scuffle last year. ...
Protest artist's co-defendant scheduled to make a plea deal.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Dan Herbeck Oct. 10--The co-defendant of art professor Steven A. Kurtz is scheduled to take a plea deal this week in a federal court case that pits avant-garde protest artists against government anti-terrorism investigators. Robert E. Ferrell, a nationally ...
National Fuel warns of higher heating bills.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: David Robinson Oct. 10--Get ready for higher heating bills this winter. National Fuel Gas Co. is predicting that an average customer's heating costs could be nearly 10 percent higher this winter than a year ago because of slightly higher gas prices and a ...
Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital nears completion of huge expansion: AMHERST.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Niki Cervantes Oct. 10--The $64 million expansion of Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Amherst, the largest project of its kind here in two decades, is nearly complete, officials announced Tuesday. "We're in the home stretch," said Christopher Lane, the ...
Lancaster School District awarded good grades on handling its money.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Barbara O'Brien Oct. 10--If finances can be graded, the Lancaster Central School District got good marks on its external audit, the auditor said Tuesday night. "Revenues outpaced expenditures," Thomas Malecki of Drescher & Malecki told the School Board during ...
Committee hesitates to forgive tax penalty: County legislator endorses request.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Thomas J. Prohaska Oct. 10--LOCKPORT -- A Niagara County Legislature committee was leery Tuesday of a request to cancel in terest and penalties from back taxes on a Wilson feed store. Keith J. Kempainen, accompanied by Legislator Kyle R. Andrews, D-Wilson, ...
UAW voters seem to be approving GM contract.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Fred O. Williams Oct. 10--The "yes" vote by Tonawanda autoworkers for a new contract at GM contributes to a wave of support for the controversial deal throughout the automaker's U.S. plants, a union official said. Voting by UAW members "seems to be tracking ...
EDITORIAL: Fix the jails: Multiple solutions are needed to resolve critical staff shortage.(Editorial)
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--The old saw about how people never remember to fix the roof when it isn't raining loses its quaintness when it is recalled that Ralph "Bucky" Phillips launched his five-month crime spree by cutting a hole in the ceiling of the Erie County Correctional Facility. The ...
Griffin throws support to Collins: Democrat defects to GOP candidate.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Phil Fairbanks Oct. 10--When Republican Christopher C. Collins picked up the telephone Tuesday, the man at the other end offered his support and, to show he meant business, asked for 500 "Collins for County Executive" campaign signs. The caller was former ...
Rockets have fizzled: UB notebook.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Rodney Mckissic Oct. 10--Toledo once was one of the Mid-American Conference's elite football programs, but the Rockets have struggled recently. After finishing 9-3 in 2005, the Rockets went 5-7 last season -- their first losing season since 1993 under Gary ...
BRIEF: Tell us about your vanity plates.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--We know you're out there vanity license plate holders. As you buzz past, we try to read and understand the message you've squeezed onto those few letters on the back of your car. Some of them we get: There's "ROBBED" with the Sabres logo next to it. And GITRGIRL, which ...
BRIEF: Muir Woods plan scaled back.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Sandra Tan Oct. 10--It has been nearly seven years since Ciminelli Development proposed it -- the nearly 330-acre Muir Woods development in North Amherst that would showcase an expansive mix of first-class office and research space, housing, interconnecting roadways and ...
Housing inspections become a main concern in Cheektowaga.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Thomas J. Dolan Oct. 10--Growing problems with dilapidated and abandoned houses on the Cheektowaga-Buffalo border prompted town Supervisor James J. Jankowiak to make housing inspection a "primary concern" in his budget for 2008, he said. But on Tuesday ...