Amherst News

By my count there are seven golf courses located in the Town of Amherst, NY . Four of the courses are privately owned and three are owned and operated by the Town of Amherst.

The good news is that the Amherst Industrial Development agency is doing a bang-up job in producing jobs, although not necessarily industrial jobs.

Neither Dr. James G. Corasanti's wife nor the first officer to talk to him the night of the accident testified at his trial.

Gary's Pools in Cheektowaga is one of several places seeing a big increase in sales and traffic through the store.

A North Tonawanda man was charged with a felony count of driving while intoxicated after he nearly crashed into an Erie County sheriff's deputy's patrol car late Wednesday night in Amherst, officials said.

The robbery occurred shortly after 9 p.m. at Walgreens, 2970 Niagara Falls Blvd.

The New York State Department of Transportation on Friday announced that highway paving will occur on NY Route 263, Millersport Highway, between Interstate 990 and NY Route 78, Transit Road, in the town of Amherst, Erie County.

A Legal publisher William S. Hein & Co. has acquired a foreclosed office building adjacent to University at Buffalo's North Campus for $3.3 million.

Ciminelli has filed a proposal with the Amherst Planning Department that would see a 31,000-square-foot multi-tenant, medical-based office building constructed along Park Club Lane - just south of the Univera Health Care headquarters.

American Campus Communities, the national developer of student housing that already has three projects in Amherst, has bought the former Buffalo Shooting Club on Maple Road in Amherst for $10.5 million, according to Erie County Clerk records.

Amherst, N.Y.-based Benchmark has purchased the 144-unit Greens at Cross Court Apartments in Easton.

AMHERST, N.Y. - Western New York sports the only Gambling Court in the world, which was created in Amherst.

Spring's balmy temperatures propel people into motion, from spring cleaning and garden work to bike rides or the year's first tennis and golf games.

A 61-year-old Basom man suffered a head injury early today when his motorcycle collided with a car on Maple Road and Alberta Drive in Amherst, authorities said.

BUFFALO, N.Y. Buffalo police, working with Amherst police and ECMC police, have made an arrest in a incident involving a stolen ambulance from the ECMC ER ramp.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tiffany of Amherst celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a family gathering at Classics V Banquet Facility, Amherst.

James J. Allen is in the eye of the storm over the role of suburban industrial development agencies.

Fire crews say an elderly driver's foot got stuck on the gas pedal, and their vehicle hit Carrabba's restaurant on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst just before 5:00 pm.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dr. James Corasanti got on the witness stand around 10:07 am. Friday in court, he's telling the jury his side of what happened last July, the night 18-year-old Alexandria Rice was struck and killed.

An Orleans-Niagara Board of Cooperative Education administrator accused of driving while intoxicated in a BOCES-owned vehicle was sentenced Wednesday night on a lesser charge.