East Aurora News

East Aurora will be sporting a new look next spring with the completed reconstruction of Main Street.

Catholic Charities of Buffalo is officially taking over management of four Women, Infants and Children Program sites on Monday, July 6. The four sites were formerly overseen by the Erie County Health Department.

Birds of prey and medieval pageantry will be on display at Hawk Creek Wildlife Center's annual Wildlife and Renaissance Festival, starting later this month in East Aurora.

A priest is asking the community to send get well cards to a 4-year-old East Aurora boy who is scheduled to undergo brain surgery later this month in New York City to remove a tumor.

A portable tribute to some of the nation's veterans is drawing visitors to East Aurora this weekend.

Kyle Kapturowski's comeback bid in the quarterfinals of the International Junior Masters championship flight fell short Friday morning amid yet another curveball.

Tis the season for road construction. In East Aurora, a major project is proving to be more than just an inconvenience.

Maintenance staff at the East Aurora Country Club showed up at work early Friday morning and found vandals had done extensive damage to six holes along the course.

First it was the rainy weather that caused delays in the International Junior Masters golf tournament.

Joining us from the state capital Albany morning --"... [ 1:04 ] ..." we hear you chatted with Erie county executive Chris columns on Europe.

An exhibit honoring fallen veterans is being set up in Western New York. The American Veterans' traveling wall makes its way to East Aurora escorted by motorcycles.

Buffaloa TMs high school graduation rate, which had become a stark symbol of academic failure, has taken a big turn upward.

Last month the Buffalo-area saw two bear incidents in as many weeks. A black bear cub was struck and killed on the Niagara Section of the NYS Thruway near Smith Street; and an even larger bear was hit near Route 400 in more rural East Aurora the week prior.

Anonymous political campaign materials will be banned in future East Aurora village elections, despite warnings from some residents and legal experts that it may be an unconstitutional move by the Village Board.

The British, French and Iroquois are coming, but this time, they will be only about 2 feet tall.

Particularly divine right now are the strawberries, which can be fully appreciated from 4 to 7 p. m. Wednesday at the annual Strawberry Festival at South Park United Methodist Church, 2291 South Park Ave.

Hundreds upon hundreds came out for today's Flight 3407 memorial race, a tribute to the 50 people who died when the Continental Connection flight crashed in Clarence Center on Feb.

A small, one seater plane crashed just short of the main runway at the airport Saturday afternoon.

Aurora Players to hold auditions Group is also seeking help with props, cosutmes, painting, set construction and decoration, hair and makeup, stage help, ushering and intermission services Aurora Players will hold auditions for Gilbert & Sullivan's 'H.M.S. Pinafore' on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Two miniature horses are now being cared for at the Erie County SPCA, after the animals were discovered living in unsanitary conditions at a residence in East Aurora.