Getzville News

Travelers will have more options for connecting to the internet this holiday season.

United Methodist Women of Christ United Methodist Church will have a luncheon meeting at noon Nov.

Family and friends piled flowers at a makeshift roadside memorial Monday afternoon to grieve the deaths of four teens who died in a car crash in western New York.

The Amherst Town Board on Monday unanimously approved a policy change aimed at streamlining the process for compensating volunteer firefighters once they reach retirement age.

David Dunkelman, president of Weinberg Campus, is the top-paid nonprofit executive.

Four Amherst teens were killed and two other people were seriously injured in a car-van collision in the Town of Clarence last night.

For Immediate Release: October 29, 2009 Contact: Justin Goodman 757-622-7382 Getzville, N.Y . -- PETA and Getzville, N.Y.-based virtual reality leader Tactus Technologies Inc .

Some true American heroes are celebrating a major milestone. The Ramada Hotel in Getzville is filled with more than 50 veterans of both World War Two and the Korean War on Sunday.

SOS Badge to Badge, an addiction recovery support group for law enforcement personnel, meets every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p. m. in the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst.

October 20, 2009, 10:58 AM / The driver of a vehicle apparently fled the scene after his car went off an I-990 ramp, flipped over and became submerged in either a pond or a swampy area early this morning, said Amherst police, who are considering possible charges against the driver.

October 17, 2009, 6:51 AM / Temple Beth Tzedek, 621 Getzville Road, Getzville, will install Rabbi Perry Netter as the new permanent rabbi during a ceremony at 7:30 p. m. Sunday.

October 17, 2009, 6:51 AM / Everyone from a member of Peter, Paul and Mary to the country's leading crusader for the salvation of Jewish deli cuisine will be part of the Jewish Book Fair which begins today at 7:30 p. m. in the Jewish Community Center, 2640 North Forest Road in Getzville with the appearance of Rich Cohen, author of "Israel Is Real: ...

The Buffalo Federation of Women's Clubs will present its "Fall Into Fashion" show at 11 a. m. Saturday in Salvatore's Italian Gardens, Lancaster.

October 13, 2009, 6:48 AM / LACKAWANNA SLAUGHTERHOUSE PROPOSAL: The Lackawanna City Council will hold a work session at 10 a. m. Friday in Council Chambers at City Hall, 714 Ridge Road, to discuss a proposal to allow a slaughterhouse at 174-178 Ridge Road .

Sad word has reached us today of the death in San Diego Tuesday of one of Buffalo's most beloved cultural figures--novelist, poet and critic Raymond Federman, long a fixture of the State University at Buffalo French and English faculties.

A New York City commercial real estate investor frustrated with doing business in Buffalo has sold three city properties-two of them well known - to a Lebanese developer who now lives in Getzville.

Anthony Trusso is trying to refocus his commercial real estate development efforts on larger projects, selling a second smaller property in the city in recent weeks with the unloading of a Delaware Avenue apartment building.

Firefighters hope to spend less time fighting fires and more time preventing them.

October 02, 2009, 6:42 AM / TIGERS IN NORTHTOWNS: Northtowns residents will have the opportunity to see two rare Siberian tigers this weekend.

September 30, 2009, 6:56 AM / SUICIDE PREVENTION CONFERENCE: The Department of Veterans Affairs, the University at Buffalo School of Social Work and the state Office of Mental Health will host a free conference for mental health professionals titled "Risk Assessment and Treatment of Veterans Suicidality." The program will run from 8:45 a. m. to ...