Grand Island News

Cannon Design, an architectural, engineering and construction management firm, has landed a $400,000 capital grant from Empire State Development to help it keep its headquarters on Grand Island.

Marshall B. Dahlin, 89, of 21 Highland Ave., died at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday , in WCA Hospital.

After weighing a number of options, Cannon Design has decided to keep its headquarters on Grand Island and invest more than $3.3 million in renovating the building.

The Grand Island Chamber of Commerce hopes to build on some new ideas gained at Saturday's Island Happenings event, which took place at Marion Klingel Town Commons.

The Upper Niagara River will soon be under 24-7 scrutiny by U. S. Border Patrol personnel monitoring the international waterway with five cameras stationed on four 80-foot-high towers and an apartment building.

GRAND ISLAND Police say a Grand Island homeowner, who had been the victim of an earlier burglary, installed cameras on the outside of her home.

A fire sparked by fireworks last year left six West Side families homeless. In 1997, a local firefighter lost his life battling a blaze sparked by fireworks.

A Niagara Falls, Ont., couple was arrested Sunday after they allegedly tried to enter the United States at the Rainbow Bridge with a quantity of marijuana stuffed into a spare tire, U. S. Customs and Border Protection officials report.

The state Thruway Authority acknowledged on Tuesday that it has found another technological foul-up with its E-ZPass system, this time on Grand Island.

Paul Cozad explains the Wheatfield firearms discharge map. The area up for change is at right.

The Eyewitness newsroom has been inundated with phone calls and emails from many of you who use the Grand Island Toll Booths on the New York State Thruway.

Richard DiTullio of Grand Island said he is anything but a speed demon when riding his motorcycle.

What about the second student who we've been reporting and who was said to be seriously ill with -- H one and"... [ 2:11 ] ..." Now graduation rates are out fill in all but three of Erie county school districts saw improvement in there.

For the second time since two group home residents were charged with killing their counselor earlier this month, a resident at another local home has been accused of threatening another counselor.

Only the completion of a stormwater plan stands between North Tonawanda and a Walmart at Melody Fair, City Attorney Shawn Nickerson reported Monday.. State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Boniello has ruled Walmart must submit a stormwater plan mandated by the state before moving ahead with controversial plans for the supercenter.

Down the halls of the Holiday Inn on Grand Island, New York skips a lone spirit.

It could have been settled by tossing a coin or drawing a card. But voters in the Grand Island Central School District will decide Monday who wins the third of three School Board seats that were on last month's ballot.

North Tonawanda LEWDNESS: John M. Hayes, 18, 129 Seventh Ave., was arrested Tuesday for endangering the welfare of a child and public lewdness.

Members of the Town of Niagara's Niagara Active Hose Fire Co. were still in shock Tuesday as they mourned fellow firefighter Robert A. Bagby Jr.

A hike into the Niagara Gorge Saturday will afford a chance to view the site of the former Schoellkopf Power Station that was destroyed by a rock slide more than a half-century ago.