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Sarah Gregory celebrated her 31st birthday Friday in the company of her husband and 7- month-old daughter in their Amherst home.

November 06, 2009, 6:58 AM / OLAF FUB SEZ: According to motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, born Hilary Hinton Ziglar on this date in 1926, "If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag." HERE'S THE BEEF - The Erie County Committee of the American Legion Auxiliary holds a meat raffle Saturday evening in Hamburg Post 527, ...

Residents pleaded with the West Seneca Town Board on Monday night to do something about the rumblings of a blacktop processing plant they say has been making it difficult to sleep at night.

Three incumbents will battle to keep their seats on Lackawanna's five-member City Council as city voters head to the polls Tuesday.

November 01, 2009, 6:49 AM / With no contest for mayor or other citywide office, an extremely light turnout is predicted within Buffalo city boundaries on Election Day 2009.

It's going to be partly sunny and warmer today, which can only mean one thing. It's Monday.

A Lakeview church that closed last year while its congregation merged with three other parishes has been acquired by a separate religious order.

Who put the "Stop" in a Lackawanna street sign? The City of Lackawanna did. And very quickly, at that.

October 19, 2009, 6:52 AM / IMMIGRATION CONVERSATION: Paola Gutierrez Galindo, a community organizer from southern Mexico, will speak about immigration and justice in Mexico at 7 p. m. Tuesday.

October 18, 2009, 6:37 AM / A benefit for Jesse Kirisits, recently diagnosed with leukemia, will be held from 1 to 5 p. m. today in Col.

Some residents in Lackawanna's 1st Ward are insisting there is something fishy about lawmakers' claims to have no jurisdiction with regard to plans for an animal slaughterhouse on Ridge Road and North Steelawanna Avenue.

Wind farms in Western New York and elsewhere throughout the nation are interfering with National Weather Service Doppler radar, making it more difficult to detect and assess approaching rain and snow storms.

October 14, 2009, 12:01 AM / If Tuesday afternoon's weather was tolerable, then you should have no problem with today and Thursday.

Three Buffalo-area developments have received a combined total of more than $3 million under the Upstate Regional Blueprint Fund announced by Gov.

Two Buffalo sites that are targeted for sweeping urban renewal efforts were among 24 selected by Gov.

The winds topped 60 miles an hour along the Lake Erie shoreline yesterday, but why weren't the windmills working along Route 5 in Lackawanna? While it might be conterintuitive, once the windspeeds top between 50-55 miles per hour, the turbines actually shut down, to protect the highlt sensitive equipment.

For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 8, 2009; 8:01 a.m. Traffic Alert: One Eastbound Lane Open on I-90 Between the Lackawanna Toll Barrier and Exit 54 The New York State Thruway Authority has announced that due to an on-going construction project, one eastbound lane on I-90, between the Lackawanna Toll Barrier and Exit 54 , is open to traffic.

Daniel Ronald Kowalski, 66, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography on May 13, 2009, was sentenced to 135 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny today.

David W. Tomasello, a Lackawanna contractor and dumpsite owner, was fined $2.7 million Wednesday by State Supreme Court Justice John A. Michalek and banned from the garbage business for dumping more than 31,200 tons of solid waste without a permit on the dumpsite he abandoned several years ago.