Lewiston News

Wednesday in Niagara Falls might have been low-key, but Thursday night's Siting Plan session at Lewiston-Porter High School was anything but.

A 57-year-old Buffalo maintenance worker has been identified as the man who apparently became disoriented, fell into a small lake and drowned Saturday in northwestern Niagara County.

The man found dead in Meyers Lake in Lewiston on Saturday has been positively identified.

The body of a man was recovered Saturday from a wooded area around Meyers Lake in the Town of Lewiston, the Niagara County Sheriff's Office reported.

Few details were available late Sunday regarding a man found dead in Meyers Lake on Saturday night.

A missing person call last night has led to the discovery of a body in the Town of Lewiston.

Niagara County Treasurer David S. Broderick announced Thursday he will not seek re-election next year, and County Legislator Kyle D. Andrews said he will run for the post.

A man already serving two prison terms was arraigned Thursday in Niagara County Court on charges of shooting a man in the back in Lewiston on May 30.

The latest version of New York's statewide hazardous waste siting plan prompted many familiar arguments during a public hearing on Thursday.

Tickets are on sale for the Historical Association of Lewiston's fifth annual Christmas in the Village Tour of Homes, to take place Dec.

For the first time in more than 15 years, Richard Soluri was just a spectator at a Board of Trustees meeting.

Western New Yorkers now have a chance to satiate their coffee cravings for the next year while helping local cancer patients.

November 14, 2009, 8:08 AM / A fundraising effort will start this morning to pay for exhuming and shipping the remains of Amanda L. Wienckowski to a team of West Coast forensic pathologists for a second autopsy, according to her family.

Niagara County's tentative 2010 budget includes no increase in the amount to be raised by taxes and is expected to result in decreases in property tax rates for home owners living in all but three municipalities.

Election Day in Niagara, as one would expect, had its highs and lows for candidates and voters, this year greatly depending on their affiliation.

Niagara Falls A* ROBBERY: Police are investigating a robbery that occurred in the 1500 block of Pierce Avenue.

Lewiston police officers are going back to school - sort of. After years of discussion, the Police Headquarters has moved from a small office in the Village of Lewiston to the much larger former administration building on Lewiston- Porter Central School District campus.

With $10,000 more in sales tax revenue than was originally projected, the town board went on a little spending spree of sorts while adjusting 2010 budget numbers Monday night during a board worksession.

Though the Town Board talked last month of a $14.4 million spending plan for 2010 that promises no town tax, healthy reserves and a 3 percent raises for all employees, it will be a decidedly different board and supervisor that make it work.

I managed to accumulate 30 or so samplings of the campaign literature that made its way into mailboxes in Niagara Falls, Lewiston and Wheatfield during this year's primary and general elections.