Orchard Park News

It may be too little too late, but today's forecast calls for the appearance of some snow on the ground as the 2012 Winterfest weekend celebration kicks off.

Orchard Park Police need your help identifying a suspect who cashed a check from the sale of a stolen snowboard.

Two groups from the Academy of Theatre Arts in Williamsville traveled to Atlanta last month for a national competition.

Girl Scouts of Western New York will say goodbye to three of its seven camp properties, including Camp Sky High, shown in this file photo, in Orchard Park.

Surprise your special someone with homemade chocolate covered strawberries this Valentine's Day.

WEST SENECA, NY Chris Fahey, candidate for the vacant 145th New York State Assembly seat, welcomed an overflow crowd to the grand opening of his campaign headquarters located at 1500 Union Road in West Seneca.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - When a homeowner in Orchard Park suspected a contractor ripped her off, she Called 4 Action - and she's not the only customer looking to recoup thousands of dollars back.

Patrick Plunkett, of Orchard Park, former dean of students and coach at Canisius High School, has been named grand marshal of Buffalo's St.

Saucers, tubes, toboggans -- even mountain bikes -- went down the hill that was covered with nearly a half-foot of snow.

A cold front moving in could drop an inch or two of snow this afternoon, said Tom Paone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

His huge upset win over Antoine Thompson in 2010 gave Republicans control of the state senate by just one seat.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz on Friday joined Legislature Minority Leader John Mills, Parks Commissioner Troy Schinzel, Orchard Park Town Councilmember Eugene Majchrzak and others at Chestnut Ridge Park to announce the return of Winterfest this coming weekend.

Although the Southern Tier will see just a few changes as the state plans to redistrict the senate and assembly voting districts, southern Erie County will feel the shake up.

Several sources say Hamburg Republican Kevin Smardz will be competing in a new "waterfront" district stretching from the West Side along the Lake Erie shore through parts of South Buffalo, Lackawanna and into Hamburg in what will be a predominantly Democratic district.

Hamburg man linked to power outage and arson Gregory Seifert 43, of Hamburg has been charged with five counts of second-degree criminal mischief and three counts of first-degree criminal tampering in connection with the power outages in the Orchard Park area on Jan.

Orchard Park, N.Y. -- The Orchard Park Police Department on Tuesday announced it has made an arrest in connection with a pair of power pole cutting incidents that occurred earlier this month in Orchard Park.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Fifth grade students at Eggert Elementary in Orchard Park graduated from the D.A.R.E. program on Monday.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Police say vandals with chainsaws played a role in toppling poles supporting high voltage lines causing power outages during WNY's recent bout of windy weather.

A budget dispute between the Town of Somerset and Village of Barker is about to be resolved by the creation of an unnecessary new agency.

For plow drivers in Western New York, the problem with Friday's snowfall wasn't so much the snow itself, it was the wind.