Orchard Park News

They are the troops of my new favorite army. The fact that they invaded from the suburbs only makes the story better.

Voters in Hamburg voted to downsize the town board from five members to three. There were 4,269 votes for yes, 2,802 for no.

November 22, 2009, 3:48 PM / Several customers of the Manhattan Bagel restaurant in Orchard Park this morning were taken to the hospital for possible carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Orchard Park police.

November 21, 2009, 6:44 AM / State police charged an Orchard Park woman with aggravated driving while intoxicated after troopers said she recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent, more than twice the state's legal limit.

November 19, 2009, 7:07 AM / An Orchard Park man suffered serious injuries in a crash with a tractor-trailer Wednesday afternoon in Sardinia, Erie County sheriff's officials said.

Orchard Park has a lower poverty rate than any other school district in Western New York, according to figures released Wednesday afternoon by the U.S. Census Bureau .

Voters in the Town of Hamburg have until 8 p.m. tonight to vote yes or no on a government downsizing measure.

An Orchard Park woman was arrested in her boyfriend's driveway on a drunk driving charge early this morning, and her boyfriend was also arrested after a confrontation with police.

A trendy Buffalo area retailer is bringing its upscale operations to the city's central business district.

Kedar Robinson and Ekeh Ibekweh, both former University at Buffalo undergraduates, were found not guilty Thursday of the gunpoint robbery of $3,100 from a fellow student and admitted marijuana trafficker on the North Campus on May 22, 2008.

The odor of smoldering fabric is still vivid for Rachel Andruczyk, more than two years after she awoke one Sunday morning in her Orchard Park home.

Erie County Elections officials expect to have final results in three too-close-to-call races this weekend, after absentee ballots are counted on Friday, WBEN has learned.

Joe Killian rose at a taxpayers' forum one night to bemoan the chronically high cost of government in western New York.

Four dead teenagers on the road do not just make for a community tragedy. The carnage is a plea for tougher teen driving laws.

November 07, 2009, 8:38 AM / An Orchard Park man has admitted that he illegally tapped into a natural gas line, police reported.

Congressman Brian Higgins joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in approving S.1211, a bill naming the U.S. Post Office at 60 School Street in Orchard Park, New York for Jack Kemp.

November 04, 2009, 7:15 AM / The Orchard Park supervisor's race was too close to call late Tuesday night, with Democratic Town Clerk Janis A. Colarusso leading Republican Patrick J. Keem by just 72 votes.

It was a tale of two races in the Southtowns Tuesday night. In Hamburg, a landslide win for incumbent Supervisor Steven Walters, while in Orchard Park, it's too close to call.

High-profile contests are absent from today's ballot, city turnout is expected to be low, and no single race has captured the attention of the Western New York electorate.

The Chautauqua-Cataraugus Athletic Association's top-ranked Rachel Mole of Frewsburg was victorious in her first match, downing the ECIC's seventh seed Ellen Meyers of Williamsville South, 6-2, 6-2, in the Section 6 girls' tennis singles tournament at the Lakewood YMCA on Friday.