Orchard Park News

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.

I've always found it curious that one of the most segregated areas in the country would dub its hub the City of Good Neighbors.

She could not understand it then. She does not understand it now. More than two decades ago, Millie Goodenough tried to do something sensible in Orchard Park.

October 22, 2009, 7:01 AM / Hires/Promotions/ Honors Roswell Park Cancer Institute appointed Dr.

If you love golfing as much as I do, then you are always trying to get out and play.

One season down, one most important season to go. The Section VI football season concluded this weekend and the stage is set for the three-week postseason which will culminate with the sectional championships at Ralph Wilson Stadium Nov.

When Jean Deahn retired, she wanted to move closer to her daughter, Susan, and granddaughter, Cheyenne, who live in Blasdell.

Sometimes, even when the road is smooth, there are still bumps along the way. That's the case on Highland Avenue in Orchard Park, where drivers turning in either direction are running into problems with two corner drains where the street meets Freeman Road.

After a summer of angry tea parties followed by successful downsizing votes this fall, town supervisors may have gotten the message that residents are not in the mood to be trifled with.

October 17, 2009, 6:52 AM / Orchard Park's next supervisor will have two years to get used to working with the five-member Town Board before it is reduced to three members.

Struggling with a dwindling number of volunteers to answer ambulance calls in the town, the volunteer firefighters in Orchard Park decided to create a nonprofit corporation with paid paramedics.

October 15, 2009, 10:03 AM / A traffic stop for a vehicle speeding on Route 219 in Orchard Park early today led Erie County sheriff's deputies to arrest four people and confiscate multiple prescription medicine bottles containing Lortabs and muscle relaxants.

The teenager accused of driving drunk outside Ralph Wilson Stadium on Sunday is due back in court today.. Police say 19 year old Brandon McLean of Williamsville injured seven people, including two Orchard Park police officers and an Erie County sheriff's deputy, just outside the stadium on Southwestern Boulevard.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. A chain saw carving of former Buffalo Bills running back Thurman Thomas is missing from a parking lot across from Ralph Wilson stadium, a day after it was unveiled.

The mother of a US Agency for International Development employee killed in early 2008 insisted that the death penalty be carried out against the four men convicted of killing him.

Three people, including an Erie County Sheriff's deputy, were injured in a hit and run crash near Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park following Sunday's Buffalo Bills game.