Tonawanda News

Six years ago, Kevin Kazmierczak was the principal at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts while Christopher Rudroff was a student there.

The caller was angry, there was no doubting that. He is an anonymous taxpayer from North Tonawanda, and he's not happy with what he believes is unnecessary spending by city government.

The committee scouting locations for a new, centrally-located library in the town took its plea to the planning board Wednesday night for its input.

Hundreds of people flock to town parks and pools for some fun, sun and relaxation during the summer months.

Police are investigating the wounding of a 13-year-old girl and her 7-year-old sister as they stood on a Buffalo street.

City of Tonawanda * LARCENY: Steven M. Wheeler, 28, 245 Payne Ave., Apt. 8, North Tonawanda, was arrested Saturday afternoon and charged with petit larceny.

North Tonawanda resident Dale Hohl is a police officer and a volunteer firefighter.

CRIME: Simson Street man faces felony charges. Staff Reports A Simson Street, City of Tonawanda man is facing felony charges after he attacked a woman with a knife early Saturday.

A bicyclist was robbed of her mountain bike Friday night in Riverside by a man armed with a handgun, police said.

Pair allegedly had $210,000 in cocaine, heroin. STAFF REPORTS Two Tonawanda residents were arrested Thursday morning in Ohio after state highway patrol there seized $210,000 worth of cocaine and heroin ...

Health officials are investigating whether the West Nile virus is to blame for the death of a Staten Island man.

The latest news on the Town of Tonawanda landfill is getting mixed reviews from residents on Hackett Drive, whose homes border the area, but the consensus seems to be that the issue needs to be resolved soon.

City of Tonawanda librarian Beverly Federspiel is trying to put together a plan to improve the library's dilapidated entryway.

There's nothing particularly crazy about Crazy Jake's, the newest eatery on Webster Street in North Tonawanda.

The Army Corps of Engineers is looking for resident input on yet another former town landfill containing radioactive material.

Some Young Street residents in the City of Tonawanda said they are considering pistol permits because of their long, dark walk home from the Department of Public Works parking lot.

Signage for the riverwalk in the town and city of Tonawanda has been listed among the first three projects to be funded by the Buffalo & Erie County Greenway Fund.

The Riviera Theatre, in North Tonawanda, will put the Democratic National Convention on the big screen Thursday.

Overhaul of the former Buffalo Bolt property along Oliver Street got a hand from an unlikely source this month, and it didn't cost the city a dime.

It was raining cats and dogs when a city man's car became bogged down in traffic Sunday afternoon on Wheeler Street, then refused to start.