Eastern Suburbs
Rainy pattern to ease for holiday weekend
Thomas Niziol, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service office in Cheektowaga, spun an apt metaphor when he described the weather system parked over the Great Lakes as being like “a giant whirlpool.” (Updated: 07/03/09 6:56 AM )
Motions to OK coaching staff fail
Two motions to approve the coaching staff for the Depew School District’s entire athletic program failed to pass at Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting. (Updated: 07/02/09 7:14 AM )
Quarry wins legal right to expand
A State Court of Appeals ruling that allows Buffalo Crushed Stone to mine some of the land it owns outside the area that Cheektowaga has zoned for such operations is a win for the company, a loss for the town and upsetting news for people who live nearby and complain about blasting and heavy-truck traffic. (Updated: 07/01/09 7:19 AM )
As Ryan Markel’s class graduates, his spirit resonates
Ryan Markel would have graduated with his Depew High School classmates Saturday, and in a sense, he did. (Updated: 06/29/09 7:05 AM )
American Legion Auxiliary plans 89th annual convention
The Department of New York American Legion Auxiliary will hold its 89th annual convention July 7 to 11 in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. Activities include a state dinner July 9 and a parade July 10. (Updated: 06/29/09 7:05 AM )
Hope in the wake of catastrophe
It seemed things couldn’t get any more heartbreaking. (Updated: 06/30/09 3:20 PM )
Man charged with DWI after vehicle hits parked car
One vehicle slammed into a parked car in Cheektowaga, setting off a chain-reaction accident that ended with the first vehicle rolling over and its driver being charged with driving while intoxicated late Wednesday, police said. (Updated: 06/26/09 7:16 AM )
Mine issue to near some conclusion
A Cheektowaga conflict about the expansion of an 80-year-old gravel mining company and the town and neighborhood that has grown up around it will near some conclusion this summer after more than a decade of wrangling. (Updated: 06/23/09 7:04 AM )
Coming face to face with grief felt by DWI victim’s loved ones
David Brown came to court Monday to face his punishment for a drunken-driving crash that killed a Clarence man. He also came face to face with the man’s grieving family. And with a sign that told Brown of the damage he caused: (Updated: 06/23/09 7:55 AM )
Influx of beavers leaves suburbanites up a flooded creek
A little over a week ago, Donna M. Lukowski noticed something strange about the creek that normally babbles along the property line of her house in Lancaster. It was still. And it was flooding. (Updated: 06/22/09 7:40 AM )
Town residents urged to help make their community picture-perfect
As the Planning Board develops guidelines intended to make Cheektowaga a better-looking, more-prosperous town, it wants residents to go online and help by choosing favorite looks from photos of other cities. (Updated: 06/18/09 7:01 AM )
Two arrested in $13,000 theft
Lancaster police have arrested two men—one of whom they talked down from a third-floor roof — and charged them with last November’s inside job that led to the theft of about $13,000 in cash from a safe at the Transit Road bowling center. (Updated: 06/18/09 9:21 AM )
A special tricycle for Depew twins
Seven-year-old twins James and Jamie Hill of Depew were unable to say how happy they were to receive the specially made, fire-engine red tricycle that was given to them Wednesday. (Updated: 06/18/09 8:09 AM )
$46 million Villa Maria project considered
The historic home of the Villa Maria Academy Catholic girls high school is being considered for a $46 million housing conversion. (Updated: 06/16/09 6:41 AM )
Battle in Chosen Few case paints contrast about ex-leader
His friends call Clyde “Butch” Utz a lovable, harmless guy who can hardly walk because of circulation problems with his legs and the fact that he weighs 370 pounds. (Updated: 06/16/09 6:37 AM )
