U.S. ties Brockport-area man to killings in Liberia
A Brockport-area man faces charges alleging that he was responsible for murders while
serving as the leader of the Liberia Peace Council, one of several tribal groups involved in
bloody warfare in the west African nation in the 1990s. (Updated: 02/22/10 8:57 AM )
Expansion of Lancaster airport faces fight
Neighbors who complained of noise and low-flying planes in protest of an expansion of Lancaster Airport have filed a zoning appeal and hired an attorney who specializes in municipal disputes. (Updated: 02/22/10 7:59 AM )
Woman guilty of theft, fraud freed on bond
Over the objections of prosecutors, Olga Casiano was released on bond Thursday pending her May 14 sentencing for running what prosecutors called a “phantom” Cheektowaga child day care center that was financed by county dollars. (Updated: 02/19/10 7:13 AM )
Ex-Lancaster highway chief sentenced to probation, fined in misuse of funds
Richard L. Reese Jr., a former Lancaster town highway superintendent, was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and fined $1,000 for diverting public funds for personal use, U. S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter announced. (Updated: 02/17/10 7:04 AM )
Board appoints Morris assistant superintendent
Cheektowaga Central School Board members have appointed Mary Morris assistant superintendent. (Updated: 02/17/10 7:04 AM )
Depew faces possible elimination
The complicated business of dissolving Depew, and the reasons why Terrie South thinks she might prefer life without its government, lie in the taxes. (Updated: 02/14/10 6:52 AM )
Volker uses fundraiser to announce re-election effort
What could develop into a rare Republican primary kicked off Thursday evening when State Sen. Dale M. Volker announced his re-election effort with a fundraising event in Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, Lancaster. (Updated: 02/12/10 7:18 AM )
Winterfest scheduled today and Saturday
Alden’s sixth annual Winterfest starts at 7 p. m. today with family-friendly indoor and outdoor events throughout the village and in Town Park. (Updated: 02/12/10 7:18 AM )
Depew students gain business skills at school store
There are some basics of schooling’s ABCs at Depew High School’s Cat Shack: accounting, budgeting and customer service. (Updated: 02/08/10 7:28 AM )
Event Monday to celebrate 100 years of Boy Scouting
The event that led to the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 will be re-enacted when the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts celebrates its 100th anniversary at 4 p. m. Monday in the council’s service center, 2860 Genesee St., Cheektowaga. (Updated: 02/07/10 6:43 AM )
Driver in fatal crash to undergo exams
A Cheektowaga woman who caused a four-vehicle Amherst crash that took the life of an elderly man pleaded not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect Friday and was ordered to submit to further psychiatric exams. (Updated: 02/06/10 6:59 AM )
Center for counseling students, families launched in Depew
The Depew School District has inaugurated the Family Support Center, which provides counseling to students and their families referred by school guidance counselors. (Updated: 02/05/10 8:06 AM )
Probe urges suspension, not firing, of Cheektowaga officer
A Cheektowaga police officer should be suspended without pay instead of being fired for sending an ex-girlfriend threatening text messages, a town attorney who investigated the case has concluded. (Updated: 02/04/10 7:36 AM )
New assessor is working part time
A new part-time assessor started work in Cheektowaga this week after months of mystery and controversy surrounding the paid administrative leave and then retirement of former assessor Brian Hess. (Updated: 02/02/10 6:53 AM )
Seminars to help teach environmental issues
The state nature preserve in Cheektowaga will host free seminars this month and in March to show teachers how to incorporate national standards for environmental know-how into class work of all kinds. (Updated: 02/02/10 6:52 AM )
Restoring a historic sense of vibrancy to a village
The landmark Akron House has reopened for business after nearly a year of being shuttered and leaving a dark hole in the village’s retail district. (Updated: 02/01/10 6:35 AM )
Footprints lead police to suspects
Footprints in the freshly fallen snow led police to two men who apparently were checking out cars in a south Cheektowaga neighborhood before they stole a wheelbarrow, a police spokesman said Friday. (Updated: 01/30/10 6:33 AM )
Awaiting Flight 3407 report, families plan for walk
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators plan to release their report on the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 next week, while relatives of the crash’s victims are gearing up to mark its one-year anniversary Feb. 12 by walking from the Clarence Center accident site to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga. (Updated: 02/22/10 2:03 PM )
Catholic Charities kicks off appeal
About 275 community volunteers, parish workers and Catholic clergy kicked off the Catholic Charities 2010 Appeal with a celebratory dinner Sunday evening in Salvatore’s Italian Gardens in Depew, where they heard stories from people who have been helped by Catholic Charities. (Updated: 01/25/10 6:44 AM )
Planners reject proposed patio home zoning change
Cheektowaga planners have rejected a proposed zoning change that would have allowed a patio home development along the edge of Stiglmeier Park, saying the houses would be too clustered, too uniform looking and too out of character with the neighborhood. (Updated: 01/24/10 5:59 AM )
Interim school chief takes reins in Depew
Tuesday was the first day of work and the first Depew Board of Education meeting for interim Superintendent Dennis Ford, who said he welcomes the challenges ahead. (Updated: 01/22/10 7:07 AM )
Trooper’s death in crash detailed
Trooper Jill E. Mattice, the Cheektowaga native and the state’s first female trooper to die in the line of duty, was returning to her barracks in Oneonta from an assignment at a Central New York school Wednesday when she was killed in a crash with a tractor-trailer, troopers said. (Updated: 01/22/10 7:07 AM )
Crash kills trooper from Cheektowaga
Trooper Jill E. Mattice, a former resident of the Cleveland Hill area of Cheektowaga, was killed when her cruiser collided head-on Wednesday with a tractor-trailer about 25 miles southwest of Cooperstown. (Updated: 01/21/10 6:53 AM )
Dr. Milch honored for end-of-life care
Dr. Robert Milch, who gave up a successful surgical practice to devote his career to improving treatment for the dying, Wednesday received the $50,000 Hastings Center Cunniff- Dixon Physician Award for leadership in end-of-life care. (Updated: 01/21/10 6:53 AM )
Firebomb thrown at Lancaster home leads to 2 arrests
A Lancaster home was firebombed in the middle of the night over the weekend, endangering an innocent victim who was a mistaken target, police said. (Updated: 01/20/10 8:03 AM )
CPR training for teachers sought
Teachers in New York State would have to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and how to use automated external defibrillators before getting licensed under legislation sponsored by Cheektowaga Assemblyman Dennis H. Gabryszak. (Updated: 01/18/10 6:40 AM )
Run-down signs don’t do justice to Walden Galleria
Deteriorating signs at the entrance to an upscale suburban mall are not very welcoming and need to be replaced, according to a number of Fix It readers. (Updated: 01/18/10 6:40 AM )
Lancaster officer resigns after being accused of assaulting teen
A probationary police officer in the Town of Lancaster submitted his resignation late Wednesday, two days after he was charged with assaulting a 17-year-old in an off-duty incident. (Updated: 01/14/10 9:31 AM )
Fundraiser to help rebuild New Orleans neighborhood
A fundraiser will be held Saturday in Depew to raise money for a church group that will help rebuild a New Orleans neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (Updated: 01/14/10 7:12 AM )
Milch wins national award for work in end-of-life care
Dr. Robert A. Milch is one of four doctors named as the first recipients of a new national award for exceptional work in end-of-life care. (Updated: 01/13/10 7:26 AM )