By Kevin Purdy
SUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 05/09/08 6:43 AM
Every freshman entering Cleveland Hill High School this fall will have a chance to be mentored by a volunteer upperclassman, under a program introduced to School Board members Wednesday.
A 30-year-old man driving a car with North Carolina plates was seriously injured when his vehicle went off Walden Avenue and struck a light pole, two fences and a porch early Thursday, Buffalo police said.
A Buffalo-area massage parlor operator was sentenced Thursday in federal court to 13 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his conviction on a felony charge of harboring an illegal alien, U. S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn announced.
By Laura E. WinchesterSUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 05/08/08 12:42 PM
More details of the Depew Union Free School District’s proposed $36.5 million budget for the 2008-09 school year were reviewed at a sparsely attended public hearing in Depew High School Tuesday night.
By Melanie LarsenSUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 05/08/08 12:49 PM
Hillary Bowen, director of special education and student services for the Alden Central School District, is leaving the district at the end of the month to become superintendent of the West Valley School District.
A federal grant of $38,974 will help pay for an environmental study as part of an improvement plan at Buffalo-Lancaster Airport off Walden Avenue in the Town of Lancaster, Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton report.
By Irene Liguori
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/06/08 6:51 AM
Lancaster’s Town Board gave its unanimous approval Monday to a zoning change that would allow a “walkable community” of business services to be located within 271- acre Pleasant Meadows subdivision.
By Thomas J. Dolan
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/06/08 6:41 AM
Cheektowaga officials are not thrilled, but they will likely approve a plan by Sonwil Distribution Center to switch its operations from 25 Dewberry Lane to a new, 300,000-square-foot building in Buffalo’s Empire Development Zone.
A 36-year-old Buffalo man was charged Sunday with stalking his ex-girlfriend and assaulting her so badly that she was sent to the hospital with a severe concussion.
Top Buffalo police officials say they’re heartened by the public’s reaction to the purchase of bulletproof vests for two K-9 Unit dogs by a Cheektowaga woman.