Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:55 pm
New York State Sen. Chris Jacobs announced a major funding award of $500,000 to support the construction of a new science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education center at Cradle Beach Camp. The Western New York STEM Center for Youth will become a year-round destination for school groups and youth agencies seeking to provide hands-on experiential learning. The estimated cost of the project is slightly under $1 million.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:55 pm
BEC Recordings' band, Kutless will release their new album "Alpha / Omega" on Nov. 10. The band's tenth studio album is now available for pre-order HERE.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:50 pm
The Rev. Canon Cathy Dempesy-Sims, canon for connections in the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, visited Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center's Cardiac/Stroke Care Unit on Tuesday to bless the first of 150 new patient walkers being placed into use at the hospital.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:50 pm
Congressman Brian Higgins announced a federal grant totaling $398,750 for clinical research focused on Parkinson's disease at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The award is provided through the National Institutes of Health Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:50 pm
Multiplatinum, award-winning pop star Rachel Platten has announced the release of her brand-new album, "Waves," available everywhere Friday, Oct. 27, via Columbia Records. Fans can re-order the album today and receive Platten's new song, "Perfect For You," which Entertainment Weekly excitedly called a "dance-able tell-off" and "irresistible jam."
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:40 pm
Singer/songwriter Grace VanderWaal released her new song "Escape My Mind" today. The song is one of 12 on Grace's upcoming debut album, "Just the Beginning," which is set to release on Nov. 3. The album also features her single "Moonlight," along with the beat-driven track "Sick of Being Told," and the uplifting song "So Much More Than This."
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:35 pm
Tim Hortons U.S. restaurants are unveiling a new lineup of premium, handcrafted espresso beverages, including lattes, Americanos and cappuccinos - each available hot or iced. The lineup features new lattes, which pair rich espresso with freshly steamed milk, and come in flavors such as caramel, vanilla, mocha and pumpkin spice.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:35 pm
Beginning today, the American Falls Gorge Trail (trail No. 3) that connects the Great Gorge Railway Trail (trail No. 4) to the Schoellkopf Power Plant site will be closed for 30 days while contractors work to construct improved access from the trail to the water's edge at a popular fishing location.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:35 pm
Rend Collective announced Friday the group's sixth studio album, "Good News," is set to release in January 2018.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:30 pm
Black River Christian's Hannah Kerr announces the Oct. 20 release of her holiday EP, "Emmanuel." The six-song project was produced by Mark Miller and will be available in both digital and physical formats.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:25 pm
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 2587 Baseline Road, will hold a pet blessing at noon on Saturday, Oct. 7.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:25 pm
On Saturday, Sept. 30, the Grand Island Lions packed up excess durable medical equipment from their loan closet and donated it to St. Luke's Mission of Mercy in Buffalo.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:25 pm
The Family Justice Center, where victims of family violence can go to get help for any problem, is hoping to open a satellite on Grand Island.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:20 pm
Trinity United Methodist Church's Fall Festival is coming. Preparations are underway for the Oct 14 event. Food sales and basket auction run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:15 pm
Residents would like to see a possible community center near Veterans Park, and not in the town center, the Town Board was told Monday.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:10 pm
North Tonawanda Mayor Arthur Pappas presented his 2018 budget message to the audience at Tuesday night's Common Council meeting.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:10 pm
On Saturday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Niagara County's Agriculture Education Building at the first ever Fall Festival & 4-H Expo at the fairgrounds in Lockport. The building will be utilized for programs that promote agriculture education.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:10 pm
The Town of Wheatfield Town Board spent a brief time presenting their tentative $13,209,690 budget at the regular meeting on Monday night.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:05 pm
ABC's "The Chew" returns to Walt Disney World Resort to broadcast five shows from the 22nd annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. "The Chew" shows were recently taped against the park's iconic Spaceship Earth backdrop with co-hosts Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall and Clinton Kelly, and will air on The ABC Television Network, Oct. 9-13.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 06:05 pm
The 11 remaining celebrities wax nostalgic as they stroll down memory lane and celebrate with a dance to a time in their lives that left a lasting impression, as "Most Memorable Year" night comes to "Dancing with the Stars," live, Monday, Oct. 9 (8-10:01 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 01:45 pm
Julie Ann Lockett of Grand Island entered into rest Sept. 27, 2017.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 01:40 pm
Mary Agnes Dunbar-Daluisio died in her home Oct. 4, 2017, surrounded by family and friends.
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Fri, Oct 6th 2017 07:00 am
Grand Island Town Board promoted from within to fill the shoes of retired Town Engineer John Whitney.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:10 pm
Marvel Television announced Thursday that Natalia Cordova-Buckley has been promoted to series regular for the fifth season of the ABC series "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:10 pm
Congressman Brian Higgins and representatives from the office of U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand are hosting Service Academy Night 2017, an opportunity for high school students, families, school administrators and counselors to learn more about service academy institutions, programs and the application process.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:10 pm
Empower, the not-for-profit organization formerly known as Niagara Cerebral Palsy, honored former CEO Joseph O. Mineo by renaming its day habilitation building as the Joseph O. Mineo Day Center.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:05 pm
The University at Buffalo has received a $1.92 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand the behavioral health workforce in underserved communities and combat the opioid epidemic in Western New York.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:05 pm
New York City singer/songwriter Melanie Penn's new Christmas project, titled "Immanuel," is set to release Nov. 3. Her third studio album is a winsome collection of folk-pop songs, with nine originals and one classic carol retelling the Christmas story through the perspective of the angels and people who lived through it - Mary, Joseph, the wise men, the innkeeper and even the star of Bethlehem - in a compelling and human way.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:05 pm
In November 2009, Lockport CARES opened its doors to welcome homeless people at 192 Genesee St. Over the past eight years, it has housed more than 1,800 guests, offering hospitality and guidance to people in crisis.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:05 pm
Lasse Wennman received Sweden's Environmental Hero of the Year Award last December for, among other things, his work in reducing food waste by obtaining perishable items from restaurants (and other businesses) and recycling them to feed those who are hungry.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:05 pm
Faculty mailboxes typically don't generate much excitement. But when they're in a building that's on the National Register of Historic Places, and that's home to an architecture school that has a reputation for "making," only the best, designed in-house, will do.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:00 pm
The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation has announced a hurricane relief concert at Texas A&M's Reed Arena the evening of Oct. 21 featuring former presidents Obama, Bush 43, Clinton, Bush 41 and Carter joined by top music performers.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 05:00 pm
Fox Inclusion today announced the Fox Writers Lab (FWL) is now accepting applications for its 2018 program, designed to nurture experienced and emerging writers with unique voices, backgrounds and life experiences and create a strong pipeline of well-rounded talent for potential staffing as writers and/or story editors on Fox productions.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 12:35 pm
Anyone that plays golf knows consistency in the sport is not easy. When it comes to Niagara-Wheatfield golf, consistency is all they know.
The 2017 N-W golf team is currently 14-0, on a 59-match winning streak and seeking their fourth straight Niagara Frontier League title.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 10:10 am
A graduate who said the University at Buffalo changed his life has given $4 million to the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 07:00 am
The Buffalo Sabres announced the team will once again offer the "Ultimate Sabres Fan Experience" and ticket auction programs for the 2017-18 season, with proceeds benefiting the Buffalo Sabres Foundation.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 07:00 am
The Buffalo Sabres announced plans for a "Kids Day Party in the Plaza." The event, presented by Perry's Ice Cream, will take place from 1-3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, in Alumni Plaza, prior to the team's game against the New Jersey Devils.
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Thu, Oct 5th 2017 07:00 am
5 Wits has been voted one of the top 5 escape rooms in the U.S., according to a reader survey conducted by USA Today. A panel of experts, along with 10Best editors, together picked the initial 20 nominees, and then winners were determined by popular vote. 5 Wits finished in fourth place, beating out escape rooms all across the nation.
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Wed, Oct 4th 2017 10:15 pm
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday announced four Western New York communities have been selected to receive up to $10 million in funding from the Buffalo Billion II initiative. The City of Dunkirk, City of North Tonawanda, City of Lackawanna and Village of Gowanda are recipients of Smart Growth Community Funds for projects that utilize existing infrastructure to support placemaking, walkable communities and sustainable development.
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Wed, Oct 4th 2017 10:00 pm
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation released this statement Wednesday night:
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