Wed, Feb 6th 2013 05:15 pm
Top morning talk show "LIVE with Kelly and Michael" announces the lineup of guests who will join hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla., Feb.18-21.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 05:15 pm
"In Vino Veritas" — When CSI Mac Taylor decides to surprise his girlfriend in Vegas, he discovers she's missing, and asks his friend D.B. Russell for help. Meanwhile, the CSIs investigate the loss of a local wine collector on part one of a two-part crossover with "CSI: NY," on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," Wednesday, Feb. 6 (10 p.m.) on the CBS Television Network. Gary Sinise ("CSI: NY") guest stars as Mac Taylor.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 05:15 pm
Last year's Academy Award winners Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Octavia Spencer and Christopher Plummer will return to present on this year's telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 01:35 pm
The Baltimore Ravens weren't the only winners on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The Marine Trades Association of WNY announces the 2013 Buffalo Bills Boat Show will be held at The Bills Healthy Zone Fieldhouse. Buffalo's premier boat dealers will present brand-new product from cruisers and pontoon boats to wakeboarding and fishing boats, personal watercraft and much more.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The Niagara Regional Theatre Guild will celebrate its 90th anniversary with a pre-show ceremony sponsored by KeyBank, including ribbon-cutting and a birthday cake on stage, after the show "Inherit the Wind."
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
Grand Island Women of the Moose Lodge No. 180, 2524 Grand Island Blvd, will hold a chili cook-off to benefit cerebral palsy on Sunday, Feb. 17, starting at noon.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The 2013 Relay For Life Kickoff Party will take place Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. in the senior cafeteria of Grand Island High School, 1100 Ransom Road.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The Kaegebein Community Playground Committee will host "Dinner and a Show" to raise money for a new playground.
On Friday, March 1, the Playground Committee will supervise the annual Kaegebein Talent Show, with a spaghetti dinner fundraiser preceding the show.
The event will take place at Grand Island High School, 1100 Ransom Road.
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing Executives will meet for a presentation called "The Marketing and Sales Imperative: Making or Breaking it in America."
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Wed, Feb 6th 2013 07:00 am
The Grand Island Lions Club has been serving the community for more than 50 years, and though most people are familiar with our eyeglass collections, our Special Kids Picnic, our annual spaghetti dinner, and our involvement with the Miracle League Field, most are not aware of all the behind-the-scenes activities we perform and the services available through our work and our association with sight, hearing, health, and environmentally-related professionals and organizations.
Take, for example, the trip a used pair of eyeglasses takes from your face to the face of someone, somewhere in the world, who needs them but, unfortunately, can't afford them. How can we do that for just 8 cents a pair?
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 03:35 pm
Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos and members of the Senate Republican Conference were joined Tuesday by leaders of statewide business organizations to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to remove the proposed extension of the utility tax surcharge from his executive budget.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 12:45 pm
From Feb. 22 through 24, the Niagara University Players will present an entirely student-run production of "Time Stands Still" by Donald Margulies in the Leary Theatre within the Elizabeth Ann Clune Center for Theatre, Clet Hall.
Directed by NU Theater Junior Nathan Andrew Miller, "Time Stands Still" is a funny, passionate, thought-provoking and heartbreaking piece of work. It is a look at war through the lens of a young couple brought together by the conflict in Iraq only to have their relationship challenged by it (the show contains adult subject matter).
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 12:45 pm
Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York, announced that Gina Trainello, Buffalo resident, and customer service lead at Tops Markets on Maple Road in Amherst, will be competing in the National Grocers Association's "Best Bagger Competition" on Feb. 10 at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 12:45 pm
Buffalo Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier announced Monday that defenseman Adam Pardy has been recalled from the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 12:45 pm
Just in time for the Valentine season, Theatre in the Mist presents "Love Letters" by A. R. Gurney. The show is on stage at Stella Niagara on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 12:40 pm
The CBS Television Network's coverage of Super Bowl XLVII featuring the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 3 (6:32-8:41 and 9:11-10:47 p.m.) was watched in all-or-part* by a record 164.1 million viewers, up 3 percent from last year's 159.2 million for Super Bowl XLVI (N.Y. Giants-New England).
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
PHOTOS: Louis C. Vinci was recently named 2013 president of the Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors at a ceremony held inside Salvatore's Italian Garden's.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
KeyBank is partnering with Belmont Housing Resources of Western New York to bring its eighth annual "Super Refund Saturday" to two locations in Western New York.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
The Erie County Sheriff's Office responded to 160 calls from Jan. 19 to 25. Below is a sampling of the noteworthy incidents on Grand Island.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Grand Island is putting out the "Open for Business" sign and taking a proactive approach to business development.
Members of the town's Economic Development Advisory Board are ramping up efforts to promote the town as business-friendly. EDAB Co-chair Tom Knight said the group's goal is to recruit new business to the Island "that are a fit and makes sense, without stepping on the toes of existing businesses."
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Football and chili go together like Interact and Rotary. The latter two joined together Tuesday at Grand Island High School to make chili in advance of the Super Bowl.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
On Saturday, Feb. 9, Serene Gardens, 2800 Grand Island Blvd., will host a free Japanese cooking demonstration and tasting, beginning at 4 p.m. Explore two basic staples of Japanese food, miso soup and sushi roll, with Serene Gardens' Chef Satomi Smith.
Coming off of a recent Buffalo Soup Fest award for "Best Kept Secret," Satomi will demonstrate how she prepares these dishes from the first step; making broth for miso soup, washing the rice properly, making the vinaigrette for sushi rice, etc. Following the class there also will be a sake and wine tasting.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
The following incidents occurred from Jan. 20 to 27, as reported by the Grand Island Fire Co. A total of 33 calls were answered by the department during this period. The GIFC has responded to 112 calls so far this year.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Following three motor vehicle incidents on Friday, Jan. 25, Grand Island Fire Co. rescue personnel had to contend with two separate accidents on Sunday, Jan. 27.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard has reported the arrest of two offenders for driving while intoxicated by sheriff's road patrols in separate incidents on Sunday morning, Jan. 27.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Town of Grand Island officials and local police are hoping a $1,000 reward will help resolve a spate of vandalism incidents that have taken place at the Nike Base.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
WIVB-TV's Luke Moretti will act as this year's master of ceremonies at the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year awards dinner.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
The Holiday Inn Grand Island and Niagara Frontier Publications have pledged support for the annual Citizen of the Year award banquet with platinum sponsorships.
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Tue, Feb 5th 2013 07:00 am
Ray Billica has announced that he will seek re-election to the Town Board position of councilman he has held for the last three years.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 04:20 pm
Assemblyman John D. Ceretto signed the New York State Legislative Wine Pledge Monday in support of the region's expanding wine and grape industry. The pledge requires Ceretto to serve New York state wine and grape products at events sanctioned by his legislative office or campaign organization.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 03:55 pm
Despite the latest start time ever for a post-Super Bowl broadcast, the freshman drama "Elementary" delivered 20.8 million viewers, 7.8 rating in adults 18-49, 8.3 in adults 25-54, and 7.4 in adults 18-34, according to Nielsen time period adjusted live plus same day fast nationals for Sunday, Feb. 3.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 03:35 pm
The CBS Television Network's coverage of Super Bowl XLVII featuring the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers' on Sunday was watched by a Nielsen estimated average of 108.41 million viewers, making it the third-most-watched program in television history.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 02:45 pm
Buffalo Sabres left wing Thomas Vanek, Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Chris Kunitz and Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo were named the NHL's 'Three Stars' for the week ending Feb. 3.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 01:35 pm
As announced on "Good Morning America," the final two celebrity contestants joining the cast of "Splash" (formerly titled "Celebrity Diving") are the NBA's all-time leading scorer and New York Times best-selling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and extreme skier Rory Bushfield.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 01:30 pm
CBS Sports' coverage of Super Bowl XLVII featuring the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 3 (6:30-8:45 p.m. and 9:15-10:45 p.m.), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 48.1/71, the highest-rated Super Bowl in the metered markets in history (surpassing the Green Bay-Pittsburgh 2011 Super Bowl's 47.9/71 on FOX).
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 01:30 pm
The Niagara County Law Enforcement Academy is immediately accepting applications for its next class of sworn recruits and pre-employment students.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 01:30 pm
Nominees Bruno Mars and Rihanna, as well as 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting will join together for a special performance, in addition to a performance by current nominee Kelly Clarkson on The 55th Annual Grammy Awards broadcast.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 09:05 am
Throughout the month of February, Shoppe On Main will display different quilts created by quilters who got their start at "Martha's Cupboard," the original quilt store in Newfane. Martha Ferguson, along with several other area women, taught the art of hand quilting in the store.
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Mon, Feb 4th 2013 09:00 am
Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, MVP of Super Bowl XLVII, talks about his team thrilling victory Sunday night over the San Francisco 49ers when he visits the "Late Show with David Letterman," Monday, Feb. 4 (11:35 p.m.), on CBS.
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