Articles by: Niagara Reporter-

Gawel Kicks Off Run Today at Wilbur’s

Gawel Kicks Off Run Today at Wilbur’s

Community News, Gawel, Local News October 14, 2024 at 10:32 am

By Tony Farina Entertainment begins at 4:30 this afternoon (Monday, Oct.14) at Wilbur’s Bar on Cayuga Dr., Niagara Falls, where former councilmember Michael Gawel will formally announce his candidacy for city council next year. Gawel, a CPA, pledges to run hard for a seat on the council to help bringRead More

"Niagara Digital Campus" digital rendering courtesy of PRCG | Haggerty LLC

GUEST VIEW: Niagara Digital Campus would generate millions in sales tax revenue. Here’s how.

Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls October 12, 2024 at 3:05 pm

By Dennis Elsenbeck If you’ve followed the debate over the proposed $1.5 billion Niagara Digital Campus, you know that the project is estimated to generate more than 5,000 union jobs during construction, and approximately 500 jobs when fully operational, with expected annual wages to exceed $29 million. You also mayRead More

The Time for High Tech has Arrived for Niagara Falls

The Time for High Tech has Arrived for Niagara Falls

Community News, Data Campus, Local News, Niagara Falls, Parcel 0 October 4, 2024 at 11:15 pm

By Tony Farina Well paying high tech jobs or low tourism industry bottom-feeder pay? High tech vs. more of the same for poor Niagara Falls.  The contrast is stark and the time to step into the future with hope for a better tomorrow is now. We’ll take a look hereRead More

Time to Change the Development Game in Niagara Falls

Time to Change the Development Game in Niagara Falls

Community News, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls September 28, 2024 at 10:11 am

By Tony Farina No matter where you look in Niagara Falls, there is a failed or under water investment development plan that has come up empty.  Whether sponsored by the city of Niagara Falls or USA Niagara it doesn’t seem to make any difference. Outside of the Welcome Center developedRead More

Tugby’s Opens on Niagara Street

Tugby’s Opens on Niagara Street

Community News, Local News September 28, 2024 at 10:05 am

By Tony Farina The Niagara Reporter wishes to extend all the best in the future to the new souvenir shop opening at 616 Niagara St., Tugby’s, named for Thomas Tugby who opened one of the first souvenir stores back 75 years ago near the Goat Island Bridge and later atRead More

Niagara Falls Needs to Find a Better Path To Truly Become a Wonder City

Niagara Falls Needs to Find a Better Path To Truly Become a Wonder City

Community News, Featured September 28, 2024 at 12:30 am

By Tony Farina Niagara Falls may not be officially considered one of the seven world wonders but is most commonly listed as an honorary 8th wonder or a natural wonder. Anyone who has seen the mighty falls in person or on film recognize it is truly a wonder of worldsRead More

Lorigo Tapped to Top State Political Post

Lorigo Tapped to Top State Political Post

Community News, Local News September 24, 2024 at 12:32 am

By Tony Farina Another incredible political honor has come to the longest serving Erie County political chairman, Ralph Lorigo, who has served as the County Conservative Party chairman since 1994, during which time many other political chairmen have come and gone. Lorigo, who is also legal counsel to the stateRead More

Gawel Gears Up for Council Bid

Gawel Gears Up for Council Bid

Community News, Local News September 24, 2024 at 12:29 am

By Tony Farina It may be early, but former Niagara Falls councilmember Michael Gawel is planning another political comeback to bring his legal and accounting experience to the city by running for one of the three open council seats next year and he has already tossed his hat into theRead More

Mayor Restaino has a grand dream. But the people might wake up.

Adopt-a-Park or Adopt-a-Mayor? Restaino’s Latest Desperate Plea

Niagara Falls NY – As the city’s eminent domain legal fight to take 10 acres of private property from Niagara Falls Redevelopment continues, Mayor Robert Restaino has two messages for his dwindling supporters. One, above all, the city needs Centennial Park, the mayor’s boondoggle dream – a $250 million planRead More

Excitement Generated by Wallenda Long Gone; Development Plan Looks Like Another Empty Promise

Excitement Generated by Wallenda Long Gone; Development Plan Looks Like Another Empty Promise

Data Campus, Local News September 10, 2024 at 9:57 pm

By Tony Farina It has been 12 long years since real excitement was generated for anything in Niagara Falls and nothing that has happened since or is on the drawing boards now will come close to electrifying the city like Nik Wallenda’s historic tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. It wasRead More

Batavia Downs Continues to Sizzle, Sets New Records for Month, Single Day

Batavia Downs Continues to Sizzle, Sets New Records for Month, Single Day

Local News September 4, 2024 at 12:18 pm

By Tony Farina Batavia Downs Gaming may be in the midst of a leadership change, but the numbers being rung up by the current leadership team continue to set incredible numbers with August ringing up $107.3 million, topping the previous best month by more than $4 million. To be exact,Read More

SoleTurn on Tap Friday Night at Angry Buffalo

SoleTurn on Tap Friday Night at Angry Buffalo

Community News, Featured, Local News September 4, 2024 at 12:14 pm

By Tony Farina The rock band SoleTurn, featuring the new and re-imagined hits they famously deliver, will be on stage Friday night at Angry Buffalo, 2753 Wehrle Dr., Williamsville, from 7 to 10 p.m., outside if weather permits, inside if not. In addition to their usual menu of crowd-pleasing newRead More

Niagara Falls Continues Failed Development Legacy As Latest Project in State of Who Knows What

Niagara Falls Continues Failed Development Legacy As Latest Project in State of Who Knows What

Data Campus, Featured, Local News September 3, 2024 at 11:13 am

By Tony Farina Very few government-sponsored development projects make good on their promise in Niagara Falls and the latest hope for a successful finish is now fading like many of the others with the state-backed subsidized housing plan at the former South End TeleTech call center site now being challengedRead More

Betting the Farm: Restaino Pledges Future Taxes for Centennial Park

Betting the Farm: Restaino Pledges Future Taxes for Centennial Park

Local News, Niagara Falls August 13, 2024 at 10:29 pm

Restaino’s Centennial Park project could leave residents footing the bill for decades Niagara Falls’ leaders might wish to examine what has happened in other cities when they borrow money by issuing municipal bonds for speculative ventures like Centennial Park. After failing to secure funding, Mayor Robert Restaino plans to issue municipalRead More

The entranceway to Hodgson Russ offices. Lawyers for the 600-employee firm are representing Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino in his attempt to seize the entranceway of NFR's planned $1.5 billion AI digital data center.

Restaino’s Hidden Costs: Niagara Falls Dishing Out Big Bucks for Eminent Domain Battle

Local News, Niagara Falls August 6, 2024 at 4:52 pm

By Frank Parlato How Much Has Niagara Falls Spent on Buffalo Lawyers to Stop the AI Data Center ? Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino has decided not to disclose the amount of money the City has spent on a Buffalo law firm for an eminent domain procedure against a privateRead More

Letter to the Editor from Michael S. Gawel

Letter to the Editor from Michael S. Gawel

Community News, Gawel July 10, 2024 at 4:01 pm

I rarely praise Democrats for legislation, but U.S. Senator Charles Schumer has been doing a great job for New York State. Senator Schumer spearheaded the Federal technology hub program that resulted in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse joint effort to win $40 million in a competition run by the U.S. EconomicRead More

Arena Madness: Niagara Falls Mayor vs. AI Future

Arena Madness: Niagara Falls Mayor vs. AI Future

Community News, Data Campus, Featured, Local News July 9, 2024 at 2:00 am

By Frank Parlato Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino proposes to build an arena on a property the City doesn’t own. To do so, he must stop Niagara Falls Redevelopment LLC (NFR) from developing a $1.5 billion AI Data Center on its own property with its own money. Restaino wants toRead More

Attorney Terry Connors says OTB is on solid legal ground in its approval of the buyouts.

OTB Followed the Correct Law in Negotiating Buyouts

Local News, News July 8, 2024 at 11:23 pm

By Tony Farina Despite calls for an investigation by the state attorney general of buyouts recently approved for three top leaders of the highly successful Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp., including president and CEO Henry Wojtaszek, Board Chairman Dennis Bassett said the severance packages approved by the board are onRead More

Vik Bhargava fronts SoleTurn - An American Band

SoleTurn Set for Big Show Saturday at Hamburg Public House

Featured June 26, 2024 at 9:45 pm

By Tony Farina The super-hot rock band SoleTurn is coming off two tremendously successful shows this past weekend and is planning on another big turnout on Saturday (June 29) at 7 at the Hamburg Public House on Lake Erie where they will be performing on the patio stage, weather permitting,Read More

SoleTurn's Zachary Michael Multi-instrumentalist plays a Saxophone Solo to a sold out performance

SoleTurn Will Launch Summer Concert Series On Friday at Blueberry Treehouse Cafe

Community News, Featured, Local News June 18, 2024 at 11:12 pm

By Tony Farina The exciting and up-and-coming rock band SoleTurn will kick off its summer concert series this Friday, June 21, at the warm and inviting Blueberry Treehouse Café in West Falls beginning at 6 p.m. and then follow that up with a beachside show at the vintage bar Marge’sRead More

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