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Thursday’s on the Water Back Again in North Tonawanda
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda More music will soon be coming to Gratwick Park in North Tonawanda. It’s all part of the annual Thursday’s on the Water concert series. At Gratwick Park on Friday, June 7th, Mayor Art Pappas, along with 7th District Legislator Jesse Gooch, announced the schedule of events and say it will be music that everyone can enjoy. The 3rd year it’s been held in North Tonawanda. “We have a venue here
Bathrooms Coming to Gratwick Park in North Tonawanda?
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda Big changes could be coming to Gratwick Park in North Tonawanda. City officials are trying to get more than $250,000 in grant funding to make improvements which would be available for the 2020 calendar year. The conversations took place inside City Council Chambers where Park Department Director Alex Domaradzki, along with Community Development Director Mike Zimmerman, said they are trying to get grant funding from the Niagara Greenway Commission. The
Police Captain Remembers Pain of Steingasser Case
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Tony Farina I ran into retired North Tonawanda detective chief Gabriel DiBernardo a couple of years ago, before the arrest of a suspect last year in the 1993 murder of 17-year-old Mandy Steingasser whose broken and battered body was found in Bond Lake Park in Lewiston five weeks after she disappeared. “That case still haunts me,” DiBernardo told me as we chatted about the teenager’s disappearance and death, at the time a still unsolved murder even
Project Pride Beautifying North Tonawanda
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda A lot more color is coming to Webster and Oliver Street in North Tonawanda thanks to volunteers from Project Pride filling planters with bouquets of flowers. “This is one of those things that is not necessarily a function of the City but it is something that the City has become used to and it makes the whole downtown look even nicer,” said Rich Andres, 8th District Legislator. Despite being the
Taste of the Tonawandas
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda The rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of people this past weekend at the annual ‘Taste of the Tonawandas’ where more than twenty-two vendors gathered at Gateway Harbor Park. Organizers have been holding the event for the past fourteen years. This year, over sixty different food items were served up. It’s a smaller event and organizers says they like to keep it that way. They are not Buffalo and say they
HAMILTON: Air Force-1 Sergeant Elder Flying High with 2,600 Signatures
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Ken Hamilton As previously written, USAF Sergeant Jeffrey Elder is one giant step closer to being on November’s ballot to run for the mayorship of the city of Niagara Falls, NY. In fact, reports are that Elder turned in his petition package just before noon on Wednesday with more than five-times the 500-number of signatures necessary for him to be placed on the bottom line of the ballot for the General Elections in November, a
Restaino, Piccirillo Square Off in First Mayoral Debate
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Tony Farina There were no knockout punches landed Thursday night in the debate between Democratic mayoral candidates Seth Piccirillo and Robert Restaino at the Niagara Falls Public Library, but the two hopefuls had starkly different messages about what’s needed to address the city’s many problems. Restaino, the president of the school board and a former city judge, told the packed house he is in the race “because I care about the city,” and he said bold
History Made at Niagara University: School’s Top Honors Awarded to Same Student for First Time Ever
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Tony Farina Britini Margaret Anne D’Angelo, of Niagara Falls, was awarded two top honors at the 3:00 PM Niagara University Commencement Exercises at Artpark on May 18th, 2019 and made Niagara University history. D’Angelo had found out Wednesday evening, May 15th, at the Senior Formal that she was the recipient of this year’s Niagara Medal, which she was nominated for and then voted on by her Niagara University senior class peers. The Niagara Medal is awarded
June Primary Looms Close for Niagara Falls Mayoral Candidates
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Tona Farina With Memorial Day in the rearview mirror, the summer tourist season is officially under way in Niagara Falls and with the primary election just around the corner (June 25), the race for mayor will begin to come into focus as the candidates make their case in print and across the airwaves. The big race, of course, is the Democratic primary for mayor with the winner becoming an odds-on favorite to defeat Republican candidate Glenn
HAMILTON: ‘Is Elder is’ or ‘Is Elder Ain’t’ Going to be Mayor?
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Ken Hamilton Perhaps the state’s board of election’s web site calendar and its confluence with the nation’s Memorial Day is a harbinger of things to come when it comes to the dark horse candidacy of USAF Sgt. Jeffrey Elder’s trek to the corner office of City Hall as mayor. That calendar says that the Air Force One steward must either turn in his independent (with a small “i”) self-nominating petitions between May 21 – May 28
Service at the Sea Ceremony of the Tonawandas
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda On the bridge connecting North Tonawanda to Tonawanda community officials and military leaders payed tribute to fallen soldiers at the annual “Service at Sea” ceremony. It’s a chance for them to take time out and encourage others to remember those who paid ultimate for our freedoms. “Memorial Day isn’t about those of us Veterans, but those who have been taken too soon,” said Rick Davis, Mayor of Tonawanda.” We stand
Memorial Day Parade of the Tonawandas
Please click the link below to subscribe to a FREE PDF version of each print edition of the Niagara Reporter http://eepurl.com/dnsYM9 By: Brendan McDonough Reporter for North Tonawanda With one foot in front of the other local residents and elected officials marched across Tonawanda in the annual Memorial Day Parade. The parade started at Main Street and then proceeded throughout the town and ended at Tonawanda City Hall on Niagara Street. It may have been a smaller parade than usual, but that certainly did not take away from what it meant to those in participating and in attendance.