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Niagara County Sheriff’s Office Receives Re-Accreditation

Niagara County Sheriff’s Office Receives Re-Accreditation

Niagara County June 21, 2024 at 10:37 pm

Sheriff Michael J. Filicetti announces that the Corrections Division of the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office has achieved re-accreditation from the New York State Sheriff’s Association. In April 2024, accreditation assessors conducted a thorough review of the Sheriff’s Office and determined our agency was in full compliance with all 166 standardsRead More

Niagara Falls Crime Mid-Week Recap Courtesy of Niagara Action

Niagara Falls Crime Mid-Week Recap Courtesy of Niagara Action

Niagara Falls, The Crime Niagara Falls June 20, 2024 at 1:02 pm

FROM NIAGARA ACTION (1) Tragic Motorcycle Crash Claims Life of Niagara Falls Man, Charges Pending (2) Deceased Body Found at Niagara Falls (3) Ka-ching! Burglar Steals $400 in Quarters from Bottle Redemption Center in Niagara Falls (4) Burglar Smashed Through Brick Wall to Gain Entry to Niagara Falls Business (5)Read More

FIREFIGHTERS SOUND THE ALARM: PROPOSED CHANGES TO FEDERAL OSHA REGULATIONS COULD HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT  ON LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND RESIDENTS’ PROPERTY TAXES

FIREFIGHTERS SOUND THE ALARM: PROPOSED CHANGES TO FEDERAL OSHA REGULATIONS COULD HAVE A PROFOUND IMPACT ON LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND RESIDENTS’ PROPERTY TAXES

State and National News June 20, 2024 at 1:00 pm

The Firefighters Association of the State of New York (FASNY) are expressing their serious concerns about proposed changes to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations governing both career and volunteer fire departments.  If these proposed regulations are implemented as presently written, there will be a profound negative impactRead More

IN NIAGARA FALLS, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE ACCESS

IN NIAGARA FALLS, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCES LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE ACCESS

Local News June 19, 2024 at 3:42 pm

  Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a press conference at the Community Health Center of Buffalo’s Niagara Falls location to announce her Health Equity Innovation Act, legislation to fight racial disparities in health outcomes by expanding access to preventative health care in underserved communities. The bill would establish aRead More

Zoomagination Returns to Buffalo Zoo

Zoomagination Returns to Buffalo Zoo

Local News June 19, 2024 at 3:39 pm

The Buffalo Zoo is thrilled to announce the return of its beloved Zoomagination: Festival of Lanterns and Lights presented by Five Star Bank, opening this Friday, June 21st, 2024. This immersive experience will transform the Zoo into a wonderland of glowing lanterns and cultural delights, offering families an unforgettable summerRead 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

Juneteenth Educational Event in North Tonawanda!

Juneteenth Educational Event in North Tonawanda!

NT news June 18, 2024 at 5:24 pm
NFMMC Welcomes Back Dr. Mojdeh Kappus to Surgical Team

NFMMC Welcomes Back Dr. Mojdeh Kappus to Surgical Team

Niagara Falls June 18, 2024 at 5:22 pm

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC) is pleased to announce that Mojdeh Kappus, MD, who previously served as its Chief of Bariatric Surgery from 2021 to 2023, will join its Surgical Team and Wound Center of Niagara as a general surgeon, effective August 1st. A native of Newfane, Dr. KappusRead More

Attorney General James Announces Election Protection Hotline Ahead of June Primary Elections

Attorney General James Announces Election Protection Hotline Ahead of June Primary Elections

State and National News June 17, 2024 at 4:05 pm

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will make its Election Protection Hotline available for the upcoming June 25, 2024 primary election and during New York’s early voting period, which runs from Saturday, June 15 through Sunday, June 23. The hotline willRead More

OPINION: Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Seek Justice

OPINION: Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Seek Justice

News June 17, 2024 at 4:00 pm

BY: Brad Wolf On June 8th, 2024, in Hiroshima, Japan, The International People’s Tribunal On The 1945 Atomic Bombings met with the goal of holding the United States accountable for the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This People’s Tribunal focuses on the Korean bomb victims, 100,000 of whom were forciblyRead More

Keep cool to be heart-healthy in extreme heat

Keep cool to be heart-healthy in extreme heat

Community News June 17, 2024 at 3:58 pm

Record high temperatures are bringing summer heat early this year around much of the U.S., and the American Heart Association, a global force for longer, healthier lives for all, is urging people to take extra steps to protect their hearts. Precautions are especially important for older adults and people withRead More

Data Centers, AI, and the Need for Power: Why Niagara Falls is the Ideal Location for Data Center Development

Data Centers, AI, and the Need for Power: Why Niagara Falls is the Ideal Location for Data Center Development

Data Campus, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls June 17, 2024 at 10:44 am

Niagara Falls, NY, has the opportunity to have a world-class, state-of-the-art data center with developers ready to go. It will be a huge project. The developers, Niagara Falls Redevelopment and Urbacon, have the money, the skill, and the plans to build a mammoth $1.5 billion digital center with an emphasisRead More

Paul Accardo Awarded Empower’s Annual Humanitarian Award

Paul Accardo Awarded Empower’s Annual Humanitarian Award

Community News June 15, 2024 at 7:52 am

Paul Accardo, CEO and President of Crown Benefits Group, was awarded Empower’s Humanitarian Award for his commitment to the intellectually and developmentally disabled community. “Paul Accardo has been a friend to the I/DD community and to Empower for decades,” Empower CEO Diane Baehre said. “Paul has worked to save ourRead More

Attorney General James Recovers $50 Million from Crypto Firm Gemini for Defrauded Investors

Attorney General James Recovers $50 Million from Crypto Firm Gemini for Defrauded Investors

State and National News June 15, 2024 at 7:31 am

  New York Attorney General Letitia James today recovered approximately $50 million from the cryptocurrency platform Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) for more than 230,000 investors, including at least 29,000 New Yorkers, who invested in the Gemini Earn program and were defrauded. Gemini allegedly misled thousands of investors on theRead More

New York State Senator Rob Ortt Presents Commendation to Senate Veteran Hall Of Fame Nominee and World War II Veteran Henry Ross

New York State Senator Rob Ortt Presents Commendation to Senate Veteran Hall Of Fame Nominee and World War II Veteran Henry Ross

Niagara County June 15, 2024 at 7:29 am

  Today, New York State Senator Rob Ortt visited with his New York State Senate Veteran Hall of Fame Nominee, Tech Sergeant Henry “Uncle Hank” Ross. Uncle Hank served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, from 1943-1945 as a radio operator and a side waistRead More

OPINION: Lessons in Decency, Fathers to Children

OPINION: Lessons in Decency, Fathers to Children

Community News June 15, 2024 at 7:27 am

BY: Wim Laven As a scientist who researches peace and conflict, I find it important to systematically approach questions and see where the evidence leads me. It is a trait I developed from great mentorship, and a value that was instilled in me by my father from a very youngRead More

OPINION: Republican Hubris in Courting Black Voters

OPINION: Republican Hubris in Courting Black Voters

State and National News June 13, 2024 at 10:08 pm

BY: Andrew Moss There’s a breathtaking hubris at work when a political party seeks to suppress the votes of an entire people, then claims its leaders are the champions of that same people. You don’t have to look far to find such hubris in the Republican Party today. When DonaldRead More

Niagara County Nursing Home Workers Ratify 1-year Agreement

Niagara County Nursing Home Workers Ratify 1-year Agreement

Community News June 13, 2024 at 10:03 pm

  More than 70 nursing home workers at Schoellkopf Health Center, represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East overwhelmingly voted to ratify a 1-year contract with their employer today. Schoellkopf Health Center is the nursing home attached to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. “I am very pleased to see thatRead More

Ten Lives Club & Buddy’s Second Chance Searching for WNY’s Finest

Ten Lives Club & Buddy’s Second Chance Searching for WNY’s Finest

Local News June 12, 2024 at 9:57 am

Ten Lives Club & Buddy’s Second Chance Rescue are “Searching for WNY’s Finest” to appear in their 2025 Police, Firefighters & Rescue Animals Calendar! Last year officers from police departments across Western New York participated by taking photos with rescue dogs and cats to raise funds to save the livesRead More

Legal Actions Announced Against the Proposed Billion Dollar Toxic Tunnel

Legal Actions Announced Against the Proposed Billion Dollar Toxic Tunnel

Local News June 12, 2024 at 9:53 am

On Thursday, June 13th at 10:00 am, the East Side Parkways Coalition (ESP)  will hold a press conference on one of the last remaining green swaths of Humboldt Parkway, just north of the Science Museum, at Humboldt Parkway and Northampton Street, announcing the filing of legal actions against the proposed billion dollar tunnelingRead More

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