Niagara County
- Niagara County Village of Barker seeks buyer to put part of former Birds Eye operation to new use
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By Teresa Sharp
NIAGARA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 11/20/08 8:16 AM
- BARKER — Wanted: A suitable use for a seven-acre site in the heart of this quiet village of 577 residents, home to a bank, a school district headquarters and a dozen mom-and- pop businesses.
- Massage parlor owner’s prostitution role nets prison
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By Dan Herbeck
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 11/20/08 7:02 AM
- A businesswoman who recruited women to travel to Western New York and work as prostitutes at her four local massage parlors was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison.
- DEC plan called dumping on Niagara
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By Aaron Besecker
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/20/08 7:23 AM
- NIAGARA FALLS — Members of the public Wednesday night denounced a draft plan from state environmental regulators that they said proposes to keep Niagara County as the state’s only place to landfill hazardous waste.
- Aid for New York sought in federal stimulus package
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By Jerry Zremski
NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
Updated: 11/20/08 8:19 AM
- WASHINGTON — New York’s congressional delegation will push for major aid to the state in a new federal economic-stimulus package early next year, including a big boost in Medicaid funding that could cut billions of dollars from the state’s giant deficit.
- City man arrested in bomb threats to high school
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By Nancy A. Fischer
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/20/08 10:52 AM
- NORTH TONAWANDA — Detectives arrested a city man Wednesday and accused him of falsely reporting two bomb threats Nov. 8 that targeted North Tonawanda High School.
- Sewer rate increases presented
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By Thomas J. Prohaska
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/20/08 6:37 AM
- LOCKPORT — Supervisor Marc R. Smith rolled out a plan for sewer rate increases Wednesday.
- Ex-agency attorney denied funds
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By Thomas J. Prohaska
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/20/08 6:37 AM
- LOCKPORT — The former attorney for the Niagara County Sewer District again has lost his bid to shake loose more than $17,000 he asserted he was owed for past legal work.
- Council votes to sell two strips of land
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:37 AM
- LOCKPORT — The Common Council Wednesday voted to sell a 40-by-40-foot patch of grass next to the Outwater Park parking lot to adjoining property owner Scott Allan of Prospect Street for $1,000.
- Salvation Army seeking Thanksgiving donations
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:37 AM
- LOCKPORT — The Lockport chapter of the Salvation Army, 50 Cottage St., is seeking donations of turkeys and other food for its Thanksgiving Day dinner for the needy.
- Planning Board rejects proposal for church camp
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- LOCKPORT — The town Planning Board on Tuesday delivered a blow to a proposals for a church camp.
- Second suspect arrested in North Tonawanda bomb threats
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By Nancy A. Fischer
News Niagara Bureau
Updated: 11/19/08 3:21 PM
- NORTH TONAWANDA - Detectives arrested a city man and accused him of falsely reporting two
bomb threats on Nov. 8 that targeted North Tonawanda High School.
- Power Coalition settles lawsuit with Zito
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By Denise Jewell Gee
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/19/08 7:23 AM
- Seven local governments and school districts that make up the Niagara Power Coalition will pay its former executive director a total of $175,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the coalition had reneged on a performance bonus he was promised.
- Wilson judge to decide within 2 weeks whether to dismiss coaches’ charges
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By Thomas J. Prohaska
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/19/08 7:41 AM
- WILSON — Town Justice George R. Berger said Tuesday he will decide within two weeks whether charges against two suspended Wilson High School baseball coaches will be dismissed.
- Falls senior planner targeted by councilmen
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By Denise Jewell Gee
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
Updated: 11/19/08 7:41 AM
- NIAGARA FALLS — Three councilmen voted Tuesday to eliminate the city’s senior planner, but the vote could be largely symbolic unless they can convince two colleagues that the Falls does not need the urban planning post.
- Fewer places to be pouring for New Year’s all-nighters
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By Phil Fairbanks
News Staff Reporter
Updated: 11/19/08 7:55 AM
- If you’re looking for an all-night place to drink on New Years’s Eve, your choices, at least your legal ones, will be limited this year.
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