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Carl Cain is set to become the next mayor of Niagara Falls

Cain Fires Back at Restaino’s ‘Political Maneuver’ Threat to Release Personnel Files

Elections 2023, Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls October 3, 2023 at 8:59 pm

By Tony Farina The Niagara Falls mayoral race is turning ugly.  Just ask Republican candidate Carl Cain who is alleging that Mayor Restaino, a Democrat, and his appointed police chief, John Faso, have managed to deliver messages to him through two of his friends that he could face the publicRead More

Mayor Restaino’s Disturbing Behavior and Political Pandering

Mayor Restaino’s Disturbing Behavior and Political Pandering

MAYOR RESTAINO AND THE SO-CALLED “BLACK VOTE” Mayor Restaino has been handing out “candy,” but it’s not Halloween yet. It’s election season, and that candy is actually grant money. This past week, Mayor Restaino announced that he was awarding $100,000 to Christ Redemption Tabernacle Church, located at 339 22nd Street.Read More

Mayoral Candidate Cain Wants to Know what Outside Counsel is Costing Taxpayers         

Mayoral Candidate Cain Wants to Know what Outside Counsel is Costing Taxpayers         

Elections 2023, Local News September 25, 2023 at 7:38 pm

By Tony Farina When attorney Dan Spitzer, a partner in the Hodgson Russ law firm, gives his counsel to city leaders about the ongoing eminent domain legal battle between the city and NFR over competing development projects, he is getting paid by the hour by city taxpayers. Spitzer, siding withRead More

Time Is Fading Rapidly on Hope for a Solution On Niagara Falls’ Competing Projects

Time Is Fading Rapidly on Hope for a Solution On Niagara Falls’ Competing Projects

Data Campus, Local News September 24, 2023 at 2:15 pm

By Tony Farina Time is rapidly slipping away on a golden opportunity to possibly cash in on two competing development projects in Niagara Falls that could be transformative in so many ways. Let’s give credit to NFR’s Roger Trevino for his comments in the Niagara Gazette last week titled “InRead More

New Grads Celebrate with Friends, Families at downtown FUUN Church

New Grads Celebrate with Friends, Families at downtown FUUN Church

Niagara County September 23, 2023 at 10:57 am

On Thursday, Sept. 31, at 5:30 PM, The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Niagara on Main Street hosted the Orleans/Niagara BOCES High School Equivalency graduation ceremony for Niagara Falls residents. Students earned their High School Equivalency by either passing the GED exam or completing the NEDP program. This was theRead More

Legendary Wrestler Ilio DiPaolo Honored With Weeklong Gala in Abruzzo, Italy

Legendary Wrestler Ilio DiPaolo Honored With Weeklong Gala in Abruzzo, Italy

Featured, Local News September 20, 2023 at 10:09 pm

By Tony Farina The Abruzzo region is often referred to as one of the most beautiful places in all of Italy and is the home of legendary wrestler Ilio DiPaolo, known worldwide for his hall of fame ring career and his philanthropic deeds and community involvement in Buffalo where heRead More

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center: A Beacon of Hope and Compassion for Homeless Asylum-Seeking Family

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center: A Beacon of Hope and Compassion for Homeless Asylum-Seeking Family

Community News, Local News September 18, 2023 at 8:54 pm

Niagara Falls, NY: In the early morning of September 9, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC) stepped up as an oasis of hope for a pregnant Nigerian asylum-seeker and her family, who had been turned away at the Canadian border. This dramatic incident highlighted community hospitals’ indispensable role in addressing unplannedRead More

Intentional Hit-and-Run Injures Multiple Pedestrians; Niagara Falls Police Seek Female Suspect

Intentional Hit-and-Run Injures Multiple Pedestrians; Niagara Falls Police Seek Female Suspect

Citycide, Local News September 18, 2023 at 8:51 pm

Niagara Falls — On September 17, 2023, at around 6:45 pm, Niagara Falls Police were called to the intersection of 22nd Street and Pierce Avenue following reports of a hit-and-run incident involving several pedestrians. According to police, approximately six individuals were involved in a dispute and standing on the sidewalkRead More

Niagara County Jury Finds Man Guilty of Fatal Hit-and-Run; Did Not Buy His Defense That He Thought He Hit a Deer

Niagara County Jury Finds Man Guilty of Fatal Hit-and-Run; Did Not Buy His Defense That He Thought He Hit a Deer

Local News, Niagara County September 18, 2023 at 8:37 pm

LOCKPORT, NY: A Niagara County jury took about an hour to find Nathan C. Marziale, 39, guilty of Leaving the Scene of a Fatal Motor Vehicle Incident. The incident, which occurred on February 19, 2022, led to the death of 28-year-old Rafael Medina-Gonzalez. Medina-Gonzalez was working as an Amazon contractorRead More

Notable Political Figure Steve Pigeon Faces Major Courtroom Test

Notable Political Figure Steve Pigeon Faces Major Courtroom Test

A Miscarriage of Justice, Featured, Local News September 18, 2023 at 6:24 pm

By Tony Farina Where to start with Steve Pigeon? That’s the question I asked myself when publisher Frank Parlato of the Niagara Falls Reporter asked me to do an update on the former Erie County Democratic Party chairman who is now preparing for a December trial that could be hisRead More

Residents Expose Restaino’s Fiscal Follies, so He Yells at Citizen Trying to Pay His Taxes

Residents Expose Restaino’s Fiscal Follies, so He Yells at Citizen Trying to Pay His Taxes

Local News, Niagara Falls September 13, 2023 at 10:37 am

By Ken Cosentino Recently I had a conversation with a close friend of mine who is a lifelong resident and successful business owner in Niagara Falls, and he said something that stuck with me. What my friend said is this: “As major shareholders, developers in this city deserve special treatment.”Read More

Restaino Plays Favorites with Developers, Turns a Blind Eye to Unpaid Property Taxes

Restaino Plays Favorites with Developers, Turns a Blind Eye to Unpaid Property Taxes

Local News, Niagara Falls September 13, 2023 at 3:00 am

By Ken Cosentino Does Mayor Robert Restaino decide which businesses win and which businesses lose in the city of Niagara Falls? Indeed, he has turned a blind eye when it comes to some businesses not paying their taxes and others not paying their contractors. Local developer and Restaino ally RodRead More

Did Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino Improperly Target Political Rival Demetreus Nix?

Did Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino Improperly Target Political Rival Demetreus Nix?

Local News, Niagara Falls September 6, 2023 at 1:19 pm

By Richard Luthmann Demetreus Nix, a man with a troubled past, turned his life around. He started a construction business, became a community leader, and is now a Niagara Falls Mayoral candidate. But for the past several months,  Nix has repeatedly found himself in hot water thanks to what heRead More

Bill Yuhnke Just Keeps Rolling Along, Will Now Lead The Transportation Alliance

Bill Yuhnke Just Keeps Rolling Along, Will Now Lead The Transportation Alliance

Featured, Local News September 5, 2023 at 1:42 pm

By Tony Farina If you think there are no worlds left to conquer, let me introduce you to a gentleman who seems to find new exciting worlds in his life every day and there are no signs he’s slowing up anytime soon even though he’s a proud grandfather. You see,Read More

Toxic PFASs Dumped into the Niagara River for 15 more Years? Tell Polluters, No Way!

Toxic PFASs Dumped into the Niagara River for 15 more Years? Tell Polluters, No Way!

Niagara County September 4, 2023 at 10:17 am

  Three months ago the Reporter broke the story that millions of gallons of run-off containing a family of toxic compounds collectively called PFASs are being shipped into Western New York from a garbage dump in the Finger Lakes, for “treatment” and discharge into the Niagara River. PFASs have beenRead More

Lock Your Doors and Guard Your Wallets: Is Mayor Restaino Ignoring Crime for Centennial Park?

Lock Your Doors and Guard Your Wallets: Is Mayor Restaino Ignoring Crime for Centennial Park?

Local News, Niagara Falls September 2, 2023 at 10:54 pm

Cartoon courtesy Niagara Gazette Niagara Falls has signs around the falls advising tourists: “Lock your car doors. Take your valuables. Enjoy your stay.” Really? The signs give tourists a frightful first impression that they won’t enjoy their stay, for they have entered a high crime area instead of a naturalRead More

Mayor Restaino Booed Off Stage During Third Street Event

Mayor Restaino Booed Off Stage During Third Street Event

Featured, Local News, Niagara Falls September 2, 2023 at 3:30 pm

By Ken Cosenstino Mayor Robert Restaino spoke at the start of the “Thursday’s On Third” event, which showcases musical talent and local vendors on Third Street. According to one attendee, the mayor spoke about the success of the event and how it was an important factor in bringing tourism toRead More

GUEST VIEW: Data Center vs. Arena? The Future is Data!

GUEST VIEW: Data Center vs. Arena? The Future is Data!

Data Campus, Featured, Local News September 2, 2023 at 12:04 am

By Christian Printup I am a local boy, a proud son of Niagara Falls. I’ve worked in a handful of different places in the U.S. over the years — including, for the past seven-plus years, at Seneca Gaming Corp. as senior executive director of Entertainment and Special Events. Soon I’llRead More

WNY Land Conservancy, Champion of Stella and the Niagara Gorge, Names New CEO

WNY Land Conservancy, Champion of Stella and the Niagara Gorge, Names New CEO

Niagara County August 27, 2023 at 9:55 pm

The Western New York Land Conservancy, which in the past few years has spearheaded multimillion dollar restoration projects at both Stella Niagara and the Niagara Gorge, and is probably the most effective voice for the natural environment in the entire region, has named a new Executive Director, Marisa Riggi. InRead More

Mayor Restaino Mum on Rising Murder Rate

Mayor Restaino Mum on Rising Murder Rate

Local News, Niagara Falls August 23, 2023 at 11:13 pm

By Ken Cosentino Yet another person was shot and killed in the heart of the Niagara Falls tourist district this past Saturday. Once again, Mayor Robert Restaino is mum. Mayor Restaino has yet to meet a camera that he didn’t like (with the exception of WGRZ photojournalist Ben Read’s lens).Read More

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