By Nate McMurray Supervisor, Grand Island I wanted to provide you a proper update on the meeting last week for the bike path. New York State will move forward with the Grand Island West River Parkway closure. In summary, the state’s plan is: · Safe—removal of 55 mph road, greatestRead More

By  Joseph A. Ruffolo President & CEO Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Just in time for the upcoming holidays, beautiful Schoellkopf Park on the campus of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical is again shining brightly as a beacon of goodwill for the entire community. Thanks to members of International Brotherhood of ElectricalRead More

If you access the NYS Board of Elections website, click on “Campaign Finance” and then “View Disclosure Reports”, and type in “Charles Walker”, there’s sparse information indeed on City Councilman Charles Walker’s campaign finances over the years. Serving on the city council since January of 1999, Walker is halfway throughRead More

By Carolette Meadows Are white women schizophrenic? The 2016 elections have provided more entertainment and dysfunction than a full season of ‘Empire.’ We had lies, emails, misogyny, violence, protests, xenophobia, homophobia, ridiculing the disabled, questioning bloodflow, pandering fear, stealing primaries, naked spouses, and the grabbing of defenseless felines. With allRead More

Discounts Should Average at least 39 percent says Survey With holiday spending estimated to reach $656 billion this year — up from nearly $631 billion in 2015 — the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of the biggest 35 stores in a 2016’s Best Stores for Black Friday. WalletHub surveyedRead More

  By Rajinder Bajwa, M.D. We are living through exciting times of modern medicine where we can get treatment for many diseases which were considered incurable in past. Antibiotics and vaccines have played a major role in that success. Diseases considered a scourge in past like smallpox have been eradicatedRead More

Only 17 days left before the doors swing open at this year’s Lewiston Tour of Homes, which will take place at the following dates and times: Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4 from 9:30am to 1:15pm, and again from 1pm to 5pm. Each home on the tour has beenRead More

Much to his chagrin, Mayor Dyster arrived at his City Hall office to find that it had been invaded by mice, and complained to Seth Piccirillo about it. Piccirillo thought for a moment, and suggested, “Why don’t you offer to pay off their student loans?” *** An Englishman, a FrenchmanRead More

BY MATTHEW RICCHIAZZI Last Monday, Carl Paladino gave an interview to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, an influential platform in the United Kingdom. The same day his interview was reported in The Guardian. “I think you describe correctly the offense which is, if you don’t pick up your part, as was agreed toRead More

By John Hazel (Ed. Note: The following is in response to the Reporter article last week announcing that Niagara Falls ranks #1 in  burglaries in New York State.) Home burglaries occur most often during the day, while the residents are at work and the house is unoccupied. Most burglars do notRead More

Lame Duck NYS Assemblyman John D. Ceretto made an unfortunate mistake last year. He listened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who persuaded him to switch from the Republican party to the Democrats and now he’s out of a job. The Democrat Ceretto was defeated this week by a Republican who almostRead More

By Jim Ostrowski On April 19, 2016, I wrote my first column for Artvoice and the Niagara Falls Reporter which was published two days later.  It was about Donald Trump’s speech in Buffalo.  At that time, Trump’s polling number against Hillary was 39.5%.  In that column, I made my predictionRead More

  Senator Rob Ortt (R,C,I – North Tonawanda) today issued the following statement regarding our President-elect Donald Trump. “The election results may have been surprising to the mainstream media, but this has been absolutely consistent with what I’ve heard from my constituents. Voters want demonstrable change and they’re sick andRead More

A Public Service Announcement Annual Lord’s Day Dinner November 24,2016    Thanksgiving Day      FREE DINNER For areas neediest families V.F.W. 917 LaSalle Griffin Post      2435 Seneca Avenue Niagara Falls, NY. USA          12noon until 6:00 pm. Certified Elderly / Wheelchair bound / disabled in need of a dinner mustRead More

Maybe we’re just a little bit dense, but we’re having a little trouble understanding some of the language of the Government Directed Health Care Industry. Help us out. For example, among Niagara Falls Community events scheduled for this week is a public forum titled “A Community Conversation on Mental HealthRead More

By J Gary DiLaura Thank you Jesus for giving us the chance to regain our Christian, Constitutional Republic, founded on the rule of law, established by our Founding Fathers, treating all people equal and no one more equal than others and immune from the laws THEY established. Allow me toRead More

By Charles from Niagara Falls I was in the doctor’s office and just happened to pick up the paper, and it seems like you were sticking up for black people in Buffalo. Police are killing their dogs for petty weed that they find in their house. I’m contacting you because theyRead More

May Have Helped Other Republican Candidates Locally Donald J. Trump’s victory was historic on a number of levels, not the least of which was that Trump won Niagara County, New York in a landslide. “Mr. Trump won here, and he won ‘bigly,” Niagara County GOP Chairman Scott Kiedrowski said afterRead More