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The new Niagara County District Attorney Caroline Wojtaszek is sworn in by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon as her husband Henry and son and daughter look on.

First Female DA Vows To Protect Crime, Abuse Victims

Niagara County January 6, 2017 at 9:54 am

The ornate upstairs courtroom of the Niagara County Courthouse in Lockport was packed to capacity with guests spilling out into the massive building’s rotunda Saturday as Niagara County’s first female district attorney took the oath of office. Caroline A. Wojtaszek—former assistant district attorney, wife to former Niagara County Republican ChairmanRead More

Are Democrats Scrambling to Find a Job for Ceretto?

Are Democrats Scrambling to Find a Job for Ceretto?

News January 6, 2017 at 8:47 am

It seems fitting that the last post to appear on the Facebook page of former Assemblyman John D. Ceretto was one memorializing the attack on Pearl Harbor. For Ceretto, it is not Dec. 7th that will be a date that lives in infamy, but rather, Nov. 8th. That was theRead More

The Larger Meaning of the Fight Over Uber

The Larger Meaning of the Fight Over Uber

News January 6, 2017 at 4:35 am

Buffalo – Niagara, one of the last Uber holdouts in the progressive nation; By Jim Ostrowski; You might think that the Western New York political class is embarrassed about being one of the few places on earth to make Uber-driving a crime.  You would be wrong.  These folks have noRead More

OBAMA- DESPICABLE ME!

OBAMA- DESPICABLE ME!

Uncategorized January 6, 2017 at 1:20 am

By J Gary DiLaura   Instead of leaving the Office of the President with distinction, a sense of accomplishment and honor, and a gratefulness to the idiots who elected him, the despicable person who occupies the office of the president leaves with hatefulness, contempt, greed and deserves to be despised;Read More

Theater Masks

Niagara Falls jokes

Uncategorized January 6, 2017 at 1:15 am

A recently-released research study by the University of Buffalo Medical School has reported that 80% of local government officials, such as the mayor, department heads and city council of Niagara Falls, are physically incapable of the simple act of licking their elbows. *** An MSNBC correspondent was interviewing a representativeRead More

Attorney Robert Restaino... looking down the road at possible mayoral run

It May be Early, But Restaino Clearly Eyeing Mayoral Run

Niagara Falls January 6, 2017 at 12:03 am

      Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster won a third term in 2015, but barely.       Dyster, who had been harshly criticized by former Council President Glenn Choolokian on his handling of city finances and the secretive Hamister hotel project among other development broken promises, defeated Choolokian by aRead More

If you visit any New York State Parks between now and 2019, you may want to think twice about letting your kids use the drinking fountains.

Cuomo, State Parks fight EPA order to close Sewage Cesspools, Endangering Public Health

State and National News January 6, 2017 at 12:02 am

Finally, something is being done about the stench coming from Albany, and we’re not talking about the recent indictments of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aides. Six years after Cuomo and his NYS Parks commissioner Rose Harvey came into office, 54 large capacity cesspools (LCCs) containing human filth, among 16 NewRead More

Some say he was a monster: Anthony Bruce; more victims step forward to accuse former AUSA

Some say he was a monster: Anthony Bruce; more victims step forward to accuse former AUSA

News January 6, 2017 at 12:01 am

A few weeks ago this publication began seeking people wrongly accused of crimes by former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce, who retired last year after 38 years with the US Attorney’s office. Public service announcements appeared in Artvoice, the Niagara Falls Reporter, the South Buffalo News and the FrontRead More

Print Edition: Jan 5, 2017

Print Edition: Jan 5, 2017

Online Newspaper January 5, 2017 at 1:06 am
Beverly Ann Bridgeman

Beverly Ann Bridgeman

Uncategorized January 4, 2017 at 4:23 pm

Beverly Ann Bridgeman August 29, 1935 – December 20, 2016 Beverly Ann (Blessing) Bridgeman, a longtime resident of Sanborn and Niagara Falls, died at home on Tuesday December 20, 2016. She was born in Niagara Falls on August 29, 1935, the daughter of the late Christy William and Esther K.Read More

Craft speaks out on Lewiston Board’s skewed view of signs, and ambiance

Craft speaks out on Lewiston Board’s skewed view of signs, and ambiance

Niagara County January 2, 2017 at 2:04 pm

By Ronald Craft;   ; I would like to comment on the recent Lewiston Village Board’s Article in the Lewiston Sentinal regarding the Board favoring ‘ambiance’ over ‘signage safety’ – which includes the same reasoning for a ban on sandwich boards – to be appalling. These same board members continuallyRead More

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center greets first newborn of 2017

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center greets first newborn of 2017

Community News January 2, 2017 at 1:04 pm

Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center greeted its first baby of 2017 at 8:09 p.m. New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) when Santina Fittante of Youngstown gave birth to son Dillon John Barker. Dillon, shown here with his mother and father Jeffrey Barker in their private labor and delivery suite at Memorial’sRead More

Grand Island Supervisor: An Island without fear Part 3.

Grand Island Supervisor: An Island without fear Part 3.

Erie County December 26, 2016 at 8:30 pm

Island Without Fear Part 3 of 4: by Nate McMurray Freedom from the fear of others Diversity is not just an empty motto. It’s an ideal we strive for because diversity brings strength. Even on a basic level, genetic diversity helps us survive and adapt. And cultural diversity (meaning drawingRead More

Alan Roscetti, Esq.

Alan Roscetti Highly Regarded as He Launches Bid for City Court

Niagara Falls December 23, 2016 at 12:53 am

      “The citizens of Niagara Falls would be hard-pressed to find a better candidate for a seat on the City Court bench than Alan Roscetti,” says longtime pharmacist Robert Kendzia when asked about the young man’s plans to run for an expected open seat next year on CityRead More

Remembering The Festival of Lights

Remembering The Festival of Lights

Niagara Falls December 23, 2016 at 12:50 am

By Robert Ventry; If the Festival of Lights were still held it would be in its 35th year. The first annual Festival of Lights was launched in 1981 as economic stimulant for the local economy. The event was used to draw visitors into the city during the winter, which manyRead More

Niagara Falls 2016; Another  year older, deeper in debt!

Niagara Falls 2016; Another year older, deeper in debt!

Niagara Falls December 22, 2016 at 4:37 am

2016, the year that began with Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster taking the oath of office for a historic third term, was in many ways a watershed year for the city. Numerous websites including MyLife.com, NeighborhoodScout.com and City-Data.com continued to assert that Niagara Falls was the “Most Dangerous City in New York” and one ofRead More

Was Delaware North involved in the death of Don Bolles?

Was Delaware North involved in the death of Don Bolles?

News December 22, 2016 at 4:18 am

Before it was known as Delaware North, the global Buffalo-based concessioner called itself Emprise. A reporter at the time who relentlessly investigated the company and its business practices, Don Bolles, was murdered in a car bombing in 1976. In 1972, the House Select Committee on Crime held hearings concerning Emprise’s connections withRead More

Delaware North's tacky food booths scattered throughout Niagara Falls State Park are among the numerous violations of Frederick Law Olmsted's plan.

Delaware North western meltdown makes for shocking comparisons with Niagara Falls State Park

Niagara Falls December 22, 2016 at 4:14 am

As part of an ongoing effort to acquaint our readers with some of the more unsavory aspects of the business and personal dealings of Buffalo billionaire Jeremy Jacobs and his family-held multinational corporation Delaware North, which has the exclusive rights to operate food and beverage concessions in Niagara Falls StateRead More

Niagara Falls jokes

Niagara Falls jokes

Uncategorized December 22, 2016 at 4:13 am

We were so poor when I was growing up that at Christmas time Dad used to suck a peppermint and we’d all sit round his tongue. We were so poor when I was growing up that at Christmas time we couldn’t afford tinsel on the Christmas tree, so we’d just wheelRead More

County Legislator Rebecca Wydysh

Lewiston’s Wydysh Gains Committee Chairmanship, Seen as Rising Star

Niagara County December 22, 2016 at 3:07 am

One majority lawmaker whose star is on the rise is Lewiston’s Rebecca Wydysh. The freshman Republican, who runs jury selection efforts at the county courthouse, has impressed her colleagues and party brass enough that she’s being given a portfolio heading the county’s opioid-addiction panel. That effort, begun by Bradt himselfRead More

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