East Amherst News

Erie County sheriff's deputies have charged a 37-year-old East Amherst woman with endangering the welfare of a child, after accusing her of leaving her two children alone in her vehicle.

News 4 crews were on the scene of an overnight stabbing in Buffalo. It happened a little after 4 a.m. Saturday, on East Amherst near McKinley field.

The fate of a Buffalo snowplow driver indicted in a fatal hit-and-run accident in January likely will rest on the quality of surveillance photos and the credibility of another man who had been allowed to drive the snowplow earlier that morning.

Waterford Village Bank is set to receive a $9 million cash infusion from a New York City-based investor.

Horace A. Pantano of Fredonia, NY died at the Chautauqua County Home on Wednesday, June 17, 2009, after a long illness.

The parishioners of St. Joseph Church in North Tonawanda regularly shipped food, clothes and furnishings to Nicaragua in support of a local woman's mission efforts in the impoverished nation.

Esser Avenue resident Laurie Domiano likes to think of herself as a patient person.

A fast-moving fire that began in the attached garage and extended into the house left an estimated $300,000 damage to a Clarence home early this morning, Amherst fire officials reported.

Two men were arrested on felony charges of driving while intoxicated in separate incidents early today in Erie County, police reported.

Town of Lockport n DOG BITE: An employee at the U.S. Post Office on East Avenue reported Thursday that while a postal employee was making a delivery at a home on Hidden Oak Drive, the homeowner's dog came outside and bit her in the right thigh.

And I thought I was a rarity a couple of weeks ago lamenting the disappearance of my favorite deli - Risa's - and her delicious matzo ball soup from Hertel Avenue.

Cary S. Chugh, former director of children's services at Mercy of Northern New York in Watertown, has self-published 'Don't Swear With Your Mouth Full! - When Conventional Discipline Fails Unconventional Children.' Some points Mr.

Buffalo firefighters rescued a heavy equipment operator Friday after his bulldozer broke through a concrete floor and the machine fell into the basement of a former nursing home that was being demolished.

I came home yesterday to find a large envelope from Wegmans . In it was a very slick mailer with a business reply card informing me that Wegmans wants to close its existing Transit Road store in East Amherst and move it further north on Transit on the Clarence side of the street.

Think 'couponing' is hard? I went to Target in East Amherst yesterday and bought the following: 3 bottles of Kraft BBQ Sauce 1 package of Soleil Bella ladie's shavers 1 Kashi frozen dinner 2 bottles of AXE shower gel 1 package of Pepperidge Farms slider hamburger rolls How much do you think I paid for all of it? Can you guess? ...$2.98 When ...

Two local churches are better off these days because of two brothers from the Town of Lockport, and the Boy Scouts have rewarded their efforts by making them Eagle Scouts.

Two additional confirmed cases of swine flu were reported Friday at Transit Middle School in East Amherst and Smallwood Elementary School in Snyder, according to the Erie County Health Department.

GEICO associate Jose Navarro was recently presented with the company's Top Business Excellence Award in Washington D. C., for leading the team that developed a new Webbased application to speed up customer services and increase online activities.

HG Design Studios, LLC Announces Submission into local Arts Festival; "Amherst Celebrates the Arts," 2009 Festival, May 30, 10am-5pm. HG Design Studios, LLC Today announces submission into this year's Amherst Celebrates the Arts 2009 Festival Scheduled for May 30th at the Amherst Museum from 10am to 5pm.

"American Idol" is a boys club now. The final three, who will sing tonight starting at 8, are all male - front-runner Adam Lambert, fan favorite Danny Gokey and "dark horse" Kris Allen.