Hamburg News

High-profile contests are absent from today's ballot, city turnout is expected to be low, and no single race has captured the attention of the Western New York electorate.

The ceremonial opening of Hamburg's new dispatch center had to wait a few minutes Thursday, while an emergency call - one of 150,000 calls handled each year - was dispatched.

November 06, 2009, 6:59 AM / Hamburg residents were offered three different perspectives on downsizing during a forum Thursday in Frontier Middle School.

Jeff Kryszak is president of K-Technologies. View Larger Although temperatures have begun to dip, K-Technologies Inc.

Village of Hamburg police officer Sean Gallagher and Lt. Joseph Wittmeyer responded within a minute to a home on Brookwood Drive where 25 year old lawn service owner Anthony Bellanti was pinned underneath his tractor.

November 04, 2009, 7:14 AM / Two Village of Hamburg police officers revived a lawn service worker Tuesday afternoon after he was pinned under his tractor, which slid down an embankment and overturned in a creek on Brookwood Drive.

Polls across western New York are now open for Election Day 2009. News 4 will be following several hotly contested races.

It was a tale of two races in the Southtowns Tuesday night. In Hamburg, a landslide win for incumbent Supervisor Steven Walters, while in Orchard Park, it's too close to call.

November 03, 2009, 7:11 AM / Hamburg's budget hearing Monday night was tame, with just two residents raising questions on next year's tentative budget.

Coming up in just a moment we'll have a debate to at least a joint discussion I guess we can call it.

November 01, 2009, 6:49 AM / There was a grand opening Wednesday for the Walmart in Hamburg.

The historic West End Inn in Hamburg, NY is the site of then next installment in Mike's "Great Ghost Hunt". Multimedia Watch The Video The historic hot-spot has been the site of many ghostly encounters, and Mike Randall visits to see what he can uncover.

Pakistani soldier fires a heavy machine gun on Taliban positions at the Sherwangi Tor village in South Waziristan Pakistan Oct.

October 28, 2009, 7:11 AM / A hotel clerk faces grand larceny and identity theft charges after he allegedly used guest credit cards to make purchases and to pay his own bills, state police reported Monday.

The Halloween spirit will be on the screen and in the seats Saturday night in the Hamburg Palace Theater, 31 Buffalo St.

October 25, 2009, 7:32 AM / State police charged a Hamburg man with grand larceny and identify thefts, accusing him of using others' credit cards.

October 21, 2009, 6:55 AM / Candidates for Erie County sheriff, comptroller, Legislature and Hamburg town offices will square off in a forum conducted by the League of Women Voters of Buffalo/Niagara at 7 p. m. today , in the auditorium of Union/Pleasant Elementary School, Union Street at Center Street, Hamburg.

Proform Powdered Metals Inc., located in the Punxsutawney Industrial Park, has weathered the economic storm fairly well, according to Vice-President of Operations Karen Duffell.

October 18, 2009, 6:37 AM / Hamburg Village Board members are expected to accept the resignation of Trustee Michael S. Cerrone at their meeting Monday night.

Chris Collins tosses around the insult for maximum effect. In one of the latest examples, the Erie County executive called the County Legislature's Democrats "career politicians focused on job entrenchment." The Legislature candidates he is backing fling the insult, too.