Kenmore News

When the creators of "Sesame Street" first pitched the idea of a fuzzy elephant and digit-loving vampire teaching children, youth-oriented programming was sparse.

November 07, 2009, 8:39 AM / A local attorney lobbied for tax relief for small businesses Thursday as the Tonawanda Town Board prepared to vote on a 2010 budget.

A western New York soldier has survived a roadside bomb attack overseas. His mother hopes he is sent home and not back to the front lines.

For years, what sometimes seems like generations, I've occupied Friday's Tonawanda News editorial page, a soft-punching cartoon above me, the fury of the common man below me and some opinions about one thing or another to the left and right.

Lake Shore Bancorp, Inc. , the holding company for Lake Shore Savings Bank , reported net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 of $602,000, or $0.10 per diluted share compared to net income of $867,000, or $0.14 per diluted share for the quarter ended September 30, 2008.

Every local native knows North Tonawanda's lumber-rich past and that CNN's Wolf Blitzer attended Kenmore West High School.

I've always found it curious that one of the most segregated areas in the country would dub its hub the City of Good Neighbors.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation is poised to withdraw its support for Legislator Michele M. Iannello today after alleging she demanded the removal of Working Families Party volunteers campaigning for her because they were black.

Sometimes it pays to hear people talk common sense. That's what occurred this week at a hearing on New York's soon-to-expire Empire Zone program.

The race for Erie County Sheriff took center stage at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Kenmore today.

Buffalo developer Rocco Termini is no fan of uncertainty. Termini has done six projects in downtown Buffalo that have benefited from the lucrative incentives available through the state's controversial Empire Zone program, including the conversion of the former AM&A's warehouse downtown into housing and offices.

October 20, 2009, 6:45 AM / Former Erie County Legislature Chairman Charles M. Swanick, who stunned the local political world in 2003 by converting from Democrat to Republican, has pulled another party switcheroo.

Ellen Jeffree was pleasantly surprised when she refinanced her South Buffalo home recently.

The public will have an opportunity to ask questions before the Vigilant Guard exercise comes to the City of Tonawanda.

Over the next three weeks, you will constantly hear the names and see the faces of the men and women who are counting on your vote on Election Day.

If cold weather sharpens the mind, this could be the right time to take the American Mensa Admission Test, Mensa being the nonpolitical international organization for people who score at or above the 98th percentile on this IQ test.

A lawyer running for Kenmore village justice has been told by a peer group to publicly disavow controversial campaign advertisements about which he claims ignorance.

With money still tight for so many people, Halloween decorations might seem like a necessary cut from the family budget.

The reality of the high school prom, touted as the most romantic night of adolesence, can fall short of fantasy.

National Air Cargo today provided charitable land transport to deliver more than 3,000 pounds of various donated personal affects on behalf of Jammies for GI's to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas to ensure that recovering injured U.S. troops have personal clothing items while at the hospital.