Smallwood News

The Town Board has unanimously adopted a new zoning ordinance after a two-year period of meetings, public comments and revisions, Supervisor Daniel Sturm said.

Graham Parker has been making art with found data for the past decade. His latest project is Fair Use: Notes From Spam .

As they continue their annual ranking of area schools, Business First has found that the once volatile elementary school ratings have settled on a fairly consistent winner.

Elizabeth Smallwood, a science teacher at Tapestry Charter High School in Buffalo, has received a $10,000 grant for excellence and innovation in science education, awarded by Toyota and the National Science Teachers Association.

In the fall of 2001, friends worried about anthrax started asking Philip Alcabes, an epidemiologist at Hunter College, if they should be ironing their mail.

Orchard Park Garden Club will hold its spring plant sale from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. Saturday at the Orchard Park Railroad Depot, behind the Orchard Park Library.

Monticello firefighters responded to an early morning blaze on South Maplewood Road west of the village in the Town of Thompson.

An early morning fire Sunday damaged an unoccupied house on South Maplewood Road near the Village of Monticello.

An early-morning fire destroyed at least half of an unoccupied house on South Maplewood Road, just outside the Village of Monticello.

The lawyer for the developer told the Bethel town board during its April 15 meeting that the zoning changes it had been working on for two years were seriously flawed.

Young Jean Lee is an Obie Award-winning experimental playwright and director whose most recent play, The Shipment , recently closed a three-week run at The Kitchen.

Michelle Goldberg is a freelance journalist whose newest book, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World , explores the past fifty years of global reproductive issues.

State police say a 25-year-old man got drunk, bought an air pistol and then began pointing the gun at motorists as he drove from Wallkill to the Town of Mamakating.

Smallwood Garden Club will hold its installation dinner at 7 p. m. Monday at Marinaccio's, Williamsville.

Elaine Showalter, professor emeritus of English at Princeton University, is a pioneer of women's studies and feminist literary criticism.

Alva No is a professor of philosophy at the University of California and author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons From the Biology of Consciousness .

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester. In The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs.

Parents have spoken up at meetings and created a Web site, and on Sunday they'll host a fundraiser to fight even the notion of closing Cornelius Duggan Elementary School in White Lake.

Parents have spoken up at meetings, created a Web site, and this weekend they'll host a fund raiser to fight even the notion of closing Cornelius Duggan Elementary School in White Lake.

After working for nearly two years on Bethel's zoning code, a review committee has finished its revisions and is ready to present the changes to the public.