Tonawanda News

The North Tonawanda Common Council approved a hiring freeze at Tuesday's meeting as it waits to evaluate the effectiveness of a retirement incentive designed to eliminate five full-time positions by the end of this month.

City of Tonawanda police arrested a Lackawanna man for allegedly stealing a customer's prescription pain medication while cleaning her carpets.

Confessed murderer Julius C. Franquet avoided a 25 years-to-life sentence for pleading guilty to killing his live-in girlfriend last December, but not by much.

An underground metal tank containing coal tar, gravel and water is slated to be removed from the Gastown site at 126 East Niagara St.

By Eric DuVall eric.duvall@gnnewspaper.com A lot of things have changed since Ron Hawkins was on the stage at Gateway Harbor in North Tonawanda in 2006.

When North Tonawanda residents were invited to speak publicly for the third time in September, anger over vice, vandalism, drugs and decay around Oliver Street had given way to talk of solutions.

The construction of the Erie Canal between Lockport and Lake Erie was part of the western section of the canal, which contained two very challenging segments for the canal engineers.

A car chase that started with thefts in an Amherst parking lot ended with an arrest Wednesday in the Town of Tonawanda.

A woman arrested for allegedly stealing cans of Red Bull and malt liquor saw drug charges added to the list of offenses after police went through her purse.

Paroled sex offender James McKinney violated a half dozen terms of his controversial release last spring, according to Assistant state Attorney General Wendy Witing.

An underground metal tank containing coal tar, gravel and water is slated to be removed from the Gastown site at 126 East Niagara St.

Republicans ruled the day in North Tonawanda - and beyond in Niagara County. Republican challenger Robert G. Ortt pulled off an upset of Democrat incumbent Lawrence V. Soos on Tuesday with a strong victory in the North Tonawanda mayor's race.

Last year, volunteers at North Tonawanda's Community Outreach Center were outraged by a senseless act of vandalism.

Progress is being made with the Royalton-Hartland School District's $8.3 million capital improvement project.

Taxes in the Town of Tonawanda are going up 1.5 percent for homeowners next year, but one speaker at Thursday's public hearing was more concerned about the budget's effect on local business.

A minor accident Friday on Oliver Street in North Tonawanda sent one man to the hospital with possible neck injuries.

When Brian and Gary Metzger, owners of Metzger Removal Inc., signed on to build the piles of rubble that would later house the Vigilant Guard exercise at the former Spaulding Fibre site, they did so with little time to spare.

A Niagara Falls man was caught just after midnight Friday by City of Tonawanda police as he attempted to steal several items from a car on Duffy Drive.

Two days after helping his party score several key victories in local elections, the long-time chairman of the Niagara County Republican Party announced his decision to step down.

November 04, 2009, 7:15 AM / Town of Tonawanda incumbents were heading toward a clean sweep late Tuesday, as the highway superintendent and three members of the Town Board were poised for re-election. Highway Superintendent Bradley A. Rowles scored a convincing victory against Daniel J. Crangle.