West Seneca News

The government downsizing movement was emphatically embraced by Niagara County voters last night.

The superintendent of Potsdam Central School District said the district can save $498,228 next year by joining a health cooperative in Western New York.

Residents pleaded with the West Seneca Town Board on Monday night to do something about the rumblings of a blacktop processing plant they say has been making it difficult to sleep at night.

The West Seneca West Marching Band captured the Governora s Cup Sunday in the New York State Field Band Competition at Syracuse Universitya s Carrier Dome.

November 01, 2009, 12:16 AM / When Sheila Meegan decided to run for Town Council in West Seneca, she had everything but money.

October 30, 2009, 7:00 AM / For the first time in a dozen years, West Seneca voters will have a choice when they cast ballots Tuesday for the town's receiver of taxes.

DAVE LONDRES / Observer-Dispatch Firefighters battle a fire in a home at 303 West Seneca Street i... Photo 1 of 14 DAVE LONDRES / Observer-Dispatch A Firefighter ducks under a hose on the porch of the home at 303... Photo 2 of 14 DAVE LONDRES / Observer-Dispatch Firefighters battle a fire in a home at 303 West Seneca Street i... Photo 3 of 14 DAVE ...

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.

October 23, 2009, 7:15 AM / The West Seneca residents who filed a lawsuit trying to delay downsizing of the Town Board have decided not to appeal a judge's ruling this week that the change will take effect Jan.

Gov. David A. Paterson&#8217s top legal adviser interviewed former Assistant District Attorney Mark A. Sacha in Albany on Thursday concerning allegations that two successive Erie County district attorneys gave a political pass on election law violations to Democratic operative G. Steven Pigeon.

Charlie Schuyler get his flu shot from Laura Ingalls at the Rite-Aid parmacy at West Seneca Turnpike in Syracuse on Thursday.

As of Jan. 1 the West Seneca Town Board will have only three members - two councilmen and the town supervisor -State Supreme Court Justice Donna M. Siwek ruled this afternoon.

One of the most unexpected passages in the weighty new official history of MI5 by Professor Christopher Andrew comes from the pen of Jeremy Thorpe, the former leader of the Liberal Party.

October 13, 2009, 6:49 AM / To save money, William Held Jr. began buying his janitorial company's cleaning supplies directly from the manufacturer 15 years ago.

North Tonawanda police assisted state fraud investigators in arresting a West Seneca woman who allegedly had cashed several workers compensation checks addressed to her dead mother.

October 16, 2009, 6:37 AM / State Supreme Court Justice Gerald J. Whalen recused himself Thursday from a dispute over when the West Seneca Town Board downsizing will take effect.

State Supreme Court Justice Gerald J. Whelan is considering whether to recuse himself from a dispute over when the West Seneca Town Board downsizing will take effect.

Sixth-year Midland karate student Erica Dusome, 19, was promoted to the rank of Shodan first-degree black belt during a ceremony in late September.

"Murder? I should have asked for an attorney," Darrius S. Molson said when informed what he was being charged with after a June 19 police interview in Niagara Falls.

October 12, 2009, 6:53 AM / A driver who ran a red light at about 11:30 p. m. Saturday on Transit Road in Elma was charged with drug possession after an Erie County sheriff's deputy found him with several small bags of suspected heroin residue and three hypodermic needles.