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Comprehensive News Feed for Alden, NY.

Results 1 - 20 of 125 in Alden, NY

  1. GOP chief wants board to investigate ColeRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | Buffalo News

    ... Niagara County GOP Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek filed the complaint Thursday, charging that Assemblyman Michael Cole of Alden failed to report his campaign finances to the board by July 15 as required by law. He also said Cole's late reports ...

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    Related Topix: US News, Erie County, NY

  2. Prisoner transport van damaged in accident

    Yesterday | Buffalo News

    An Erie County sheriff's prisoner transport van headed to the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden was involved in a minor accident Thursday evening, the Sheriff's Office said.

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  3. Road cop vs. desk jockey: Guess who drives the junker?Read the original story

    Sunday Jul 20 | Buffalo News

    ... cars receive a once-over every 5,000 miles. The vehicles usually are driven for the employees to the garage in Alden, behind the Erie County Home, and returned later in the day so the employees need not wait. Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown hit a wall ... 1 comment

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  4. Transplant recipient wins at U. S. gamesRead the original story

    Sunday Jul 20 | Buffalo News

    ... in the men's 50-meter freestyle and 50-meter backstroke. Beverly LoCicero, 65, a liver transplant recipient from Alden, won a bronze medal in the women's 1,500-meter race walk. Helen Boisaubin, a 12-year-old liver transplant recipient from Amherst, ...

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    Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Tonawanda, NY

  5. $600 payments OK'd for blue-collar workers

    Friday Jul 18 | Buffalo News

    ... blue-collar workers and agreeing to upgrades in the parks, to certain roads and to the Erie County Home in Alden. With the $600 payments, the Legislature expects to settle a labor impasse from 2005, when talks fell apart between the county and Local ...

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    Related Topix: University of Nebraska System, Erie County, NY

  6. First responders not allowed inside Wende Correctional Facility to treat inmate

    Thursday Jul 17 | WIVB-TV Buffalo

    ... have a pulse and is not breathing. We need an ambulance here right away." The Millgrove Volunteer Fire Department in Alden first got the call. But when they arrived, Fire Chief Bob Eleczko says corrections officers outside did not know anything ... 145 comments

  7. Family of dead Wende inmate seeks answers

    Thursday Jul 17 | Buffalo News

    ... sister, said her family was told Wednesday by Wende officials. Maddox was rushed to the regional medical unit at the Alden prison where nurses used an automatic defibrillator and performed CPR to try to revive him, prison officials said. He was ...

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  8. Spark from welding torch blamed for fire at prison

    Wednesday Jul 16 | Buffalo News

    A maintenance worker's cutting torch sparked a fire in a mechanical room at the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden late Tuesday afternoon, Erie County sheriff's officials reported.

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    Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Erie County, NY

  9. POLITICS: Rookie runs for Assembly

    Saturday Jul 12 | Union-Sun & Journal

    ... Dennis has." The 142nd District includes Lockport, the Town of Lockport and Royalton in Niagara County and Clarence, Alden, Elma and Marilla in Erie County. Cehulik chose Niagara County Produce, which is on the border of the two counties on Transit ...

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    Related Topix: Marilla, NY, Elma, NY, Clarence, NY, Erie County, NY

  10. Arrests rise across area

    Saturday Jul 12 | Observer

    ... was arrested July 5 on Iola Drive after she was found to be in possession of marijuana. n Jeffrey S. Smierciak, 18, of Alden was arrested July 5 in a parking lot on Allegheny Road where he was found to be in possession of marijuana. n Michael C. ...

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  11. George E. Eggleston, managed major construction projectsRead the original story

    Wednesday Jul 9 | Buffalo News

    George Elliott Eggleston, retired construction project manager who oversaw some of the region's major projects for the John W. Cowper Co., died Monday at his home in Alden.

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  12. Orchard Park bridge will close on Monday

    Friday Jul 4 | Buffalo News

    ... will fund 15 percent and the county dollars will pay the remaining 5 percent. Concrete Applied Technologies Corp. of Alden was the winning bidder on the job. "It should be a beautiful-looking bridge," said Orchard Park Mayor John Wilson. "My only ...

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    Related Topix: Erie County, NY, Orchard Park, NY

  13. Gertrude S. Victor, 94, teacher, sculptor, Buffalo State supporterRead the original story

    Wednesday Jul 2 | Buffalo News

    She was born on a poultry farm in the Town of Alden. She attended a one-room schoolhouse and later taught in another one, in Marilla.

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  14. Douglas E. EckerRead the original story

    Tuesday Jul 1 | Gloversville Leader-Herald

    ... Hospital following a long illness. He was born in Gloversville, New York, on April 24, 1943, the son of the late Alden and Marguerite Musgrave Ecker. He attended Johnstown High School and was employed as a truck driver for Callahan Industries in ...

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  15. The Weekend GuideRead the original story

    Wednesday Jun 25 | DailyCandy

    ... . Situated on the coast, it's about 100 miles north of Portland - and a million miles from all your worries. SLEEP The Alden House What: Rest your head at this historic home-turned-inn run by a trained pastry chef and a former L.L. Bean employee. ...

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    Related Topix: Retail, Apparel, Portland, OR

  16. Giant spade can bring instant shadeRead the original story

    Jun 24, 2008 | Buffalo News

    ... replace a cherry tree lost in the October 2006 storm. But one of Leible's favorite tree stories involves 90-year-old Alden resident Robert Gillmore. Due to damage suffered in the storm, Erie County workers had removed three maple trees from his ...

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    Related Topix: Canandaigua, NY, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Lackawanna, NY

  17. Metal stamping plant in Alden will close

    Jun 20, 2008 | WIVB-TV Buffalo

    A company in Alden will close down by the end of the summer after more than 25 years in business. 3 comments

  18. Playing cards for local inmates are newest crime-fighters

    Jun 19, 2008 | Buffalo News

    ... cards were distributed Wednesday in the Erie County Holding Center downtown and Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden, where the new playing cards will replace inmates' old ones. A total of 7,200 decks of cards - featuring unsolved murders and ...

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  19. "Cold Case Playing Cards" make their debut for Erie County InmatesRead the original story

    Jun 18, 2008 | WKBW-TV

    ... on them. The decks of cards were issued today at the Erie County Holding Center and the correctional facility in Alden. The cards feature a victim's picture and description of a crime or circumstances surrounding the disappearance. "We hope by ...

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  20. Police make arrests in series of home burglaries

    Jun 18, 2008 | WIVB-TV Buffalo

    ... cooperative." Police also believe they will eventually tie these suspects to ten other recent daytime burglaries in Alden, Boston, Colden and Concord. Chief Rankin said, "They hit all the Southtowns. They hit areas patrolled by the Sheriffs, and the ...

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    Related Topix: Marilla, NY, Erie County, NY, Orchard Park, NY, Colden, NY