•HERE COMES THE SUN – I find myself needing this reminder, so I’ll share it with you too: Go outside! It is so normal for us Buffalonians to spend almost all of our time inside, sucked into our phones ...

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125 Years AgoMay 17, 1900 Swormville fisherman report good catches in local streams. Livingston G. Wiltse, prominent Clarence resident, died. “Quite a number of our railroading men from Clarence ...

The International Compost Awareness Week is celebrated in first week in May. This year’s theme is Sustainable Communities Begin with Compost. It is also the time when the volunteers of the Town of ...

The Village of Williamsville is giving away red poppy pins throughout May to celebrate Poppy Day, which is a national holiday held every year before Memorial Day to celebrate military personal who ...

Williamsville East High School, the newest of the three Williamsville high schools, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. “The official anniversary is in September,” Assistant Principal and ...

Students and staff at SUNY Erie Community College’s North Campus worked together to open a Crime and Punishment Museum on the school’s campus. The museum features a display for each criminal justice ...

The Trump administration’s nomination of Bryan Bedford to helm the Federal Aviation Administration is a huge concern for some airline safety advocates, who say that Bedford poses a threat to ...

I was disappointed, to read Dan Gagliardo’s response to the proposed plan for the Westwood Country Club property – specifically his suggestion that we should, “shop the property to local developers.” ...

Having owned and operated a number of small businesses over the past 20 years, including the popular D’Avolio Restaurants in Amherst, I have learned the importance of setting the proper vision and ...

After over a decade of sitting vacant and recent years of planning for the former Westwood Country Club site on North Forest Road to become Amherst Central Park, Erie County has announced that the ...

Back in 2023, Amherst Supervisor Brian Kulpa had a grand vision for the former Westwood Country Club site that had sat vacant for over a decade. He announced a plan for Amherst Central Park, a vision ...