Wed, Jun 6th 2012 11:45 am
Daredevil Nik Wallenda says fees to the New York State parks department and to Ontario's Niagara Parks Commission will be paid by the end of the week as required by his contracts with the two agencies.
Wallenda, speaking Tuesday to Bullet News Niagara, scoffed at the suggestion that permits are not in place and that his walk June 15 over the Horseshoe Falls is in danger of not happening.
"I don't know where this stuff comes from," he said. "There are so many totally wrong stories out there right now. It's unbelievable."
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Wed, Jun 6th 2012 08:45 am
Area residents and visitors are invited to tour all four sites operated by Niagara County History Center in a bi-national tourism event known as "Doors Open Niagara 2012."
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Wed, Jun 6th 2012 08:40 am
The American Lung Association of the Northeast has announced that it has been awarded nearly $20,000 in funding from the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. The funding will support the implementation of the master home environmentalist program in Western New York.
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Wed, Jun 6th 2012 07:00 am
Artpark's second annual "Fairy House Festival" is the perfect day for families to get together and get creative.
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Wed, Jun 6th 2012 07:00 am
Old Falls Street, USA, will be the center of "Side Show" activities on June 15. From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., day-long festivities will spotlight Nik Wallenda's historic tightrope walk over Niagara Falls, which will be shown on two outdoor jumbo screens. The "Side Show" features tightrope walks and aerial moves from Charm City Movement Arts (from Baltimore) and other circus-themed performances from members of Deep Roots Niagara throughout the day, a petting zoo, as well as live music, festive food and beverage concessions, and more than 20 local merchandise and food vendors.
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Wed, Jun 6th 2012 07:00 am
The Niagara USA Chamber will host a mandate relief forum on Tuesday, June 12, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the New York Power Authority's Power Vista.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 02:25 pm
Niagara County's brownfields will have an additional $200,000 available for rehabilitation loans after county and state leaders were notified by the EPA that they had succeeded in securing additional funding for the county's successful brownfields revitalization efforts.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 02:25 pm
Leaders from Niagara County and communities all along Lake Ontario's southern shore will turn out in force tonight in Olcott to protest an International Joint Commission/Corps of Engineers-backed plan that would increase erosion of the shoreline and have a $30 million negative impact on Niagara and Orleans counties at an event hosted by the IJC.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 02:20 pm
Weezer will perform at Buffalo Place "Rocks the Harbor" in downtown Buffalo at the Erie Canal Harbor Central Wharf on Friday, July 13. The event begins at 6 p.m.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 10:05 am
Dr. William D. Frye will soon join an exclusive list of hospitality and tourism educators that includes Michael E. Hurst, J.W. Marriott Jr., Anthony Marshall and only six others.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 08:15 am
Starry Night Theatre Inc. will hold auditions for "Fiddler on the Roof'" at the Ghostlight Theatre, 170 Schenck St., North Tonawanda. Auditions will be conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. on June 18 and 19.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 07:00 am
Show dad how special he is with his own afternoon at the Carrousel Museum. Always a great place for families, this day will be even more memorable as fathers and children share special crafts and activities together. Make a card for dad to tell him how important he is, along with a unique picture frame.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 07:00 am
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center recently was presented with the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 07:00 am
"Road to Recovery" is an American Cancer Society service program that provides transportation for cancer patients to their cancer life-saving treatments and home again. Volunteer drivers are urgently needed across Western New York.
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Tue, Jun 5th 2012 07:00 am
Gentle Dentistry of Lancaster is giving free oral cancer screenings during the week of June 11 to 17. This will be done in honor of National Cancer Survivor's Week to celebrate loved ones who have survived the ravages of cancer, to honor those who did not make it, and to prevent this disease from spreading unnecessarily.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 05:20 pm
A meeting was held Monday morning by Niagara USA hospitality constituents to discuss the most recent information regarding Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 05:00 pm
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter joined Monday with women across the country to commemorate congressional approval of the Women's Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 11:15 am
In advance of the upcoming development of the re-designed Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino, Seneca Gaming Corp. offers an opportunity for business with the corporation to companies located in the Buffalo area.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 11:15 am
Organizers of the Main Street Music & Art Festival are hosting "An Evening of Acoustic Music" with Under the Skylight, a popular acoustic duet featuring Ashley Altman and Dan Erickson performing songs from their newly released album.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 11:15 am
NU grad Kalani Personius and seniors Mary Gibson and Jessica Spellane work to help those in need at St. George's Church.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 07:00 am
Niagara Hospice will hold its ninth Memorial Butterfly Release from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 7, in the Memorial Gardens located at 4675 Sunset Drive, Lockport.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 07:00 am
The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University will open a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the War of 1812 Bicentennial celebration on Sunday, June 10. The event runs from from 2 until 4 p.m. and features a talk by guest curator Dr. Robert Giannetti as well as an information fair for Niagara 1812 Legacy Council partner organizations to promote their own events and programs.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 07:00 am
Gentle Dentistry of Lancaster and Winning Smiles Pediatric Dentistry of Amherst have teamed up to help a local child diagnosed with a rare form of lower jaw cancer.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 07:00 am
Though he's performed professionally for more than a decade, and shared stages with some of the music industry's top acts, Marc Scibilia says his career is now finally beginning.
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Mon, Jun 4th 2012 07:00 am
Members of the Youngstown Lions Club will take to the streets of Youngstown, corner of Main and Lockport streets, on Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, to raise funds as part of the annual "White Cane Day." Funds donated by community members will be used to further the cause of the Lions mission of "We Serve."
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Sat, Jun 2nd 2012 07:00 am
The long-awaited firehall renovation at Lewiston Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 is finally at hand.
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Sat, Jun 2nd 2012 07:00 am
The Lewiston Peace Garden, located at 476 Center St., has definitely evolved over the years. Eva Nicklas from the Lewiston Council on the Arts explained how it began as a "funky gravel parking lot" and, after years of hard work, is now recognized as an International Peace Garden by the International Peace Garden Foundation.
"It's a beautiful green space that all of Lewiston is proud of," Nicklas said.
The Peace Garden contains a fountain, a stage, different kinds of flowering plants, and memory bricks throughout.
The garden has been host to various events over the years, including belly dancing, poetry readings, chainsaw artists, and fundraising events. But this summer will be different.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 07:20 pm
Niagara and Orleans counties will jointly oppose efforts to raise Lake Ontario water levels by as much as 12 inches, Niagara County Legislature Deputy Majority Leader Dave Godfrey, R-Wilson, announced following a meeting with his Orleans County counterparts earlier this week.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 07:20 pm
Old Fort Niagara announced this week it will commemorate the bicentennial of the Declaration of the War of 1812 with a day of special programs on Saturday, June 16.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:40 pm
What started as "a little shoebox store" is celebrating 30 years in business this month.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:35 pm
Lauren Bonilla, fundraising coordinator for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Western New York, accepts a $1,000 check from Robert Burns at his Wheatfield Tim Hortons location on Niagara Falls Boulevard.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:25 pm
On Friday, Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-I-Lewiston, asked the New York State Thruway Authority to reconsider its proposal to raise tolls 45 percent on commercial trucks, a plan that was green-lit by the public authority's board earlier this week.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
Friday morning, 4,000 vouchers for the "Wallenda Walk" at Niagara Falls sold out within a few minutes www.walkthefalls.com received 9,000 visitors in 10 minutes.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
Assemblyman John D. Ceretto, R-I-Lewiston, helped pass legislation Thursday that allows the names of all firefighters whose deaths resulted from services performed in the line of duty to be inscribed on the memorial at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
The Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame will introduce its 14-member class of 2012, Wednesday afternoon, June 6, in the pavilion area at First Niagara Center.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
Country music is inspiring breast cancer cures at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Country radio station 106.5 WYRK-FM has been busy collecting autographs, from country music stars who have come through Western New York in the past year, on a custom-designed pink guitar to be raffled off June 4.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
Batman fans of all ages will have a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at the Tumbler and the Bat-Pod when the "Tumbler Tour" makes a stop at Darien Lake to promote the hugely anticipated finale to Nolan's "Batman" trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises."
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
Great Lakes Seaway Trail's "Sailors, Keepers, Shipwrecks, and the Maid" guidebook tells tales of shoreline's famous and infamous.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
State Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-60th, announced Friday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made laws of two Grisanti bills.
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Fri, Jun 1st 2012 06:00 pm
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the Military Construction Appropriations bill and approved $6.1 million for construction of a C-130 flight simulator facility at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
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