Mon, Feb 28th 2011 05:50 pm
Everyone knows the way to get to Carnegie Hall is "practice, practice, practice," and the Niagara-Wheatfield High School Concert Choir did just that. The choir has been selected to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City during the National Youth Concert Series on March 25.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 05:50 pm
Deadline for nominations for the 2010 Andrew John Zuccari Memorial Scholarship award of $1,000 for a graduating Niagara-Wheatfield High School senior is May 1.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 05:50 pm
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 05:45 pm
The Grand Island Rotary Club will host Rotary/PTSA Students of the Month at an awards dinner April 29.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 05:30 pm
Niagara University will host an open house for prospective transfer students on Saturday, March 12. The free event takes place on campus in Bisgrove Hall from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 04:30 pm
The Lewiston Public Library, 305 S. Eighth St., in the Village of Lewiston, announces the following programs, events and activities for the month of March.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 04:30 pm
The Village of Lewiston Recreation Department announces the following programs for March. All activities will be held at the Red Brick Municipal Building's recreation center/gymnasium at North Fourth and Onondaga streets.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 04:15 pm
The Lewiston Garden Club has announced it is now seeking candidates for its $1,000 scholarship.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 04:15 pm
The Niagara County Community College Foundation is offering scholarships for incoming and current students for the fall 2011 semester. Applications are due Tuesday, March 1.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 03:35 pm
Niagara Catholic High School is in need of host families.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 03:30 pm
Invisible Children, a non-profit activist group that endeavors to raise awareness and funds for children forced into slavery as child soldiers, will screen its newest documentary, "Tony," at Niagara University's Castellani Art Museum on March 11. Sponsored by NU's Office of Campus Ministry, the free, public event begins at 1 p.m. and includes a viewing of the film, as well as an appearance by four speakers affiliated with Invisible Children, one of whom is a native Ugandan.
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Mon, Feb 28th 2011 03:30 pm
John Borelli, Ph.D., special assistant for interreligious initiatives to Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, will deliver an address on "New Challenges for Catholics and Interreligious Dialogue" at Niagara University's Castellani Art Museum on Tuesday, March 8, at 5:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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Sat, Feb 26th 2011 09:00 am
Students from the Lewiston-Porter Builders Club will hold a food drive from March 1 until March 15. Club Adviser Tina Oddy reports that collection sites for non-perishable food donations are located in the clerk's offices of the Town of Porter, the Town of Lewiston, the Village of Lewiston, and the Village of Youngstown. Donations will also be collected in the library at Lewiston-Porter Middle School. All donations will benefit the Magdalene Project Soup Kitchen located at Old St. George's Church on 19th and Falls streets in Niagara Falls.
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Fri, Feb 25th 2011 03:55 pm
Niagara University is the new home of the county's approved training program for law enforcement officers.
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Thu, Feb 24th 2011 06:00 pm
Niagara-Wheatfield's Adult Education program has several classes starting in March that will help shake the winter blues.
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Thu, Feb 24th 2011 03:00 pm
The Niagara-Wheatfield Board of Education may have a replacement chosen for board member Lori Pittman by the end of its next meeting on Wednesday, March 2.
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Tue, Feb 22nd 2011 02:40 pm
Niagara University announces John Wang, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physics at NU, has been selected as a scholar by the prestigious Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The institute is one of the major think tanks for theoretical physics in the world. Approximately eight scholar awards are given out each year.
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Tue, Feb 22nd 2011 02:40 pm
Niagara University will hold a panel discussion addressing the social and political revolution in Egypt and the United States' involvement in it will take place in the Under the Taps Club of the university's Gallagher Center on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 12:15 p.m.
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Mon, Feb 21st 2011 04:00 pm
Lewiston-Porter High School announced the following students have been named to its high honor, honor and merit rolls for the second quarter marking period of the 2010-11 academic year.
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Mon, Feb 21st 2011 12:00 pm
The Lewiston-Porter School District, like dozens of others across the state, is now contending with a host of "what to do's?" It's all in response to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent 2011 state budget proposal - one which includes substantial cuts in education aid and comes down hard on school budgets.
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Mon, Feb 21st 2011 12:00 pm
Time To Dance studio recently held a master class with professional dancer/choreographer Kim McSwain. She is a master teacher at several large dance convention companies and has worked with Michael Jackson and Pink.
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Sat, Feb 19th 2011 09:00 am
It is with deep regret that the board members announced on Feb. 9 the discontinuance of the Lewiston-Porter Community Ambassador Program.
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Thu, Feb 17th 2011 02:05 pm
The Niagara County Legislature weighed in favorably on a new BOCES program designed to give youth from the Lockport and Newfane school districts a taste of vocational careers and other options available to them after graduation.
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Thu, Feb 17th 2011 01:30 pm
Michael J. Beam, curator of collections and exhibitions, will talk on "The Charles Rand Penney Collection of Historical Niagara Falls Prints" at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the Castellani Art Museum.
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Thu, Feb 17th 2011 01:30 pm
Mrs. Foote's fourth-graders at St. John Lutheran School recently explored the Iroquois Nation through a hands-on project.
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Thu, Feb 17th 2011 01:00 pm
This time, it won't be like putting a bandage on a skinned knee. This time, the Niagara-Wheatfield Board of Education, like other school boards across the state, will have to do some serious surgery on its school budget to make up for state aid cuts.
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Tue, Feb 15th 2011 05:55 pm
Niagara University will host a graduate school open house and showcase on Saturday, March 26, on campus in the Glynn Family Atrium of Bisgrove Hall. The free event takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A continental breakfast will be offered to all attendees.
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Tue, Feb 15th 2011 05:55 pm
Sometimes, as the saying goes, it's not the size of the dog that matters. Niagara University, with an undergraduate enrollment of around 3,000 students, garnered more votes than the University at Buffalo (29,000 undergrads), Buffalo State College (9,000) and SUNY Fredonia (5,400) to take the top spot in a contest sponsored by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and Grow WNY. By doing so, Niagara will receive a $3,000 award, which will be used to construct a community vegetable garden outside of DePaul Hall.
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Tue, Feb 15th 2011 05:55 pm
The Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo will present Taylor 2 Dance Company on Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. during the group's upcoming residency (March 7-11). There will be a public performance in the Mainstage Theatre, located at the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
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Tue, Feb 15th 2011 05:45 pm
The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University is featuring an exhibition and a series of children's art workshops in honor of Black History Month.
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Tue, Feb 15th 2011 05:45 pm
Continuing a tradition that has become nearly as inevitable as taxes themselves, accounting students from Niagara University's College of Business Administration will again provide free tax preparation assistance to members of the Niagara Falls community this tax season.
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Sat, Feb 12th 2011 02:10 pm
Penn Dixie invites you to travel along with dinosaur collector Glen LaPlaca, of Past & Present Science & Nature Store & Fossil Gallery in Blasdell, through his presentation on the complete adventure of dinosaur collecting in South Dakota.
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Sat, Feb 12th 2011 01:40 pm
Sports memorabilia, tickets to "Wicked," overnight hotel packages, Lasertron parties, bread for a year courtesy of Panera Bread, and much more will be auctioned when St. Peter R.C. Home and School Association presents its "A Diamond in the Rough" Grand Gala 2011, on Saturday, March 5, at the Niagara Falls Country Club. Proceeds benefit St. Peter R.C. School in Lewiston.
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Sat, Feb 12th 2011 01:40 pm
The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University will present, for the third consecutive year, eight "Meet Me at the CAM" programs this spring. These educational art history programs run from 10 a.m. to noon and feature films, guest speakers and facilitated discussions.
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Thu, Feb 10th 2011 06:00 pm
Holy Ghost Lutheran School's pre-K four class welcomes Leona Gonzales to class. She is re-enacting the story of the "Three Sisters."
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Thu, Feb 10th 2011 06:00 pm
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Thu, Feb 10th 2011 05:00 pm
For kids, Valentine's Day is easy. All they need are some crayons, scissors and red construction paper, and they'll come up with a valentine that will touch your heart.
It's the grownups that have to stop and think how to say, "I love you." Traditionally, that means chocolate and flowers, or maybe a small piece of jewelry. If you're looking for chocolates in a heart-shaped box, Kelly's Country Store on Grand Island is the place to go - even the box itself is made of chocolate.
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Thu, Feb 10th 2011 05:00 pm
Last Friday's Niagara Frontier League boys basketball game between Niagara-Wheatfield and visiting Grand Island was also a fundraiser for Coaches vs. Cancer, an endeavor championed by Norm Stewart, former head coach of the University of Missouri's men's basketball program and a cancer survivor, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
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Tue, Feb 8th 2011 03:45 pm
Time to Dance hosts a free "Family Fun Night" on Monday, Feb. 21. The event is open to anyone and everyone, and will be held at the dance studio, 5000 Saunders Settlement Road, bay 3, just past the corner of Military Road.
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Sat, Feb 5th 2011 05:00 pm
Lewiston-Porter School District students, like tens of thousands of others in Erie and Niagara counties, were treated to a day off Wednesday, as Lew-Port school officials opted to heed the warnings posted by the National Weather Service of a monstrous winter storm, one that was well forecasted, but never materialized.
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