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Drive-thru coming to Buffalo Township Sheetz
Sheetz in Buffalo Township is getting a makeover. The gas station and convenience store, located at Route 356 and Monroe Road, soon will feature a drive-thru and updated store after township supervisors approved the project this week. Supervisors gave approval for the existing store in 2007. Sheetz will remove and...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly says Buffalo supermarket killer used a bump stock
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot as fast as a machine gun. Hochul, a Democrat, made the error first in a statement emailed to media and posted on a state website Friday, then later in post on X that has since been deleted. She incorrectly said that the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at...
Governor Hochul, local officials march in Juneteenth Parade
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul returned to Buffalo on Saturday and marched alongside city and state officials in the 49th annual Juneteenth Parade. She addressed the May 14 mass shooting, the resilience of Buffalo's East Side, and the importance of moving forward while never forgetting the sacrifices made in the past.
Buffalo's connection to 'The Rainbow Connection'
The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (BMHOF) is receiving a gift from the family of one of its inductees: A platinum record from “The Rainbow Connection”, a song from “The Muppet Movie”. It will be presented to the BMHOF on Friday. Read more from WBEN:
New York Beer Project Beer Lodge in Orchard Park holds grand opening
New York Beer Project's fourth location, the New York Beer Project Beer Lodge in Orchard Park, is officially open. NYBP held the grand opening for the new location on Friday. NYBP owner Kelly Krupski said the 25,000-square-foot building, located at 245 Windward Drive just off Route 219, cost about $10 million to build.
Cooling centers to open around Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — With extreme heat expected to affect Western New York this week, the City of Buffalo has announced several cooling centers across the city. Temperatures across the area are expected to be in the mid-to high 90s beginning on Monday and lasting through the entire week. “Cooling Centers are an important part […]
Buffalo Diocese makes recommendations for closures, mergers in Southtowns, Southern Tier
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Buffalo Diocese has announced their recommendations for southern Erie County and the eastern part of the Southern Tier at a meeting at St. John Paul II in Lake View on Thursday night. The Southern Tier recommendations were initially made at a meeting in Olean on June 3. The recommendations come […]
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