Southern Suburbs
- Town of Hamburg shifts funds due to high workers’ comp claims
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By Fred Williams
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM
- Higher-than-e x p e c t e d claims for Workers’ Compensation benefits have prompted the Town of Hamburg to shore up its reserves, moving an extra $250,000 into the reserve fund to replenish it through the rest of the year.
- Tax defier sentenced to prison term
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By Dan Herbeck
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/28/08 6:56 AM
- An East Aurora chiropractor trusted members of a Florida-based tax defiance organization when they told him he didn’t have to pay income taxes.
- Village memorializes victims of 1867 train disaster known as the Angola Horror
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By T. J. Pignataro NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/28/08 8:52 AM
- More than 140 years after they plummeted to their deaths in one of the worst rail disasters in American history, 50 victims of what came to be known as the Angola Horror were remembered Wednesday afternoon.
- Wales to vote on term extension
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By Nancy Gish
SOUTHTOWNS CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 08/27/08 7:10 AM
- The Wales Town Board approved several measures Tuesday, including one to extend the term of supervisor.
- Orchard Park board considers parent training
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By Barbara O’Brien NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/27/08 10:48 AM
- Orchard Park Central High School may join a growing number of schools requiring parents to attend a drug and alcohol information session before their children can attend school dances.
- $1.5 billion Lackawanna plant would produce natural gas
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By Harold McNeil NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/27/08 10:49 AM
- About a dozen Lackawanna residents got a first glimpse Tuesday of plans for a $1.5 billion plant that would turn coal and petroleum refinery by-products into natural gas.
- Marilla Town Board weighs three bids for garbage truck packer
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Updated: 08/27/08 10:49 AM
- The Marilla Town Board is considering three bids for a new garbage truck packer: $66,198, Cyncom Equipment of Rushford; $64.646, Joe Johnson Equipment of Rochester; and 63,900, STS Trailer and Truck Equipment, Buffalo.
- Fugitive suspect found at mother’s workplace
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Updated: 08/27/08 7:00 AM
- An Elma man who eluded authorities Tuesday morning after they attempted to arrest him on five misdemeanor charges was eventually captured at about 3:30 p. m. at the Lancaster discount store where his mother works, Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard reported.
- Father enters guilty plea in baby son’s injury case
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Updated: 08/27/08 7:00 AM
- Dannen Sanders pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor child endangerment charge related to injuries to his 18-month-old son, who suffered a broken arm and internal injuries March 22.
- Board will meet today to appoint personnel
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Updated: 08/27/08 7:00 AM
- The Lackawanna School Board will hold a special meeting at 6:30 p. m. todayd in Room 202 at school district headquarters, 245 South Shore Blvd. The board plans to appoint personnel.
- Fire hall is renamed for its oldest volunteer
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By Susan Chiappone
CHAUTAUQUA CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 08/27/08 6:51 AM
- SILVER CREEK — Silver Creek Fire Hall was renamed Robert P. Kittell Station No. 1 during a ceremony Tuesday marking Kittell’s 66 years as a volunteer.
- Felony DWI charges pending after crash
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Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- A Concord man faces felony driving while intoxicated charges following a crash at about 6 a. m. Tuesday on Route 39 in Springville, Erie County sheriff’s officials said.
- DWI charge compounded by unlawful imprisonment
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Updated: 08/27/08 6:50 AM
- An Eden man is accused of placing a belt around the neck of a woman and restraining her as he drove on Boston State Road in the Town of Boston about 12:30 a. m. Tuesday, state police in Clarence said.
- Fans face difficult drive to stadium for Bills preseason game
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By Fred O. Williams NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 08/27/08 10:01 AM
- Navigating through game-day traffic near Ralph Wilson Stadium may take a bit longer this year — starting with Thursday’s sold-out preseason game — as state road work causes two bottlenecks on Southwestern Boulevard.
- Disgraced official’s suicide shocks Marilla
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By Janice Habuda, Barbara O’Brien and Maki Becker NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 08/27/08 8:06 AM
- Just a few hours after former Town of Marilla Highway Superintendent David H. Pierce was sentenced Monday to seven months in federal prison for stealing from the town, he headed out to his parents’ farmhouse on Four Rod Road in his pickup truck.
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