Stephen Watson
Staff Reporter at Buffalo News
@TheBuffaloNews Amherst/Clarence/Tonawanda/Grand Island reporter. @BuffaloGuild vice president. I tweet about news, sports, food and Buffalo.
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4 days ago |
buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson
A Town of Tonawanda Highway Department worker accused of passing narcotics to another Tonawanda employee after asking to meet in a town park during work hours has been arrested on a drug charge, according to a police report. But his attorney denies his client did anything wrong and questions how town police conducted their investigation into the unusual set of circumstances presented by the case. Police say Jason W.
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5 days ago |
buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson
Gridiron justiceThere’s nothing funny about some of the controversial issues facing the U.S. Supreme Court these days. But there were some funny moments Wednesday evening, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sat down for a public “fireside chat” with his longtime friend, District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo of Buffalo’s federal court.
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5 days ago |
buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson
The Town of Tonawanda will receive $20 million in the new state budget to jump-start a major water project in its River Road industrial corridor. Assemblyman Bill Conrad, D-Town of Tonawanda, who helped obtain the funding with State Sen. Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, announced the news late Thursday on his X account.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson
The Costco Wholesale warehouse planned for Amherst has gotten one step closer, but it’s still not known when construction on the highly anticipated store will begin. The town Building Department approved the building permit for the Costco last month following a seven-month review of the permit application, Amherst Building Commissioner Mark S. Berke said. However, Costco and Benderson Development, the developer behind the project, have not indicated when work on the warehouse will start.
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1 week ago |
buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson
Buffalo police shut down a Canisius High School student event Thursday after receiving complaints about noise and other disturbances, behavior the school is describing as "unfortunate."Officers didn't arrest anyone at the senior campout, an annual event held on the school's Delaware Avenue campus on the night before their last day of classes, police said.
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RT @MayorScanlon: UPDATE: The large structure fire on Church Street is now under control. Crews remain on scene. Please continue to avoid t…
Interesting piece by @JustinSondel on the political proxy wars in Buffalo's Democratic mayoral primary, highlighted by pushback in some quarters to Carl Paladino's endorsement of acting Mayor Chris Scanlon: https://t.co/3o6pzzWdg7
I'm sorry readers of The Buffalo News aren't able to read Sean any more. We were lucky to have him as long as we did. But I'm glad he's going to keep writing and sharing his work with the wider world.
A note to readers in #UpstateAmerica, as I begin one more start in journalism at the no-paywall #CentralCurrent ... almost certainly the last stop in a career in newspapers (and now in the what's-next) that began 51 years ago: https://t.co/KqQ33YuBmq
