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Stephen Watson

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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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  • 6 days ago | buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson

    Call it the hunt for Huntley. No, we don’t mean the Huntley generating station. The towering former power plant hasn’t up and moved from its riverfront home in the Town of Tonawanda. And we know Charles R. Huntley, the pioneering business executive the station was renamed after, is buried in Forest Lawn. But there’s another mystery we wanted to solve: Where is Huntley’s bust?

  • 1 week ago | buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson

    At least he didn't wear a Miami Dolphins jersey on air. But the faux pas that CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer committed in a segment broadcast Thursday morning during "The Situation Room" was almost as bad:He was captured on video eating his chicken wings with a knife and fork. The Kenmore native returned to Buffalo earlier this year to record footage for a piece tied to the new CNN Original Series "My Happy Place," which follows celebrity hosts to their favorite spots in the world.

  • 1 week ago | buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson

    At midnight on Nov. 20, Sara Carozzolo, the parent of a 12-year-old daughter who would attend Kenmore West High School next year, emailed nine Ken-Ton School District administrators. Carozzolo included explicit excerpts from three books that, an online catalog showed, were checked out from the school’s library. She quoted a description of anal sex from George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and an account of a rape from Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” among other passages.

  • 1 week ago | buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson

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  • 2 weeks ago | buffalonews.com | Stephen Watson

    Who's the Dark Side? The photo David Lombardo posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday came from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. "There may be some #StarWars related activities in the @nysenate chamber today," wrote Lombardo, host of WCNY'S "The Capitol Pressroom" in Albany. The photo showed State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, and State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, D-The Bronx, engaged in a friendly lightsaber duel on the floor of the State Senate. We had questions.

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Stephen T Watson
Stephen T Watson @buffaloscribe
1 May 25

RT @MayorScanlon: UPDATE: The large structure fire on Church Street is now under control. Crews remain on scene. Please continue to avoid t…

Stephen T Watson
Stephen T Watson @buffaloscribe
1 May 25

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

Stephen T Watson
Stephen T Watson @buffaloscribe
28 Apr 25

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.

sean kirst
sean kirst @seankirst

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