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Caught between two worlds - 3/4/2007
Koby Hammer Parker is a handsome 4-year-old boy, whose brown hair and brown eyes reflect his Seneca Indian heritage. But despite his appearance, centuries of Seneca tradition say Koby is not legally a Seneca Indian and can never be one. |
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Empty churches and crowded pews - 3/4/2007
First of two partsThe large wood-frame church on Clinton Street had an empty feeling during the Sunday Mass. Most of the pews at Holy Apostles SS. Peter and Paul were empty. |
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Purchase at hardware store may link Sanchez to latest bike-path murder - 3/4/2007
A hardware store employee who sold some sort of ligature to a man resembling Altemio C. Sanchez was a key witness before a grand jury that voted to charge Sanchez in Joan Diver's killing, sources have told The Buffalo News. |
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Keeping the hometown talent home - 3/4/2007
Ashley Simmons is a bright, articulate Buffalo State College senior who doesn't want to leave for someplace like North Carolina or Las Vegas after she graduates. |
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Class act - 3/4/2007
Katherine Russell, 16, of Amherst, a volunteer for the Western New York Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, not long ago received the Katie's Courage Award. |
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Commuting Concerns - 3/4/2007
I-90/Thruway (Hamburg): The eastbound ramp to Exit 56 (Route 179) will be closed all week. I-190/Niagara Thruway (Buffalo): There will be lane restrictions southbound from Exit 11 (Route 198) to Exit 8 (Niagara Street) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday. |
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Events for the disabled - 3/4/2007
The Parent Network of Western New York is sponsoring a free workshop on internet safety from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday in EPIC/Parent Network offices, 1000 Main St. For information, call 332-4170. |
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Honor Roll - 3/4/2007
• Barbara Nevergold, Ph.D., co-founder of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at the University at Buffalo, is one of five people to be honored this year by the State of New York with a 2007 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award. |
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Women's diversity efforts honored - 3/4/2007
The St. Philip's Community Center's Parent Council, on behalf of the Young Achievers After School Program, recently honored 50 women for their roles in promoting diversity throughout Western New York. |
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Senecas put own levy on cigarette sales - 3/3/2007
ALBANY - The Seneca Nation of Indians, facing threats of tobacco tax collections by the Spitzer administration, is adding its own tariff to cigarettes that reservation retailers sell to non-Indians across the country. |
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Dwindling vets tap volunteers - 3/3/2007
For two straight months, Eric Fabozzi and his mother, Gina, have helped make the popular all-you-can-eat Sunday pancake breakfasts possible at the A.J. Jurek American Legion Post in Swormville. |
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Fredonia mudslide tied to thaw, water runoff - 3/3/2007
FREDONIA - Thawing ground and heavy water runoff is believed to be responsible for a mudslide in the village late Friday afternoon, Fredonia police said. |
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Rural/Metro faces wage-law suit - 3/3/2007
Rural/Metro Medical Services faces a potential class-action lawsuit in State Supreme Court accusing it of violating Buffalo's Living Wage Ordinance for the past two years, possibly affecting over 150 of its current and former employees. |
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Man tied to 3 deaths faces short prison stay - 3/2/2007
A drunken driver blamed for the deaths of three people - including two good Samaritans - in two related crashes last summer on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation may be out of prison within six months. |
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Eyes on Olcott Beach for Polar Bear Swim for Sight - 3/2/2007
OLCOTT - Michael Zehler doesn't plan to tip-toe into the icy waters of Lake Ontario for Sunday's Polar Bear Day Swim for Sight at Olcott Beach. He vows to "go right under and swim." |
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New plan would may provide breakthrough to galvanize stalled N-waste cleanup - 3/2/2007
In a breakthrough that may signal movement on the stalled nuclear waste cleanup at West Valley, federal officials are discussing a new plan that would include demolition of the 41-year-old plant that prompted the cleanup. |
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Stolen credit card numbers allegedly paid tuition - 3/2/2007
BATAVIA - A Batavia woman faces three felony charges of grand larceny for allegedly paying her college tuition with a stolen credit card. Tara Maria Jones, 29, of Walden Creek Drive, was arraigned Thursday before City Judge Michael A. DelPlato and released on her own recognizance. |
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Army specialist killed in action in Iraq - 2/28/2007
A soldier from Niagara Falls is the latest Western New Yorker to lose his life in Iraq. The Army informed the family of Spc. Lorne E. Henry Jr., 21, of Lindbergh Avenue that Henry had been killed in action Tuesday. No details of his death were immediately available. |
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100 protest Batavia spending plan - 2/27/2007
BATAVIA - Nearly 100 people showed up Monday in the City Council chambers to protest a $23.7 million budget for 2007-08 that carries a 23 percent real property tax increase, the largest in several years. |
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Assistance available for paying heating bills - 2/27/2007
Assistance is available for National Fuel customers who are having trouble paying their heating bills, the utility company reports. The Neighbor for Neighbor Heat Fund and the Home Energy Assistance Plan are accepting applications. The company also can make special arrangements to help customers manage their bills. |
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