The Buffalo Chronicle
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Hochul sends $5.8 million to Amherst and Williamsville for the Peanut Line Trail and Island Park
The state is putting $3.8 million into Amherst’s 4.9-mile Peanut Line Trail and $2 million into removing the old dam at Williamsville’s Island Park, with the money flowing through the Dormitory Authority.
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New York’s quantum study ranks the state second nationally, but finds Western New York’s footprint thin
A new state-commissioned study ranks New York second in the nation for quantum technology, but its regional map shows only a small cluster of activity in Western New York as the state…
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Rich Products cuts 60 Buffalo jobs in a global overhaul while it keeps building on Niagara Street
Rich Products is eliminating about 60 Buffalo jobs in a global restructuring that will see roughly 380 people leave, even as it keeps investing in its Niagara Street campus and the historic…
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Wyden drafts data center excise tax as $19.46 billion STAMP project advances in Genesee County
Sen. Ron Wyden’s draft would tax data center revenue and end key tax breaks for the industry, though the rate is still blank. Republicans and the White House favor speeding up construction…
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Federal disaster loans open to Buffalo-area homeowners, renters and businesses hit by Sept. 3 floods
The SBA’s Oct. 19 declaration covers Erie and five neighboring counties after the Sept. 3 flash flooding. Applications for physical damage loans are due Dec. 18.
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Four charged with murder in alleged plot to kill a witness, as federal gun case and day care shutdown round out the week
An indictment accuses five Buffalo residents of conspiring to kill a murder-trial witness. The week also brought a federal gun-trafficking complaint, Timon Street arrests and a state shutdown of a Ransomville day…
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A Rochester developer bets factory-built homes can fill Buffalo’s vacant lots for about $175,000
Cook Properties is buying 18 city lots for unsubsidized modular homes, starting on Northampton Street. Its plan comes as Albany funds factory-built starter homes elsewhere and the White House orders a review…
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Buffalo’s long ballot: 11 charter changes, from a human rights commission to who controls the budget
With no city offices on the ballot, Buffalo voters will decide 11 proposed charter changes on Nov. 3. Here’s what each would do, from police advice and human rights to budget power…
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Kennedy presses DHS on Batavia detention expansion as the administration points to Albany and the 2024 vote
Rep. Tim Kennedy wants answers by Nov. 2 on a roughly $16.7 million ICE expansion in Batavia. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says voters backed mass deportations, and ICE says New York’s…
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Clarence holds its tax rate flat for 2027, but leans on $3.2 million in savings to do it
Supervisor Patrick Casilio’s preliminary 2027 budget keeps Clarence’s general fund rate at about 57 cents per $1,000, but draws heavily on fund balance while road salt pushes the highway rate up. A…
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A one-town ceasefire, November talks and a diesel tanker bound for New York: Inside Washington’s new approach to Moscow
A U.S.-brokered pause in Oleshky begins Tuesday, three-way peace talks are set for early November, and the first Russian diesel cargo since 2022 is headed for New York under a presidential sanctions…
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After a fatal crash, Camp Road neighbors ask the state for answers on safety
A week after a crash near St. Francis Drive killed a Buffalo woman, Hamburg residents and St. Francis High School want the state to take a hard look at Route 75. The…
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B.C. Conservatives win majority as Eby resigns as NDP leader after snap election
Lorne Doerkson’s Conservatives lead in 62 of 93 B.C. ridings in preliminary results, and David Eby is stepping down as NDP leader after the early election he called.
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Suspensions, not firings, for Cheektowaga employees who ran 219 Flock searches on a co-worker
A Cheektowaga police officer and two dispatchers who used the town’s license plate cameras to track a colleague got 20- and 45-day suspensions and last-chance agreements. The discipline sets up another round…
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Navajo Nation braces for weeks of recovery after record San Juan River flooding
Homes in Shiprock went underwater as the San Juan River broke a 1909 record upstream. President Buu Nygren is seeking $10 million in tribal disaster relief.
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A year into the top job, UB alum Allana Krolikowski steers Jericho Road through a leaner era for health centers
Dr. Allana Krolikowski, a two-time UB graduate who started at Jericho Road as an unpaid intern, marks a year as CEO as Medicaid changes reshape how safety-net clinics are paid.
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Niagara County’s sewers hit their limit, and Lewiston moves to pause bigger developments
Lewiston’s sewage plant ran about 320,000 gallons a day over its state permit after a wet summer. On Monday the Town Board takes up a six-month pause on sewer approvals for larger…
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Senate Budget chair Ron Johnson’s defense blueprint heads into the lame duck as the deficit nears $2 trillion
Sen. Ron Johnson’s fiscal 2027 budget resolution, which would make room for $60 billion more for the military through reconciliation, has stalled since August. It returns after the election as Treasury reports…
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Trump-backed $1.15 trillion defense bill and Dec. 11 funding deadline await Congress after the election
The House passed a $1.15 trillion NDAA matching President Trump’s request, but the Senate bill stalled 50-46. With a stopgap expiring Dec. 11 and a $60 billion defense reconciliation instruction pending, the…
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Carl Montante, a UB Law alum who practiced law ‘for about a week,’ enters the WNY Business Hall of Fame
Uniland founder Carl J. Montante, a 1967 UB Law graduate, was inducted into the Western New York Business Hall of Fame on Oct. 14. His company is still building, and protesters are…
