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Amherst
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Summit Center buys a Sweet Home Road building to shrink a 500-child preschool waiting list, and still needs about $3.5 million
The Summit Center paid $3.75 million for a 55,000-square-foot Amherst building it plans to turn into a preschool and early elementary center for children with autism and developmental disabilities. The plan runs…
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An Oscar winner’s film about the Amherst McDonald’s that sheltered blizzard strangers comes to HBO Nov. 24
HBO’s The Buffalo Miracle, directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and executive-produced by Josh Allen, debuts Nov. 24. It tells how an Amherst McDonald’s crew sheltered more than 50 people in…
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UB pauses its Flock camera pilot indefinitely, and hands the decision to a committee that has met twice
President Caroline Attardo Genco has paused the University at Buffalo’s planned 20-camera license plate reader trial and asked a police advisory committee to gather campus input. Some committee members say they were…
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UB enrolls its 20 paused license-plate cameras in a seminar on how to be properly socialized
Satire: After UB paused its license-plate camera pilot because the plan “wasn’t socialized,” the cameras themselves have been sent to a seminar and a committee that has met twice. This column is…
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Station Twelve opens its first stores Thursday, 11 years after Amherst was promised a new Northtown Plaza
Five stores open at Amherst’s Station Twelve on Nov. 5, 11 years after WS Development bought Northtown Plaza. Here’s what the town was promised, the permit and tax fights along the way,…
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UB will test 20 Flock license plate cameras this spring. Students and faculty want to know why
The University at Buffalo plans a free 60-day trial of 20 Flock license plate readers at campus entrances next spring. Police say it will help solve crimes, while students and faculty are…
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Albany Democrats send $196,000 to defend McMahon as public matching money fuels McGuire’s Amherst challenge
The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee moved $196,000 to Assembly Member Karen McMahon before a $236,000 TV buy, while Republican Terry McGuire has drawn more public matching money than she has in the…
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Backyard apartments are catching on, and Western New York’s suburbs should make room for them
A new National Association of Home Builders survey finds about a quarter of remodelers started accessory dwelling units in the past year, led by the Northeast. Buffalo already allows them by right…
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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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Want more starter homes in Western New York? Start with the minimum lot size
A new American Enterprise Institute paper argues that minimum lot-size rules quietly block starter homes. Amherst’s zoning code, and a pending North French Road rezoning, show what that looks like in Western…
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Catholic Health and Benderson seek a tax break to turn a vacant Evans Street Rite Aid into a $28.5 million medical hub
A Benderson-linked developer is asking the Amherst IDA for a property tax break to turn the vacant Rite Aid at 462 and 480 Evans St. into a $28.5 million Catholic Health Northtowns…
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The NFTA should tell Buffalo what the Metro Rail extension costs before it spends more planning it
The NFTA keeps adding money to its Metro Rail extension planning contract without telling the public what the line will cost or who will pay for it. Before another amendment, the authority…
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Amherst’s tax hike lands on plows and garbage trucks, not the general fund
Amherst’s proposed 2027 budget breaks the state tax cap by $3.55 million, yet the town’s main operating fund barely moves. The increase lands on highways, salt and garbage, with the last budget…
