The Buffalo Chronicle
Cheektowaga
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Rachel Martinez wins Cheektowaga’s special Town Board election as voters also back term limits
Democrat Rachel Martinez defeated Republican David DeFields Jr. in unofficial results for Cheektowaga’s open Town Board seat. Voters also approved 12-year term limits by a wide margin.
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Flock cameras, crime and party-funded TV ads shape the 143rd Assembly race between Chludzinski and Taughrin
Republican Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski and Democrat Ryan Taughrin are sparring over license plate readers after a Cheektowaga police scandal, while party money pays for most of their TV ads.
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Cheektowaga Central Middle School PTA named a National PTA School of Excellence
Cheektowaga Central Middle School’s PTA earned a 2025–2027 National PTA School of Excellence designation after a year of family surveys, parent breakfasts and the school’s first Eid celebration.
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The Feed: Cheektowaga’s camera discipline, Alberta’s vote and Trump’s gas-price remark dominate the week online
A Cheektowaga police camera case, radioactive backyards in Niagara, Alberta’s referendum and a U.S. Embassy fact sheet, and President Trump’s oil-profits remark led the week’s public conversation online.
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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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Inside the $11.6 million public bet on Niagara Power Transformer’s Cheektowaga expansion
State and county records show about $11.6 million in public support behind a $71.2 million transformer plant expansion on Dale Road, along with 73 promised jobs, an out-of-state alternative and a fire-gutted…
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Buffalo’s Finest: Christine Baranski, the Cheektowaga girl who dreamed up sophistication and took it to the West End
She grew up in Polish Cheektowaga dreaming of becoming a sophisticated New York actress. At 74, Christine Baranski is making her West End debut in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever, and she still…
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Cheektowaga’s 9.8% tax plan leans hardest on the sewer district as the board clears a path past the cap
Cheektowaga’s board has authorized breaking the state tax cap for 2027. More than half of the $202 increase on the average town bill comes from the sewer district, as its reserves run…
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Erie County drivers deserve license plate camera rules written by lawmakers, not by Flock
Cheektowaga’s Flock misuse case shows how little stands between drivers’ movements and anyone with a login. Town boards, the Erie County Legislature and Albany should write license plate camera rules into law.
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No charges in Cheektowaga Flock camera misuse, leaving discipline and oversight as the open questions
Erie County prosecutors won’t charge three Cheektowaga police employees who used Flock cameras to track a co-worker for months. Residents now want answers on discipline, audits and who watches the system.
