Niagara Gazette News Refresh2012-02-12T06:48:57-05:00urn:uuid:eac3828c-d0cc-42c1-b52d-d78f0135ec03LAY OFFS: Seneca Gaming Corp. to cut 210 jobs<!--Mark Scheer--><table width="234" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="http://static.cnhi.zope.net/flashpromo/niagaragazette/images/byline_234x60.jpg" height="60"><tr><td><div align="center"><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By Mark Scheer</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></font><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mark.scheer@niagara-gazette.com">mark.scheer@niagara-gazette.com</a></font></div></td></tr></table>urn:uuid:1df35c61-9a17-418a-8bc8-a123a74149a22008-12-02T15:52:00-05:00
The struggling economy has evidently caught up with the local gaming industry.<br class="zc-v4-fix" /><br class="zc-v4-fix" /> The Seneca Gaming Corp. announced on Tuesday plans to lay off a total of 210 of the 4,800 employees who work at its casino operations in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca.
MONDAY: Mets, Bisons set to announce affiliation dealurn:uuid:8cbb47fd-09d7-4686-bcd1-35a8cb9ca7d42008-09-22T14:16:00-04:00
New York Mets executives are in Buffalo to announce that the Triple A Bisons will be the major-league team’s top farm club.
FRIDAY: Police, fire departments offer disaster training courses (3:13 p.m.)urn:uuid:d3f50db5-1535-41c3-b1ed-f4fa66de4a622008-09-19T15:13:00-04:00
The Lockport police and fire departments are offering a free community emergency preparedness course.
FRIDAY: Four school districts holding meetings (1:25 p.m.)urn:uuid:d7ca6ba6-ab52-4df1-8fa5-d8ba85bfca072008-09-19T13:25:00-04:00
Four school districts in eastern Niagara County will be holding school board meetings next week.
FRIDAY: Staffing agency opens payroll center in upstate NY (12:40 p.m.)urn:uuid:dfe90dbc-44c0-4bad-aede-4f99c0d2be662008-09-19T12:40:00-04:00
Adecco, the world’s biggest staffing agency, is opening a new payroll operations center in suburban Rochester that will create 200 new jobs by 2010.
FRIDAY: Ex-manager accused of theft from NY bowling group (9:58 p.m.)urn:uuid:304b8b97-739c-44c0-a7a6-a29473099d252008-09-19T09:58:00-04:00
State police say a 54-year-old man stole as much as $200,000 from a state bowling association while serving as its manager.
THURSDAY: AT&T expands 3G to NT (4:57 p.m.)urn:uuid:b4e868ae-57d8-4da5-9cd3-36b998ed6a8a2008-09-18T16:56:00-04:00
AT&T Inc. is expanding its third-generation, or 3G, high speed wireless network many areas of Niarage and Erie counties.
THURSDAY: Schumer to offer banks a deal (2:43 p.m.)urn:uuid:26459a64-c5a4-479e-8e17-1a7b4c1b1be92008-09-18T14:43:00-04:00
Sen. Charles Schumer plans to offer a broad economic proposal for the government to offer a financial lifeline to those banks that are willing to renegotiate mortgages for those on the brink of losing their homes.
THURSDAY: US woman killed in Yemen embassy attack (11:35 a.m.)urn:uuid:1a0ba547-6049-4653-9342-82b05bf6131f2008-09-18T11:35:00-04:00
The State Department has confirmed that a young American woman and her Yemeni husband were killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
THURSDAY: Vegas detective tells of encountering O.J. Simpson (11:24 p.m.)urn:uuid:60680fad-7f9a-4a55-bee6-03e80643c4ca2008-09-18T11:24:00-04:00
When police detective Andy Caldwell heard that O.J. Simpson was a suspect in a robbery, he said he couldn’t believe it.