News Refresh
FRIDAY: Four school districts holding meetings (1:25 p.m.)
Four school districts in eastern Niagara County will be holding school board meetings next week.
The Starpoint School District Board of Education will meet at 7:20 p.m. Monday in the district offices, 4363 Mapleton Road, Pendleton. The board will open the meeting, and enter into executive session at 7 p.m.
The Barker School District Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the district offices, 1628 Quaker Road, Barker. There will be an audit committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. before the meeting.
The Wilson Central School District School Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high/middle school auditorium for a work session. The school is at 374 Lake St., Wilson.
The Royalton-Hartland Central School District School Board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday and then enter into executive session. The regular meeting will start at 7 p.m. Thursday in the high school auditorium, 54 State St., Middleport.
- News Refresh
-
-
LAY OFFS: Seneca Gaming Corp. to cut 210 jobs
The struggling economy has evidently caught up with the local gaming industry.
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 deal
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.)
The Lockport police and fire departments are offering a free community emergency preparedness course.
-
FRIDAY: Four school districts holding meetings (1:25 p.m.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
When police detective Andy Caldwell heard that O.J. Simpson was a suspect in a robbery, he said he couldn’t believe it.
- More News Refresh Headlines
-
LAY OFFS: Seneca Gaming Corp. to cut 210 jobs
