June 13, 2013 RSS feed / Front Page

Baseball program in full swing on new Gleed diamonds

Town of Aurora

Aurora residents have extra reason to enjoy America’s favorite pastime, as the town’s youth leagues began baseball season on the new and improved Gleed Avenue diamonds. The land behind the Southside Municipal Center at 300 Gleed Ave. More...

Local News

East Aurora Police track down stolen sign

Detective Rick Daminski and the East Aurora Police Department were recently able to restore a stolen vintage sign to its rightful owners. The vintage sign belonging to Closs Floral Shop on Main Street was stolen in November 2009. More...

Relay for Life of Elma set for Friday

The 11th annual American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Elma and Surrounding Communities will be held from 5 p.m. Friday, June 14, to 12:30 a.m. Saturday, June 15, at the Iroquois High School track, 2111 Girdle Road in Elma. More...

ROCK ON

— Odd Times Band lead singer Ben Cain, right, and bass guitar player Rudy Schieder perform at the East Aurora Music Fest on Saturday. More...

Letters to the Editor

Village Water Law leaves customers out of equation

A few years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor explaining the Village Board’s mismanagement of the sewer merger with Erie County. More...

Obituaries

On the Campus

Zoe Spindelman and Timothy Mather, both of East Aurora, as well as Mitchell Phillips of Elma, were named presidential scholars for the spring 2013 semester at Clarkson University. More...

Theresa A. Haynos, 4-H leader

Theresa A. Haynos Walawender), 80, of Elma Thursday, June 6, 2013. Mrs. Haynos was a graduate of Lackawanna High School. More...

Sports

Iroquois boys lacrosse holds team banquet

Iroquois’ boys lacrosse team officially closed out its 2013 season Monday by holding its annual awards banquet at The Columns. More...

EA athletes complete successful track season at state championships

Every member of the East Aurora track teams who qualified to compete at Saturday’s New York State Championships earned a place on the podium in his or her respective event. More...

SECOND BEST

— The Niagara Frontier “12-1” volleyball team recently placed second at the Pittsburgh East Coast Championships "Beast of the East” Tournament, and will be traveling to Dallas More...

Business

Events

Networking mixer to include area decision-makers More...

Elm Street business district receives upgrades

Businesses on Elm Street are pooling their resources to make the street enticing and walkable. More...

Vendor space available for Taste of East Aurora

The Greater East Aurora Chamber of Commerce reminds area restaurants that there are only a few vendor slots left for participation in this year’s Taste of East Aurora. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. More...

Construction project will pull Roycroft Campus together

The first shovel is expected to sink into the grounds of the Roycroft Campus next month with the beginning of a construction project set to revamp the campus’s hardscape and add more green areas. More...

PROM ROYALS

— Katrina Porizo and Al Scinta reign as queen and king at Iroquois High School’s senior prom, which was held at Pearl Street Grill and Brewery on Friday. More...

Editorials

Let’s band together to better students’ education

One Voice United was the theme of the rally for public education that was held in Albany last weekend. More...

Spindle items

BIKE RODEO — I have a confession to make. I did not learn how to ride a bicycle until I was 16 years old. Truth be told, I was always afraid of them — I mean, balancing your entire body weight atop two thin wheels? More...

Security agency operating without any checks, balances

The controversy surrounding the recent revelation that the National Security Agency has been monitoring American citizens’ activities and personal information to a startling degree has reopened concerns for privacy in our free society. More...

Police Blotter

EA man steals plastic bottles from Tops in Depew

East Aurora Wednesday, June 5 A Davis Road resident said that sometime during the night someone stole a lawn mower, a park bench and an extension cord from her property. More...

Education

Iroquois School Board supports hockey program

Female students at Iroquois High School will have the chance to play varsity ice hockey, which the district has not previously offered, beginning in the 2013-14 school year. More...

TASTES LIKE CHICKEN

— Aktion Club members serve up some barbecued chicken at the 58th annual East Aurora Kiwanis chicken barbecue, held last week in Hamlin Park. More...

News Brief

Immaculata Academy has announced that the following area students earned first honors for the third-quarter of the 2013-14 school year: Allison Drozda and Lauren Merkle, both of East Aurora, and Rachel Mickel, Anne Pivarunas, Elizabeth Pivarunas and More...

Lifestyles

The apple doesn’t fall far from the sport

Fathers’ devotion to athletics influences children, community

There’s something sacred about the time a father devotes to helping his children grow as athletes and individuals. More...

St. Nicodemus plans strawberry social

St. Nicodemus Lutheran Church will hold a strawberry social from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, at its picnic grounds on Liberia Road in Marilla, half a mile east of Four Rod Road. The event will include the Backwoods Cloggers and music by Vince. More...

Aurora Players to perform without set, props

The Aurora Players will hold a “Readers Theater” presentation of “The Long Weekend,” by Canadian playwright Norm Foster, at the Roycroft Pavilion on June 14 and 15. More...

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