http://www.lockportjournal.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:50:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_181215110.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_181215110.html The recently completed Donner Creek Watershed Analysis will be returned to the town board for a firm decision how to proceed with flood control. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_181214819.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_181214819.html The town board will hold a public hearing Wednesday on a proposed local law giving the planning board some architectural review powers. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:04:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_031000421.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_031000421.html Town Supervisor Marc Smith said this week he thinks lawsuits against the town and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may drag on six to 12 months. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:27:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_325022712.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_325022712.html Planning board members unanimously approved the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter on Monday. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:12:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_325021520.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_325021520.html The Pendleton Town Board is taking steps to change a zoning law that restricts homeowners with less than 7 acres of land to one accessory structure. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:59:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_324010141.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_324010141.html Taxpayers for Accountable Government won’t alter the bottom-line result of this year’s town elections but they still accomplished something relatively few candidates do: They got more than 100 people to write them in for town supervisor and town board member. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:56:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_324005656.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_324005656.html The Cambria Town Board will interview candidates for assessor in early December. Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:49:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_313015306.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_313015306.html Town code enforcement officers have been directed to refrain from citing the Pesono property, 6449 Townline Road, for a code violation because it holds two accessory structures without a zoning variance. Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:10:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_312021404.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_312021404.html Pendleton's tax rates will remain the same or decrease slightly with the town board’s Tuesday passage of a 2008 budget. Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:28:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_297132928.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_297132928.html The Newfane Central School District is battling low test scores in English language arts. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:05:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_296011337.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_296011337.html Somerset Town Attorney Edwin J. Shoemaker said Monday he sees no reason why the state comptroller’s office should care to audit the town’s legal spending. Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:17:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_293022117.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_293022117.html Somerset Supervisor Richard J. Meyers is asking the state comptroller’s office to investigate payments to Town Attorney Edwin J. Shoemaker. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:31:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_285222509.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_285222509.html If you love to read and find yourself adrift in Wilson, sail into the Book Harbor on Young Street. Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:40:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_248010220.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_248010220.html A 38-year-old Lockport man was arrested early Tuesday as he was leaving a Town of Tonawanda motel with a 16-year-old girl who police said was an ex-resident of the facility where he was a counselor, police said. David Clayton, 38, of Northview Drive, a counselor at Wyndham Lawn Home for Children in Lockport, faces multiple charges, including rape. Clayton was fired by Wyndham Lawn after they learned of his arrest. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:22:00 +0000 http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_241112406.html http://www.lockportjournal.com/towns/local_story_241112406.html The town zoning board started off its meeting Tuesday by remembering its longtime chairman Lester I Robinson Jr., who died Sunday.