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James D. Griffin, Mayor of Buffalo 1978–93; Mark Grisanti, state senator; Isaac R. Harrington, Mayor of Buffalo [7] Kathy Hochul, 57th Governor of New York; Edwin Jaeckle, New York State Republican Party chairman; Jack Kemp, Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, football player, Congressman, vice-presidential candidate
Donald Walter Trautman (June 24, 1936 – February 26, 2022) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Erie in Western Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2011.
The Tonawanda News was a daily newspaper in North Tonawanda, New York, United States, covering part of Niagara County, as well as Tonawanda, the Town of Tonawanda and the Village of Kenmore in Erie County. It was last owned by Greater Niagara Newspapers, a division of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Stephen Badin, a missionary from Kentucky, spent six weeks in Buffalo as the guest of Louis Le Couteulx, a French businessman. [7] Badin celebrated public masses at Le Couteulx's home, urging the attendees to form a congregation. [8] Le Couteulx donated a site for construction of a church, cemetery, and rectory.
The Town of Tonawanda Veterans Memorial was unveiled to the public in a dedication ceremony the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, 2009. The Tuesday date was chosen to accommodate the event's keynote speaker, Colin Powell, who was scheduled to visit the area for a separate event in nearby Buffalo, New York later that same day. [16]
The Buffalo Norsemen played in the old North American Hockey League (NAHL) during the 1975–76 season, playing their home games in North Tonawanda, New York, a suburb of Buffalo 12 miles to the north, at the Tonawanda Sports Center. An incident at a Norsemen playoff game that season was portrayed in the movie Slap Shot.
Tonawanda is a city in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 15,129 at the 2020 census. It is at the northern edge of Erie County, south across the Erie Canal (Tonawanda Creek) from North Tonawanda, east of Grand Island, and north of Buffalo. It is part of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area.
Samuel Clemens (center) with American Civil War correspondent and author George Alfred Townsend, and David Gray, editor of the Buffalo Express [1] The Courier-Express was created in 1926 by a merger of the Buffalo Daily Courier and the Buffalo Morning Express. William J. Conners, the owner of the Buffalo Courier, brought the two papers together ...