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Cheektowaga budget plan rises 2.94% from 2010
Cheektowaga’s proposed $84.7 million budget for 2011, up 2.94 percent from this year, has spending increases to cover new health insurance and pension costs, the police and courts building renovation, and storm sewer fixes intended to ease flooding problems.
Man with a new liver is returned to jail
Gurninderjit Thandi, a Cheektowaga liver transplant recipient taking 15 medications daily, was ordered to remain jailed after his sentencing was delayed Tuesday for a drunken driving incident that injured a pedestrian last spring.
Bid to end dog-walking ban in parks draws 40 backers
One couple’s effort to rally support to overturn the Cheektowaga ban on dog walking in most town parks seems to be working.
Liver recipient back in jail after leaving alcohol rehab
Gurninderjuit Thandi, a Cheektowaga liver transplant recipient due for sentencing today in a drunken-driving case, was back in custody Monday after prosecutors learned he had left a treatment program and was drinking again.
Predator freed after prison term accused of contact with teenager
A former businessman and soccer coach who was sentenced as a sexual predator in 1998 is back in trouble, accused of having unsupervised contact with a teenage boy.
Cheektowaga man found after several hours
An elderly Cheektowaga man who had been missing for several hours Sunday was found unharmed.Ervin Russell, 75, is in the earlystages of dementia, Cheektowaga police said in an alert released to the media.
Authors to address public in Pine Lawn Chapel event
A veterinarian and a wildlife administrator will talk about their new books at 7p.m. Wednesday in Pine Lawn Chapel, 2951 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga.
Residents to raise dog-walking issue
A South Cheektowaga couple is organizing fellow dog owners in hopes many will turn out at the Town Board meeting Monday to show that it’s time to change the rules that ban dog walking from most town parks.
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- Sat 10/9: Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood
- Sat 10/9: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: Lovers' Classics
- Sat 10/9: Gino Vannelli
- Sat 10/9: Commander Cody Band
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- Tue 10/12: Five Finger Death Punch
- Tue 10/12: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Wed 10/13: UB Distinguished Speaker Series: Sylvia Earle
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- Fri 10/15: Parsons Dance
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