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2 Niagara County fire departments receiving funding from FEMA
Two fire departments in Niagara County are getting a boost from the federal government. The money is coming from FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program. The Upper Mountain Fire Company in Lewiston, established in 1959, will receive more than $140,000. The St. Johnsburg Fire Company, in North Tonawanda, which has been serving Wheatfield for nearly 100 years, will receive a little less than $35,000.
Niagara Falls Superintendent hoping cell phones in school policy is left to districts
As New York State considers a cell phone ban in schools, Niagara Falls School Superintendent Mark Laurrie tells WBEN he hopes the decision is left to local districts. Read more from WBEN:
Lockport Memorial to host free pain management workshop
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Niagara County Department of Health will offer six free workshops next month to help individuals and caregivers manage chronic pain on a daily basis. The six week program takes place at Lockport Memorial Hospital- beginning on August 13 and happening every Tuesday until September 17, from 1p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
TR Library board to present written contract offer to Lockport
THREE RIVERS — The board of the Three Rivers Public Library will officially put a new offer before Lockport Township for a library services contract. On Tuesday, the board voted to extend to the township a written offer of $20,822.18 on its contract for the first year, with an increase of 3 percent every year for three years, with an option to terminate the contract six months prior to the end of the library’s fiscal year in June. There will also be a clause that gives the sides the option to renegotiate after three years.
'This has become the challenge of our time': Gov. Hochul continues to consider smartphone ban in NY schools
KENMORE, NY (WKBW) — “I'm hearing a cry for help from our young people,” declared Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday. Cell phones in classrooms have become a major challenge for educators and have become an addiction that is harming the mental health of so many of our children. Gov. Hochul is on a mission to fix it.
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