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What does 2019 hold for state Senator Tim Kennedy?
Earler this month, The Public asked a broad swath of associates and acquaintances to offer predictions for 2019. |
Photo courtesy of the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York.
A university research team has found—to no one’s surprise—that some of the soil around the Tonawanda Coke plant is contaminated. |
Marcus Neal, who was shot and killed on a garage rooftop in Black Rock by Buffalo police on December 11, 2018.
The father of a man fatally shot by a Buffalo police officer last month has retained two law firms to investigate his son’s death. |
 For decades, Barr has been a fixture and a force in her neighborhood, fighting for its residents. |
 Cuomo drops Byron Brown, leaving folks to guess why; the jockeying to become the next Buffalo comptroller. |
 This Sunday afternoon in Niagara Square, Western New Yorkers will once again join in the nationwide Women’s March. |
Image courtesy of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
The “Military Road School” was erected in 1883 in what was then the rural outskirts of Black Rock. |
Samir Alowbali in the ring sparring Joe Reed.
Amateur boxing is not what it once was in Buffalo, put the sport—and the dream of winning a Golden Gloves championship—persists. |