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Pedestrians only: Main Street in Williamsville to be closed to vehicles during festival next Satu...

Pedestrians only: Main Street in Williamsville to be closed to vehicles during festival next Satu...

After submitting plans to make Main Street a more walkable village core, it seems like the perfect time for W…

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Water mill becomes focus of Williamsville transformation

Water mill becomes focus of Williamsville transformation

Much has been made of Williamsville's recent efforts to calm traffic on Main Street. But perhaps just as exci…

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Amherst to study installing Maple Road crosswalk where girl died

Amherst to study installing Maple Road crosswalk where girl died

More than a year after a 13-year-old girl was killed crossing Maple Road, Amherst officials agreed Monday to …

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Why did Buffalo's bishops keep a 'dangerous' priest on the payroll for 7 years?

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By Charlie Specht
| Independent Reporter
Images of FBI raid on the Rev. Jeffrey Nowak’s home courtesy of the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office. Seven years ago, my stories for Channel 7 in Buffalo revealed disturbing allegations about the Rev. Jeffrey Nowak: that the young Cheektowaga priest had a strange fascination with one of the diocese’s seminarians. That he was part of a group of priests who, when they were seminarians, were fixated on finding sexual blackmail they could use against each other.
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Highlighting some great Buffalo journalism (Summer '26)

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By Charlie Specht
| Independent Reporter
Being out of the journalism game for a few months has allowed me to pay closer attention to the work of others. And while local media seems perpetually on the edge of various funding crises, that doesn’t change the fact that journalists in our region are producing some fine work.
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Bishop Fisher returns Fr. Joe Gatto to ministry

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By Charlie Specht
| Independent Reporter
Buffalo Catholic Bishop Michael Fisher on Monday cleared Fr. Joseph Gatto, a controversial priest who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple men, to return to ministry after an internal investigation found the most recent claims “unsubstantiated”, the diocese announced in a written statement.
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