Lancaster Depew Bee

Lancaster’s Lunker Anglers Fishing Club held their annual Kids Fishing Derby Saturday, May 10, at Westwood Park. Kids ages 4 through 15, many attending with their parents, enjoyed some complementary lunch provided by the club. Free bait was also issued to the budding anglers. Trophies were awarded for the largest fish in each age group, along with a grand prize […]

Eagle Scout Joseph Trusiak of Lancaster will be awarded the Boy Scouts of America’s National Medal of Merit for his lifesaving actions taken on Feb. 4, 2024, rescuing a choking man, Herbert Hales, who was dining at Russell’s Steakhouse. Trusiak, a busboy at Russell’s and member of Lancaster’s Troop 468, responded to Hales’ wife screaming during the incident. Trusiak applied […]

The Village of Lancaster had plenty of updates during their Monday night work session and regular board meeting. The village’s tree planting event organized by Climate Smart Coordinator Amy Stypa can be credited for 181 new trees planted in the village at the end of April. The event was part of the USDA Urban Forestry Grant Program, expected to fund […]

New sports complex to provide turf football, lacrosse, soccer and softball fields The Town of Lancaster broke ground last Wednesday morning on what will be a roughly $2.4 million multipurpose sports complex at Walden Pond Park, featuring turf football, lacrosse, soccer and softball fields. In addition to a $300,000 grant secured by Erie County Legislator Frank Todaro, the town has secured a bond to pay for the project’s development. Lancaster Supervisor Bob […]

On the evening of Wednesday, May 7, at approximately 6:15 p.m., the Village of Depew Police Department received multiple 911 calls reporting a female victim who had been shot in the chest in front of the Dollar Tree at the D&L Plaza, located at 5165 Broadway. Responding officers arrived on the scene and located a 20-year-old female who had sustained […]

Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski has called the state’s newly passed 2025-26 budget “as flawed as the process that created it,” standing opposed to the current spending plan, which he says “ignores the need to make New York state affordable for overburdened taxpayers. In a press release, Chludzinski conveys some of the issues he believes the budget has currently. “The $254.3 billion […]

After filing for bankruptcy a second time on May 5, Rite Aid Corporation announced that all 178 New York state Rite Aid locations, will be shut down by the end of next month. The drugstore chain last filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2023, but previously reemerged from bankruptcy last year. The company used its first bankruptcy to cut $2 […]

Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo has announced an incoming groundbreaking ceremony to mark the construction of a new pavilion at the Milch-Mitchell Campus, located at 225 Como Park Blvd., Cheektowaga. The event is scheduled to take place 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, at the site of the future Stuart Gellman Family Pavilion. The pavilion’s development is phase one of the […]

Bee Editorial In the Western New York area, May is often a gamble as far as weather goes. We’ve had 90-degree days and snow in May. But in recent years, especially this year, May has been warm and sunny from start to finish. While we welcome the return of warm weather and sunny days, with the sun comes the potential for sunburns […]

123 YEARS AGOThursday,May 17, 1902 MEETING OF THE VILLAGE BOARD A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees in the Village of Lancaster was held on Monday evening, May 14. The attorney reported that street laborers cannot be worked more than eight hours per day and that they must be paid the prevailing rate of wages for similar work in […]