Karen Robinson
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Bridging Buffalo's gap between poverty and health care
Jesse Cole imagined himself becoming a highly-paid physician working in a fancy hospital, just like those featured on television shows. → Read More
SkyRide features expanded route winding through Olmsted parks
An expected throng of more than 3,00o bicyclists will get to meander through Buffalos Olmsted park system and parkways next month on an 18.8-mile loop includin… → Read More
Window art made from 'junk' coming to Allentown shops
An ocean theme will soon transform windows of an Allentown cafe, with jellyfish fashioned from plastic bags, perhaps with their tentacles dangling above custome… → Read More
Driverless bus about to be tested on UB's North Campus
Dont bother complaining about the driver if you happen to be behind a strange-looking, slow-moving bus on the University at Buffalo North Campus this summer. … → Read More
Allentown meatball sandwich bistro closes
A fledgling Allentown sandwich bistro specializing in meatballs has closed and the business is for sale. Seven months after owners Dennis Glenn and Bobby Bur… → Read More
New bike amenities on Medical Campus aim to lure more riders
The two things that seem to be in shortest supply on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus are parking spaces for motor vehicles and incentives to ride your bicycl… → Read More
Puerto Rico man sentenced for heroin trafficking on West Side
Adalberto Cruz, 28, of Puerto Rico, who was convicted in federal court of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin, was sentenced to a ye… → Read More
Gowanda man pleads guilty to child pornography count
A Gowanda man has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. Prosecutors said that Shane Aurand, 21,… → Read More
March for Our Lives rally draws 3,000 in Buffalo and two students from Parkland
From the steps of Buffalo City Hall Saturday, the student-led March for Our Lives movement for stricter gun control made its mark – drawing 3,000 people, includ… → Read More
Some of the best and the brightest were launched from the 'Think Tank'
The stately Queen Anne-style building dating to 1905 has become home to students pursuing degrees in Buffalo and a launching pad for scientific minds working ar… → Read More
Allen Street makeover to start in late summer
$6.5 million of work will go into widening Allen Street, jazzing up its streetscape and redesigning sidewalks, for what is hoped will be smoother and safer traf… → Read More
First land trust effort in Fruit Belt is growing, but so is skepticism
The gentrification that was predicted for the 34-block neighborhood has not yet come to pass, but residents, community activists and some city officials all agr… → Read More
Hyatt's art store leaving Allentown for North Buffalo
The store across from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is expanding to a new, 40,000-square-foot building under construction four miles from its Main Street f… → Read More
Robotic surgery simulators, clinical settings showcase Medical Campus student open house
A robotic surgery simulator. Walk through realistic medical scenarios in a clinical setting. See whats perking inside an active research library. These oppo… → Read More
Fatal crash closes Route 20 in Irving Saturday afternoon
The Erie County Sheriffs Office is investigating a fatal crash that reportedly occurred at about 3 p.m. Saturday on Route 20 in Irving on the Seneca Nation of … → Read More
Cancer survivor brings art to Roswell Park and finds magic in dandelions
Shasti OLeary Soudant was searching for dandelions. But she was looking up, inside the lobby of the Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center on the Roswell Par… → Read More
Russell J. Salvatore Hospitality House opening delayed on Medical Campus
The opening of the new Russell J. Salvatore Hospitality House on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus has been delayed again while further construction work is co… → Read More
David A. Collins, former Masten Council member and force behind redevelopment of War Memorial Stadium
Feb. 20, 1938 – Jan. 25, 2018 There was no mistaking longtime Buffalo Common Councilmember David A. Collins tenacity when it came to the Griffin administrat… → Read More
Entrepreneurs: Innovation at the core of Bret Blakely & Steve Coulton's golf business
Who: Bret Blakely and Steve Coulton, co-founders of OnCore Golf What theyre doing: The company is rapidly gaining recognition throughout the golf industry. … → Read More
Entrepreneurs: Dan Magnuszewski offers a new way to auction cars
Who: Dan Magnuszewski, co-founder and chief technology officer, ACV Auctions What hes doing: ACV Auctions built an online marketplace for new and used car d… → Read More