Niagara One to spruce up for tourists

From the Buffalo News: With the beginning of a new tourist season only a few months away, the owners of One Niagara plan to begin sprucing up the property as soon as next week. The building is in one of downtown’s most prominent locations. “We’re going to swing into operation right away; we’re ready to…

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Blogging to rescue Falls from its declineF

From the Buffalo News: Over the years, Daniel Davis grew increasingly disturbed and perplexed by the cycle of failed and displaced development initiatives, the flight of industry and the overall economic malaise that inevitably brought his hometown, brimming with so much potential, to its knees. But family and career responsibilities left him no time for…

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Niagara Falls keeping the honeymoon alive

From the Welland Tribune: The king-size, blue-velvet vibrating bed was just the start of Dave and Sandy Carson’s classic Niagara Falls honeymoon. But when the vibrating bed wouldn’t shut off after they put in a few quarters, the novelty wore off quickly. They had to unplug it. Now retired and living in Fort Erie, they…

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Butterflies set to soar again

From the Niagara Falls Review: The metamorphosis at the Butterfly Conservatory is almost complete. The large windows of the Niagara Parks attraction have been washed and the massive netting that keeps the colourful winged inhabitants away from the misting and air-handling units has been replaced. The verdant habitat of tropical greens has been pruned, rearranged…

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Sinbad to Entertain Audiences in May at Fallsview Casino

From a Marketwire press release: The May concert line-up at Fallsview Casino gets off to a great start with two shows by stand-up comedian Sinbad on May 6 & 7. The Michigan native began his career in the late 1980s as a television actor including a self-titled sitcom series. Sinbad has a number of feature…

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Valet parking outsourced at Hilton in Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: More than 70 workers who provide valet and parking services at the Hilton Hotel in Niagara Falls will be out of work on April 30. The employees, some of whom have worked at the hotel for more than 10 years, were notified by letter this week that their jobs will…

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New Sea Lions at the Aquarium

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: The critter count has grown by two as the Aquarium of Niagara has welcomed two new sea lions into their family. The young females were each found stranded under similar circumstances on a beach and rescued by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California back in 2009.

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