From the Buffalo News: The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency is considering tax breaks to help a Canadian company reopen two Niagara Falls hotels. The IDA board accepted applications Wednesday from the Merani Group of Companies, based in Niagara Falls, Ont., for payment-in-lieu of taxes arrangements, or PILOTs, to help it buy the former Inn…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Welcome to the United States. No passport required. Scores of native North Americans poured across into Canada from the U.S., then returned home without a passport Saturday, despite new American rules requiring most people to carry a passport or some other approved government document to enter the United States. Natives…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls will not be among the new Seven Natural Wonders of the World. And because of a technicality, it’s not even in the top 77. For months, organizers of the Swiss-based group New7Wonders have been asking officials on both sides of the Niagara River to form a supporting committee…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The trips arranged by Lezlie Harper Wells are a hit with U.S. African Americans. Since 2004, she’s helped co-ordinate 600 American group sojourns to explore Niagara’s rich black history and its Underground Railroad that helped free U.S. slaves. However, new passport rules at the U.S. border and a sick economy…
From a PR Web press release seen on Yahoo! News: Niagara Helicopters has launched a special offer for their Niagara Falls sightseeing tours when visitors use the new GO Train service from Toronto to Niagara Falls. Effective July 11th, 2009, Niagara Helicopters is happy to offer all riders utilizing the GO Train to Niagara Falls…
An Indian site has posted about someone’s visit to Niagara Falls (including pictures): Words can not describe the joy of just being in a place like the Niagara Falls. You have to be there to experience it. I will do my best to take you through some breath-taking views.
On Wednesday I received the latest newsletter from the Niagara Clifton Group (the Travelodge, Fun House, Brick City, etc group). To sign up for the newsletter, click on the Join our FREE Email Mailing List link on the side of any of the pages at Falls.com
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls could have a new recreational trail running along the old Canadian Pacific railway corridor connecting the downtown area and Clifton Hill by the end of the year, city officials say. The city is moving forward with its plan for a $364,000 trail where the trains used to run,…
From the Buffalo News: A ninth-floor observation deck in One Niagara on Rainbow Boulevard is open to the public after a judge’s ruling allowed the building’s manager to sidestep approval from the city to open the top floor. Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. on Thursday issued an order to allow the building’s ninth…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The theme-park kitsch of tourist mecca Clifton Hill seems tailor-made for late singing and dancing great Michael Jackson. It’s easy to picture the 50-year-old svelte superstar – who did, after all, live in a virtual amusement park called Neverland – slithering down the incline of the money-sucking street in a…