For Immediate Release – Family Day @ the Museum

I recently received the following press release from the Niagara Falls Museum: February 10, 2014 For Immediate Release Family Day @ the Museum  Niagara Falls Museums is pleased to offer a great event with Family Day @ the Museum on Monday, February 18, 2013 from 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Niagara Falls History Museum,…

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The Capri closes doors after 55 years

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Capri Restaurant on Ferry Street was closed to the public Tuesday and its furnishing have been removed. But what led to the closure – and whether it’s a permanent or temporary situation – is unclear. Marisa Alfieri-Hay, daughter of business founder the late Sam Alfieri, was inside the restaurant…

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A year after walk, Falls officials balance expectations, realities of Wallenda’s walk

From the Niagara Gazette: …Saturday was the one year anniversary of Wallenda’s historic walk over this city’s giant waterfalls, and an informal Gazette survey showed that while the impact of the media storm of publicity last year is still unclear, the good news is that the city is now able to take advantage of additional…

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    Trumpeting daredevil heritage sends Niagara Falls back to the future

    From the Niagara Falls Review: Once a carnie town, always a carnie town? That’s the logic both downtown businesses and the tourism industry are using to get you to buy into events like Monday’s plunge from the Skylon Tower by daredevil Dean Sullivan and next month`s Daredevil Days festival. Niagara Falls has a nearly 200-year-old…

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      Cheap Eats

      From the Buffalo News: “The Grand Buffet has a bounty of choices, as it should, so you won’t leave hungry.” To some, brunch is synonymous with sipping mimosas during a leisurely late breakfast-early lunch. To others, it’s another way of saying all-you-can-eat pancakes. Count me in as one of the pancake bunch. At least that’s…

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      Photo Shows Niagara Falls Bone Dry

      From Inquisitr.com: A photo of a dry Niagara Falls has been shared on Twitter more than 750 times after it was published Monday (July 7). The poster of the photo said it was from the year 1969 and showed a rare, completely bone dry Niagara Falls from what appeared to be an aerial view. Click…

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        Tourism operators receptive to using driver’s licence as secure document

        From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara’s tourism operators offered a mixed reaction to plans by the Ontario government to introduce a new, high-tech driver’s licence with secure information about the owner by the end of this year. “I think what they’re doing is definitely worth pursuing,” said Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce president Carolyn Bones….

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          Say Hi to the Gruener Family

          One of the “alerts” I received about Niagara Falls included this blurb from the Gruener Family Blog: Tomorrow, we’re off to Niagara Falls, Ontario to stay at the DoubleTree Resort Lodge and Spa for two nights and wander around Niagara Falls and the Clifton Hill area. Low-key and relaxing, just what we need while we’ve…

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