Canadian Snowbirds Soar over Niagara Falls

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: The Canadian Aerial Demonstration team, the Snowbirds, visited Niagara Falls Wednesday. The Snowbirds did several flyovers at the falls on the sunny summer evening, wowing their audience with their impressive tricks and aerial formations. The precision flying team performed aerobatic maneuvers over the Horseshoe Falls for about 20 minutes, while…

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Niagara Falls Park unveils improvements

From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: After a year of construction and millions of dollars spent on rehabilitating Niagara Falls State Park, golden scissors were used to cut a green ribbon, welcoming visitors back to Luna Island. Commissioner of State Parks Rose Harvey said, “It’s experienced wear and tear and it needs to be refurbished…revitalized…and…

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Nik Wallenda on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Speaking of Nik Wallenda… Every week I download the podcast for NPR‘s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! It is a news quiz that is usually quite funny. Each week there is some kind of famous person on to play part of the game. A couple of weeks ago Nik Wallenda was on to talk about his walk across the…

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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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Hotel project eyed for Rainbow Boulevard

From the Niagara Gazette: Another new hotel project is in the works in the city of Niagara Falls. The board of directors for the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency is expected to consider an application for assistance today from Plati Niagara Inc., LLC, a firm owned by the Strangio family, operators of the Quality Inn Hotel…

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