Oliver's was the only restaurant in the city to get a four-star rating from Buffalo News food critic Janice Okun. Wine Spectator magazine gave it a "Best of" award for many years in a row.

As a man of deep faith, Dr. Thomas O’Connor considered June 7, 1999, one of the highlights of his life. That day he was part of a Buffalo delegation in Poland headed by plastic surgeon Dr ...

March 30, 1931 – Oct. 27, 2024Sister Mary Francelita Machnica, CSSF, a Franciscan Sister for 75 years, teacher and school administrator, died Oct. 27 in Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent ...

Aug. 8, 1954 – Oct. 22, 2024Joseph Petrick was a towering presence at Alfred State College of Technology in more ways than one. Not only was he director of libraries, he also was a longtime ...

His poems appeared in The Buffalo News, the Atlantic and the New Yorker. He published free verse and prose poetry under his own name and used the pseudonym Wesli Court, an anagram of his name ...

Sister Joseph Marie Marczak, CSSF, a teacher who became a counselor for the elderly and bereaved, died Oct. 19 in Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent, Cheektowaga, after a chronic illness. She was 77 ...

Her cousin, Henry Z. Urban, was publisher of The Buffalo News in the 1970s. She was a graduate of the Franklin School and attended the Park School, then completed her high school studies in 1941 ...

Mary E. “Mimi” Callahan, who followed up a career as a teacher by founding a residence and resource center for refugees and asylum seekers, died Oct. 10 in her home in Orchard Park after a ...

Lieba Pearl Wolfgang, who died Oct. 10 at the age of 89 in Buffalo General Hospital after a recurrence of cancer, was named with the Hebrew word for “love.” The only child of Morris “Mo ...

Jan. 24, 1932 – Sept. 1, 2024Norman G. Walker, a SUNY Buffalo State University professor emeritus who guided a generation of student teachers through their first experiences leading a classroom ...

Friends told Earl A. Frampton that they were going to stop coming to his retirement parties. The first was in 1991, when he ended a 35-year career as a lineman, cable splicer and business service ...

Bob Sienkiewicz found fertile ground for fostering his Polish heritage on Buffalo’s East Side. After completing a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University at Buffalo, he ...