http://www.tonawanda-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:23:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142356.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142356.html This edition of Junk Mail will take a look at some of the more outlandish assertions made in product pitches. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142211.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142211.html Aside from supporters of the Washington Generals, Buffalo Bills are as forlorn a lot as there is in the sports world. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142027.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315142027.html Having two little boys, I’ve heard a lot of the clichés that go with the gender.“They love cars and trucks.” “Be prepared for a lot of tumbles and spills.” “They’ll roughhouse a lot.” “They’ll eat you out of house and home.”Some of these are true of Jim. All of them are true of Sam. Especially the last one. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:15:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141631.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141631.html A New York City reporter recently showed sympathy toward Niagara County for the disparity in stimulus spending statewide. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141453.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141453.html Toronto is as liberal a city as there is. So if change doesn’t come easy there, that same change would face a Berlin Wall of opposition in Western New York, home of “whether it’s broken or not, don’t fix it.” Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141220.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_315141220.html Love takes on a whole new vibe when it involves fur and feathers. Just ask Jeff Musial, a Niagara County Community College graduate who has an entire collection of exotic animals and reptiles. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307113637.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307113637.html When the creators of “Sesame Street” first pitched the idea of a fuzzy elephant and digit-loving vampire teaching children, youth-oriented programming was sparse. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307120159.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307120159.html Check your clocks. Did you “fall back” today? Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:48:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114921.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114921.html I am getting cranky about all these “gasless” people. Because if they aren’t really out of gas, then they are using human kindness as a way to rip people off. As such, they may be decreasing the already-fragile kindness level on the planet. I hate that. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114808.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114808.html More than a half-century after 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease was kidnapped and murdered, the story still is recalled in the Missouri cities and towns where the chilling crime left a lasting impact. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:45:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114615.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114615.html Our daughter has it all: beauty, brains, personality, charm, you name it. So I never doubted that she would some day be Little Miss Popular.What I didn’t expect is for her — at age 2 — to already have a busier social life than I do. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:43:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114433.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_307114433.html A Tonawanda man recently went to extreme lengths in the pursuit of justice. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:13:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111404.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111404.html If you remember the O.J. Juicer, “Machine Gun Kelly” Bills poster, Thurman Thomas sports drink or Flutie Flakes, then you need to get to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society sooner rather than later. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:11:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111223.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111223.html Released in time for the World Series and for Christmas, “Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress” offers several hundred pictures — photos, engravings, drawings, panoramic views of long-gone ballparks and an assortment of ephemera — the majority of which have never been published elsewhere. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:10:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111032.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300111032.html I don’t know precisely why, but 5 years sounds so much older than 4. Maybe it’s that I can no longer call him a toddler, or a preschooler, or any one of those terms that sounds so much less intimidating that simply “boy.”