http://www.tonawanda-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 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, 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.” Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110815.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110815.html A recent comparison shopping trip by a Canadian newspaper found several deals to be had on this side of the border. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110429.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_300110429.html Every local native knows North Tonawanda’s lumber-rich past and that CNN’s Wolf Blitzer attended Kenmore West High School.But how many Tonawandans know that one of college football’s pioneers hailed from the region, or that a saint once walked through Kenmore? Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:58:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125908.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125908.html Like the bass player in a rock band or stuntman, a TV news producer has to have a certain mindset in order to pursue a career in the background. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:57:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125738.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125738.html Who knew symbologists led such interesting lives? Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125604.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125604.html About a decade ago, Bill Cosby hosted a show called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” On it, he would ask young children questions, to which they would offer cute and/or silly responses.I was in college when the show aired, and thus I never got the attraction to children ... well, talking.After spending some time with Penny and Rigby the past couple weeks, I am no longer skeptical about the power of a child’s word. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:54:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125442.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125442.html Little do many British apple-lovers know that they have a Niagara County company’s labor to thank for their fruit. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125207.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125207.html For nearly as long as there have been motion pictures, there have been people scaring themselves with said motion pictures. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:50:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125046.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_295125046.html Frank Warren is a hard man to shock.The founder of Postsecret, the online community art project that calls for people to anonymously mail never-shared tidbits on postcards, Warren has received nearly 500,000 postcards since creating the Web site Jan. 1, 2005. So he’s literally seen pretty much everything. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:49:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292125022.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292125022.html For as long as there have been consumers, there have been manufacturers making products that overcharge for devices that perform functions we can do more cheaply via other means. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:47:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292124845.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292124845.html Imagine Western New York in the early 1800s. Settling within a mile or so of the Niagara River, people formed tiny hamlets that would in time become Buffalo, Niagara Falls and every other town from Lake Ontario south to Lake Erie.Within one week in 1813, British forces decimated just about everything in that stretch. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000 http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292124700.html http://www.tonawanda-news.com/features/gnnlifestyle_story_292124700.html I always wanted to be the "cool" mom. It’s a good dream ... but not one that often stands up to the reality of parenthood.