CENTRAL CONFERENCE
Divisional I: Quebec City Amiral 0 - 5 Buffalo Flash
Semifinal I: Chicago Red Eleven 2 - 4 Ottawa Fury
Semifinal II: Buffalo Flash 0 -3 FC Indiana
Central Conference Final: Ottawa Fury v FC Indiana
Sunday, July 26 @ 7:30PM EST @ Jefferson High School
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Semifinal I: Tampa Bay Hellenic 1 - 2 Washington Freedom
Semifinal II: Charlotte Lady Eagles 2 - 1 Atlanta Silverbacks
Eastern Conference Final: Charlotte Lady Eagles 1 - 2 Washington Freedom
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Western Conference Championship: Colorado Force 2 - 5 Pali Blues
W-LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP :: SEMIFINALS
Regular Season Champion: Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues. Click to continue reading...

The Fair Grove Soccer Academy is currently forming boy's competitive teams in the U-9 and U-10 age groups (3rd and 4th graders) to practice in Fair Grove and compete at Lake Country this coming fall.

If you live in Fair Grove or the surrounding communities (Strafford, Buffalo, Pleasant Hope, or even Springfield) and your son would like to play for the FGSA, please contact Logan Hoffman, Director of Coaching and Program Development, at 303-921-1726 or lhoffman@fairgrovesoccer.

Click to continue reading...

Buffalo has a ton of collection agencies. Most are reputable companies who follow the rules and laws while trying to collect old debt.

But Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC did a 6 part series on "the Debt Trap" and included two local debt collection companies who were caught on hidden cameras engaging in some not so tasteful tactics.

Click to continue reading...

Rus Thompson host's Buffalo's Tea Party to protest the way Albany handles it budget process, succeeding from New York State, taxes and other things involving Albany's three men in a room...

Click to continue reading...

New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced that all proposed rate increases for the Authority's hydropower customers will be cancelled this year due to the extraordinary economic crisis facing the state and nation. The move will save New York businesses and residents approximately $16.

Click to continue reading...

Mayor Byron W. Brown, joined by Commissioner Steve Stepniak of the Department of Public Works, Parks & Streets and representatives of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, announced a $415,000 capital improvement project for the Delaware Park Marcy Casino that comes from funds allocated through the city's 2008 Capital Budget.

Click to continue reading...

Ciminelli Development Corp. unveil their new design for a hotel on Buffalo's Waterfront.

Part 1:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Part 2:

Ciminelli Development Corp. discusses how their hotel plan will compliment and support businesses and residents in the area.

Click to continue reading...

Mayor Byron Brown today returned to Buffalo from Washington, D.C., after meeting with members of the city's federal legislative delegation, Obama Administration representatives and other federal agency staff regarding the City of Buffalo's 2009-10 federal agenda and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Click to continue reading...

Between Bucky Phillips, Kevin Allen, and the newly-disclosed case of Rasheed Milton - a sex offender and drug dealer who was mistakenly released from Alden only to allegedly rape someone in Buffalo - there seems to be a dangerously sloppy incompetence going on at Erie County jails.

Click to continue reading...

WNYMedia.net sat down with NYS Assemblyman Sam Hoyt to get a sense of all this high speed rail talk around WNY lately. Part One is just an overview of high speed rail and what the value is in connecting upstate cities like Niagara Falls and Buffalo to Albany and eventually New York City.

Part two will explore the funding of such a huge project and can be seen on WNYMedia.

Click to continue reading...

That's how Michael Steele has described the Republican Party. I agree that muck is a great way to describe a medium comprised of the detritus of right wing preachers, radio hacks, and turdblossoms.  But it doesn't seem wise for a party that is struggling mightily to find its identity, should choose as its cheerleader-in-chief, someone [. Click to continue reading...

The revised figures for the year-over-year period from January 2008 to January 2009 were released today and they don't look very good.

The state Department of Labor says� unemployment jumped to 9 percentin February, compared with 6.3 percent in January 2008 and 7.1 percent in December.

Click to continue reading...

Newly appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand came to WNY today and met with a roomful of city, state and county officials. Click to continue reading...

WNYMedia.net has learned that newly appointed NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will be in Western New York tomorrow afternoon to meet with local leaders. Click to continue reading...

Some local musicians have created a song that's been getting alot of play on the Opie and Anthony Show in recent days. I've never really been an Opie and Anthony fan but apparently Anthony is or has become some sort of right wing, racist, republican wing-nut who thinks Barack Obama is gonna steal his guns and [. Click to continue reading...

Governor David A. Paterson today announced the dates of three State of the State Town Hall meetings that he will host in the next week. The meetings will be held in Johnstown, Auburn and Binghamton, and will be open to the public. Click to continue reading...

City and County officials today began the process of checking the thickness and preparing the ice surface for the Labatt Blue Pond Hockey Tournament scheduled for Saturday, February 7, 2009, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Workers checked the ice depth which ranged from 10 to 14 inches. Fire trucks flooded the frozen surface, helping to [. Click to continue reading...

In the first full week of the new Obama Administration, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Brian Higgins today announced their plan to call on the next Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – who is expected to be named by the new administration shortly – to speed up the current FTC investigation [. Click to continue reading...

Mayor Brown today released the results of an internal review he called for on December 24, 2008 following historic snowfalls that took place on Friday, December 19th and Sunday, December 21st.   "As I stated in late December, I was not happy with the overall post-storm clean-up effort, particularly in our residential neighborhood side streets," said [. Click to continue reading...

Three Years later the anti flipping task force in Buffalo, NY has successfully declined the number of predatory house flips by almost 51%. Mayor Byron Brown and the members of the Mayor's Anti-Flipping Task Force (AFTF) released today the Third Year Report.  In its third year, the AFTF focused its efforts on foreclosure prevention, which can [. Click to continue reading...

The Buffalo Bills hope to be partying like its 1992 leading up to the Super Bowl day. Three key figures from Buffalo's Super Bowl teams in the 90s are finalists for the Hall of Fame. The day before Super Bowl XLIII, the vote for this year's class of Hall of Famers will be cast in Tampa, [...] Click to continue reading...

Amazingly, I've yet to buy the right package to get NHL Network on my television. I know, I know, I'm totally missing out. I've only caught a few games during the World Juniors, and I didn't get to see Canada play once. That means I missed out on seeing our top two draft picks in [...] Click to continue reading...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That's how I started 2008. Unfortunately, we evidently are all filled with incredible amounts of, and/or tolerance for insanity. After all, within days we were still arguing over bermed expressways and Buffalo exceptionalism. Click to continue reading...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. That's how I started 2008. Unfortunately, we evidently are all filled with incredible amounts of, and/or tolerance for insanity. After all, within days we were still arguing over bermed expressways and Buffalo exceptionalism. Click to continue reading...

Inspired by Pundit's post about Bruce Andriatch's column. I kid because I love.You know you're an urban hipster when... You think Buffalo has an awesome music scene and cite the Goo Goo Dolls being mildly famous in the late 90's as evidence of it. Fidel Castro hats seem like a good idea. You think the glare people give you [. Click to continue reading...

Inspired by Pundit's post about Bruce Andriatch's column. I kid because I love.You know you're an urban hipster when... You think Buffalo has an awesome music scene and cite the Goo Goo Dolls being mildly famous in the late 90's as evidence of it. Fidel Castro hats seem like a good idea. You think the glare people give you [. Click to continue reading...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3046011199161897049 While Andrew had the actual game covered, and Kevin over at Bfloblog had the tailgate party under control, It was my job, along with Jay, Sherry and WNYM contributor John Splett to travel the parking lots looking for the most interesting tailgate parties and capture the scene the best we could. Click to continue reading...

Yesterday was the first day that the media could access Ralph Wilson Stadium to observe the progress on transforming a football stadium into a hockey venue. The last scenes we saw were on television Sunday night, dramatic images of workers struggling to lay a tarp on the field in the teeth of horrific winds and precipitation [. Click to continue reading...

I read an article in November 2005 in the Buffalo News about how 2007 would be the year that signified where Buffalo was going. Forward? Or the same as it has always been? And now that 2007 has come and gone there are mixed signals all around. Clearly this was not the make or break year [...] Click to continue reading...

County Executive Joel Giambra and the Erie County Legislature have agreed to forgive the 2006 and 2007 County taxes on property located at 300 Manhattan Street. The property is being conveyed to the City of Buffalo as a result of a Federal Bankruptcy and will be used for the expansion of the area around Bennett [. Click to continue reading...

http://www.vimeo.com/445619 The Anti-Flipping Task Force (AFTF) released their second year report today: "In its second year, the AFTF has experienced significant successes, including participation in the first major area civil prosecution involving a fraudulent flipping scheme, changing the way property is purchased at the City auction. Click to continue reading...

There was an article in the Buffalo News late last week about Thursday at the Square: The Buffalo Place board Wednesday learned revenues for the 21-year-old concert series missed budget targets by $200,722, up from earlier projections that it would fall flat by a maximum of $140,000. In presenting the updated revenue figures, Buffalo Place [. Click to continue reading...

It is one of the most common refrains at the end of every year during the Erie County budget process. "Fully fund the Buffalo Convention and Visitor's Bureau with their full share of the bed tax" Since I don't like to hear a problem restated over and over again without the proposition of a creative solution, I'm [. Click to continue reading...

Last week's announcement by the Buffalo Bisons that Torey Lovullo would be returning in 2008 for his third season as the Herd's Manager made be very happy, but also came the realization that his time in Buffalo might soon be coming to an end. Make no mistake, Torey is a great guy, and covering the [. Click to continue reading...

It seems so long ago–but we just got word tonight that an interview we did back in Oct when Sundance was here–is on the air and the web! Here is a link to a podcast from an interview by Joyce Kryszak of WBfO–featuring Jon Markle, David Bennink (our consultant) and Michael Gainer–who had a [. Click to continue reading...