Afternoon News Brief

Buffalo police are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl. Nina Baker was last seen yesterday on the 200 block of Rodney Avenue. She is five-foot-one and 110 pounds. She has black hair and was last seen wearing a blue and pink tie-dye hoodie with the words “Justice,” and “Love is here to Stay” around an image of a hand with a white dove inside it. Anyone with information is asked to call 9-1-1.

 

 

The Batavia City School District will replace the public address/clock system at the High School and make the interior of Robert Morris School more secure through projects that the Board of Education has approved. The board also gave the go-ahead last night for the transfer of up to $244,000 from the district’s repair reserve to the general fund to pay for the work as needed. File photo by Doug Thompson, WBTA News.

 

An intense winter storm is likely to bring snow, ice and high winds to our area just in time for Christmas weekend travel. The National Weather Service said that the storm would start to impact western and north central New York with a wintry mix Thursday, changing over to rain Thursday night with strong winds, which could cause power outages and some flooding along the shores of our neighboring Great Lakes. Temperatures will quickly fall on Friday, and the precipitation will change over to all snow with increasingly stronger winds developing Friday night and Saturday, with wind-driven heavy lake effect snows developing. Heavy lake snows will last through at least Christmas Day. Stay with WBTA for the latest weather updates from 13 WHAM.

 

 

A gift for the entire family awaits participants in the Cookies & Crafts with Santa event on Thursday afternoon from 3 – 6 at The Recovery Station, 5256 Clinton St. Rd., Batavia. “We’re celebrating the holiday season with Jolly Old St. Nick, himself,” said Harry Rascoe, director of the social club, a program of Genesee/Orleans Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. “All are invited to join us.” Each family will receive a free printed picture with Santa and a Christmas book to take home. For more information, call 585-815-5248. (File photo)

 

 

The fire department in Lockport is back in the ambulance business after Lockport’s common council approved an agreement in a vote of 4 to 3, for the fire department to assume control of the ambulance service. This follows the decision by Twin City Ambulance to scale back its services. The city had been the provider of emergency service for Lockport until 2014, when it decided to contract the services to Twin City Ambulance.

 

The Buffalo Sabres topped the Las Vegas Golden Knights last night in their first win in Sin City 3 to 2. Ukko Pekka Luukkonen made 41 saves. Jeff Skinner, Tage Thompson and Lawrence Pilut scored. The Sabres improved to 6-2-1 in December, after going 4-9-1 the previous month, and moved into a fourth-place tie with Florida in the Atlantic Division with 34 points. Next up the Sabres host Tampa Bay on Friday night at the Keybank Center. The puck drops at 7:00.

 

Graduate and registered nurses looking for a job can attend a recruitment event being held by Kaleida Health today. The event will be at Buffalo General Medical Center/Gates Vascular Institute (875 Ellicott St.) from 2-6. Free parking can be found in the surface lot at the southwest corner of High and Ellicott streets. Anyone looking to attend the event is asked to bring a resume. Walk-ins are welcome, but people are encouraged to RSVP. Kaleida says it has a sign-on bonus of up to $20,000.

 

 

A high school band director in Kenmore is a top-10 finalist for a GRAMMY award. Phil Aguglia is the band director for Kenmore East High School and he is in the running to be the 2023 Music Educator of the Year. Aguglia has been named a quarterfinalist two other times and a semifinalist once before, but this is his first time being named a finalist. There were over 1,200 initial nominations for the award.