Student teams from the Orleans Niagara BOCES Niagara Career & Technical Education Centers and the Erie 1 BOCES Harkness Career & Technical Center won top honors at the annual NFADA Ron Smith Memorial AutoTech Competition and Tire Rodeo held Saturday in Orchard Park. The competition took place at the Erie Community College-Vehicle Technology Training Center at 5885 Big Tree Road, Orchard Park.

The AutoTech competition featured teams of two high school automotive seniors who were put through a series of diagnostic, workstation and performance tests to measure their automotive technical skills and abilities. The WNY Ford Dealers provided six 2014 Ford Fusions for the students to compete on.

Buffalo, NY :: BREAKING - As of 10:50 PM this evening County Executive Poloncarz has announced a series of travel bans.  The statement was delivered as follows. 

• "As of 10:50 the following municipalities have driving bans in effect: Towns of Brant, Colden, Eden, Hamburg, Orchard Park and West Seneca; Village of Blasdell and City of Lackawanna. In other words, its bad in the southtown."

 

On December 10, 2013, Welke Customs Brokers USA Inc. celebrated the grand opening of its newly acquired and renovated headquarters building located at 36 Delaware Street in the City of Tonawanda, NY. The three story, 10,000 sq. ft. facility—featuring a 20-person, classroom-style training room—will support the company’s current business operations and future expansion goals.

“This is a really important day for our company,” said Welke Customs Brokers USA Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Damon Piatek. “We’ve made a strategic business decision to keep our headquarters in Western New York and rehabilitate an old building, while at the same time continuing to focus on growing our company and expanding into new markets across the United States.”