Cheektowaga, NY

ATTRACTING A CROWD...       Brian Coons, who is a six-year veteran of the Cheektowaga Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, shows residents in Sloan's Griffith Park how to handle a noise-suppressed MPS rifle Tuesday evening during National Night Out events. More ... 250-ft tower raises new Bellevue fears By John J. Hopkins Times       Residents in the Bellevue neighborhood and Depew are unhappy with a plan to improve New York State's emergency communications that includes a 250-foot lattice-constructed tower on state-owned land off Indian Road. More ... Food on stove starts kitchen fire, four occupants left homeless       Food left unattended on a stove started a fire at 44 West Sobieski Avenue on Monday evening while the home's occupants were away running errands, destroying a first floor and heavily damaging a second floor. The blaze left four people homeless, according to U-Crest Fire Chief Daniel Kishbaugh. More ... 17 marijuana plants found after burglary       A report of a burglary Tuesday at a Lackawanna Avenue apartment house in Sloan led to the arrest of a Sloan man after police discovered 17 marijuana plants growing inside the building, using a sophisticated system. Cheektowaga police officers arriving at 227 Lackawanna at 9:18 a.m. More ... WET SITUATION...       A Depew firefighter wades through Cayuga Creek off South Ellington Street near Cayuga Boulevard shortly after 4 p.m. last Thursday in an attempt to put out a fire that started on an small island of brush and trees. More ...