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Starting Thursday, a strip of Hertel Avenue will be transformed into a 4-day celebration of Italian food, music and culture. The Galbani Cheese Italian Heritage and Food Festival of Buffalo is kicking off its 29th year along the "Little Italy" section of North Buffalo.   This year's festival will be packed with local food vendors, the a...

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Television writer and producer Tom Fontana has been named grand marshal of Buffalo's eighth annual Columbus Day Parade at 1 p.m. Oct. 12 on Hertel Avenue, the Federation of Italian-American Societies of Western New York announces.   Fontana, who grew up in Buffalo and graduated from SUNY Buffalo State, has been a writer and producer of serie...

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Three days devoted to Italian heritage are coming to the city next weekend. The annual Italian Festival runs Friday through next Sunday. Centered around the intersection of Pine Avenue and 15th Street, the event is billed as "Three Days of Tradition, Food & Music."   The event includes more than 20 vendors selling food and other items....

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by Mark Belcher   Those without the time for sit-down Italian food have a new option which will rove across the City of Buffalo. Chef's Italian Restaurant rolled out their large food truck on Wednesday with the help of several local celebrities, including former Buffalo Bills Lou Piccone, Joe Delamielleure and former Buffalo Sabre Rene...

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by Callan Gray   A teenager accused of trying to kill a police officer appeared in court on Wednesday. Hours later, three police officers received an honor. Andre Fuller, 18, pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge. Police say he pressed a loaded gun against an officer's chest and pulled the trigger twice. The gun didn't fire....

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A long-standing city tradition is coming back in full force this year. The Italian Festival will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday on Pine Avenue between Portage Avenue and 15th Street. It comes a year after a smaller version of the festival was held.   Carmine Bianco, who heads a men's bocce club in the city known as the Pax Romana Commi...

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In Niagara Falls there is one place every local can steer you to – Little Italy, which proudly displays its heritage on signage that spans across Pine Avenue. That pride in community and heritage was recently expanded when the honorary Italian vice consulate moved its office from Delaware Avenue in Buffalo to Pine Avenue in the Niagara Arts &a...

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Pasquale Gentile's life was hard, short and soon forgotten. He was one of five children of Italian immigrants, and they were separated after their mother died young in Buffalo.   During World War II, he returned to his parents' homeland as a GI and was killed in action April 24, 1945, just days before the war in Europe ended. His body...

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Joseph Carubba, president of Carubba Collision Corp. in Buffalo, N.Y., will be honored as the Italian American Leadership Council's 2014 recipient of the Anthony M. Castiglia Achievement Award during the council's annual St. Joseph's Day Table celebration. The award will be presented Wednesday, March 19 at 6 p.m. at Salvatore's Italian Gardens, 646...

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By Barbara O'Brien   Akron lacrosse players took a stand in March when they refused to play a game against the Lancaster Redskins because of their name, and now their hometown has made another statement.   The Newstead Town Board, consisting of two Conservatives, two Republicans and one Democrat, unanimously designated the second Mond...

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