Last Christmas Steve Wochy turned 100 years old, becoming just the second former NHL player to reach the century mark. Wochy, who also played a couple of seasons for the old AHL Buffalo Bisons, is ...

Lenny Gomulka and Chicago Push Band will perform at Cheektowaga Polish American Arts Festival, Cheektowaga Town Park 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 25 and Sunday 2, 4 and 6 p.m. The Polish ...

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” One of those stories that seems to have no basis in fact has to do with a former Buffalo establishment, namely ...

President Carter awarding the Medal of Honor to Lt. Col. Matt Urban. Born Matthew Louis Urbanowicz on Aug. 25, 1919, in Buffalo, NY, Matt Urban's roots were deeply embedded in the Broadway–Fillmore ...

If you thought Polska’s claim-to-fame scene in the ever-popular Christmastime film favorite, Home Alone, was just another Hollywood holiday flick, let the truth be told. If you saw the film, you’ll ...

Despite the spike in gas prices as a consequence of the war in Iraq, spring and summer are high driving seasons, a time when Western New Yorkers embark on the great American road trip. I’ve been a ...

With Rob Gronkowski getting inducted into the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame, this is a good time to look at the career of the local native who became perhaps the best tight end to ever ...

Maximilian Marzec, an 18-year-old senior at Alden Central High School (home of the Bulldogs), is preparing to graduate this year with an impressive record of academic achievement, athletic strength, ...

Our senior readers may recall a tragic news story from back in 1942, when 492 people died in the second deadliest building fire in U.S. history, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston. But ...

The Polish Villa food truck drove over to the St. Stephens-Bethlehem United Church of Christ (UCC), 750 Wehrle Dr., in Cheektowaga on Saturday, Aug. 23 offering delicious foods such as cheese or ...

The newest episode of the Polish American Program features an interview with Polish traditions expert, Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, about customs associated with the beginning of summer in Polish tradition ...

This column on Ed Kiziukiewicz, the Guinness World Record winner for America’s oldest working lifeguard, would normally be a story for Am-Pol Eagle reporter, Tom Tarapacki, who writes about sports ...