School # 57 closed in 2004, and there are plans to convert it into apartments. When I was growing up I attended Corpus Christi, a Polish Catholic grammar school that used to be located on Clark St. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the Central Terminal in the background, above, the steam locomotive Big Boy rolled into Buffalo last week. Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, was ...

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 ...

On Sept. 19, 2020, my wife Debbie and I were pleased to join with many friends of the General Pulaski Association in its “vehicular tribute” to Casimir Pulaski. Designed as a safe alternative to the ...

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, ...

They used to say that there were so many taverns on Buffalo’s Polish East Side that there was one on every corner and two in between. Am-Pol Eagle columnist Tom Tarapacki has written about some of ...

The Kosciuszko Foundation leads the way in philanthropy in the 21st century, funding cultural and humanitarian initiatives and supporting Polish scholars and artists. Led by National president Marek ...

The stereotype of a judge being a buttoned-down, gavel-wielding individual whose life is dominated by the courtroom does not apply to Thomas ("Tim") P. Franczyk, Erie County Court Judge. A colorful, ...

A large part of Buffalo's economic and strategic development in its earlier days, as well as a possible link to future plans for the Queen City, was the New York Central (Buffalo) Belt Line, according ...