EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WIVB) — If you’re searching for a place to go to watch the solar eclipse in April, you might want to put East Aurora on the list. A local business and state park are preparing to greet visitors for the once-in-a-lifetime event. There’s a lot of history within the walls of the […]
Inches below the surface of Florida’s waterways, there’s always something trying to kill you. It’s one of the things I hate about this job: documenting a person’s demise while they’re out on the water or near it. I’m not making light of this; often, these people begin their day with a plan to interact with […]
Jan. 27—GENEVA — Winterfest 2024 gets rolling this evening with the Winterfest Pageant at 6 p.m. at Geneva High School. “We have 31 candidates this year,” said pageant coordinator Roberta Horvath. She said rehearsal was held on Thursday, interviews on Friday and the on stage pageant tonight. The event, coordinated by the city and the […]
Jan. 19—The new Wallace & Gromit exhibit at the Terre Haute Children’s Museum is likely to bring out the inventor, or tinkerer, among all ages. Wallace & Gromit: Get Cracking!, an interactive exhibit based on the popular film and television characters, had a ribbon cutting for members Friday and is officially open for all visitors […]
By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan welcomed a record number of visitors in December, official data showed on Wednesday, closing out a year of rapid recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of foreign visitors for business and leisure rose to 2.73 million last month from 2.44 million in November, data from the Japan […]
With up to 500,000 people expected to visit Ohio to view the April 8 total solar eclipse, the Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau is hosting a series of interactive events and collaborating with area partners to celebrate the rare occasion. Summit County is within the path of totality, or complete darkness from the shadow of […]
In the end, whether they participated in illicit acts or not, anyone who visited the homes of Jeffrey Epstein, hung out at his pool or spent time in his presence would have to be blind not to spot what he was up to, according to two victims of the late sex trafficker. Virginia Giuffre and […]
A popular North Carolina destination was named a top city for food lovers — again. Asheville ranks No. 9 on a list of the nation’s best places for travelers to eat, according to the vacation website Tripadvisor. “If your itinerary is centered around breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with plenty of stops for snacks in between, […]
Jan. 4—The deafening sound of thousands of sandhill cranes could be heard Wednesday as they flocked around Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge and the newly renovated Visitors Center, which has hosted hundreds of people per day since it opened a few weeks ago. “We did a soft opening of the Visitors Center on Dec. 20 and […]
More US hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, Covid and other illnesses. While many experts say this season likely will not prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it could still mean hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions […]