REWIND: All Things Considered host Steve Cichon provides a This Day In Buffalo History for June 17, remembering the Old Pink, which burned to the ground on this day two years ago.

The University at Buffalo was awarded $5 million to host the Great Lakes Research Consortium to facilitate research on the ecosystems within the Great Lakes and ensure findings are disseminated properly so the research can be expanded.

Great news from #YourErieCountyParks: the free NFTA Metro Bus & Rail Parks Adventure Bus is back for the summer! With 10,000 acres to explore, this is a great way to get outside, visit our parks and enjoy all that Erie County has to offer. View details: https://metro.nfta.com/#YourErieCountyParks

On this day in 1873, a fed. court tried Susan B. Anthony for illegally voting in Rochester, NY. The judge directed the all-white male jury to find Anthony guilty, but didn’t sentence her to prison or pursue the $100 fine she refused to pay because he wanted to block her ability to appeal. #WeTheMen

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Food Systems Excellence Awards! 🌽🏆 The program recognizes outstanding projects and individuals making a positive impact on Erie County’s food system. Apply today: https://www3.erie.gov/fpc/press/apply-2026-food-systems-excellence-awards

Buffalo News photographer Joed Viera talks about photographing Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, and the fervor around it. Go Behind The Lens with The Buffalo News' photographers here: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

A survey posted at one of my listserves: "The purpose of my research is to quantitatively determine if users of archives and/or researchers trust and have confidence in the evidence espoused via archival records that purport to accurately represent past human experience." #genealogy 🗃️📜

Among these new improvements are an expanded Kids Village and Interactive Experience Zone, designed to keep children and families entertained all weekend long. Within this zone are the Music is Art Instrument Zoo, Dreamy Buffalo Slime Station and the Buffalo Bills Kids Zone.

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From the archives: Buffalo Braves owner Paul Snyder moved to delay the sale of the team and Hooker chemical was fined $900 for a deadly explosion.

The cunning comedy "Hacks" finds closure with words that Buffalo's Jack Yellen wrote in 1929 for a tune that would soon emerge as a standard of the Great American Songbook.

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A departure for me; a memoir about the neighbors I had growing up on Edgerton Street in Rochester, NY in the 1970s. #Rochester 🗃️ buffaloresearch.com/i-was-the-ba...

After a 60-day moratorium and review period, Buffalo will prioritize stabilizing vacant buildings and seeking responsible owners over demolition.

If you're inspired to do a time capsule this summer, don't stock it with pop culture doodads. Write letters to the future instead.

Use your power for good and not evil, Redditors.

Erie County wants to hear from you! There is still time to complete the Envision Erie resident survey, and share your perspectives on county services, priorities and future investments. 🔗 The survey is available online at erie.gov/envisionerie.

For those who loved this book, there is a Frog and Toad Bot. bsky.app/profile/frog... 📚

A cyclist crosses Seneca Street while riding along Main Street in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_1c4bf885-0fa0-446c-97ee-769a9040f2a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Once again, LLMs are not search engines, they are fabrication machines.

Oooooh, big windy rain in Buffalo!

Maps like this are a good example of how Buffalo's urban neighborhoods developed. #Buffalo 🧵 archive.org/details/buff...

Sahlen Field is aglow for a Buffalo Bisons game as the sun sets on downtown Buffalo in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_1c4bf885-0fa0-446c-97ee-769a9040f2a6.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

June 13, 1920: US Post Office declares children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances). In the most famous case 5-year-old May Pierstorff was mailed via train from her home in Idaho, the stamps stuck to her coat.

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Happy Juneteenth, Buffalo! Here's an article about the first Juneteenth, so to speak, in New York: the day slavery was abolished across the State of New York, July 4, 1827. The bicentennial is one year away. How shall we observe it? #Buffalo #BlackHistory 🗃️ buffaloresearch.com/new-yorks-ju...

I believe she is the first playwright of Native American descent.

Marie Watt Dwelling, 2006 Native American artist, from the Seneca Nation. #WomensArt

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HAPPENING TOMORROW: Early voting begins for the New York State Primary. We have your guide to who's running in local congressional races, statewide races, and more. https://www.whec.com/local/ny-primary-early-voting-starts-june-13-see-whos-running-in-congressional-and-state-races/ 

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Here's one I grew up with!

The Erie County Board of Elections reminds voters that the deadline for Absentee and Early Mail ballot requests is this Saturday, June 13. Requests may be made online at elections.erie.gov/absentee or by mailing a form to 134 W Eagle Street, Buffalo.

From the archives: The Buffalo business community launched a 24-hour drive to keep the Braves basketball team in the city and Buffalo wrestled with a proposed $214 million budget.

As winter pruining finishes up on Western NY apple farms, workers struggle with not having enough working hours. This makes it hard for them to be able to meet expenses for their families. They look forward to the harvest season starting when they will make more hours. #WeFeedYou

The new lemurs are a family headed by Huey, who is 20 years old. With him are four of his 12 offspring, Conner and Lucas, both of whom are seven years old, and Mikey and Olivia, who are both six years old. All of these lemurs were born at the Philadelphia Zoo.

Major reforms like ranked-choice voting, a police oversight commission and more could be coming to Buffalo City Hall. The commission in charge of advancing those measures has a lot to do, but took a key step Monday. investigativepost.org/2026/06/10/b...

New exhibit coming 🔜 to the Central Library’s Ring of Knowledge! Join us on Tuesday, June 16 from 1-2:30 pm to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit, We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence!

Does anyone know if there's an org that specifically collects librariana, the artifacts associated with our profession? 📚

The supposed woodchuck in the garden turned out to be a skunk. You can make out its white stripe. The other half relocated it to Scajaquada Creek without getting sprayed. #Buffalo

The project focuses on part of the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, bounded by Broadway to the south, Fillmore Avenue to the east, Genesee Street on the west and Best Street to the north.

The Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park houses a collection of artifacts from Buffalo native John B. Weber. Born in 1842, he served as colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, leading the 89th Colored Infantry Regiment.

I am told that the County of Erie retains copies of all subdivision maps in Erie County, regardless of municipality. So if you were dividing up a parcel into streets & building lots, regardless of whether it was 1860 or 1960, the County should have the maps. Can anyone confirm?

For Ballpoint Pen Day, the original patent filed by László Bíró (Hungarian journalist) in 1943. It was the first commercially successful design, later purchased by Marcel Bich (aka BIC) in 1950.

Want to know what it's like to work in museums? Simply watch the Indiana Jones films, and then dismiss everything you've seen

A crowd gathers alongside Union Pacific's famed Big Boy No. 4014 during its stop in Cheektowaga on its coast-to-coast tour celebrating America's 250th anniversary in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...

Call 2 Action: Buffalo, NY 14221 #NoKings4.0 Rise Up, Sing Out Watch Party Community Event RiseUpSingOut.com Sunday, June 14 6:30 – 9pm EDT UU Church of Amherst 6320 Main St @defendinfo2025.bsky.social #Resisters #Democrats #RedCrew #BlueCrew www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

League of Their Own, of course

OMG YOU GUYS! Library peeps, look at the game my lawyer came up with! She represents artists, musicians & cultural orgs such as libraries & museums. 📚