The city of Buffalo is working with National Grid to create a more efficient method of replacing downed streetlights in the city.The “City of Light” initiative aims to streamline a previously complicated process of replacing broken city streetlights. A 53-year-old man, Dale Gabler, is facing up to 20 years in prison after admitting to nine burglaries in Buffalo last year, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.David Blackley, the city’s corporation counsel, interrupted a reporter’s questions to Finance Director Dan Cavallari at Wednesday’s Common Council meeting.A 16-year-old was killed after being struck by a train in the village of Silver Creek on Wednesday, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office said.Officers responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a train at the CSX railroad tracks in the village shortly before 4 p.m. Niagara Falls City Council did not act at its Wednesday night meeting on a revised plan to establish a local development corporation (LDC) to move forward with the proposed Centennial Park project.



