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From Buffalo Rising – Amanda and another costumed reveler at Oktoberfest!

According to the St. Catharines Standard, the Aquarama/Marine Star was scrapped, starting on September 16 last year. The former passenger and auto ferry Aquarama was sold for scrap and towed to Aliaga, Turkey, last summer. The ship had been idle since 1962. … The deep-sea tug Aetos Z. took the vessel across the Atlantic and…
Two babies born so far this week! Congratulations to my cousin Renee and her husband Jonah on the birth of their daughter, Abigail! Also, congratulations to our friends Lindsay and Bob in Rochester on the birth of their son, Patrick! First babies for each of them! Enjoy! Before you know it, they’ll be walking!
I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…
I haven’t blogged at all about Hamburg recently, so here’s one that’s been bugging me. What braniac came up with the layout of the new Bed Bath and Beyond at the McKinley mall? Pretty much every store in the mall has an entrance from the mall. That’s kind of the point. Some have exterior entrances…
I’ve heard a lot of skepticism that architectural tourism will never make Buffalo successful – that nobody really does that. USA Today has an article about two celebrities who would beg to differ. The actor broke away for personal time on Thursday, when Jolie arranged for the couple to have a private tour of Fallingwater,…