Kelsey Milley holds up newborn son Nash last spring, so her dad, Frank Badaszewski, can see him from the parking ramp at Mercy Hospital.
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Buffalo General Hospital X-ray technicians, from left, Samantha Gwizdowski, James Little, Lynn Siener, Taneshia Davis, Rebecca D'Amaro and Robert Prawel stand with a picture of their late colleague John Poleon who passed away from COVID-19, Thursday, April 30, 2020.
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Darren Cooper gets ready to make a throw while playing the ancient winter sport of snow snake.
Every December, I sift through 12 months of columns to pull out a few memorable quotes from the past year. The choices this time were particularly heartbreaking, and I offer these selections – including many voices of loss, passage and resilience from within the pandemic – with gratitude for the hundreds of Western New Yorkers who trusted me with their stories:
Hal Miller outside Sahlen Field with his son, Dr. Ryan Miller. Hal has stage four lung cancer, and his son helped bring about his lifetime dream of seeing a big-league game.
Wendell Giles, left, his uncle, Joe Jennings, and Vaughn Washington on a Bills game day, in an earlier season. Washington and Giles, at separate times in different cities, were both hospitalized for Covid-19.
As 2017 nears its close, News columnist Sean Kirst shares some favorite quotes from a year’s worth of columns, “part of the gift of hearing the great stories of Buffalo and Upstate New
Thruway toll collector Randy Weston at the Williamsville toll barrier, where he worked for 23 years until the Thruway system went completely "cashless."
Buffalo General Hospital X-ray technicians, from left, Samantha Gwizdowski, James Little, Lynn Siener, Taneshia Davis, Rebecca D'Amaro and Robert Prawel stand with a picture of their late colleague John Poleon who passed away from COVID-19, Thursday, April 30, 2020.
Hal Miller outside Sahlen Field with his son, Dr. Ryan Miller. Hal has stage four lung cancer, and his son helped bring about his lifetime dream of seeing a big-league game.
Wendell Giles, left, his uncle, Joe Jennings, and Vaughn Washington on a Bills game day, in an earlier season. Washington and Giles, at separate times in different cities, were both hospitalized for Covid-19.
Thruway toll collector Randy Weston at the Williamsville toll barrier, where he worked for 23 years until the Thruway system went completely "cashless."
