The Friends of Harmony male chorus, under the direction of Brett Heintzman, will be performing an all a cappella concert entitled "The Spectacular Sixties" on May 2nd and 3rd. It's a musical extravaganza packed with up tunes, ballads and enduring classics from the 1960's made famous by artists like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Neil Sedaka and many others sung in beautiful 4-part barbershop style harmony.

Performances will be on Friday, May 2nd at the Sweet Home High School in Amherst and on Saturday, May 3rd at the East Aurora High School. Both shows start at 7:30PM.

“Crisis in Ukraine” will be examined in a roundtable discussion by faculty experts, including a guest historian from Poland, from 3 to 5 p.m. April 26 in Daemen College’s Schenck Hall Auditorium.

Panelists will include guest scholar Dr. Tomasz Pudłocki, assistant professor of history at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, as well as Dr. Jacek Lubecki, associate professor and director of the Center for International Studies at Georgia Southern University; Dr. Steven Maddox, assistant professor of history at Canisius College; and Dr. John D. Occhipinti, chair of political science at Canisius. Moderator will be Dr. Andrew Kier Wise, department chair and associate professor of history at Daemen.

CHEEKTOWAGA, NY - A local lawmaker has pleaded guilty after collecting thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits when he shouldn't have.

Cheektowaga town councilman Charlie Markel plead guilty Friday to falsifying unemployment benefits, after losing a second job he had in 2011.

Markel has been a council-member in Cheektowaga for more than six years.

Three years ago, Markel lost a job he had as a manager at a West Seneca convenience store after the business closed down.

That same year, Markel says he began claiming unemployment. But, Markel remained a town council member and prosecutors with the Erie County District Attorney's office say that Markel claimed unemployment benefits and said he wasn't working at all.