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Batavia Downs - which is owned by Western Region Off-Track Betting - also completed a $25 million expansion in 2013, enhancing its features and adding about 140 slot machines, giving it 790 overall.
BATAVIA, N.Y. — Batavia Downs is ready for the start of their summer concert series, as the first group out of eight performs Friday, June 20.Doors open at 4 p.m. with at least two opening bands ...
BATAVIA — Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. officials are banking on the expertise of a well-known national track consultant — with help from some key local employees — to get ...
BATAVIA — The Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation (WROTB) has achieved a significant financial victory that will directly benefit hundreds of local employees and 17 municipalities ...
The board of directors for Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. authorized changes to its payment policy on Thursday in response to revelations that two employees, including a former Niagara ...
This long-running outdoor jazz festival returns to the Lincoln Stairs behind the AKG Art Museum on Sunday afternoons from ...
Democratic primary voters interviewed by Investigative Post weren't unified behind winner Sean Ryan, but most said they ...
An internal review at Western Regional Off Track Betting Corp. has found a senior executive spent more than $27,000 of the ...
A powerful microburst storm Sunday afternoon in Batavia left hundreds without power and a good deal of damage in its wake. The storm hit just before 3 p.m. Sunday, bringing two-and-a-half-inch ...
On May 19, the Batavia City Council OK’d a request from the project’s developer — Fox River Affordable Housing, a nonprofit arm of the Housing Authority of Elgin — to fund $1.2 million in ...
Batavia product Ken Anderson’s absence from the Pro Football Hall of Fame feels like a mistake. The retired Cincinnati Bengals quarterback was a four-time Pro Bowl pick, the 1981 National ...
The Fourth of July brings with it many traditions: fireworks, beach trips, cookouts, terrified dogs and, of course, the ...