An earthquake just hit Buffalo.  Here are the full details…

Thousands of people evacuated buildings across Washington, D.C., and New York City on Tuesday after a moderate earthquake in Virginia that was also felt as far south as Chapel Hill, N.C.

Parts of the Pentagon, White House and Capitol were among the areas evacuated.

Centered 87 miles from the nation’s capital, the quake was a magnitude 5.9, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

At the U.S. Capitol, light fixtures swung and the building shook for about 15 seconds while the tremor hit, NBC News reported.

In New York City, NBC reported debris fell from the attorney general’s office, causing a brief panic as people ran from the area.

Government buildings in the city, including City Hall, were evacuated. The 26-story federal courthouse in lower Manhattan began swaying and hundreds of people were seen leaving the building.

A mild tremor was even felt by NBC reporters with President Barack Obama during his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Massachusetts.

The earthquake’s epicenter was between Charlottesville and Richmond, Va., the USGS reported. It was 3.7 miles deep.

The Buffalo Niagara job market is heating up with the weather.

The region added jobs during June at the fastest annual rate in almost three years, as the warm weather led to a big jump in construction work, the state Labor Department said Thursday.

The two-county region added 7,300 jobs over the last year — a 1.3 percent annual increase that was double the growth rate in May and the strongest since July 2008, just before the recession began hammering the local job market.

Hiring by private sector firms was even stronger, growing at a 2.1 percent annual rate, as those companies added 9,200 jobs over the last year.

The June increase was the 10th

consecutive month of job growth for the Buffalo Niagara region and a sign that the local job market’s rebound could be accelerating. The private sector, which excludes government agencies, has grown for 15 straight months.

The June job growth locally was more than twice as strong as the 0.6 percent increase statewide and better than the 0.9 percent increase nationally. And, for the second straight month, job creation in the Buffalo Niagara region was stronger than it was in most of the state’s other metropolitan areas, trailing only Ithaca and Rochester.

The Labor Department also said job growth locally was even stronger than initially reported during May. It revised its May job data to reflect the addition of 3,300 jobs from May 2010 to May 2011, a 0.6 percent annual increase that was better than the original estimate of 2,200 new jobs.

Almost a third of the overall job growth during June came from a surge in hiring for construction projects, which had been depressed for the last two years but rebounded to a 10- year high during June. The number of construction jobs jumped by nearly 12 percent, compared with the more than 20-year low that was set last June, and was the highest for any month since July 2008.

Other pockets of the private sector also showed strength. Retail jobs have grown by nearly 4 percent over the last year, while hiring at leisure and hospitality firms is up almost 3 percent, and professional and business services have grown by 2.6 percent.

That stronger growth offset a continued decline in government jobs, which fell by 1,900, or 2 percent. Much of the decline was because last year’s totals were inflated by a surge in hiring by the federal government for temporary Census jobs. State government jobs fell, but that drop was offset by increased hiring by local government.

Still, the region has a long way to go to recover all of the jobs it lost during the recession. Even with the June hiring surge, the Buffalo Niagara region still has almost 10,000 fewer jobs than it did in June 2008. But if the current rate of job growth continues, it would only take about 1z more years to recover all of the jobs that were lost during the recession.

The pace of job growth was far weaker in rural portions of Western New York, where Allegany County fared the best with a stable job count over the last year. Wyoming County fared the worst, losing 2.9 percent of its jobs over the last year, while the decline hit 1.1 percent in Chautauqua County. Genesee County lost jobs at a 0.8 percent annual rate, while the decline was 0.6 percent in Cattaraugus County.

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Ellicott Street Linear Park in construction.  Note the intersection of Virginia, Oak and Ellicott – properly reconfigured!  I was hoping they’d do that.

http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/06/ellicott-park-work-underway.html#SlideFrame_1

Cantina LOCO!!!!!!!!!   (Old Steel Crazy space going Mexican)

http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/06/cantina-loco.html#SlideFrame_2

Seneca Casino update

http://www.buffalonews.com/business/article450016.ece

ECC downtown/Rocco Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!  (The man has vision and the ability to get things done…. and we give T.O. the key to the City. )

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/columns/donn-esmonde/article450298.ece

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But what’s wrong with this? … what’s missing here? 

ANSWER:

The OFFICIAL City of Buffalo Mayoral Podium.

Byron doesn’t leave City Hall without it!

(Check’em all out.)

I need to mail a letter,… better take my podium! 

For those that want to go the extra step and support the Sabres, they are sponsoring a “PLAY OFF BEARDS”

Also for those that can’t grow one, you can build one on site.

Below is the best jersey that our team could find online.  Most jersey’s this price are usually the old “Yellow Slug”.  This inexpensive jersey costs under $100 and comes in Blue, White and Alternative Blue.

We also chose a jersey with no name as we are sure come the end of the season there will be team changes after the new owner gets through make his first round of improvements.

Lastly, we like this Sabres Jersey because it is timeless.  Our beloved Sabres have been changing their jersey almost every year it seems.  This one will look great no matter which way the logo goes even though it does appear that this design will be around for quite some time!

It has been a long time coming but the Bisons now have the largest scoreboard in the minor leagues.  This monster measures 80 by 33 feet and is 300% the size of the previous 1999 scoreboard.

All in all, the park has had $4,000,000 in upgrades for the new scoreboard, new lights, light towers, drainage and playing surface.  (3 million came from the team and 1 million came from the city)

This was done 1 year ahead of schedule for the 2012 Triple-A All Star Game.

We definitely recommend bundling up and hitting the season opener tomorrow!

Picture courtesy of Buffalo News.

Here is a commercial from many years ago featuring the main 2 mascots of Utica Club.  Schultz and Dooley.  Enjoy!