Category: News Archive

The 5th annual Seneca Falls Antique Expo will be held this year on Saturday August 30th (Labor Day weekend) from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm on Rte 414 So. 1-½ miles south of Seneca Falls (the site of Farm Days). Dealers from upstate New York (Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo, etc.) will be exhibiting many types of antiques and collectibles. Several local... more

(Dundee) – A Dundee woman was seriously injured Thursday afternoon during a two car collision on Old Bath Road in the Town of Barrington, Yates County. 29 year old Heather McCloud suffered chest and pelvis injuries. 68 year old Jan Treat of Wayne also complained of pain in her arm and chest.   more

Temperatures are expected to drop below zero again on Thursday accompanied by 15 mph winds making the wind chill as cold as -20. Stay with FingerLakes1.com or tune your radio to the Finger Lakes News Network Stations for the latest cancellations as they come in.CLOSINGS & DELAYS AS OF 11:53 PMThe following schools are closed Thursday:Waterloo Central SchoolsBishop Kearney HSAvonDansvilleDeSales... more

Arson is the cause of the fire that destroyed a Seneca Falls truck repair business. Seneca County Sheriffs Investigators, working with state fire investigators have arrested a Seneca County man inconnection with Sunday fire at Marro’s Trucking and Welding on Route 414 in Seneca Falls. Authorities have not released the name of the man arrested for starting the fire. Thick-... more

Women’s Rights National Historical Park will be closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, and on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, as well as Friday, Dec. 26, announced Superintendent Josie Fernandez. President Bush issued an executive order declaring Dec. 26 an “official holiday” for federal employees. “On behalf of the National Park Service and all the staff members at Women’s Rights... more

Hobart alumnus Tom Parker has been told for years by fellow classmate Ben Brown ’99 that he should try out for the television show “Jeopardy!” The opportunity came when the “Jeopardy!” producers held an audition in Parker’s home town, Providence, R.I. He passed the written exam, survived the mock game and was selected to be on the show this season.... more

Syracuse basketball fans in Seneca County -AGAIN-last night were left with the TV-remote in one hand and the other other hand reaching for their radios. Last night’s Syracuse vs. Towson game in Pennsylvannia was supposed to be televised to all Time Warner Cable customers but Seneca County fans couldn’t find it anywhere on their channel lineup. This has been an... more

Auburn’s $42.7 MILLION dollar budget for 2006-2007 includes a 9% tax rate increase and calls for laying off 27 employees. City Mananger John Salamone released the proposed budget to the city council last night. Salamone says without the layoffs- the tax rate increase would be 16%. Taking the biggest hit would be the public works department, they would loose 12... more

Less than a month after a garbage truck flipped over on Fall Street in Seneca Falls, another tractor-trailer flipped Wednesday evening around 6:30 in front of Tire Solutions on Routes 5&20, the Auburn Road. The truck was traveling east when it left the road crashed through a utility pole and flipped on it’s side. The driver was not seriously injured.... more

16-year old Lamana McKoy of Geneva is the teenager police believe is responsible for the deaths of 14-year old Ashley Vincent and 18-year old Monique McKoy.An Ontario County grand jury met behind closed doors all day Tuesday considering evidence in the case. Formal charges could come Wednesday.Lamana McKoy is Monique’s cousin. It’s been reported both girls were sexually assualted. Monique... more

Geneva police have released a description of the suspect in Tuesday morning’s robbery of the National Bank of Geneva office in the Geneva Center on Hamilton Street. The suspect is a black man, five-foot-ten and 175 pounds, with short hair. He was wearing a blue hat, dark shirt, jeans and sneakers and carrying a black bag with a strap over... more

The Seneca Falls School District is -quote- “on life support and time is running out” and “the day of reckoning is near.” That’s the opinion of Seneca Falls Board of Education President James P. Clark. In a guest opinion piece in the Sunday Finger Lakes Times, Clark says the district has for the past three year kept the tax increase... more

I felt a bit out of place as I stood in line at The Book Nook in Geneva. I was a twenty-six year old in a sea of seven-to-twelve-year-olds waiting to get a copy of Harry Potter Number Five. Let me tell you – I was prepared to budge in front of every single one of those kids if it... more

A NYS Trooper who is a native of Seneca Falls, NY was involved in an accident Thursday evening on Taft Road in North Syracuse.Trooper Derek Cerza was on his way to assist two other troopers at the Mobil Gas Station on Taft. As Cerza exited I-81 Northbound and prepared to turn left at the intersection, he was struck by another... more

Convocation for the 2004-2005 academic year will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, on the lawn at Stern Hall. The awarding of the 34th Elizabeth Blackwell Award to Bishop Barbara Harris, first female bishop of the Episcopal Church, will take place during the Convocation ceremony, which will include recognition of student organizations and athletic teams as well... more

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For some, a visit to The Brig museum at Sampson State Park is a chance to meet old friends and take a trip down memory lane. For others, it’s a painful journey into the past, perhaps for the first time, sometimes accompanied by grandchildren. But no one who visits the museum created by the Sampson WW2 Navy Vets goes away... more

The Smith Opera House welcomes stage and screen legend, Bea Arthur, for a special one-night engagement on Saturday, September 24. With its acerbic view of life, she will reprise her one-woman Broadway show, “An Evening with Bea Arthur.”Bea Arthur is a household name to generations, thanks in part to her roles in the long-running hit television series, “Maude” and “The... more