Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the reins — and literally the gavel — Wednesday afternoon as the leader of the National Governors Association during the bipartisan organization’s annual summer meeting. READ MORE
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the reins — and literally the gavel — Wednesday afternoon as the leader of the National Governors Association during the bipartisan organization’s annual summer meeting.
MEDINA — A hospital employee tested positive for COVID-19 late last week, Orleans Community Health officials said Wednesday.
ROCHESTER — A Batavia man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for possessing child pornography which included the violent abuse of infants and toddlers.
NUNDA – A Mount Morris man is facing felony criminal contempt charges after allegedly making repeated calls and sending multiple text messages to a protected part, reports the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office.
WEST SPARTA – A Rochester man was arrested on Interstate 390 last month after a check of his record showed he was driving with a license that had been revoked on 53 suspensions.
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AVON - Members of the Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace will gather tonight for its 45th annual Hiroshima Day Candlelight Vigil in the traffic circle at Routes 5 and 20 in Avon. The vigil is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.
The 2020 Livingston County Farmer Neighbor Dinner, which will recognize LeFeber Farms as the 2020 Farm of the Year, has a new location and date.
GENESEO - People across Livingston County will soon have a new place to buy plumbing, electrical supplies and much more.
MOUNT MORRIS - A Mount Morris man is facing multiple felony counts following his arrest in connection with cocaine sales in the village.
A group of Republican state lawmakers, including Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes, R-Caledonia, and state Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to provide an exemption for workers who live in Pennsylvania, but work in New York from potentially being included in the go…
GENESEO – Five business entities that own land in Livingston County have, in recent weeks, filed tax certiorari cases in Livingston County Supreme Court. In the filings, the entities argue properties they own are worth much less than the dollar value town assessors have placed on them.
ALBANY — Unknown facts about the new coronavirus COVID-19 mainly contributed to the thousands of state virus deaths in nursing homes and adult-care facilities, state Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said during a Legislature hearing Monday.
BUFFALO — A federal judge has awarded an Arcade woman $232,500 for robocalls made to her phone in 2014 and 2015.
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged school districts Monday to designate a space to speak with parents and answer their specific questions about administrators’ reopening plans amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
PERRY — Residents would not let a longtime summer event in Perry get canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic like so many other summer events across the region.
Health departments in the four-county GLOW region reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, with three of those cases in Livingston County and two in Orleans County.
BATAVIA — New COVID-19 cases and recoveries both increased over the past weekend in the GLOW region.
MOUNT MORRIS — The Livingston County Department of Health, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Health Wadsworth Center, is offering COVID-19 diagnostic testing on a limited basis.
LAKEVILLE – The Lakeville Fire District placed a new Pierce pumper into service on July 9.
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The annual Lima Crossroads Blues Festival was canceled this year, but lived on through the Anything Old/New Parade that is a traditional part of the festival.
GENESEO – Livingston County Veterans Services’ veteran suicide prevention efforts has received a boost from the Valley Propane & Fuels “Warrior Truck.”
Former Genesee County residents Kay McDonald and Bill McDonald reach a milestone tonight with their 20th "Home to Home" concert series performance.
ALBANY — Schools must make parents confident in their reopening plans because parental comfort is the strongest driving force behind New York school districts reopening this fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday.
BATAVIA — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases hit a benchmark Friday in the GLOW region.
The Livingston County Department of Public Health reported Friday two additional people had recovered from the COVID-19 virus, bringing the county’s total to 151 people.
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Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming counties will each receive more than $250,000 in state funding to help with COVID-19 contact tracing and flu prevention.
The National Weather Service says a tornado damaged and uprooted trees and partially-flattened a cornfield in southern Monroe County, on Wednesday evening.
Census takers will begin following up Aug. 6 with households that have not yet responded to the 2020 Census.
GENESEO - The developer proposing to construct a 40-acre, 5-megawatt solar array near the north end of Conesus Lake hopes to start construction by the end of the year so it can be up, running and producing energy by the middle of 2021.
The four-county GLOW region is nearing 800 total lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 after Genesee and Orleans counties reported new cases on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Enhanced unemployment benefits must be extended through the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday, as the virus surges in many U.S. states and territories.
GENESEO – The intersection of Route 63 and Court Street will close to all traffic next month as part of the ongoing $8.7 million project to replace the bridge over the Genesee River and install a roundabout, the state Department of Transportation has announced.
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Three of the four GLOW region counties reported no new lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, but two new cases were reported in Livingston County.
SILVER LAKE — Damages were estimated at $750,000 in Tuesday’s fire that destroyed two houses and left a third seriously damaged.
ELBA — State police and Genesee County sheriff’s deputies responded about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday to a reported slashing at 100 South Main St., or Oliver’s Candies, in the village. One woman was taken into custody. Troopers declined to give further information at the scene.
YORK – York Fire Chief Dustin Geiger says the cause of Monday’s tractor trailer fire in York is being ruled accidental.
MOUNT MORRIS – Livingston County plans to distribute thousands of masks, hundreds of gallons of disinfecting spray and hand sanitizer to local school districts in anticipation of the schools re-opening in the fall.
UPDATE: The tornado warning that included Livingston County was canceled shortly before it was scheduled to expire.
BATAVIA — A Batavia man who triggered an Amber Alert after he took a 14-year-old girl across state lines was sentenced to a state prison term Wednesday morning in Genesee County Court.
ROCHESTER – Eastman Kodak signed a letter of interest on Tuesday afternoon to receive a federal loan of $765 million to modernizing and transform parts of the Eastman Kodak campus to manufacture chemical ingredients to help reduce the country’s reliance on the use of ingredients from other c…
The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office and others are warning consumers about unsolicited packages being delivered from mailing addresses in China with unknown seed types inside.
BATAVIA — The first robotically assisted knee replacement surgery at Rochester Regional Health United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) has been performed and there are more coming up soon.
County leaders across New York have renewed their plea for federal lawmakers to pass a coronavirus relief bill to provide aid to state localities.
WARSAW — Only one new COVID-19 case was reported Tuesday in the GLOW region.
