Finger Lakes Times | FLTimes.com | Local News | Geneva, NY (2024)

HONEOYE FALLS — Much like their basketball team during the winter, winning a sectional championship was one of many goals the Dundee/Bradford BraveScots softball team accomplished this season. Yet with the Finger Lakes West league and Class C2 crowns atop…

The CMAC concert season opened Friday with headliners the Avett Brothers (right insert photo). I first became familiar with them when they were booked to play at the Smith Opera House in 2011. I didn’t know much about them, but…

Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center opened up its 2024 season Friday with a band familiar to the venue’s faithful.

PENN YAN — The downtown area’s 26th annual Cruisin’ Night and Block Party returns June 14.

SHORTSVILLE — The Red Jacket school district’s mascot name change committee will meet May 30 and is likely to make a recommendation to the Board of Education on a new nickname for the district’s athletic teams.

PALMYRA — Joe Lorenzetti’s father is a longtime doctor in Seneca Falls.

NEWARK — The ninth annual Laurel House 5K Run/Walk, a fundraiser for the comfort care home in this Wayne County village, has been scheduled for June 8.

SENECA FALLS — One of this community’s features is the Cayuga-Seneca Canal that runs through the middle of the downtown area.

PHELPS — When two people’s dreams come together they also can come true. Just ask Lauren Burdsall and Amy Hayes.

ROMULUS — The Seneca County Suicide Prevention Coalition is hosting a walk June 2 to raise awareness about mental health and suicide.

CANANDAIGUA — Good news for fireworks fans in this Ontario County municipality.

BENTON — WineAmerica, the National Association of American Wineries based in Washington, D.C., has elected as its new board chair Scott Osborn, president and co-owner of Fox Run Vineyards.

CLEVELAND — A $15 million downtown revitalization project in Lyons is among five in the region that could receive significant amounts of federal funding, Rep. Claudia Tenney announced Tuesday.

GENEVA — City police are involved in the investigation of a former city school district teacher arrested last week for allegedly touching students inappropriately in Monroe County.

PENN YAN — Yates County Public Health recently hosted a regional meeting of the Finger Lakes Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning.

FARMINGTON — Troop E of the New York State Police held its annual Memorial Day ceremony Thursday, honoring six troopers.

GENEVA — A sure sign of summer — late summer, in particular — is the presence of harmful algal blooms in the Finger Lakes.

ALBANY — New York State has acquired land in Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties and added it to the state’s Wildlife Management Area system.

CANANDAIGUA — Ontario County residents will be able to recycle confidential paper and rigid plastic items in June.

HAMMONDSPORT — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation-managed Keuka Unit consists of 9,806 acres of public lands in Steuben and Schuyler counties, surrounding Keuka Lake.

WATERLOO — Dave Kingston has loved cars and trucks since he was in grade school. He parlayed that love of all things automotive — except maybe the computer part — into a career as a mechanic.

CANANDAIGUA — The owner of the former Canandaigua YMCA at 32 N. Main St. is seeking city approval to redevelop the property.

FARMINGTON — Jak N Burny was a two-length winner of the 39th renewal of the $50,000 George W. Barker Stakes at Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack on Monday. The Debra Breed-trainee took the six furlong dash for New York-breds 3-years-old…

Mat Williamson scored his third straight Super DIRTcar Series main at Weedsport Sunday during the 100-lap Heroes Remembered 100, the season opener for Weedsport Speedway.

WATERLOO — Waterloo High School has announced the 10 students with the highest academic averages in the Class of 2024.

FAYETTE — A field of 616 anglers went after the big catch in the 60th annual National Lake Trout Derby over the Memorial Day weekend.

ALBANY — Senator Tom O’Mara (R-C, Big Flats) and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C-Corning) recently welcomed a fifth-grade class from St. Michael School in Penn Yan to the state capitol.

NEWARK — Newark High School has announced its Class of 2024 valedictorian and salutatorian.

CLYDE — Noah Basteo graduated from the University of Rochester May 19, earning a master of science degree in Accountancy. He was also the recipient of the Elizabeth Hansen Award which honors the student with the highest GPA in the…

ROCHESTER — A Lyons man has been sentenced to a long prison term on a child p*rnography conviction.

SENECA FALLS — Walt Gable has taught and lived Seneca County history most of his life.

CANANDAIGUA — The independent engineering firm hired to find the cause of a Nov. 16, 2023, soil cover breach at the Ontario County Landfill continues to conduct testing, members of the Ontario County Board of Supervisors’ Planning & Environmental Quality…

TYRE — It’s official. The Tyre Fire Co. Inc. will provide fire protection in this town of just over 1,000 residents.

CANANDAIGUA — History repeated itself on Sunday morning at Finger Lakes Community College for the Section V Class D boys lacrosse championship game, but not in the way the Penn Yan Academy Mustangs had hoped.

FILLMORE — In the fourth season of the combined program between Dundee and Bradford softball, the BraveScots finally have their moment.

PITTSFORD — The Canandaigua Academy boys lacrosse team was within striking distance against Irondequoit in the Class B semifinal on Friday. Too many unforced errors from Canandaigua and opportune goal scoring from the No. 2 seed Eagles ended the No.…

GENEVA — City Manager Amie Hendrix has announced the three finalists for city police chief following Matt Colton’s resignation from the position earlier this year.

ALBANY — State Senator Tom O’Mara (R,C-Big Flats) and Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C-Corning) welcomed Dundee High School girls state wrestling champion Peyton Mullin to the state Capitol earlier this week, where she was recognized on the floor of the state…

GENEVA — Jim and Sue Adams normally depart St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Genesee Street each June to head to the Catskills, where they run Lake Delaware Boys Camp.

ROMULUS — The New York State Veterans Cemetery-Finger Lakes will host a Memorial Day observance to honor and remember our nation’s veterans. The event is set for 2:30 p.m. May 27 at the 6632 Route 96A burial ground.

PENN YAN — Details are being firmed up for August, when “The Wall That Heals” makes a stop in this Yates County community.

PENN YAN — This Yates County village is set to host its annual Memorial Day observance Monday. And, because the county will be hosting “The Wall That Heals” in August, organizers will be honoring the two men from Yates County…

GENEVA — The developer of a long-delayed plan to convert the former Trinity Episcopal Church into a hotel, restaurant and events facility has pulled out of the project.

LYONS — David Tulley of Lyons, the often-brash owner of seven unlicensed cannabis stores in Wayne, Cayuga and Oswego counties, has been fined $15.2 million for violating state cannabis laws.

CANANDAIGUA — All seemed well at halftime for the Canandaigua Academy girls lacrosse team. They led 7-2 over Spencerport and exercised complete authority in the second quarter. But in the next two periods, the No. 5-seed Rangers flipped the script…

BRADFORD — Baseball and softball players, no matter the age or level, dream of hitting a walk-off home run in the postseason. For Dundee/Bradford senior Mikayla Schoffner, it manifested into reality for the second time in her softball career.

Rabbi Ann Landowne has been Temple Beth-El of Geneva’s spiritual leader since 2012. Although she grew up in a religious household on Long Island, her first career was as a doctor, as well as a wife and a mother, before…

SENECA FALLS — The Veterans Council of Seneca Falls has announced its schedule of events to celebrate Memorial Day in the in this Seneca County town..Flags will be placed on veterans’ graves in the local cemeteries at 9 a.m. May…

SENECA FALLS — It was a project that almost didn’t happen.

INTERLAKEN — Interlaken Grange #160 will hold its annual Memorial Day observance May 27, beginning at 9 a.m., in Lake View Cemetery on County Road 150.