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

WILLIAMSON — The Williamson Chamber of Commerce held a successful ribbon-cutting ceremony June 26 to celebrate the grand reopening of Rootstock Cider & Spirits under new ownership.

OVID — Six Eighty Cellars, a Finger Lakes winery with a focus on unique earthenware-aged wines sourced from certified sustainable grapes, is sharing news about its latest offering — an immersive tasting and tour experience within their cellar, on the…

INTERLAKEN — Airy Acres Vineyard is opening its new tasting room and is inviting the public to visit for the celebration July 20 at the vineyard at 8011 Footes Corners Road.

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BINGHAMTON — AI is helping New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric become more user-friendly.

CANANDAIGUA — An Independence Day celebration in the Finger Lakes awaits the Super DIRTcar Series.

FARMINGTON — Funny Cide, the only New York-bred to win the Kentucky Derby and the standard bearer for the “little guy” in horse racing, will be remembered on July 4 at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack.

SENECA FALLS — The Cayuga Nation’s legal battles with the owner of the Fingerlakes Drive-In movie theater in the Cayuga County town of Aurelius are continuing.

GENEVA — Quick Silver Theater Co. founder and Artistic Producer Tyrone Henderson is returning to Geneva this weekend for the 2024 Playwrights of Color Summit.

GENEVA — It’s not every day you find a bakery in a barbershop. However, that’s what is happening in Symmetry Barbershop at 118 Castle St.

GENEVA — Ontario County officials are hitting the road, talking with municipalities about the significant challenges the county faces related to housing.

PENN YAN — In what his attorney called a “naked land grab,” a longtime local resident has taken legal action against village officials, claiming they illegally assumed ownership of his property by calling it a village street.

CANANDAIGUA — The recent storm that hit the Town of Canandaigua caused branches, brush, leaf and other yard debris.

RUSHVILLE — Penn Yan CSD students in grades 6-12 are now eligible to participate in the upcoming Marcus Whitman Field Band season. The announcement is a result of recent collaborative efforts between the two districts to bolster participation in the…

CANANDAIGUA — Four Finger Lakes Community College employees and two students were honored with the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at the commencement ceremony in May. They are as follows:

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OVID — Mila Rae McLaughlin’s family noticed she was having trouble walking and was tiring easily, so they took her to UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital in early June for testing and a possible diagnosis.

SODUS — Wayne Action for Racial Equality has named three students from two school districts as recipients of its 2024 Timothy Barber Scholarship Awards.

GENEVA — Two Pulteney Street residents have sued the city, claiming poor maintenance of a storm sewer damaged their properties.

GENEVA — In what Ontario County’s sheriff is calling a “monumental” case, a total of 20 search warrants were executed in Ontario and Monroe counties, and drugs, guns, and cash were seized.

NEWARK — More than 200 people viewed artwork made this past school year by Lincoln and Perkins School second graders during the two-hour morning art show June 22 in the Perkins School gymnasium.

Mat Williamson, Matt Sheppard and Danny Varin added crown-jewel chapters to their already storied careers this past week.

AUBURN — The Geneva Red Wings were swept in a doubleheader on Friday by the Auburn Doubledays.

CANANDAIGUA — Forty years ago, eight young professionals from the Rochester area challenged themselves to swim the length of Canandaigua Lake — from south to north, a distance of 17 miles.

CANANDAIGUA — A proposed local law to give Highway and Water Superintendent James Fletcher pay raises of totaling $45,000 was tabled by the Town Board at its June 24 meeting.

ALBANY — The Eastern Finger Lakes Coalition has received $1.2 million from the state to improve water quality and combat harmful algal blooms in seven of the 11 Finger Lakes.

LYONS — The money keeps rolling in for this Wayne County town as it looks to revitalize its downtown and neighborhoods.

CLIFTON SPRINGS — Many veteran police officers are trained well when it comes to responding to mental health calls, something they do on an almost daily basis.

The Independence Day celebrations of July 4, 1899, struck Geneva with a “boom and a bang less than an instant after midnight Monday night” and ended 24 hours later. The Geneva Daily Times assigns the noisy celebrations to boys, who…

Let’s start this adventure from the beginning. The starting point does not reflect my overall angling experience; however, you must not lie when printing important words.

When Waterloo’s Madison Westerberg hit her first-ever home run over the fence during her junior varsity softball season back in 2021, she was just an eighth-grader at the time and could never have imagined that she’d now be climbing up…

From 2007 to 2013 a group of boys learned teamwork and the fundamentals of the game of lacrosse as members of Geneva YMCA Youth Lacrosse teams, achieving great success as they progressed from Grades K-2 to 3-4, to 5-6 teams.

CLYDE — When Kevin Sharp and his brother were children, their father moved their family from Brockport to Clyde — for a very special reason.

ROMULUS — The Seneca County sheriff’s office will host boater safety classes over the next several weeks in the training room of the county Law Enforcement Center, 6150 Route 96.

EUGENE, OR — New York’s Emily Mackay made her Olympic Trial debut on Thursday night in the 1500-meter first round.

SENECA FALLS — Regional government officials will have an in-person chance to learn about a variety of state grant programs.

SENECA FALLS — The parents of a young woman who died by suicide at the time of her high school graduation a year ago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Seneca Falls school district, three of its four…

It’s a time that no one wants to think about: losing a loved one. But, before that, there are end-of-life issues and decisions to be made. Laci Graham, as director of Newark’s Laurel House, has made a career of helping…

HURON — To recognize and celebrate the service efforts of its residents, the Town of Huron awarded the Distinguished Volunteer Service Award at the June 18 Town Board meeting to lifelong resident Lois Buckalew.

WATERLOO — In 2022, Verona Village Apartments in Ovid received a $4.8 million state grant to support a $9.5 million renovation of the 42-year-old County Road 139 complex.

WATERLOO — Seneca County appointed five new department heads recently, mostly due to retirements.

This was a 2024 boys lacrosse season that started with splitting up the Finger Lakes league into two separate divisions to help create the Finger Lakes East and West as you see in most sports.

GENEVA — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer went off script and decided to share something with those gathered at the Cornell AgriTech campus to mark the groundbreaking of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s $69 million grape research lab.

PHELPS — FLX Retreats, a provider of elevated camping experiences in the Finger Lakes region, has acquired Lake Remick and the former Camp Dittmer in Phelps.

HECTOR — A new winery is opening in the Finger Lakes.

The 2024 season for Finger Lakes girls lacrosse saw the departure of Penn Yan Academy and the entrance of Livonia/Avon, as well as Marcus Whitman and Waterloo separating programs after two seasons of a combined varsity program.

GENEVA — The 29th Martin Luther King Committee Scholarship Dinner will be held July 10 at Club 86.

GENEVA — The Finger Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce held its June Business After Hours Networking Mixer June 12 at Guardian Glass. Located on Forge Avenue in the industrial park in Geneva, the event drew a crowd of regional attendees…

HOPEWELL — On June 21, Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center welcomed one of its biggest crowds of the season so far.

CLEVELAND, Oswego County — For the second time in 22 months, Congresswoman Claudia Tenney has fended off a Republican primary challenge from Geneva’s Mario Fratto in the 24th Congressional District.