Cornell Cooperative Extension organized three days of seminars on Business, Enology, and Viticulture (BEV NY). Formerly known as the Wine Industry Workshop, the annual gathering of the Finger Lakes Grape Growers Conference and the New York Wine Industry as worries about how the harsh winter have and continue to damage the buds and grapevines. BEV […]
Family, Friends, Macedon Town and Wayne County officials showed up for the official groundbreaking of a long awaited project. Kevin and Barb Heald, owners of Twilight on the Erie RV Resort in Macedon. celebrated the true beginning of their dream, on Saturday, March 8th. Angelo Affronti will clear the land, run the culvert pipes and […]
The Gananda Community Youth Theatre is proud to announce their upcoming production of the musical Willy Wonka Jr., directed by John Barthelmes and choreographed by Kaitlyn Zorn Barthelmes. The cast of 37 area 5th & 6th graders will take you on adventure through Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory based on the story by Roald Dahl. Support this great community […]
Imagine holding your house in the palm of your hand. You are either a giant among men, or somebody like Rich Cobb has done his job. Rich, who retired as the Operations Officer for the Wayne County Emergency Management Department in 2007 has been building miniatures in one form, or another since the late 1940s. […]
Don’t call them “toy trains”, model railroaders take their hobby to heart It is tucked away in anything but a conspicuous location. The North Rose Railroad Co., created by Gary Poole, is after all, located at 10336 Railroad Avenue, just off Route 89 in the hamlet of North Rose. Visitors are welcomed by a large, […]
Will accept Wayne County students from Newark, Lyons, and Palmyra An exciting local educational initiative in planned, that will bring the Classical Charter School of the Finger Lakes to our area in the Fall of 2015, through a partnership with Hillsdale College. According to former teacher and founding member of Classical Charter School of the […]
Wayne Central senior, Justin Morrison of Ontario NY, received a full scholarship to play football for Gannon University. Justin signed his letter of intent on February 5th with his mother, coach and teammates present. Justin was senior running back for the Wayne football team as well as a team captain. He made 2nd All State […]
Former Lyons resident, Matt Reynolds has recently received a distribution deal for his award winning documentary, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt. The documentary was released in select theaters and on-demand everywhere on January 14 and started a special Super Bowl week run on Hulu on Thursday, January 30. The documentary comedy about Buffalo wings and […]
The Village of Lyons will receive a facelift and welcome new business to William Street this year. With the awarding of two grants, from the New York State Home & Community Renewal a new business will come to the former J.J. Newberry building, which most recently housed a local Dollar and More Store. Lyons Businessman […]
Paul Harkness, who has been EMT Director for the Macedon Town Ambulance for the last 3 years, is excited with the new equipment now in service on the two ambulances. “We will now be able to further assure life-saving capabilities for our patients,” said Paul. Two new Lucas2 automatic Compressive Systems were delivered and ready […]
“We should do more locally” said one Rotarian some months ago. John Zornow, Newark Rotary President since July 1, insisted “We can do both, we have the ability to help our neighbors and address needs internationally.” Linda Werts, Co-Chair of the Service Committee has championed the needs of those in South Sudan who are victims […]
While driving by the Macedon Public Safety Building on North Wayneport Road, Devin Holdraker noticed the flag at the facility was a bit wind- worn and actually a bit small for the pole. He ordered a new 4’x 6’ flag and donated it to Macedon. Devin, a partner at the Times newspaper is offering to […]
On Wednesday at around 2:45pm Paul Harkness, Director of Macedon EMS, was on scene at a traffic accident when a familiar gentleman pulled up. The elderly man, who Harkness knew right away, was looking for his wife. She has a tendency to walk off and he hadn’t seen her in almost two hours. Harkness immediately […]
On Wednesday November 27th, Senator Charles Schumer visited DeFisher Farms recently opened farm distillery to talk about the CIDER act. Due to current language in the Internal Revenue Code, some Hard Cider may be taxed as Wine, which carries a much heftier tax than Cider. Beer for example is currently taxed at 23¢ a gallon. […]
It may sound simple enough. The goal? Construct two new baseball dugouts at the Marion Town Park.. However it’s taken several months, dozens of volunteers and the cooperation of residents, Town rmployees and local businesses to see the project come to fruition. “This was a true community collaboration.” said Tracy Stewart, Marion Baseball Coach. Stewart […]
