A local Marine who was injured in  Afghanistan, was  awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart recently On Friday May 20, 2011, Corporal Zachary D. Byron, a Pashtu linguist from Marion, stationed at Camp Pendelton was presented the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for actions while serving with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment in […]

Amy Zeller, daughter of Scott and Julie Zeller, has been named the Valedictorian for the Marion Senior High Class of 2011. Amy has earned this distinction by accumulating an overall academic average of 97.741. In addition to completing her four years of high school with the top average in a class of 67 students, Amy […]

The Town of Macedon Code Enforcement Officers are cleaning house. Starting last week Code Enforcement Officers Scott Allen and Michael Nelson began “red tagging” empty mobile homes in the Town’s mobile home parks. The Town has seven mobile home parks, and Allen stated that several of the park owners are offering abandoned trailer homes on […]

Newark High School seniors Matthew Plain and Eli Ebanks became the 2011 recipients April 28 of the Greater Newark Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Youth Awards. Given at the annual community awards dinner at the Newark Quality Inn, the Outstanding Youth Award winners were announced by WHAM 13 Associate News Director and Anchor Don Alhart. Alex […]

She made it official on Friday afternoon. After 31-1/2 years as the Wayne County Planning Director, Sharon Lilla is retiring. Her official last day will be July 8th. Sharon received her Bachelors degree in Geography from SUNY Oswego, which she explained was about as close to a planning degree as one could get in the […]

A few weeks ago, rumors circulated that the Marion Post Office would be closing as part of the U.S. Postal Services’ effort to save money. While postal officials say no such closure is planned, they do acknowledge their may be some changes on the horizon in how services are delivered. “We are looking at possible […]

Hundreds of Walworth residents - friends, family and those who only knew his legacy, attended the memorial service on Thursday for Stuart Huntley. The service was fittingly held at the place Stu called a second home - the Walworth Fire Hall on Church Street. In full dress uniforms, his colleagues/fellow firefighters, stood at attention during […]

For the last two months there has been a silence that has permeated the Hoffman Clock Museum located in Newark, NY.  There has been a lot of noise from the pounding of hammers and the moving of display cases but the clocks that make up the heartbeat of the museum have been silenced to allow […]

The Robotics team from Palmyra-Macedon was part of the winning team in the RIT First Robotics Competition on March 5th. The Pal-Mac Raiders Robotics team was part of a winning alliance at the Regional competition and have won a spot in the National competititon in St. Louis, MO on April 27th. The team will be […]

It was a fixture in the Clyde area for years, the cheery yellow restaurant on the way into town on Route 31. El Caldero, owned and operated by Carmen Figueroa West and her family, served up Spanish, Mexican and American fare that people would come from as far away from Rochester to savor. “This was […]