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GENEVA — City Manager Amie Hendrix announced Monday afternoon that Geneva Police Department Lt. Ron Eveland is the city’s next chief of police.

CANANDAIGUA — Work on the Saltonstall Street bridge began June 10 and will continue into August.

CICERO — This past weekend’s New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships to concluded the 2024 boys and girls outdoor track & field season featured the scholastic end of a great Penn Yan Academy runner while also continued…

Two local bowlers participated at this year’s United States High School Bowling National Championships and two local teams competed in the New York State High School trap shooting tournament over the weekend.

LYONS — The push to designate eastern Lake Ontario as the nation’s 16th national marine sanctuary has reached a successful conclusion.

BELLPORT — The magical 2024 season for the Bloomfield Bombers softball team concluded on Saturday afternoon in the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C championship game at Martha Avenue Recreational Park in Bellport.

PENN YAN — The new leader of the Yates Community Center is looking forward to the facility’s future, including construction of a proposed fieldhouse.

SENECA FALLS — The Cayuga Nation wants to pay for and share a used excavator with the town.

Thomas Lucas, Hobart College Class of 1974, has written an engaging new novel about the Vietnam War: “Raging Mice.”

WATERLOO — Massachusetts General Cancer Center’s Protocol Office recognized and awarded the first recipients of the Maggie Y. Pontius Outstanding Clinical Research Coordinator Award April 26.

SODUS — The Sodus Farmers’ Market opens for its 16th year June 12, and it will continue every Wednesday from 2:30-6 p.m. through Oct. 9 in the parking lot of Sodus Third Methodist Church on Belden Avenue.

PENN YAN — Yates County Public Health and the county’s Community Services agency have partnered with CredibleMind to launch a free online platform with 24/7 access to more than 10,000 confidential, personalized, science-backed mental health resources.

GENEVA — Gary Iannopollo turned a childhood card-collecting hobby into a successful sideline business while working full-time in retail.

CANANDAIGUA — An Ontario County sheriff’s office investigator received the Victor-Farmington Rotary Club’s Law Enforcement Award last month.

Seniors from the Finger Lakes East baseball league got a final game in for 2024 and their high school careers on Wednesday night.

PENN YAN — A GoFundMe effort is underway to help the owners of the Penn Yan Diner, an iconic business damaged by fire last month.

WATERLOO — The case of a Rochester man facing an attempted murder charge in the near-fatal stabbing of a Seneca Falls woman appears headed to trial.

CORTLAND — The first task for the Penn Yan Academy girls lacrosse team was to keep Cold Spring Harbor from rolling early in the Class D NYSPHSAA state semifinals.

Sunday Editor Louise Hoffman Broach has known Scott Osborn, co-owner of Fox Run Vineyards in Yates County, since her days as an administrative assistant for New York Farm Bureau in the mid-2000s. Passionate about the wine industry and agriculture in…

GENEVA — Over the years the town has installed a bike park, box lacrosse/soccer field, community garden, and musical station behind Town Hall.

GENEVA — The Zonta Club of Geneva celebrated its 95th anniversary May 25. It is a member of Zonta International, a leading global organization whose mission is to build a better world for women and girls.

KEUKA PARK — Keuka College has named a seasoned higher-education administrator to fill a key role on its leadership team.

ROSE — The second phase of the Wayne County Emergency Medical Services project is underway.

WATERLOO — The man accused of robbing two people in Tyre earlier this year — and trying to rob another — was arraigned Wednesday in Seneca County Court.

The Better Business Bureau serving Upstate New York has launched a new online resource aimed at helping people who have been impacted by scams.

CORTLAND — The final weekend of the high school athletic season arrives. Naturally, Penn Yan Academy girls lacrosse heads into a final four gauntlet of the best that New York State Class D has to offer.

VICTOR — Eastview has announced two more additions to the property. Coming this fall, La Vie en Rose, and in the spring of 2025 familiar favorite, PacSun, will return to the mall on Route 96.

SOUTH BRISTOL — Numerous Ontario County fire companies responded early Wednesday morning to a condominium fire on Cliffside Drive in the Bristol Harbour area.

NEWARK — Almost a year to the day after the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society and Museum launched a fundraiser to purchase a rare car made in Newark, it will be unveiled to the public June 8.

FARMINGTON — Wanda Polisseni has enjoyed great success as a Thoroughbred owner on the track, winning more than 900 career races with horses running under the My Purple Haze Stables name.

CANANDAIGUA — Finger Lakes Community College Athletics announced a groundbreaking development for its Esports program. Starting in the upcoming academic year, members of the FLCC Esports team will be eligible to receive academic credit for their participation, much like traditional…

The 2023-24 Community Service Award recently was presented to Spencer Tulis, chief photographer at the Finger Lakes Times, at the annual New York State Athletic Administrators’ Association’s (Chapter 5) annual luncheon.

CANANDAIGUA — City Council is set to consider allowing free, live music at the gazebo in Kershaw Park on Wednesday nights this summer.

GENEVA — Auditions are approaching for the Geneva Theatre Guild and the GTG Youth Theatre’s co-production of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda The Musical!”

PENN YAN — The Keuka Arts Festival will be held June 8-9 along the Keuka Outlet in this historic Yates County village.

CANANDAIGUA — The Ontario County Democratic Committee is urging Republicans to forsake their allegiance to former President Donald Trump following his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to what was called a hush money payment to…

CANANDAIGUA — A birthday party for World War II veteran Gene Gerrard, who is turning 102, is scheduled for 1 p.m. June 8 at Murphy’s Law, 759 S. Main St.

SENECA FALLS — The new Summer Thursdays program in this Seneca County community begin June 6.

The individual performances are one thing to Nazareth University goaltender Allie Klestinec, but it’s the team accomplishments that the Geneva High graduate cares about most.

CANANDAIGUA — Stop the presses! It’s one of the oldest newsroom clichés — and, in a sign of the times, it will soon be the reality at Moore Printing Co.

GENEVA — 2023 was a challenging — and, in some cases, disastrous — year for Finger Lakes grape growers, with some suffering total losses following a hard May frost, noted Kyle Anne Pallischeck, director of the Finger Lakes Wine Alliance.

OVID — South Seneca Class of 2017 graduate Emily Lavarnway was inducted into the Section V Track and Field Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Saturday’s NYSPHSAA State Qualifier meet at Newark High School.

SHORTSVILLE — Red Jacket High School has announced that seniors Brooklyn Vienna and Micah Harshfield are the school’s 2024 Male and Female Athletes of the Year. The prestigious honor, awarded annually, is voted on by coaches and is a testament…

GENEVA — Normally, no one could imagine “slobs” wanting to promote a clean Seneca Lake.

CANANDAIGUA — Tweaking a local law that has been on the books since 1997 caused some debate at Thursday’s Ontario County Board of Supervisors meeting.

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

HOPEWELL / FARMINGTON — The Ontario County Humane Society has made two recent arrests in alleged animal cruelty cases, including dead horses being found.

GENEVA — Hobart and William Smith welcomed Geneva City School District’s second-graders to campus May 28 and sixth-graders June 3. What has become an annual tradition coordinated by Geneva 2030 brings every second, sixth and ninth grader to campus for…

CLIFTON SPRINGS — Midlakes' chapter of the National Honor Society held a candle-lighting ceremony in front of family, friends, and educators in welcoming its 2024 inductees May 23.

GENEVA — The Geneva Rotary Club has been making interest-free loans to college students from Geneva for 100 years.