Mohawk Valley Community College trustees passed a budget plan Monday that increases tuition $130 a year and the overall budget by 2.5 percent Tuition for the fall and spring semesters is a comb... [more...]
SHERRILL — The tentative agreement between the state, Oneida Indian Nation, and Oneida and Madison counties will get a public airing Wednesday at city hall, 377 Sherrill Road. The forum b... [more...]
The Rome Spangles sixth-grade AAU girls basketball team won its fifth tournament of the year after claiming the Western Finger Lakes Classic over the weekend. The Spangles scored wins over the ... [more...]
LATHAM — The Rome River Rats 12U travel baseball team swept the North Colonie Bison in an Empire State League doubleheader on Sunday to improve to 7-1 on the league. In the first game, Ja... [more...]
Nine Rome area golfers have advanced to this week’s Section III Boys Golf Championship Meet, including two from Rome Free Academy, after securing top finishes at the Section III Qualifiers on... [more...]
The Westmoreland modified softball team cruised to a 22-6 triumph over Morrisville-Eaton on Monday. Julia DePietro collected two doubles and a triple to pace Westmoreland offensively, while Syd... [more...]
The early turnout was "very light" this morning for the Rome school district election, said Board of Education President Patricia Riedel, who was "quite disappointed" by the res... [more...]
On Tuesday, Rome school district voters will fill three seats on the Board of Education from a field of five candidates. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. All three seats are for three-y... [more...]
The Rev. William Dodge has resigned as the executive director of the Utica Rescue Mission. Dodge had served as the director of the mission for the last eight years. During his tenure, upgrades ... [more...]
TOWN OF LEE — The flushing of the town’s water system that was scheduled to be conducted Monday and today has been postponed until early June due to a scheduling conflict, said Water Su... [more...]
CAMDEN — As the sheriff’s office continues to investigate the case of a neglected dog that died from starvation Monday morning, neighbors and sympathizers from across the country are ta... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Monday 10:22 a.m. 8195 Bielby Road, automatic alarm. 10:42 a.m. 1155 Erie Blvd. W., accident. 11:19 a.m. 199 W. Dominick St., first aid. 11:21 a.m. 1... [more...]
"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." -- Mark Van Doren, poet, professor. Teaching often winds up in that large container of things loosely identified by society as... [more...]
How many special-effects designers are bigger celebrities, more beloved and admired, than the actors who starred in their movies? We can think of only one, and his name was Ray Harryhausen. Ove... [more...]
At the Rome Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, May 15th, a suggestion had been made to name the gym at Gansevoort School in honor of Lance Cpl. Daniel Geary. This sounds like a wonderful gest... [more...]
In his January 2006 letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs opposing the Land-In-Trust application of the Oneida Indian Nation, County Attorney S. John Campanie stated that the importance of the Sup... [more...]
ABBOTT — Sandra O. Abbott, 70 of Camden, on May 19, 2013. Services 11 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Church. Burial Forest Lawn Cemetery. Arrangements by LaRobardiere Funeral Home... [more...]
BARTHOLOMEW — To Justin and Kathryn Johnson Bartholomew, of Canastota, on Friday, May 17, 2013, in Oneida Healthcare Center, a daughter, Pyper Joann. DUGAN — To Nathan Dugan and Tay... [more...]
