John J. Smothers, 86, of Rome, passed away Tuesday, December 13, 2011. He was born April 29, 1925, in Florence, New York, the son of Martin and Victoria Preczkiewicz Smothers. He was married to the... [more...]
@Body.10. no-hyphen:Alfred M. Griessen, 89, formerly of Lee Center, passed away on December 12, 2011, at Rome Memorial Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility. He was born on June 24, 1922, in Lee, the s... [more...]
FREEDMAN — Dr. Thelma B. Freedman, 81, of Canastota, on Dec. 10, 2011. Services 3 p.m. Friday at Campbell-Dean Funeral Home, 260 Main St., Oneida. Calling hours 1-3 p.m. prior to the serv... [more...]
The speaker at Mohawk Valley Community College’s fall commencement ceremony will be Denise DiGiorgio, retired vice president emerita for student services, the college said. The event is T... [more...]
City Treasurer Frank Puma will leave office at the end of the year, returning full-time to his accounting firm, he said today. Puma, age 61, took the treasurer’s job at the request of May... [more...]
WOODGATE — The American Flyer model train working operation will once again be at the Woodgate Free Library through mid-January. AF, which was a product of the former A.C. Gilbert Company... [more...]
STERPE — To Rusty Sterpe and Kaylee Lamb, of Canastota, on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011 at Oneida Healthcare Center, a son, Camren Charles. [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Website: www.romepd.com Tuesday 12:06 a.m. Steuben St., attempt to locate. 12:15 a.m. Railroad St., suspicious activity. 12:54 a.m. Floyd Ave., suspi... [more...]
County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. is calling for an external audit of the county Board of Elections, and has asked the Comptroller’s Office to arrange for and oversee the process. In a ... [more...]
A moratorium on closing or consolidation of post offices and mail processing facilities until May 15, buys more time for a regional facility in Utica and a three small rural stations in Oneida, Lew... [more...]
Literacy Volunteers of America/midyork, Inc. is presenting a tutor training workshop in English as a Second Language at Utica Public Library, 303 Genesee St. next month. The deadline to registe... [more...]
Temperatures: 25 to 40 Normal Range: 22 to 36 Records: -7(2005), 55(2001) Rainfall: 0" Snow: 0" Monthly rainfall: 4.55" Rainfall for year: 49.54" Sno... [more...]
ORISKANY — The free Making Ends Meet workshop, presented by Heat Smart New York, will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday in Oriskany Public Library, 621 Utica St. The workshop provides ... [more...]
Jervis Public Library, 613 N. Washington St., will host a Holiday Concert at 2:30 p.m. Saturday featuring a performance by Rome Free Academy’s Strolling Strings, a student ensemble. The free,... [more...]
Rome Housing Authority, 200 N. Levitt St. (Liberty Gardens) building 500, $3,319,866, alteration of multi-unit building. [more...]
CAMDEN — For the 32nd straight year, Mystic Stamp Co. will pay a December bonus. Company President Don Sundman said Mystic has achieved another positive six months of profit, even in a di... [more...]
NEW HARTFORD — Paul H. Peruzzi, director of premium audit with the Utica National Insurance Group, has been named Auditor of the Year by the Northeast Regional Insurance Auditors Association ... [more...]
RFA alumni game on Dec. 26 The 23rd annual Rome Free Academy Alumni Basketball game will be held on Monday, Dec. 26 at the Strough Middle School’s Stan "Buddy" Evans gymnasium s... [more...]
ALBANY (AP) — Here are the winning state Lottery numbers selected Tuesday in the midday drawing: Daily: 9, 8, 4; Lucky Sum: 21; WinFour: 8, 5, 2, 9; Lucky Sum: 24. Here are the winnin... [more...]
Tonight — Rain. Lows in the mid 30s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Thursday — Showers. Highs in the upper 40s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 3... [more...]
Tonight’s Schedule... Professional Hockey — American Hockey League: Syracuse at Albany, 7. Scholastic boys Basketball — Oriskany at Old Forge, South Lewis at Lafar... [more...]
La Banda Rossa (The Red Band) of Utica will release its recording, "Ancora Viva" at the Oneida County Historical Society’s main exhibit gallery at 1 p.m. Saturday. Light refresh... [more...]
Craobh Dugan, the local branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, will be hold a free traditional Irish music session at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21 at The Mill, 601 E. Dominick St. The sessions ... [more...]
Serial rapist Robert W. Blainey is facing charges of murder, rape, robbery and burglary in the death and sexual assault of Utica motel-owner Linda Turner. The District Attorney’s Office w... [more...]
OLD FORGE — The first 600 paying admission to the "Adirondack View Finders" a photography exhibition on display at View through March 3, will receive a commemorative gift. John Radi... [more...]
A dollar bill, as we all know too well, is a fleeting thing. Not just because it leaves our hands so much more easily than it returns but because, as it changes hands, it wears out within about thr... [more...]
Several thousands of dollars worth of train parts were stolen from the Adirondack Scenic Railroad workshop at the Griffiss Park sometime Monday night. Detective Commander Timothy J. Bates said ... [more...]
TOWN OF WESTMORELAND — A family of four is temporarily displaced from their home after an early morning chimney fire forced them into the cold early this morning. Volunteers from four dif... [more...]
The Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Utica has announced promotions and hirings. Tony Talerico is the association’s new vice president of marketing and business ... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 9:31 a.m. 125 E. Garden St., first aid. 10:32 a.m. 333 W. Dominick St., first aid. 11:13 a.m. 124 Brookley Road, telephone alarm. 3:46 p.m. 5... [more...]
Cutting board meetings by 10 and consolidating committees are major changes proposed for the Board of Legislators that will be sworn in next month. Board Chairman Gerald J. Fiorini, R-20, Rome,... [more...]
Two "beautiful and regionally significant landscape paintings" of Trenton Falls by the 19th-century American artist Thomas Hicks (1823-90), recently acquired by the Munson-Williams-Procto... [more...]
NEW YORK MILLS — An Oriskany man is facing 40 felony and misdemeanor charges after law enforcers said he repeatedly stole from the register while working at Rite Aid on Commercial Drive. ... [more...]
Three Romans have been charged with drug, weapon and stolen property possession after three separate drug raids Tuesday: at Pine Haven Trailer Park, Park Drive Manor, and the Colonial II Apartments... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 12:09 a.m. Skyline Drive, Westmoreland, missing person. 12:27 a.m. Route 46, Verona, car/animal. 2:17 a.m. Route 5, Vernon, accident/injury. ... [more...]
The Oneida County Public Market celebrates Christmas Saturday inside Union Station in Utica. Local foods and products offered from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will include meats, dairy items, baked goods,... [more...]
The Humane Society of Rome, along with Wanderer’s Rest Humane Association, Central New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Angels of Fur and Wayward Paws will hold the Mega... [more...]
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver will be discussed Thursday, Jan. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 310 Genesee St., Utica. A limited... [more...]
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute School of Art dance program presents four performances of the Holiday classic, The Nutcracker 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, at M... [more...]
WHITESBORO — Kelly McGlynn, of Whitesboro, performed as part of the Buffalo State Wind Ensemble at Kleinhans Music Hall. Kleinhans is home to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. McGlynn, ... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 1:32 a.m. Blue Road, Deerfield, abandoned call. 2:02 a.m. Route 5, Vernon, accident/injury. 2:34 a.m. Lawson Road, Augusta, alarm. 3:06 a.m. ... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 2:02 a.m. Vernon, Route 5, accident/injury. 9:25 a.m. Vernon Center, Route 26, Vernon, false alarm. 9:37 a.m. Westmoreland and Verona, Route 26, ... [more...]
The Rome Free Academy junior varsity girls basketball team tallied a 53-39 triumph over Whitesboro on Tuesday night in their home opener. Teresa Anken helped the Lady Knights pick up their thir... [more...]
OLD FORGE — As the 25th Annual Quilts Unlimited came to a close, View announced that Audrey VanVranken of Holland Patent captured the Popular Vote award for her quilt "Flowers in the Vin... [more...]
A free Candy Cane Lane for children ages 10 and under with parents/guardians will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturay in the living room of the Rome Art And Community Center, 308 W. Bloomfield St. ... [more...]
McCONNELLSVILLE — The Harden Furniture company is selling over 9,000 acres of local timberlands that have long been a source of materials for its products — but CEO and owner Greg Harde... [more...]
YORKVILLE — This village of 2,500 is keeping its 3-man police department, after a proposal to eliminate it was rejected Tuesday by a wide margin of residents. The tally in the special vot... [more...]
The Holland Patent team bounced back from a last-second defeat against Rome Free Academy by posting a 70-57 home victory over Tri-Valley League foe Whitesboro for its first win of the season. T... [more...]
It wasn’t the home opener that Rome Catholic boys basketball coach Steve Campbell had wanted for his Redwings, but he left the game with a positive attitude and the knowledge that his squad s... [more...]
Barrett Celecki claimed two individual wins to help the Holland Patent boys swimming and diving team capture a 57-42 victory over visiting Sherburne-Earlville on Tuesday. Celecki was victorious... [more...]
After two weeks of being away from their home ice, the Rome Free Academy hockey team returned to the Kennedy Arena and certainly put on a show for their fans on Tuesday night. Following a score... [more...]
Dec. 14, 2001 The last Common Council meeting of the year was a quick affair, with only a handful of legislation passed. The four outgoing councilors took the last few minutes of the meeting to... [more...]
Like most Americans, you probably spent Thanksgiving weekend eating turkey once or twice and then sitting stuffed on the couch watching interminable football games or dozing off to be roused only w... [more...]
THURSDAY Planning Board, 6 p.m. Review and hearing on subdivision at 5817-5819 Rome-Taberg Road. Council Chambers, City Hall, 198 N. Washington St. Griffiss Local Development Corporation, 4... [more...]
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