Democrat Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s remark this week that state legislators "deserve" a raise isn’t getting any traction with two local state legislators. "I d... [more...]
Oneida County’s two congressmen found both points of agreement and disagreement with President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. "I absolutely agree," said Rep. R... [more...]
TOWN OF LEE — Cheese factories in Point Rock and Stokes. A hotel and a feed mill in the onetime village of Delta. A blacksmith shop in West Branch. These images from the town’s past... [more...]
Tonight’s Schedule... College Basketball — Lafayette at Colgate, 7. Scholastic boys Basketball — Nottingham at VVS, 6:30. Wrestling — Adirondack at Holla... [more...]
BOONVILLE — Stephanie Kelly Dietz signs copies of her children’s book, "Under the Blinking Light" at 6 p.m. Monday in the American Legion, 124 E. Schuyler St. The author i... [more...]
The 1939 ‘Drums Along the Mohawk,’ starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert will be shown at 6 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Oneida County Historical Society, 1608 Genesee St., Utica. Admis... [more...]
EARLVILLE — The Earlville Opera House Arts Center opens two exhibits from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. Works in Repulsing Attraction and Urban Illusion are on view and visitors can meet the a... [more...]
NEW YORK MILLS — The Rev. Valentine Krul, pastor at the Church of the Sacred Heart and St. Mary Our Lady of Czetochowa, pleaded guilty in County Court this morning to stealing more than $87,0... [more...]
TOWN OF TRENTON — The citizens of the Trenton and Barneveld area will hold a public forum with the Chamber of Commerce next month to discuss the burglaries and break-ins that have plagued the... [more...]
A Jefferson County woman is accused of driving erratically through Rome while on anxiety medication Tuesday evening. Police said Ashley D. Webster, 28, of Libby Lane, Evans Mills, was pulled ov... [more...]
CAMDEN — Village police are investigating a possible robbery outside the McDonald’s restaurant on Oswego Street Tuesday morning. Police said a high school student was driving around... [more...]
MARTINSBURG — A 16-year-old BOCES student in Lewis County has been charged with felony mischief for vandalism at the school that turned sour, literally. Sheriff’s deputies said that... [more...]
NEW HARTFORD — A 79-year-old man is in serious condition this morning after he was struck by a car in the Lowe’s parking lot Tuesday afternoon. Police said Firooz N. Tabrizi, of Pil... [more...]
WHITESTOWN — The Great Escape it was not. An inmate at the county jail on Judd Road is accused of trying to dig a hole through the cement wall of his cell to escape. Authorities said Step... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Website: www.romepd.com Tuesday 2:43 a.m. Floyd Ave., open door/window. 8:04 a.m. Hangar Road, larceny. 8:05 a.m. W. Wright St., domestic. 8:09 a... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 9:06 a.m. 720 Black River Blvd., first aid. 9:31 a.m. 104 Otis St., first aid. 10:14 a.m. 615 Erie Blvd. West, investigate. 1:22 p.m. 302 E. ... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 2:53 a.m. Whitesboro, Main St., alarm. 6 a.m. Westernville and AmCare Ambulance, Grocholski Road, accident. 6:16 a.m. Whitesboro, Main St., alarm... [more...]
To report an emergency: 911 Tuesday 12:30 a.m. Route 12, Sangerfield, assist. 12:30 a.m. Buck Lane, Forestport, suspicious activity. 2:28 a.m. Furnace Creek Drive, Annsville, assist... [more...]
Tuesday 12:30 a.m. Route 12, Sangerfield, domestic. 1:25 a.m. Elmer Hill Road, open door/window. 2:28 a.m. Furnace Creek Drive, Annsville, suspicious activity. 5:03 a.m. Martin Driv... [more...]
Four gone, and three more soon to go, as the Rome school district sheds a fleet of rented trailers that had gathered surplus furniture at a rate of $100 per month apiece since at least last summer.... [more...]
CLINTON — Terrance Hayes, acclaimed poet and professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, reads at Hamilton College on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Dwight Lounge, Bristol Center.... [more...]
"What Does the Future Hold for Nuclear Energy?" will be discussed in a free, public program at 7:3 p.m. Thursday at the Rome Academy of Sciences meeting. It will be held in the Rome Histo... [more...]
Rome hockey player Tom Sestito has been recalled back to the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers and picked up an assist during Tuesday’s 3-2 overtime win on the road over the ... [more...]
The Vernon-Verona-Sherrill boys bowling squad kept its undefeated streak rolling with a 11-0 victory over Rome Free Academy at CAC Lanes in Sherrill on Tuesday. Tristan Tormey bowled the contes... [more...]
The Oriskany junior varsity boys basketball squad pulled away for a 66-35 triumph over visiting Owen D. Young on Tuesday to push its record to 12-1 overall. Ryan Schmadel led the Redskins with ... [more...]
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — The Adirondack Museum’s second Cabin Fever Sunday series program, "Big Cats of the Adirondacks" will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. It will be held in the A... [more...]
REMSEN — The Didymus Thomas Library, 9639 Main St., Remsen will host Computer Basic classes on Feb. 1, 2, and 8, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. These hands-on classes are designed for adults who h... [more...]
CLINTON — Stanley Lombardo, professor of classics at the University of Kansas, speaks at Hamilton College on "Poetics, Translation, and Performance" on Thursday at 4:10 p.m. in the ... [more...]
Do you have a background that includes airport management experience? If the answer is yes and you’d like to help fly Griffiss airport into the future, then Oneida County wants to hear fr... [more...]
THURSDAY Oneida County Industrial Development Corp., 9 a.m. Hearing on buying 116,000 square foot manufacturing building and constructing 2,500 square foot addition, plus buy equipment, at 5836... [more...]
Colgan posts victories for SUNY Brockport ST. LAWRENCE — Rome Free Academy graduate and SUNY Brockport senior Dustin Colgan has been named the State University of New York Athletic Confer... [more...]
Cultural Events at Mohawk Valley Community College take place at both Rome’s 1101 Floyd Ave. campus and Utica’s 1101 Sherman Drive campus. On Tuesday, Kathleen LoGiudice Ph.D., asso... [more...]
Oriskany senior Steve Rossi came close to a triple-double performance on Tuesday night against visiting Center State Conference Division IV foe Owen D. Young as he finished with 14 points, nine reb... [more...]
BOONVILLE — Digital camera and pen and ink classes are scheduled at the Dodge Pratt Northam Art and Community Center, 106 Schuyler St. Scheduled are: Saturday, Feb. 11, 10 a.m. to 11:... [more...]
HERKIMER — Herkimer County Community College’s Gender Studies Program presents a lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner on The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women’s Rights. The fr... [more...]
PULASKI — The Rome Free Academy ice hockey team skated to its fourth straight win on Tuesday as senior forward Garrett Reilley continued to climb up the all-time points scoring list. Reil... [more...]
Jan. 25, 2002 Do you know where your mayor was at 7 a.m. today? Casual viewers of network television — perhaps including eagle-eyed members of the Common Council — know that he was ... [more...]
Theodore A. "Ted" Pich, 93, of Rome, passed away Monday, January 23, 2012. He was born February 28, 1918 in Rome, the son of John and Teresa Jarema Pich. He was a graduate of Transfigurat... [more...]
BLOSSVALE — Jean Marie Carpenter, age 83, of Fish Creek Landing Road, passed away January 24, 2012. She was born June 18, 1928, in Richfield Springs, a daughter of Lawrence and Marie Mull... [more...]
CARPENTER — Jean Marie Carpenter, 83, of Blossvale, on Jan. 24, 2012. Services 10:30 a.m. Friday at Barry Funeral Home, 807 W. Chestnut St., and 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary of the Lake Catholi... [more...]
James William Olney, 86, of Thendara, New York, and Alpine, Texas, passed away quietly in Alpine on January 4, 2012, with his wife Beulah Kokernot at his side. He was born in Rome, New York, on... [more...]
Patricia A. "Pat" Johnson, 77, of, Westmoreland, passed away on Monday, January 23, 2012, at Rome Memorial Hospital. She was born on September 23, 1934, in Aurora, Illinois, the daughter ... [more...]
Temperatures: 33 to 45 Normal Range: 12 to 29 Records: -15(1970), 57(1990) Rainfall: 0.05" Snow: 0.1" Monthly rainfall: 1.63" Rainfall for year: 1.63" ... [more...]
CLINTON — Monday at 7 p.m. in the Kirkland Town Library, 551/2 College St., "A Conversation" about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Public Service MLK Day provides an opportunity to enga... [more...]
BOONVILLE — Could the small triangular park gracing the village’s historic district be lost forever? Village officials don’t know, but they do plan to put up a fight if necess... [more...]
A 28-year-old man is accused of throwing mirrors at his companion during an argument, and then trying to physically drag her out of their North James Street apartment. Bail was paid at $500 for... [more...]
Even before President Obama uttered the first words of his State of the Union address Tuesday night the theater of the absurd had begun. Politico.com reported that billionaire Warren Buffett’... [more...]
CLINTON — The Kirkland Town Library Friends present its Winter Lecture Series, "Made In Central New York", on Thursdays, Feb. 2, 9, and 16 at 7 p.m. at the Library, 551/2 College St... [more...]
SYRACUSE — The Wilson Art Gallery, in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library at Le Moyne College, will sponsor an exhibition of work by Matthew Litteken, titled "Render Unto Caesar: A Discours... [more...]
VERONA — Town Councilman Fred "Fritz" Scherz Jr. has once again created the Fred Scherz Sr. Memorial Scholarship for volunteer community service. The third annual scholarship wi... [more...]
Tonight — Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday — Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday night — Rain wit... [more...]
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