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

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.

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.

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.

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 — 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.

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.

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 — 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.

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…

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.

NEWARK — Local and regional health and human service organizations came together April 23 to put on a wellness-focused event, empowerME, for Wayne County’s 10th grade girls at the Wayne Finger Lakes BOCES Conference Center.

CLYDE — For some people, like Kyle Karan and his partner, Johnathan Murray, covid wasn’t entirely a bad thing. It gave them the impetus to do something they had only dreamed about: Get growing and start their own business.

For the second Friday in a row, there was a first-time winner in victory lane at Brewerton Speedway.

WATERLOO — Do you have an interest in promoting economic development in Seneca County?

GENEVA — The city remains on track to name a new police chief by the end of June.

PENN YAN — Keuka College is being sued by a former professor who claims she was fired primarily due to her age.

WATERLOO — In 2010, Seneca County received an easem*nt from New York State Electric & Gas for the construction of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal Trail. The trail, called Phase I, was completed in 2015 and connects Seneca Lake State Park to…

CANANDAIGUA — A local man has been sentenced to more than three decades behind bars on a rape conviction and other charges — and faces more time for allegedly plotting to kill an Ontario County judge.

GENEVA — The Geneva Red Wings opened their 2024 season on Saturday night at McDonough Park and started their year with a victory over the Auburn Doubledays.