The Dansville town Planning Board hammered out its road use agreement Monday night and called for the town board to pass a six-month moratorium on the natural gas extraction process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Sheriff Joel Ordway declined to comment on a two-year-old allegation of having made inappropriate advances toward a member of his department who just received a $100,000 settlement from Steuben County.
According to the latest statewide poll from the Siena Research Institute, 52 percent of New Yorkers believe that our state is on the right track — a noteworthy move up from last January when just 36 percent felt the same way.
Pro and anti ‘frackers’ butted heads Dansville as that town explores natural gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing.
Late last year I read a headline in the New York Times that asked, “Does America Need Manufacturing?” For anyone who grew up anywhere in the Southern Tier during the region’s manufacturing heyday — whose fathers and grandfathers made a decent living in those factories — the answer to that question is heartfelt and immediate: you better believe it.
With Tuesday’s surprising revelation that Steuben County Sheriff Joel Ordway won’t seek a second term, two candidates have already announced their intention to run for the county’s top law enforcement position.
The headline says the “new” Cuomo budget, but plenty of what we heard from Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his 2012-13 state budget presentation in Albany last week sure sounded a lot like last year — and that’s a great sheet of music to keep reading from.
Dave Cole, who ran unsuccessfully for the position of Steuben County Sheriff in 2008, is announcing Thursday that he will once again run for the position in 2012.
Steuben County Sheriff Joel Ordway announced this morning he will not seek another term in office.
Interested in a snapshot of some of the important issues being talked about at the Capitol? One way to do that is by scanning the titles of reports being issued from the advocacy groups whose goal it is, day in and day out, year after year, legislative session following legislative session, to set the agenda for New York State government.
If you think homelessness is a “big city problem,” think again. Jan 25 through Feb. 1, a count of the homeless, conducted by public and private human service agencies, will extend across Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Livingston and Allegany counties.
In a comment submitted Wednesday to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, federal regulators at the Environmental Protection Agency urged the state to establish a mapping system for hydraulic fracturing well locations.
More than 70 percent of local governments reviewed by auditors had adopted budgets with a property tax levy that was within the allowable limit, while 5 percent exceeded the cap inappropriately, according to an analysis by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office. In the last few weeks DiNapoli sent more than 200 auditors across the state to review the new budgets of 798 municipalities. See list of the governments that stayed within the cap (PDF).
In Livingston County, two municipalities overrode the proprty tax cap: Conesus Fire District and the town of Conesus. Several Steuben County governments properly overrode their property tax caps, including Atlanta-North Cohocton Fire District, Steuben County and the towns of Bath, Campbell, Canisteo, Cohocton, Greenwood, Hartsville, Hornby, Hornellsville, Jasper, Pulteney, Troupsburg, Tuscarora, Wayland and Wheeler.
The face of crime has changed since Brooks Baker first joined the Steuben County District Attorney’s office 17 years ago.
Last week’s reaffirmation of one of our government’s key traditions marked only the second time throughout most of the past century that the speech wasn’t delivered in the State Assembly Chamber, a move this governor first made last year to allow for greater public attendance. Agree or disagree (and there are always critics), it’s symbolic yet again of what’s clearly been the driving hope behind this chief executive’s style of leadership so far, which he expressed this year this way in continuing to call up a new era in New York government, “We put the politics aside and put the people first. And it worked. And we worked. We delivered for the people — and we made this state a better state and I was honored be a part of it with you.”
With these words in mind, then, let’s first recall some of 2011’s hallmarks.
To help kick off the new year in New York State government, which officially got underway yesterday in Albany with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s second State of the State message, Sen. Tom O’Mara (R-C, Big Flats) today announced 2012 contact information for his district offices in Elmira and Bath, and his Albany office.
While Steuben County Legislature Chairman Joe Hauryski, R-Campbell urged officials to think outside the box in 2012, his committee assignments may leave Democrats feeling outside from the start.
A missing person alert issued earlier today for Sylvia Vass, 70, of Tonawanda was cancelled.
Cyber Monday, the day after the traditional Thanksgiving weekend start to the holiday shopping season, begins a flurry of online purchasing which, according to reports, generated more than $1.25 billion this year — the heaviest day of online spending in history.
Steuben County Sheriff’s deputies have apprehended a Dansville man in connection with a sexual abuse investigation.
