The 2012 Millers Mills Ice Harvest has been canceled.
The members of the Millers Mills Grange were forced to cancel this year’s event due to a lack of ice.
The event is scheduled every year for the second Sunday in February and this year was no different. Feb. 12 was when the harvest was supposed to take place, but because of the warmer temperatures, the harvest will no longer be taking place this year.
The Ilion Winter Farmers’ Market will host a two-day open house with local wineries and cheesemakers featuring samplings of their newest offerings.
The open house will take place on Friday, Feb. 10, from noon to 6 p.m. and on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. inside an 1890s Victorian-style barn at Parker’s Clapsaddle Farm.
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A Dolgeville man on Friday was accused of stealing a 2003 Subaru on Jan. 30, Dolgeville police said.
Bryon Alling, 47, of 142 N. Main St., was charged with felony fourth-degree grand larceny after the stolen vehicle was found in Montgomery County and Alling was located in Fulton County by the sheriff’s department on Thursday, police said.
Members of the Mohawk Valley Economic Development Council met Thursday afternoon to do a post mortem of its showing in the 2011 statewide competition for development funds and to plan for this year’s round.
The region — which includes the counties of Oneida, Herkimer, Otsego, Schoharie, Fulton and Montgomery — got $60.2 million in awards that were announced in December.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women fired the revolutionary vision of early American feminists by providing them with a model of freedom at a time women experienced so few rights.
That was the basis of a lecture Sally Roesch Wagner, executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation and author of “Sisters in Spirit,” delivered to Herkimer County Community College’s Gender Studies program on Thursday. During her presentation, she recounted the struggle for freedom and equality waged by women in the United States and documented the influence and inspiration Native American women gave to their social movement.
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Speaking after a budget hearing on economic development on Tuesday, Assemblyman Marc Butler emphasized New York’s need for investment and regulation relief for business.
“New York needs a multifaceted approach to turning around its economy. While we’re investing in jobs, we need to immediately and aggressively relieve businesses of the job-killing regulations that stifle their success,” said Butler, R,C,I - Newport. “Economic recovery is being held captive by government red tape. Let’s cut the endless list of badgering regulations, rules, fees and fines on our small businesses, manufacturers and farmers. We have everything we need for a vibrant private sector economy, except a thriving business climate.”
A traffic stop ended in an arrest after Herkimer police discovered several packets of heroin and prescription pills inside the vehicle.
Police said a vehicle operated by Katrina Johnson, 25, of Whitesboro, was stopped by officers and after interviewing Johnson and her passenger, Lance Durham, 32, of Mohawk, the drugs were found.
It’s business as usual for the Frankfort-Schuyler Board of Education.
Last month school district voters overwhelmingly turned down a proposed four district merger that would have combined Frankfort-Schuyler with Herkimer, Ilion and Mohawk.
The three school districts have since agreed to move forward with a merger study of their own, leaving Frankfort-Schuyler, the only district to vote against the merger, to proceed by itself.
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It seems as if the original list of names from the 1943 World War II memorial have vanished. In 1947, the monument that once stood at North Main Street and Park Avenue in Herkimer and listed the names of individuals who served in the war was dismantled by village employees.
At the present time no one seems to know where the names have disappeared to.
Jennifer Riesel, the woman accused of running over Francis Nelson, claiming the Little Falls man offered to pay her to do it, pleaded guilty Wednesday afternoon to attempted second-degree murder.
Riesel, 29, of Furnace Street, Little Falls, expects to be sentenced to 16 years in prison, with five years of probation post release, when she returns to Herkimer County Court next month.
The three percent January sales tax distribution in Herkimer County totaled $4,838,656.51, an increase of $28,053.89 from the January 2011 distribution.
The total distribution to the 19 towns was $59,120.83 more than a year ago, with the 10 villages receiving $33,554.54 more, the city of Little Falls receiving an additional $12,317.78 in sales tax revenue and the county receiving $76,939.26 less for the quarter than in 2011.
The New York State Senate on Tuesday passed legislation for the largest expansion of the state’s DNA databank since it was created in 1994.
The legislation — S.5560A — mirrors the databank expansion plan proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to require people convicted of all felonies, as well as misdemeanors in the penal law, to submit DNA samples. As it stands, the database applies to penal law felonies and 36 specific misdemeanor crimes.
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Want job security in the Mohawk Valley?
Become a nurse.
Julie Wells, 43, of Mohawk, was looking for a career where she would be able to find a job, have benefits and enough income to support her family.
It’s been a slow winter for all of central New York, especially in the Mohawk Valley. It seems Sunday night’s snowfall was the most snow we’ve seen in a couple weeks.
According to WUTR Chief Meteorologist Jeff Matthews, “Sunday night’s snowfall was due to a cold front that was followed by some lingering lake effect snow.”
St. Patrick’s Day came early — or at least it looked like it did Sunday afternoon — at the annual Halfway to the Great American Irish Festival Hooley at Hart’s Hill Inn, Whitesboro.
In a whirlwind of Irish tradition, from music to dancing, food to Guinness, attendees celebrated the halfway mark to the annual festival as well as the appointing of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal. This year, the honor went to Pat Costello, 59, of Whitesboro.
A three-way merger for the Ilion, Herkimer and Mohawk school districts is on the horizon.
But this time, Herkimer Board of Education President John Cipriano, Jr. said they’re making sure to ease the districts, the students and the community into it.
The group decided to pursue a launch date of July 2013.
