Congressional hopeful Dan Lamb came out swinging at a campaign kickoff event Monday, saying Rep. Richard Hanna’s decisions have been at odds with helping businesses in upstate New York.
Lamb, a Democrat from Dryden, said his own experience working for retiring U.S Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, will make him an effective legislator, even while he forges his own path.
Seven out of every 10 seniors at Thomas R. Proctor High School in Utica graduate in four years.
And for officials in the Utica school district, that figure represents progress and something to be proud of.
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On Friday morning, a commission in Italy announced a proposal to tax owners of dogs and cats for each pet, but the plan was killed by evening after a huge uproar. Animal owners, animal-rights groups and just about everyone else reacted angrily to the plan all day Friday, and it was scrapped by Friday evening.
The village of Frankfort was awarded a grant for $226,000 from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation Green Initiative Grant Program.
The grant will allow the village to resolve the flooding issue at the intersection of Frankfort Street and Third Avenue, as well as at Palmer Street. The flooding issue has been occurring for some time. Currently, the village is using water basins to catch the water flow, but the basins alone are not enough. To help control the flooding rain gardens and tree boxes will be set up to elevate and control water flow.
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A Mohawk woman was killed and four others seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident on Route 20 Saturday afternoon in Otsego County, near the Oneida County border, state police said.
At about 12:35 p.m., Nicole M. Dukerich, 22, of Mohawk, who was killed in the crash, was driving north on County Route 18 with her 3-year-old son when she drove through a stop sign at the intersection with Route 20 and collided with a westbound vehicle driven by Heather R. Simmons, 36, of Canastota, police said.
In Simmons' car were her daughter, 12, and her daughter’s friend, 13.
Whether a student was sitting in the front row or the back at Mohawk Valley Community College’s graduation Friday, civil rights activist Morris Dees told grads they were in the front seat to history.
Dees, the keynote speaker at the 66th commencement ceremony that took place at Utica Memorial Auditorium, is a co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The journey into the nursing field for Rome resident Olivia Mellace was met with a few detours.
She started off at Le Moyne College taking general education classes and then transferred to SUNY Cortland. A week after arriving there, Mellace said, “All those feelings came back to me.”
As usual, Richard Hanna finds himself in the middle.
The moderate Republican from Barneveld faces two opponents in his bid for a second Congressional term, representing a district that stretches from Oneida County to Binghamton.
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Herkimer County Community College graduated its largest class to date — a class of over 660 graduates — during the college’s 44th commencement on Friday.
The members of the class of 2012 were led into the gymnasium by the Mohawk Valley Frasers and the National Anthem was sung by music industry graduate Joshua Lanza, accompanied on piano by adjunct music faculty accompanist Ann Kocuba.
Joseph Cantales, of Utica, received the Clarkson University Inspirational High School Educator Award. Cantales was nominated by former student Adrienne Zacaroli, of Frankfort, a 2012 graduate of the electrical engineering program at Clarkson.
Each year, Clarkson asks its seniors to nominate the secondary school educators who have significantly affected their lives and helped guide their higher education and career decisions.
Herkimer BOCES students were recognized for their volunteer efforts at Alpine Nursing Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Tuesday.
The students in Alana Connolly’s morning and afternoon career awareness classes were given the 2012 District New York State Health Facilities Association’s Volunteer of the Year Award for their visits with Alpine residents throughout the school year.
The Rotary Club of Herkimer will host its second annual Roast on Thursday, June 7, at Francesca’s Banquets and Catering at 144 E. Main St., Ilion.
The volunteer roastees are Herkimer Mark Ainsworth, Ilion Mayor John Stephens, Frankfort Mayor Frank Moracco and Mohawk Mayor Irene Sweet.
As riders with the Ride for Missing Children arrived at Frankfort-Schuyler Elementary School on Friday they were greeted with the sound of applause and the release of dozens of balloons.
The ride — one of five across the state — was nearly 90 miles long, with its purpose to draw awareness for missing children.
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The former home of a major village manufacturer soon will be razed.
Frankfort Mayor Frank Morocco said he was given word Thursday the former Union Fork & Hoe Co., which now is riddled with holes in the roof and overgrown with foliage, is set to be demolished as early as June 4.
A penguin that ran away from a zoo in Tokyo earlier this year by climbing a 13-foot wall recently was spotted in Tokyo Bay. Kazuhiro Sakamoto of the Tokyo Sea Life Park said, "It didn't look like it has gotten thinner over the past two months, or been without food. It doesn't seem to be any weaker. So it looks as if it's been living quite happily in the middle of Tokyo Bay." Officials feared the penguin would be hit by a ship or not be able to find enough food, but it has outsmarted them all by surviving – and has continued to elude capture.
Three Herkimer County businesses recently were awarded $15,000 grants for the purchase of equipment and supplies needed for their operations, according to a news release.
The county's Industrial Development Agency on Thursday announced the board directors approved the grants that give $15,000 each to The Belly Up Pub and Burrito Jonz in Herkimer, as well as Costanza Agency in Frankfort.
