Hector News

HECTOR -- The West Hector Community Association has a petition and the support of the local sheriff in a renewed attempt to slow state Route 414 traffic.

Lowering the speed limit on Route 414 in Hector will be one of the topics for discussion at the annual meeting of the Hector Community Association on Tuesday.

There are some new additions to this weekend's Watkins Glen Waterfront Festival: * From 6-9 p.m. Friday, there will be a 75th birthday party for Captain Bill's Stroller IV tour boat at its dock at the foot of Seneca Lake.

Schuyler County Health Department will be hosting a series of rabies clinics for cats, dogs and ferrets.

One Wayne County man was killed and another was injured in a truck-motorcycle accident yesterday evening in Hector, Schuyler County.

State police are responding to a fatal motor vehicle accident on state Route 414 in the Schuyler County town of Hector.

For 31 years volunteers in Schuyler County have been teaching local kids, grades kindergarten through 4th, the 'Learn Not to Burn' program.

The Red Newt winery is now changing its policies. On Sunday around 4p.m. , workers at Red Newt winery in the Town of Hector say several students were causing ruckus on their deck and refusing to leave.

Schuyler County sheriff's deputies Sunday arrested 18 college students for underage drinking outside Red Newt Winery on Tichenor Road in the town of Hector.

The Backbone Ridge History Group, created to collect the history of the land and people who once populated the acreage in and around what is now the Finger Lakes National Forest, has a series of three events in the planning stages, according to Allan Buddle of Interlaken, the group's project director.

Residents of a mobile home in Hector escaped an early-morning fire Tuesday that fire officials say was caused by a furnace malfunction.

The time was listed incorrectly in Sunday's outdoor column. * The Schuyler County Housing Needs Assessment was sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County, the Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development and Schuyler County.

Every other house in Schuyler County needs repairs; that can be seen by someone driving by.

Today we re-start the LENNDEVOURS Q&A project with Amy Cheatle, tasting room manager at Damiani Wine Cellars on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake.

HECTOR - A brush fire Wednesday scorched 30 acres of land and destroyed an uninhabited mobile home in Schuyler County.

Individuals charged with criminal offenses noted in this column will face a court proceeding to determine whether they are guilty of the charges.

Rosemary E. Jenkins, 48, of Mott Evans Road in Trumansburg, was charged Saturday with felony first-degree assault.

The story of Fossenvue, a summer camp founded on the eastern shoreline of Seneca Lake north of Valois in 1875, is told today in a memory quilt.

The following area students at Syracuse University were named to the fall dean's list for their respective school or college: Usha Harinarayanan of Bath, majoring in international relations and Spanish.

Schuyler County residents once again were generous in their support of their neighbors through the county's annual United Way campaign.