Otto News

NEW YORK - The New York premiere of a play by Edward Albee will open the 40th anniversary season of off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons.

With the cold weather sinking in and the holiday decor up, all I can think about are stews for dinner.

Local election results Below are the unofficial voting results for our local towns: Boston: Martin A. Ballowe, R,BT received 1,281 votes to win the supervisor position over Richard K. Hawkins, D,I,C,WF who received 1,126 votes.

Residents in the Town of Otto who have been inconvenienced since early August by the closing of a severely damaged bridge soon will have some relief following action Wednesday by the Cattaraugus County Legislature.

Two months after the August floods, Town of Otto residents like Gemma Muscia continue to deal with the lingering aftermath.

Jordan H. Levy , senior vice president of Bannon Automotive, and Paul Wimer , CEO of Bannon Automotive, talk Friday with Randall Wolken, president of the Manufacturers Association of Central New York, at a news conference at Hancock Airport, in Syracuse.

Helen Ann Benson, age 79, a Fredonia resident, died peacefully at home on October 6, 2009 with family by her side.

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's Tony-winning coming-of-age musical Spring Awakening makes its Philippines premiere Sept.

September 15, 2009, 11:48 PM / In Ellicottville, John D. Northrup and Robert L. Sharf were the apparent winners in the Republican primary for council seats.

It was East Otto resident Doug Stein that just happened to be driving by the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Cemetary, and noticed flowers in the street, and stones overturned.

Many of you have called and e-mailed us, asking how you can help those who's lives and homes were torn apart by the flooding in Gowanda and Silver Creek.

The U.S. Postal service is reporting that the flooding is disrupting mail service in some areas.

A Cattaraugus County grand jury Thursday voted not to indict two teens of rape charges involving a 17-year old Salamanca girl last December.

Carolyn "Cary" Girod's friends say she wasn't supposed to die two weeks before her 32nd birthday, not someone who had worked so hard for her achievements, who was at the time of her death taking part in a sport she'd loved since childhood.

Damaging storms rake Western New York, and the result has been flooded-out roads in scattered parts of the region.

A Cattaraugus County grand jury Thursday voted not to indict two teens of rape charges involving a 17-year old Salamanca girl last December.

By:Springville Journal Staff Looking backward in the files of the Journal From the issue of August 6, 2009 SEVENTY YEARS AGO August 17, 1939 Miss Marjorie Cobo of Pontiac, Michigan spent a few days last week with Lelia and Letha Cobo.

Carolyn "Cary" Girod's friends say she wasn't supposed to die two weeks before her 32nd birthday, not someone who had worked so hard for her achievements, who was at the time of her death taking part in a sport she'd loved since childhood.

Deaths Local deaths and obits Dorothy M. Gillette , July 5, 2009, while staying at the home of her son in Ashburn, Va., following a long illness, at the age of 89.

The Cattaraugus County Health Department will begin cracking down on four spring-fed public water systems that are out of compliance with state regulations requiring filtration devices.