Otto News

Helicopter crew rescues 9 young hikers from ledge in western NY gorge OTTO, N.Y. A group of hikers is safe after spending the night trapped on a ledge in a gorge in western New York State.

A helicopter saved nine young hikers from a ledge in a western New York gorge where they spent the night after getting stranded.

State police say an Erie County sheriff's helicopter plucked the hikers Monday morning from a ledge about 20 feet above the rain-swollen Cattauraugus Creek in the Zoar Valley. The hikers are ages 17 to 21.

Troopers say the hikers, from suburban Buffalo, were hiking Sunday when rising waters from heavy rainfall cut off their access to a trail leading out of the gorge. The popular hiking area is located along the Erie-Cattaraugus county line, 30 miles south of Buffalo.

Saint Louis Brewery co-founder and CEO Dan Kopman convinced head of brewery operations Jim "Otto" Ottolini to delegate more.

Rising country artist James Otto has been added to the bill for Taylor Swift's upcoming performance at America's Fair, the fair announced today.

Bastianich and Fallon at Babbo "Deccenale" Block Party MEATPACKING DISTRICT - The closing of Lotus may not be as cut and dry and we all thought.

The Kill Buck Fire Department is one of 12 polling places in Cattaraugus County to share in $34,594 in state and federal grants to make facilities handicapped-accessible. Kill Buck is the only fire department ...

“The fire companies have been running ragged the last two weeks fighting brush fires. Yesterday's and today's were a result of open burning”

A rash of uncontrolled grass and brush fires posing a threat to life and property has prompted Cattaraugus County Legislature Chairman Crystal Abers to ban open burning under an executive order. via Buffalo News

“Now, I'm raring to go on Monday morning.”

I had lunch the other day with Litto Gomez , who makes La Flor Dominicana cigars. via Cigar Aficionado

A Salamanca man faces jail time and probation for robbery following sentencing Monday in Cattaraugus County Court. via Buffalo News

“I was trying to write some new music; Otto got into the grand piano, jumped onto the computer and destroyed the entire score for the new Phantom in one fell swoop.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber's lyricist for the sequel to the international hit The Phantom of the Opera is none other than two-time Tony Award winner Tim Rice - the composer's early-career collaborator of Jesus Christ ... via Playbill

“Is that ever going to happen to me?”

Rising young actor Michael Esper has spent a good deal of time with the grand old men of theatre in the past few years. via Playbill

“There's nothing that stretches a boundary line more than a nice big cherry tree”

Owning land in the country is not a pastoral picnic. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Allegany and Cattaraugus Counties and an array of specialists provided some helpful information to about 150 people ... via Buffalo News

Sleet, ice, snow and freezing rain poured down on Western New York Tuesday evening, forcing many schools to close, causing power outages and making driving conditions tricky. via WGRZ-TV Buffalo

“I heard the sucking from the back draft and the building exploded”

ONEONTA _ Today marks the fourth anniversary of a massive blaze and explosion that consumed two downtown buildings 16 years ago. via Daily Star

Four people indicted Thursday in a Cattaraugus County grand jury report to Judge Larry M. Himelein are to be arraigned March 3. Joshua M. Weigartz, 22, of Olean, was indicted on two counts each of third-degree ... via Buffalo News

Patrick T. Bird, 36, of East Otto, was charged with driving while intoxicated following a traffic stop by Cattaraugus County sheriff's deputies Sunday evening on Ashford Hollow Road. via Buffalo News

New York Magazine Recipes In Season C alifornia's exotic citrus makes its way east when we most crave it, in the midst of midwinter doldrums. via New York Magazine

Ladies and gentlemen - get ready to start your wagons. The 2008 Cattaraugus County Bicentennial Wagon Train and Stagecoach Run is more than six months away, but it is already generating a buzz. via Http

Cattaraugus County Sheriff Dennis John is pleading with any witnesses to a fatal crash Jan. via Buffalo News

SPCA officials say the owner of the R & R Dude Ranch in Otto, left in October. She tells them she left a caretaker in charge, but several of the horses are malnourished. via WIVB-TV Buffalo