Palmyra News

A salvage company from Florida is today pumping fuel out of a sunken barge in the Erie Canal in Palmyra, Wayne County.

I awoke the other day to discover five centimetres of snow covering my tropical lilies and Texas dahlias, and my wife making angels in the white stuff shouting: "Come on in, the water is warm!" Suddenly, I realized I was still asleep and still in the grip of a vivid dream.

Parts of the Erie Canal will be closed as crews try to remove a sunken vessel used for dredging.

Palmyra Air Force Airman 1st Class Raymond Zimmer, son of Kimmerly Pulver of Palmyra, and a graduate of Palmyra-Macedon High School, graduated from the Vehicle and Vehicular Equipment Maintenance Apprentice Course at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, Calif.

Efforts to salvage a sunken barge in the Erie Canal near Palmyra, Wayne County, on Wednesday proved to be unsuccessful after the vessel was unable to regain buoyancy.

An Ontario County bicyclist who was struck by a car yesterday afternoon is recovering at Strong Memorial Hospital today.

Canal Corp. officials say crews will attempt to remove the barge Wednesday, which should take approximately six hours.

The Erie Canal is closed between Palmyra and Newark in Wayne County because of a sunken barge.

PALMYRA -- The Wayne County Sheriff's Office confirmed that a dredge vessel sank in the Erie Canal late this evening near Maple Avenue.

Olin J. Garlock in 1887 started a small Wayne County business that made packing to go around the piston rods in steam engines.

Victor Charged with harassment: An 18-year-old Victor teen was charged with harassment on May 26.

Businesses and organizations in communities along the Erie Canal can do more to tap into the tourism potential of the historic waterway.

The American Cancer Society is striving to ultimately eliminate cancer as a major health threat.

Palmyra, NY - Garlock Sealing Technologies has developed a new ultra-low emission, high-temperature valve stem spool packing designed to simplify leak detection and repair in the hydrocarbon and chemical processing industries.

Trail Works of Wayne County is participating in the following upcoming events: Second annual Sole Power Event: 'The Hunt for the Golden Shoe' - Residents can search for shoes painted gold in Walworth, Williamson, Palmyra, Clyde, Sodus/Wallington and Newark parks between May 22 and 31 and bring them to Cornell Cooperative Extension in Newark ...

I oppose same-sex marriage. If that makes me a bigot, then so be it. I do agree with gays, however, on one point - the current marriage laws do discriminate against them.

The May 6 meeting of the Palmyra Garden Club will be held at 7 p.m. in the Palmyra Town Hall on Route 21 in Palmyra.

Two men stole a calf and ate it in Palmyra. New York State Police say 18-year-old David Lochner and 21-year-old Timothy Welch broke into a barn on Tellier Road stole the calf, killed it, than ate it at a campsite.

Two unemployed, hungry men stole a calf from a neighbor's barn, shot it with an arrow and slit its throat before roasting the meat, police said.

The man in charge of internal investigations in the Greece Police Department, says shredded documents have been recovered.