Pulteney News

The Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes is accepting grant applications for the 2009 cycle of Keuka Area Fund grant- making.

The New York State Department of Transportation has awarded an $807,000 contract to fix 54 highway culverts in Steuben County to Slate Hill Constructors, Inc.

We've made it this far on Keuka without the requisite spring frost. Last week, frost flirted with May, but the relationship was never consummated, and all that smoke from burning bales of hay in the vineyards at Vinifera Wine Cellars fell into the category of "better safe than sorry." It's been a reasonably fine Keuka spring, even if we lack a good ...

A portion of Dr. Frank's winery in Pulteney was damaged by fire last night Pulteney, New York a ' One of the Finger Lakesa TM best known wineries was damaged by fire last night.

Information courtesy of WETM . Part of a Finger Lakes winery was destroyed in a fire.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli Thursday announced $1.8 billion in federal stimulus funds have been spent so far in New York State.

BATH - When Nancy Cole of Pulteney moved back to the Southern Tier from Atlanta in 2005, she was looking for an opportunity to exercise her gardening skills and a place to fit in.

The stimulus money is coming, and work is about to begin on infrastructure projects in the Southern Tier.

Transportation and infrastructure improvement projects to be funded with $89 million in federal stimulus money were announced today by Gov.

Quick, when I say "spring," what do you think about? Let me put that another way: How many of us around Keuka can remember a first day of spring that didn't either freeze, sleet, snow or rain? I submit my column a few days before Sunday, so I'm going out on a limb with the following prediction: If most of my retirement money didn't get sucked into ...

Looks like we may have reached mud season. That's how it felt when I went outside on the first warm AND sunny day to start pruning the fruit trees and bushes, sliding and sinking all over the place.

It came as a surprise a few months ago when I learned that the New York state Legislature requires that every incorporated town must assign a local historian.

One of two maritime themed stories today....... The Genuine Maritime Malt, Old Pulteney Single Malt Scotch Whisky, kicked off 2009 with the launch of its ambitious Stories of the Sea national tour at the London ...

Star-Gazette readers may know the name Michael Czarnecki. He is a local poet and the fellow who a few years back traveled west and wrote a daily journal about it for the newspaper.