Randolph News

For the thousands of western New York residents whose property is home to millions of now-endangered ash trees, the advice from Albany is to sit tight.

When Gov. David A. Paterson announced widespread state budget cuts in December, many New Yorkers had their mind on the potential taxing of water bottles.

Tony Award winner Austin Pendleton will direct Susan Stein's Etty for the Sixth Annual East to Edinburgh Festival Off-Broadway, which will also include a rock musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream .

Another invasive species has arrived in Western New York, and state officials are taking up arms to eradicate the creatures.

Less than a month into its trap-and-discovery program, the Department of Environmental Conservation has discovered an Emerald Ash Borer infestation in the Cattaraugus County village of Randolph.

A hardwood tree commonly found throughout the state - and used to landscape yards or make baseball bats - is coming under siege.

An invasive green species has arrived in Western New York, and state officials are taking up arms to eradicate the creatures.

A beetle deadly to trees has made its way to New York State. The emerald ash borer was discovered in Randolph just last weekend -- that's in Cattaragus County.

Long feared among naturalists, entomologists and fans of ash trees, a beetle called the emerald ash borer has finally been found in New York forests.

Emerald ash borers, the tiny green beetles that kill ash trees, have been found in New York state for the first time.

State environment officials say one of the most dreaded invasive species of the last decade has been identified in NY.

On the night of May 31, a dozen youths fled from the Randolph Children's Home, and after being brought back there, they fought with police and staff, forcing authorities to use pepper spray to quell the melee.

Four residents of a Cattaraugus County group home appeared in court Wednesday. They're facing charges from a riot at the Randolph Children's Home last month.

Monday night's murder, and an earlier disturbance at the Randolph Home on the Southern Tier raise questions about how facilities are secured.

At least five youths were arrested at the Randolph Children's home in Cattaraugus County late Sunday night.

Cattaraugus Sheriff's deputies say a riot broke out in the Randolph Children's Home, a youth detention facility, when deputies and staff were returning 12 runaway juveniles to the home late Sunday evening.

John B. Sampson, director of the Cattaraugus County Veterans Service Agency, will meet with veterans and their families to discuss benefits, health care and other concerns in a series of sessions during the coming month.

Christopher F. Randolph, a Vietnam veteran who served as president and chief executive of a foundation that helps the children of Marines go to college, has died.

Authorities today identified the 2-year-old boy who fell into a pond on his family's property and drowned Tuesday.

Geraldine Langworthy passed away May 3, 2009, in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. She was born on April 12, 1923, in Randolph, N.Y., to Christopher and Muriel Helms.