Rushford News

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The Department of Environmental Conservation's has joined with the National Heritage Trust to establish a summer camp scholarship fund for the Department's environmental education summer camps.

State Police report the arrest of two subjects allegedly responsible for two armed robberies that occurred in Allegany County.

KENNESAW, Ga. - The Yamaha Marine Group has announced the recipients of the 2009 Yamaha Marine Dealer Scholarship, an annual benefit for Yamaha Marine dealers and their employees.

A powerful, fast-moving storm clobbered Western New York in the middle of the day Sunday with heavy rain and gale-force winds that left behind flash flooding, downed trees and toppled power lines.

An afternoon thunderstorms poured over most of Western New York today, but areas south of Buffalo were the hardest hit.

Power has been restored to most of the approximately 3,500 customers in Onondaga and Oswego counties who lost electricity because of the heavy rains and thunderstorms.

Heat and humidity rising into the U.S. Midwest and mid-Atlantic spawned a line of powerful storms from the Texas panhandle to Maryland, authorities said.

Sunday's thunderstorms caused heavy rains, spawned a tornado in the Southern Tier, numerous lightning strikes, and knocked out power to hundreds.

Sunday's thunderstorms caused heavy rains, spawned a tornado in the Southern Tier, numerous lightning strikes, and knocked out power to hundreds.

National Weather Service meteorologists are currently surveying storm damage across northeast Cattaraugus county and Allegany county.

Sunday's thunderstorms caused heavy rains, spawned a tornado in the Southern Tier, numerous lightning strikes, and knocked out power to hundreds.

The National Weather Service is reporting that they received a call from an individual who saw a tornado touch down in the Rushford area.