Skaneateles News

The Onondaga County Volunteer Fireman's Association along with the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office will honor fallen officer, deputies and firefighters tonight in front of the Justice Center in Syracuse.

These judgments of $5,000 or more have been filed and docketed at the Onondaga County clerk's office.

The Skaneateles Central School District next week will ask voters to approve a $30 million budget for 2013-14 that requires a 4.98 percent increase in the tax levy.

If that's a combination that seems odd to you, then you haven't met Steve Landon - or the kids he's been spending time with.

The 2013 Jordan-Elbridge High School senior ball was held Friday, May 3, 2013, at The Lodge at Welch Allyn in Skaneateles.

Upstate New York's Finger Lakes are sparkling in the sunlight this morning -- they made Yahoo! Travel's online list of 10 lakeside vacation spots that "have it all." The Finger Lakes join global luminaries such as Italy's Lake Como, Switzerland's Lake Geneva, Canada's Lake Louise and Ireland's Killarney lakes.

Finger Lakes Land Trust kicks off its "Talks and Treks" series with a nature walk on May 11 at the Cora Kampfe Dickinson Conservation Area near the southeastern shore of Skaneateles Lake.

DIVISION STANDINGS or tying points won by taking a match TOAD HARBOR 592 PATHFINDER 394 SOUTH SHORE 390 CENTRAL SQUARE 372 NORTH SPORTSMAN 564 POMPEY 586 SKANEATELES 581 THREE RIVERS 572 BRIDGEPORT 571 CAMILLUS 580 DEWITT 542 Shooters who hit 25 out of 25 April 30 **Results courtesy of Dick Masterpole.

In the five years since New Yorkers first began to hear about horizontal hydrofracking, the state has become a battleground over the gas drilling technique.

Manlius Pebble Hill School senior Will Kniesner, of Jamesville, has been named a National Winner in the 2013 International Writing and Photo Contest.

Matt Shoemaker, 14, of Marietta, poses with his first wild turkey, which he shot during the Youth Wild Turkey Youth Hunt weekend.

Pango has chosen Auburn as a pilot city for its pay-by-phone parking service. The new service will be unveiled Friday during the city's First Friday event, The Citizen reports.

Stories coming out of the Western suburbs this morning include an Auburn schools budget that adds teachers and a Skaneateles teacher being honored for tooting his horn.

The Mandana Inn on West Lake Road south of the village of Skaneateles has been serving food for more than 100 years, an impressive record for any restaurant.

Ron Meyers and Ashley Dayer are currently raising about 150 newly hatched chickens as a part of their newly expanded Marigold Farm business.

One man is dead and another critically injured after their vehicle hit a Byrne Dairy tanker early Wednesday morning, state police said.

State police say one man is dead and another is hospitalized after their minivan collided with a milk tanker on a central New York road.

Yesterday was the filing deadline for candidates running for school board seats in Onondaga County's western suburbs.

<![CDATA[Bri Schichtel & Bill Blessing Mr. and Mrs. Pete Schichtel are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter Brianne Schichtel to Bill Blessing, son of Sue and Bill Blessing, Sr. of Skaneateles, NY. Bri graduated locally from Northeast High School in 2007 and graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2011. Bill formerly a Sgt. in the United States Army is now attending LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY. The wedding is set for the summer of 2014.