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The Batavia Rotary Club saluted five new Paul Harris Fellows during the club's annual awards night Tuesday at Stafford Country Club.

The credit crunch has driven dozens of lenders out of the student loan market. But a number of new Web sites are trying to sidestep the traditional players, facilitating loans between students and anonymous ...

It was not the kind of round anyone in Rochester's golfing fraternity ever expects from Jim Scorse, and Dominic Bozzelli took full advantage Sunday in the finals of the RDGA Match Play Championship.

Two Genesee County men are facing drug charges after deputies making a traffic stop found the two in possession of marijuana, according to the sheriff's office. via Buffalo News

CIT Group Inc. has shuttered its student lending division as part of a plan to simplify its business, the lender said Thursday. via BusinessWeek

The city Board of Education on Monday adopted a $39.4 million 2008-09 budget that includes a 2 percent tax rate increase on real property. via Buffalo News

“While things aren't great, we are still in business”

A Buffalo-based student loan consolidation firm has shut its doors, the third Western New York lender to leave the field in recent months after new federal legislation made the business less profitable by ... via Buffalo News

A Batavia man is in satisfactory condition at Strong Memorial Hospital this morning after being stabbed in the neck about 9:30 last night at a Batavia apartment complex. via Democrat & Chronicle

“They can take pride in the fact that they now have done their part in making our community safer”

What will kids do to get out of wearing their school uniforms? At St. Peter's School in Lewiston, 200 of them came up with a buck apiece for the Lewiston police K-9 program. via Buffalo News

Months of uncertainty as to whether municipalities outside the city would continue to receive emergency ambulance calls ended Monday when the City Council unanimously agreed to extend the service for another ... via Buffalo News

“I think most people are open and willing to look at the benefits of a wind farm to our town”

Organized citizens groups have become a hallmark of sorts for wind tower proposals. via City Newspaper

“What are your goals and what should we be doing?”

Promising to meet the challenges ahead, Mary Pat Hancock was elected Wednesday to a fourth full term as chairwoman of the Genesee County Legislature at its biennial organization meeting. via Buffalo News

“It's been a great deal for the banks, and they've done quite well with it.”

The student-loan system is plagued by scandal, with allegations of some lenders buying "preferred lender" status at colleges with kickbacks, travel junkets and other perks to gain favor with school officials. via US Banker

George F. Pavilion is gone now. Anyone driving by the empty parcel of land adjacent to CFJ Park in Johnson City, where the pavilion stood, can almost feel what once was there: A world-class dance pavilion, ... via Press & Sun-Bulletin

An Attica woman faces driving while intoxicated charges after she nearly caused several accidents about 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Town of Stafford, according to Genesee County sheriff's deputies. via Buffalo News

“As recently as five years ago, more than a third of our business involved images that were output on film”

Lazer Inc., a digital imaging and graphic design firm in Gates that does business with Kodak and Fisher-Price, among other firms, will move Monday to the University Business Center in Rochester. via Democrat & Chronicle

Monday, November 12, 2007; Posted: 10:49 AM - by BWW News Desk Dances Patrelle's The Yorkville Nutcracker will have its 9th annual production, at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College NYC; December 6-9. Once ... via BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

“Handling money takes money. ,.. I do feel it is the county's responsibility to do that. ... We have to work out a formula for an equitable contribution.”

The League of Women Voters of Orleans County hosted a town candidates' forum Wednesday at Albion High School. via Journal-Register

Negotiations will begin this week with 11 Genesee County communities on service fee contracts that will end nine years of free ambulance calls by the city's Fire Department. via Buffalo News

Thirty mature marijuana plants, valued at about $25,000, were seized Saturday from an isolated farm field in Genesee County. via Democrat & Chronicle