Vestal News

A businessman wants to build a hotel to cater to Romanian tourists. Nearby neighbors say it would be a haven for prostitutes, drug addicts and pedophiles.

IT'S CALLED HYDROFRACKING: A new process makes it easier to extract natural gas from shale.

VESTAL -- Civility ruled the day Wednesday during a public hearing on the town's 2010 budget.

There's a lot of conversation at polling places and more than a few crossword puzzles.

Binghamton residents will choose a mayor and Johnson City residents will choose their future when they go to the polls today.

Wednesdays & Saturdays 9am-1pm Vestal Public Library, Vestal Parkway, Vestal The Vestal Farmersa Market has extended their season through Saturday November 14th! The farmersa market operates on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9am-1pm. Vendors will have baked goods, winter squash, potatoes, apples, garlic and other cold weather vegetables.

region Chemung Canal Trust Co. announced free shredding events will occur at the following bank locations to help individuals reduce their exposure to identity theft: * 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at 100 Rano Blvd, Vestal. * Noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Route 17C branch office in Owego, next to the Owego Treadway Inn & Conference Center. Rogers Service Group, television stations WIVT and WBGH, and radio stations WCDW and WRRQ are working with Chemung Canal to offer these events, which are not open to businesses.

Voters in Broome County have a handful of contested races to decide. Only one county-wide office will be decided in the voting booth Tuesday -- Broome County clerk.

VESTAL -- Town voters will decide several races on Election Day. Four candidates are running for two positions on the Vestal Town Council.

The New York State Department of Transportation will perform pavement repair work on State Route 434 in the westbound direction intersection of Route 434 with Bunn Hill Road in Vestal beginning at approximately 9 a.m. Friday, October 30.

Interested in a piece of the Marcellus Shale action? A coalition of Vestal landowners has a deal for you: Roughly $46 million and 20 percent royalties for mineral rights to about 8,000 acres.

VESTAL -- Sidewalks, additional dedicated turning lanes and a new access point to Ozalid Road are included in plans for the intersection of the Vestal Parkway, Rano Boulevard and Sycamore Road.

Vestal will look to avenge its lone loss of the Southern Tier Athletic Conference volleyball season in tonight's conference championship, when Horseheads visits the Golden Bears for a match scheduled to begin at about 7:30. Vestal lost a mid-season match in five games to the Blue Raiders , who rolled past Windsor in a Friday semifinal.

VESTAL -- Most Vestal Town Board members are lining up against allowing alcohol to be reintroduced at Arnold Park.

Joanna Kamin, Democratic candidate for Vestal Town Clerk, will hold a fundraiser from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Jonathan's restaurant, 534 Hooper Road, Endwell.

Primitive Skills Workshops: Flint Knapping on Nov. 3 and Atlatl Building on Nov.

VESTAL - The Council of Binghamton University met in public session Friday, but did not discuss the university's embattled athletics program.

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Gov. David Paterson must feel like the Grim Reaper to New Yorkers. Amid one of the state's worst financial crises and facing a budget deficit estimated at $3 billion, he has, in the last few weeks, ordered a 10 percent cut in state agency's budgets and, last Thursday, further cuts to schools, local governments and health care.

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