Watkins Glen News

JoAnne Krolak, a management aide at Elmira Housing Authority, recently was named Woman of the Year by the Southern Finger Lakes Women, formerly the Watkins Glen Business and Professional Women.

About a year and a half ago, when organizers started planning this weekend's fall conference of school nurses in Watkins Glen, they discussed several possible topics for the key presentation.

The Sullivan Trail chapter of the American Red Cross will hold several blood drives around the Twin Tiers in November.

WATKINS GLEN -- With one polling place still to be counted on Tuesday night, the race for three seats on the Schuyler County Legislature to represent District III showed Republican Glenn R. Larison leading with 847 votes followed by fellow Republicans Barbara J. Halpin with 827 and Doris L. Karius with 779.

Negotiators for more than a hundred steel union workers at a Schuyler County salt mining company have reached a new contract agreement.

The Dutton S. Peterson Memorial Library in Odessa is celebrating good things that are local with its "Sweets, Spirits, Sketches & Songs II" on Nov.

Rooster Fish Brewing in Watkins Glen won first place at the Sample New York Beer Festival, as voted on by the festival's attendees.

Farm Sanctuary's Celebration FOR the Turkeys Guests Invited to Celebrate a Compassionate Thanksgiving at Watkins Glen, N.Y., Shelter WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. - " October 27, 2009 - " Join us for a compassionate Thanksgiving celebration replete with holiday fare, entertainment and a silent auction to benefit the sanctuary's rescued animals.

WATKINS GLEN -- Thirteen Schuyler County jobs will be eliminated through layoffs or attrition under a tentative 2010 budget approved by the legislature's Management and Finance Committee on Thursday.

Jo Krajci's framed artwork is just as much about what's not on the paper as what is.

Candidates hoping to be elected to the Schuyler County Legislature and in the county's eight town governments are invited to the Schuyler County League of Women Voters' annual Meet the Candidates Luncheon on Wednesday.

October 21, 2009 WATKINS GLEN--A Dundee man is charged with manslaughter for a fatal car crash in Schuyler County earlier this year.

Fire fighters spent hours battling a blaze at a building at 313 Franklin Street .

WATKINS GLEN -- The Sunday evening fire that burned out two Watkins Glen businesses and heavily damaged the building they were located in at 313 N. Franklin St.

Fire crews are fighting a blaze at 313 N. Franklin St. in Watkins Glen, the brick building which houses the Village Variety Shop.

The Watkins Glen school district will get a rare opportunity to show off for educators from all over the state this week when it hosts the 29th annual conference of the New York State Middle School Association.

The fourth goat in recent months was found wandering in the vicinity of the busy Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx over the weekend.

The Lake Country Players Zombie Walk 2009, a fundraising event to keep the arts alive in the Schuyler County area, will be held Saturday.

If you have not received your seasonal flu shot yet, you still have time. Tuesday afternoon, the Schuyler County Health Services is holding a a oeSeasonal Flu Shot Clinic." Thata s located on South Perry Street in Watkins Glen.

Issues are being raised about the Watkins Glen Chamber of Commerce promoting tourism in Schuyler County.