Orleans County News

Cheers filled the room of the Republican headquarters in Albion on Tuesday night as election results were read for the three contested Orleans County Legislature seats.

Village residents couldn't believe what they were hearing as they approached the M&T bank on the corner of Main Street and Maple Avenue in Lyndonville early Thursday afternoon: The bank had been robbed.

Last week, this column examined efforts under way to open up the site where a Civilian Conservation Corps camp operated at Hamlin Beach State Park during the 1930s and early 1940s.

Great Lakes Small Harbors Coalition Chair Pro-Tem Chuck May is recruiting Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and St.

Questions were raised at two separate Orleans County forums recently regarding the rehabilitation of Erie Canal bridges.

October 29, 2009, 8:45 AM / A 19-year-old Orleans County man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday night that also sent two people to a Rochester hospital, Orleans County sheriff's officials said.

ALBANY -- After issuing more than a dozen press releases since 2008 touting his crackdown on alleged fraud in the state pension system by private attorneys, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has quietly restored the benefits to the 62 attorneys who had them revoked.

Over the next 20 years, the elderly population of Orleans County will increase 42 percent, said Office for the Aging Director Pam Canham.

Albion, NY; Oswego, NY - New York Sea Grant, the Orleans County Tourism Office, the Oswego County Department of Community Development, Tourism & Planning and the Great Lakes Small Harbor Coalition are holding workshops in Albion from 1pm to 4pm on October 27 at Tillman's Village Inn Restaurant and in Oswego, NY, from 1pm to 4pm on October 28 at the ...

Orleans County Legislature hopefuls voiced their stance on several important issues in a candidate forum Thursday.

A Rochester resident was arrested in Albion last week for allegedly selling crack cocaine to an undercover investigator, Supervising Investigator Joseph F. Sacco of the Orleans County Major Felony Crime Task Force said Monday.

Dismiss 10% of state staff New York state should dismiss 10 percent of all the state employees, and remaining state employees should work one additional hour per day without additional pay.

A 14-year-old special needs student died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency while in the middle school swimming pool.

An Albion Central School District student died Thursday afternoon after the child encountered a medical emergency at the Orleans County school, district officials said Friday.

A small town in western New York is mourning the loss of a 14-year-old boy who died suddenly after suffering a medical emergency in a middle school swimming pool.

Albion Central School district is mourning the loss of a middle school student, after he suffered a medical emergency while in school.

An Orleans County man was charged with cocaine and marijuana possession Wednesday after the woman who was driving the car he was in was stopped for a traffic violation.

A public hearing was held during Wednesday's Orleans County Legislature meeting for the proposed hotel/motel occupancy tax.

CARLTON - An Albion, Orleans County, man was injured this morning when the pickup truck that he was driving struck a farm tractor head-on. Jonathan R. Soule, 22, was treated at Strong Memorial Hospital and then released.

A house fire left an Orleans County family homeless after it swept through their two-story home Friday night, according to the Orleans County Sheriff's Office.