Orleans County News

Twenty years after the closing of Albion's only hospital, Medina Memorial Health Care System plans to open a new extension clinic to provide primary-care services in the Orleans County town.

The auditorium was silent as the results of the 2010 Orleans County Junior Miss Scholarship Program were read.

November 21, 2009, 6:44 AM / All 11 wineries on the Niagara Wine Trail will host a "Share the Bounty" event this weekend, in which participants are encouraged to donate a nonperishable food item or $2.50 per wine tasting, all to benefit local food pantries.

During questioning by investigators for several days after she was the sole survivor in a fusillade of gunfire that killed her boyfriend and a woman she had never met, Audra Dillon could offer only a vague description of the assailant.

Hurd Orchards is one of those destination places for gifts and treats, especially in the summer.

The sole survivor of a barrage of gunfire that killed two other people in Brockport on Valentine's Day today identified Frank Garcia as the shooter through his 'very piercing eyes.' Audra Dillon, who was shot in her left arm and her left side as she fled after watching her boyfriend and a woman gunned down outside Lakeside Memorial Hospital, ...

While the purpose of Veterans Day is to honor those who have fought for the U.S., it is impossible not to think about those who are still fighting for it today.

Orleans County health officials provided H1N1 flu shots for people considered to be in "priority groups" this afternoon in Albion.

Absentee ballots put Kendall Town Councilman Dan Gaesser in the winner's circle in the town supervisor's race, ousting current Supervisor Jack Gillman by seven votes.

There are only two locations in Niagara County where motorists can fill their gas tanks with E85 ethanol fuel.

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.