Schuyler County News

The Schuyler County Health Department and Schuyler Hospital announced Friday morning that H1N1 vaccine is starting to arrive in the County.

Two incumbents on the Schuyler County Legislature were re-elected. Republican lawmakers Glenn Larison and Doris Karius were re-elected for Legislature District 3 which covers the Towns of Catharine, Cayuta and Hector.

County administrator Tim O'Hearn says a budget workshop held this morning was very brief and no changes were made to the plan.

ALBANY -- Change isn't always easy, and that came through this week in the comments of voters who marked paper ballots and scanned them into machines, rather than the old-fashioned way of pulling mechanical levers, election officials said.

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.

The Sullivan Trail Chapter American Red Cross is in need of volunteers for the following positions in Chemung, Schuyler and Valley areas: * Caseworkers: 2 to 8 hours/week; assist families with emergencies begin the recovery process.

It means those of you who text behind the wheel of your car, better stop. The new law also means Schuyler County will no longer need theirs.

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

A labor union representing about 150 Schuyler County workers says layoffs proposed in the 2010 budget will have a harmful effect on county services that union workers currently provide.

Almost 100 people came to a Tuesday night meeting on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

The Schuyler County Hall of Fame induction ceremony is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.

Woefully stingy - that's the only way I can describe the amount of time that the Department of Environmental Conservation is providing by way of a public comment period on the draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement plan governing drilling for natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation here in New York.

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

The Schuyler County Health Department and Schuyler Hospital are asking residents to refrain from going to a hospital emergency room unless necessary during flu season.

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.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's office will host a grants workshop at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct.

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

About 400 doses of seasonal influenza vaccine were administered Monday morning during a two-hour flu clinic at the Chemung County Health Department.

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.

* Age: 3 to 5 years old. * Size: Medium. * Gender: Female. * To adopt: Visit The Schuyler County Humane Society in Watkins Glen from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays; call 594-2255 to schedule an appointment or go to www.schuylerhumane.org for information and directions.