Schuyler County News

Schuyler County lawmakers voted to eliminate more than a dozen positions Tuesday.

Pairing wines with hearty holiday meals such as Thanksgiving is a challenge for many folks.

The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce is celebrating a year that saw a 94 percent increase in mailings of information to potential visitors.

The Finger Lakes Land Trust has received a gift of 11 acres of privately owned woodland in the heart of the Finger Lakes National Forest in Hector, Schuyler County, the organization announced Tuesday.

A Montour Falls man was hospitalized in critical condition after being thrown from his car in a one-vehicle accident that occurred at 12:22 a.m. Tuesday in the town of Hector, the Schuyler County Sheriff's Office said.

This after, it lost thousands of dollars in state funding. Unfortunately, one way the center could save money is by staring to cut some programs.

Plans for a 3 million gallon underground manure storage tank outside Perry City have been halted while state officials study claims by neighbors that the area is an ancient Indian burial ground.

The holiday staple 'Babes in Toyland' was modeled after the wildly successful 'Wizard of Oz.' First produced in 1903, it has since been turned into musical productions, movies and television shows.

As a resident and taxpayer of Schuyler County, I am concerned over the rhetoric being used by the Schuyler County administrator.

Schuyler County legislators faced repeated calls Monday night to reinstate the county's share of sales tax on clothing to eliminate the need for layoffs in the tentative 2010 county budget.

The Schuyler County League of Women Voters will sponsor a lunchtime talk and a question-and-answer session on Nov.

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.