Wayne County News

A house fire displaced an elderly woman, reduced one garage to ashes and heavily damaged another early today in Pultneyville, Wayne County.

The New York State Canal Corp. will close part of the Erie Canal in Wayne County this week in another effort to remove a sunken barge.

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Two Rochester women are in an upstate New York jail after leading police on a chase through three counties.

Of the many attractions at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge's May's Point observation platform on Sunday - and believe me there were quite a few - I was especially pleased to see a pied-billed grebe with two recently fledged young.

Shoplifting accusation: Two Williamson women were arrested and charged with petit larceny on June 24 after police accused them of trying to steal $238 in clothing from the Kohl's store on Holt Road.

Final numbers from the 2007 census show that total acreage in New York State orchards increased from 2002 to 2007, according to Steve Ropel, director of the United States Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service , New York Field Office.

Park Avenue has a spa True Touch, a new full-service salon and spa at 751 Park Ave., opened for business June 8. The salon exclusively uses Aveda products for hair, skin and body.

Eric Holbein Personal: 22, of Palmyra, Wayne County. Education: Associate's in graphic design from Finger Lakes Community College, bachelor's in fine art with concentration in painting from Houghton College.

Vietnam veterans and motorcycle and car enthusiasts came together Sunday to ride and show off their big pieces of metal while raising funds for cancer research.

Wednesday morning crews drained water from the canal to help the remove the barge.

A Wayne County man accused of injuring his girlfriend's baby last year is today facing several felony charges, according to New York State Police.

Crews today are working to recover a sunken barge from the Erie Canal in Palmyra, Wayne County.

Olin J. Garlock in 1887 started a small Wayne County business that made packing to go around the piston rods in steam engines.

The Erie Canal is closed between Palmyra and Newark in Wayne County because of a sunken barge.

An Ontario County bicyclist who was struck by a car yesterday afternoon is recovering at Strong Memorial Hospital today.

We are learning more out of Wayne County Sunday where a barge sank in the Erie Canal Saturday night near Maple Avenue in Palmyra.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was greeted this morning by thousands of supporters during a Founders Day parade.

Student attends Ontario Elementary in the Town of Ontario. The Wayne Central School District has sent a letter to parents informing them of a suspected case of swine flu at an elementary school.

A man seriously injured in a rollover crash in Wayne County yesterday is recovering today at Strong Memorial Hospital.