Yates County News

With this year's harvest of state wine grapes expected to yield a surplus, Cornell Cooperative Extension and New York Wine & Grape Foundation have partnered to help market the fruit to other states.

A man charged in an assessment and bribery scandal was sentenced Wednesday. Richard Ackerman is one of five people charged after a federal investigation revealed a scheme to defraud Kodak, the town of Greece, and other companies out of millions of dollars.

Aberdeen Hill Farm: The Gorham, Ontario County, farm offers pastured-based beef, pork, lamb, chicken and turkeys at the Brighton, Chili and The Mall at Greece Ridge farmers markets and at Abundance Cooperative Market on Marshall Street.

Richard Ackerman admitted he kicked back money to former Greece Town Assessor Charles Schwab while appraising an RG&E property in Greece.

The Yates County Health Department reported that it received notification from the Wadsworth State Laboratory in Albany Monday morning of its first confirmed case of the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu.

Now, the presence of the flu is affecting attendance at summer camps. Eighty children were set to attend the Muscular Dystrophy Association camp at Rotary Lodge beginning next Saturday.

The Bath VA Medical Center and the Yates County Veterans Service Agency will host a veterans benefits open house from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the American Legion post, 2001 Himrod Road in Penn Yan.

Greece Michelle Stein of Greece was named to the president's list for the spring semester at the State University College at Oswego.

On the Hoover farm in Milo, Yates County, tomato plants growing in the ground are covered with full-size green fruits, expected to start ripening next week.

The chief of University of Rochester Medical Center, who suffered a spine injury May 30 when he lost control of his bicycle, has been released to a rehabilitation facility in New Jersey, his neurosurgeon announced today.

The University of Rochester Medical Center has named a new acting CEO in place of Dr.

Red Tail Ridge Winery aims to have a building now under construction become the first wine production facility in the state to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.

A dog walk at Hunt Country Vineyards this walk will benefit the Humane Society of Yates County.

The CEO at the University of Rochester Medical Center is in guarded condition at Strong Hospital.

Yates County Habitat for Humanity will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday at the current work site at 414 Liberty St.

Doctor Bradford Berk, the CEO of the U of R Medical Center, remains in guarded condition after suffering a serious spinal cord injury.

Sunday afternoon, a surgical team at the University of Rochester Medical Center called URMC CEO Dr.

Yates County -- The CEO of University of Rochester Medical Center is in the hospital with serious injuries after a bicycle accident Saturday afternoon.

The CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center suffered a broken back in a bicycling accident today in Yates County.

Brian Lindsay wanted to make a record about summer, and he's done just that. It's not too hard to imagine the guitars and imagery of Esperanza blasting out of passing car windows on a beautiful summer day.