BATAVIA/”Harvester Crawl” celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Harvester Center

The Harvester Center was open to the public on Thursday evening for the inaugural “Harvester Crawl”. The event helped kick off the 60th Anniversary of the Harvester Center which has been incubating new businesses since 1959. The community was able to visit a hand full of interesting businesses that call …

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GENESEE AND ORLEANS COUNTIES/Celebrating success and honoring a founding father at Arc Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet

Press release Arc of Genesee Orleans Board of Directors paid tribute to an agency founding father at Wednesday’s Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet held at Park Place at Batavia Downs. Henry Valerych was presented the Arc Spirit Award, in a touching ceremony that included a military color guard by local …

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GENESEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S REPORT/Liberty street man charged after smuggling contraband into the jail

Jacob J. Sponaugle, 20, of Liberty St., Batavia, is charged with introduction of dangerous contraband into prison 1st, criminal facilitation 4th, conspiracy 5th and criminal possession of a controlled substance 7th following an investigation into the smuggling of contraband into the Genesee County Jail on January 19, 2019. Sponaugle allegedly …

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