BATAVIA/Recovery Journey Leads to Career at UConnectCare – Melissa Vinyard: Living Out Loud

By Mike PettinellaUConnectCare Publicist Energetic and personable, with a warm sense of humor and jovial laugh, Melissa Vinyard is only half joking when she tells people that she was “predisposed to be an alcoholic with a last name like Vinyard.” That’s because the 57-year-old Batavia resident was born to an …

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ORLEANS COUNTY/Albion/Lou Gramm opens up about life on the road as lead singer with supergroup Foreigner

Lou Gramm, second from left, with Black Sheep bandmates, from left, Mike Bonafede, Don Mancuso and Larry Crozier. Black Sheep will be performing two reunion concerts at the Pratt Event Center on Main Street in Albion this afternoon and tonight. (Photo courtesy of DJ Button) By Mike PettinellaFor Video News …

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Batavia Middle School students win Statewide Rural Schools Association Video Contest

Press release BATAVIA, NY—The Batavia City School District is proud to announce that Ms. Volpe’s 6th grade Reading Class has won First Place in the prestigious statewide video contest hosted by the Rural Schools Association of New York State. This impressive project involved 21 students and took about two weeks …

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BATAVIA/Independent Living & University Heights Arts Association announces a new series of exhibitions of an artist with a disability in the Genesee Region

The ARTiculations Ability Exhibition — a forum for artists with disabilities in Genesee, Wyoming, and Orleans counties to display their work publicly — will re-open with a new artist at Independent Living of the Genesee Region (ILGR) in their office at 319 West Main Street in the Crickler Executive Business Center in Batavia on Thursday …

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GENESEE COUNTY/Fundraiser for Michelle Rhodes draws several hundred

By Mike Pettinella/photos Alecia Kaus Hundreds of people congregated this afternoon at the Polish Falcons Hall on South Swan Street, picking up chicken barbecue dinners and purchasing basket raffle tickets in support of Michelle Rhodes’ double lung transplant journey. Organizers said that all of the 400 or so pre-ordered dinners …

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WYOMING COUNTY/Convicted felon found with ghost gun during traffic stop

Information/photo from provided press release On June 17, 2024 at approximately 10:53 P.M., a Wyoming County Sheriff’s Office deputy was patrolling Route 20A in the Town of Orangeville and stopped a vehicle for failure to maintain lane. After speaking with the operator of the vehicle, Jose R. Mendoza, age 32, …

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GENESEE/WYOMING COUNTIES/DEC seeks public’s assistance in identifying owners of stolen trail cameras

Thefts Date Back to 2016, Focused on Southern Genesee County, and Northern Wyoming County Press release The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying owners of stolen trail cameras. The thefts allegedly occurred from 2016 to the present in Southern Genesee County and …

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