Albion News

CONSTRUCTION: The Presbyterian Road bridge over the Erie Canal in the Albion/Gaines area will be closed to traffic for two months while structural steel repairs are made to the bridge, according to the New York state Department of Transportation.

Two area residents have been charged in connection with a accident in the Town of Barre last year that claimed the life of a child.

The Swan Library has taken the next step in making a new building a reality. Recently hiring King and King Architects LLP, of Syracuse, the firm will begin to gather information and input on what the library and committee would like to see in the building.

The Medina Fire Department was dispatched at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday for a reported house fire at the corner of Starr and Orient streets in the Village of Medina.

One home was destroyed and four others were damaged during a fire Saturday in the Orleans County village of Medina.

Firefighters said the second floor collapsed making it difficult to battle the fire.

A fire broke out at a large vacant home at 2692 Center Road in the town of Murray, Orleans County.

Firefighters were busy early this morning in Orleans County. At 11:20 Thursday night, firefighters were called to South Clinton Street in Albion.

Colleen McKenna may find herself socializing with others in front of the television, playing cards or enjoying a meal during a break from her regular duties as director of the Orleans County Mental Health Association in Albion.

Albion A* MISCHIEF: Joshua F. Gauthier, 19, of Albion, was charged Jan. 18 with second-degree burglary, attempted petit larceny and criminal mischief.

Albion firefighters battled a fire in a vacant house overnight in Gaines, Orleans County, according to Orleans County emergency dispatchers.

Orleans County residents who are either looking for a job or having trouble keeping a job because of transportation or other obstacles are able to lean on Community Action for support.

Recently switching locations, the Medina/Albion Curves has found a new home in downtown Medina.

Friends, family and community members are offering their support to an Albion family whose home sustained extensive damage in an afternoon fire Monday.

The Swan Library Board of Trustees are officially the proud new owner of Main Street property in the Village of Albion.

After 18 years of service in the Albion Central School District, Superintendent Ada Grabowski announced her retirement Monday to the board of education.

An honor guard carries the casket of Army Spc. Jason Johnston, a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., out of St.

Tuesday was a somber day for the Albion community as Spc. Jason Johnston was laid to rest.

Family, friends, local and state government officials, community and military members gathered Tuesday to pay their final respects to Spc.

ALBION - Having removed the American flag from the casket of U.S. Army Spc. Jason Johnston, soldiers with his 82nd Airborne Division stepped from beneath a tent into the steady afternoon snow at Mount Albion Cemetery.