Albion News

The Rochester Collie Club and Collie Club of Western NY unite for four specialties Friday evening, March 12; Saturday morning and afternoon, March 13; and Sunday morning, March 14.

With the village election coming up March 16, there's more for voters to consider than who should serve on the village board.

The Albion School Board is conducting its first external search for a superintendent in a generation and so far, the process of finding an outside candidate to replace Ada Grabowski has been locally focused.

Republican-endorsed candidates for the March 16 election in the Village of Albion gave uncontested reasons for people to re-elect them Thursday night, after a Democratic boycott of the League of Women Voters of Orleans County-sponsored forum.

Medina ASSAULT: Dennis Dipini, 44, 327 South Ave., Medina, was charged Thursday with third-degree assault.

Carlton A* BURGLARY: Edward G. Ruckdeschel, 47, 1016 Point Breeze Road, Kent, was charged Sunday with five counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of third-degree criminal mischief, petit larceny, fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and five counts of third-degree criminal trespass.

Albion A* HARASSMENT: Ryan C. Moore, 29, 14075 W. Barre Road, Albion, was charged Friday with second-degree harassment.

Albion Mollie Radzinski of Albion graduated from Kent State University in Ohio in December.

A benefit will be held Sunday to honor the memory of Spc. Jason M. Johnston, 24, who was killed Dec.

Members of the Medina Fire Department, the Shelby Volunteer Fire Company and the Lydonville Fire Department Firefighter Assist and Search Team responded to an industrial oven fire at BMP, 11625 Maple Ridge Road at 6:11 p.m. Friday.

Three Democratic candidates are set to run in the March 16 Village of Albion election.

The Sandstone Trust of Medina will come to sharper focus next month and throughout the spring season, according to leaders of the Sandstone Society, which originated the idea of such an endowment.

Residents will get a chance for input on cleaning up the former manufactured gas plant site.

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.