Batavia News

BATAVIA – City leaders are giving Sherry Simonetti a helping hand to expand her photography studio.

GENEVA – Aldermen voted to approve a letter of intent and committed $15,000 to exploring the cost benefit of the city's participation in a wind energy project.

BATAVIA – A project to build a pavilion at the Peg Bond Center is moving ahead after being scaled back because of rising construction costs.

Now in its 23rd season, the "Books Between Bites" program was started by the late Lee C. Moorehead.

Batavia MainStreet is rallying forces to brighten downtown Batavia with tiny twinkling white lights for the holidays.

To the Editor: Just Imagine: The struggles of a family recently unemployed and unable to pay their house payments, to keep their children in school while living on the street, and their relief when they are able to get food, shelter and job seeking assistance from Lazarus House, a Batavia United Way funded agency.

Mayor Jeff Schielke continued a 25-year tradition this week as he presented his State of the City address to the Batavia Chamber of Commerce.

BATAVIA – Barber Craig Foltos wants to give people the opportunity to buy fresh produce year-round. Foltos has started the Wilson Street Market, which will kick off from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday at 229 E. Wilson St.

BATAVIA – Delnor Hospital will open its first walk-in clinic in the Walmart shopping center at Randall Road and Fabyan Parkway.

The Batavia Park District will make $86,000 worth of emergency repairs to Harold Hall Quarry Beach, so it can open again next year.

The Zoning Commission today will have an open house to provide information on changes to the city's zoning code.

BATAVIA – Aldi plans to add a six-story office building to its corporate headquarters on Kirk Road and Jewel is planning a multi-million dollar renovation of its store on Randall Road, Mayor Jeff Schielke announced Tuesday during his annual mayor's breakfast.

Batavia, too, is banning video gambling. Not so much because the city council has issues with the morals of gambling, but rather because it doesn't like the way the state is regulating the industry and that the state has turned to gambling to solve the problem of paying for capital improvements such as road and bridge repairs.

A pedestrian crossing a busy Batavia road was injured Saturday night when a car struck him.

BATAVIA – A St. Charles woman is being sued by the City of Batavia in connection with an accident that they claim she caused, which injured a police officer.

BATAVIA – Five people were taken to an area hospital late last night after an ammonia leak was discovered at Dean's Ice Cream, 1253 Kingsland Drive, according to a release from the Batavia Fire Department.

BATAVIA – Without health care reform, Amy Ruppert, 48, of Batavia, faces becoming uninsured and uninsurable by April 2010.

Twelve employees of the sprawling Dean's Ice Cream's Batavia plant were hurt late Thursday night during an ammonia leak inside the facility.

Fire department from five communities joined Batavia firefighters late Thursday in responding to a reported ammonia leak in an industrial park off Kirk Road.

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway will be making temporary repairs to the North Raddant Road railroad crossing Wednesday.