Brockport News

What: Confessions of a Cockeyed Optimist. When: 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Several events in Brockport on Saturday saw hundreds of people taking time to pay tribute to those who served our country.

On Friday night, just in time for Memorial Day, Brockport's Hometown Heroes banners for 2012 were put up on light poles on Main Street and Market Street in the village.

Tanya Dillenbeck, CNA, at St. Johnsville Rehab and Nursing Center, has been selected Employee of the Quarter for the months of April through June.

The day will begin with Military Services at 9 a.m. and the High StreetA CemeteryA in the Village of Brockport and at 9:30 a.m. at the Morgan Manning House Monument on Main Street.

The Batavia hospital filed plans last week with the state Department of Health to take over a site on Lake Road currently operated by Lakeside Memorial Hospital of Brockport.

A solar-powered boat is gliding across upstate New York on the Erie Canal. Solar Star Boats launched the electric cruising boat on Sunday in Buffalo.

I love artwork made by children - it is often so symbolic and inspiring without even being created with that intent.

The Ride for Missing Children makes its way onto the Brockport Central School District's campus photo by Caurie Putnam Brockport's Asst.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Ride for Missing Children will be taking place in Rochester tomorrow.

Rochester, N.Y. --- A recent Siena College Research Institute poll shows that 78 percent of New Yorkers favor raising the state's minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $8.50. New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday that he intends to pass a bill in the Assembly that would increase the minimum wage rate by that much.

Brockport's college landlords gave the Village a unique Mother's Day present this year: piles of garbage, plastic trash bags, dead sofas, and broken furniture, piled on the grass strip between the sidewalk and the street outside college rental houses up and down the streets of Brockport.

Reshoring is a monumental task, and there will be bumps in the road along the way.

The finalists, narrowed from a pool of 21 applicants, are Dr. Valerie Burke, superintendent of schools for the Warsaw School District; Dr.

A few days ago I told you the exciting news thatA Brockport High School students Ed Rubenacker and Emma Andriatch have been selected as an Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Lead Actress,A respectively, by the Rochester Broadway Theatre League for their roles in "Beauty and the Beast" I wanted to point out a few other honors Brockport students ... (more)

Kevin and Christina Jewell, of Canajoharie, and William Cooke of, Averill Park, and Rose Cooke of Scottsdale, Arizona announce the engagement of their children, Erica Brittany Jewell to Benjamin Samuel Cooke.

The wife of Captain Bruce Kevin Clark witnessed her husband's death in Afghanistan via Skype, according to a family statement.

Thanks to Kimberly & Beck, morning hosts on WBZA, The Buzz, for coming up with the term Barf the Port - the best name for the drunken fest in Brockport last Friday.

Some people get it, and other people will never get it. They're just clueless, and they think that it is their god given right to have anything they want whenever they want it, regardless of the consequences.

The Brockport Police Department did such a good job yesterday that sometimes it was hard to believe it was Brock-the-Port night.