Burdett News

As Haitians begin to make repairs to their earthquake-ravaged country, local people are continuing to open their hearts to lend a hand in whatever way they can.

The Schuyler Hospital Auxiliary has donated $27,000 to the Schuyler Health Foundation for its 2009 effort to raise funds to expand and upgrade the September Hill Women's Health Facility.

We want to thank the Burdett Fire/Rescue Team and the Schuyler County Ambulance Squad along with the community for responding to a call at our home Christmas Eve morning when our 5-year-old son was found in bed having a seizure and unresponsive.

All post offices will be open Thursday, but some will shorten lobby hours, the U.S. Postal Service has announced.

Firefighters doubled as chicken rescuers Wednesday morning when they battled a barn fire in Catharine.

WATKINS GLEN -- The latest impact of the state budget crisis on Schuyler County is worth $81,000. County Administrator Timothy O'Hearn told legislators Monday night at their monthly meeting that the state's reimbursement to the county for child welfare services will be reduced from $191,000 to $110,000 -- for now.

The following religious services are scheduled for today and the coming week: Alpine * Cayutaville Church, 4 Corners, Cayutaville Road and county Road 6, 594-4827: Pastor Steve DeWalt will deliver the message at the 9 a.m. Sunday service.

We have continuing coverage tonight of P&C decision to possibly close it's stores in Hornell and Watkins Glen.

Plans for a 3 million gallon underground manure storage tank outside Perry City have been halted while state officials study claims by neighbors that the area is an ancient Indian burial ground.

Glenn R. Larison, a Republican incumbent from Odessa, was the top vote-getter in balloting Tuesday for three seats to represent District III in the Schuyler County Legislature.

A free yoga class is available at 6:15 p.m. every Tuesday in October at September Place, second floor, in Burdett.

The 2009 Schuyler County United Way Campaign officially gets under way Monday at the annual spaghetti dinner at the Montour Falls Moose Lodge.

WATKINS GLEN -- The Van Zandt Hollow Road bridge, flagged by the state Department of Transportation as unsafe, will be replaced by Silverline Construction of Burdett, low bidder for the project.

Down a gravel road and nestled deep in the woods, On Warren Pond Farm prospers with a small harvest and a couple of dedicated caretakers.

Distiller Steve Morse at Beak and Skiff Apple Farms in LaFayette hopes to be selling vodka made from apples in the next few weeks.

Ian Barry, winemaker at Swedish Hill Winery was studying English literature at SUNY New Paltz in 1997, when he answered a job posting placed by Adair Vineyards in the Hudson Valley.

The Cayuga Trails Club has planned a number of hikes in September. The following is a schedule of events: * Sept.

Arielle Bateman, a junior from Freeville, was honored with second place in the Thelma Baltz Morrow Award for English competition at the 2009 Recognition Convocation during Parents' Weekend festivities at Grove City College in May.

Three people were rescued this afternoon after their apartment house caught fire.

The wise man does not mix grape and grain. That old adage isn't holding much water anymore in Finger Lakes wine country with the July 17 opening of Finger Lakes Distilling in Burdett, Schuyler County.