DeRuyter News

Students at DeRuyter Central School had a lesson in good decision-making May 18; a mock drunken-driving crash put one student in jail and at least one other in the morgue.

The event started and finished at the American Legion Post in Norwich, with stops at the Oxford Veterans' Home, a privately owned Vietnam Memorial in DeRuyter and numerous legion posts in Chenango and Otsego counties.

AARP is offering a one-day driver safety course, the sixth edition, which will be sponsored by the DeRuyter Free Library Tuesday, May 22.

Madison County Sheriff's Office deputies are investigating a one-car crash that took place on Route 80 just east of the intersection of Jones Road in Georgetown Sunday morning.

GEORGETOWN, N.Y. Madison County Sheriff's officials say they were alerted to a one vehicle accident early Sunday morning by an automated call from that vehicle's OnStar system.

Temperatures in the 70s didn't dissuade nearly 1,000 FFA members from donning their traditional blue corduroy jackets May 4 at the 87th Annual New York State FFA Convention at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School.

Temperatures in the 70s didn't dissuade nearly 1,000 FFA members from donning their traditional blue corduroy jackets Friday at the 87th Annual New York State FFA Convention at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School.

A DeRuyter man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to all three counts of an indictment that charged him with distributing, receiving and possessing with intent to view child pornography.