Naples News

Facing a growing wave of criticism about his personal life, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi went on the defensive this week, saying that he did not recall meeting a woman who claims he paid her to spend the night at his Rome residence.

CHANGE is not exactly something that's embraced at Gino, the circa 1945 red-sauce Italian restaurant so evocative of old New York it's been immortalized in a Woody Allen movie .

Kimberle Ward, who has been principal at Union Springs High School for four years, is leaving by July 1 to become superintendent in the Naples school district in Ontario County.

A Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed has died in an Italian jail.

Artizanns' summer series brings art-making to its front door. Nancy O'Donnell * June 17, 2009 Artizanns has sold to the likes of Bill Clinton, Liza Minnelli and Don Johnson, but don't expect a rarefied gallery air in the former Victorian home in Naples.

It's not that I don't like to cook. I used to feed a family of six, day in and day out.

Unlike most local villages, which hold elections in March, Brockport will hold its annual election on Tuesday.

Perillo Tours announced that its "Amalfi Adventure" seven-day/five-night package starts at $1,492 per person double occupancy including roundtrip trans-Atlantic air, five nights with breakfast at the newly renovated, four-star Hotel Villa Romana, a nightly four-course dinner -- as well as taxes and fuel surcharges.

It's awfully sad the way New York's most cherished foodstuffs and culinary traditions are, apparently, being phased out.

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series on bed and breakfasts in the Finger Lakes.

The Ontario County Sheriff's Office has arrested the South Bristol Highway Superintendent for allegedly stealing more than $3,000 from the town of South Bristol.

Would you pedal 30 miles for a gourmet meal? Biking up an appetite while drinking in the scenery is a bonding experience for the Spinning Divas, a bike tour for women wanting to notch 100 miles, July 19 to 22.

Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble presents "Steps Around the World" at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday at Bristol Valley Theatre, 151 S. Main St., Naples, Ontario County.

NEW YORK In an unusual move, The Naples Daily News on Sunday allowed a lawyer tied to a development targeted in a three-day series to write a front-page response to the report.

The Canandaigua Wine Trail is hosting Spring Sips & Savors from noon to 5 p.m. May 31.

How exactly did Andrew Carmellini end up at Locanda Verde , the reinvented Greenwich Hotel restaurant formerly known as Ago? Did partner Robert De Niro make him an offer he couldn't refuse? Actually, it was Ken Friedman, of the Spotted Pig and the John Dory , who godfathered the deal, introducing Carmellini to hoteliers Richard Born and Ira ...

If you're goofy, a stoner, maintain a certain sense of adventure, or "equate fattiness with godliness", you'll love it.

One reason so many Italians - and quite possibly at least one American ex-president - love Silvio Berlusconi lies in his response to his wife, Veronica Lario, after she complained publicly about his womanizing and demanded a divorce.

In the Finger Lakes, May is the month when many wineries promote their Rieslings.

And now for something completely different! That handily sums up Bristol Valley Theatre's annual "Swing Into Spring" series, an eclectic medley of shows on May weekends.