Romulus News

Two villages in Ramapo - New Square and Kaser - are the fastest growing municipalities in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

HECTOR - One of Congressman Eric Massa's, D-29th Dist., town hall meetings will bring him to Hector Tuesday night, for a meeting at the fire station.

The board of directors of Empire State Development Corp. has approved several grants for groups in upstate New York.

Three Cayuga Lake wineries are celebrating the Fourth of July weekend with music or food.

Empire State Development Corporation's Board of Directors Tuesday approved grants totaling nearly $17 million, pledging to create more than 1,495 jobs in New York State.

ROMULUS, June 17, 2009: With temperatures rising across the land, the time has come for the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Tour to head north, for milder summer climates.

The Romulus Charitable Foundation awarded four $500 scholarships recently at a dinner in Banchetti by Rizzo's. The recipients are: Katelyn Butticci, Niagara County Community College; Angelo Sciandra, Fredonia State College; Tina Sparacino, Canisius College, and Zara Sparacino, Canisius College.

Several Cayuga Lake wineries are planning Father's Day and other celebrations the weekend of June 20-21. Saturday, June 20, is Wild Western Day at Buttonwood Grove Winery.

Paul King is the winemaker and distiller at Six Mile Creek Vineyard on Slaterville Road in Ithaca.

Village residents had an impromptu celebration of Norway's independence from Sweden with a parade down Strowbridge Street on Sunday, May 17.

Some wineries along the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail are holding events this weekend. You can still sign up for Knapp Vineyards Winery and Restaurant's wine maker's dinner Saturday.

As wineries consider ways to squeeze that last dollar out of their grapes, they're looking to what's left after they squeeze the juice out of them-the grape pomace, or mass of skins, pulp and seeds leftover from the winemaking process.

Joshua W. Thomas, 17, was arrested in Ovid on charges of sexual misconduct, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

ROMULUS - Spread out on a desk where Lt. John P. Cleere sits in the Seneca County Law Enforcement Center are sealed packets of nails, some shiny new roofing nails and others coated in rust.

The former president and CEO of the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce has been arrested and charged with stealing more than $3,000, officials said.

ANDREWS Competing with 2,606 wines from 543 wineries worldwide, Calaboose Cellars won three medals, including one silver and two bronze awards, at the ninth annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competition on March 28-29. National and international judges, representing distributors, educators, enologists, sommeliers, restaurateurs, winemakers, ...

In a couple months some federal inmates will call Seneca County home, at least for a little while.

CANANDAIGUA - Brenden Flynn began his recent presentation before about 40 third-graders at Canandaigua Elementary School by telling a bit about himself and two of his colleagues.

A room at The Jane Hotel is photographed, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in New York.

Seneca County Sheriff Jack Stenberg warned Wednesday of a telephone scam involving a caller claiming to represent a police union and asking for banking information.