Spencer News

Residents in five of Tioga County's nine towns will see an increase in property taxes under a proposed 2010 budget unveiled last week.

TIOGA COUNTY Tioga State Bank will celebrate the recent remodeling of its office lobbies in Spencer and Candor with open houses for the public.

The churches of the Spencer-Van Etten area invite everyone to join them for a Community Thanksgiving Service at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening, Nov.

Photographs of celebrity couple Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt promoting their book "How to be Famous" at Borders Books & Music at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle in New York, NY on Monday, November 16, 2009.

The Spencer Van Etten Cross Country team took seventh place in the New York State Class D race Saturday.

Congratulations to the Spencer-Van Etten Cross Country team. It won the Section 4, Class D title at a meet last Thursday in Chenango Valley State Park.

We have continuing coverage of a story we first brought you on Friday night. Workers have been unsuccessful in their efforts to remove a crane that tipped over into a pond in Spencer.

The northbound Interstate 81 entrance ramp from Butternut Street and exit ramp to Court Street in Syracuse will be closed overnight from 7:30 p.m. today to 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Election Day is coming up quickly. Van Etten has lots of campaign signs up as there are several contests in that town.

When Donny Lia searches for what he thinks was the key turning point in what could be a championship winning run this season on the Whelen Modified Tour, it isn't anything that happened on the track that comes to mind for the Jericho, N.Y. driver.

The members of the Spencer Historical Society invite all of us to join them Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Spencer Town Hall for a very short business meeting, followed by a slide show provided by Mike Tangorre.

New York's West Village has just gotten a sartorial upgrade, English style, with the recent opening of the first Oliver Spencer boutique in the US.

Town and Village of Spencer residential households have another opportunity to get rid of unwanted tires and scrap metal this Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring those items to the North Spencer Highway Department barn on Hillview Road, between Route 96 and Michigan Hollow.

John Stephens has a rather unusual morning routine. Stephens, clinical assistant professor of speech language pathology and audiology at Ithaca College, travels across his 193-acre farm feeding everything from sheep, goats, chickens, cats and horses to a Gordon setter named Charlie - all with a cup of coffee in hand.

The Spencer Van Etten Youth Association will have its annual fall 5-cent can and bottle drive this Sunday , Oct.

SPENCER -- From the outside, it seemed like an idyllic life: a beautiful home, four children, an attractive wife, a wealthy husband.

This must be the season for new pastors in town. Faith Bible Chapel has called to its pulpit the Rev.

Anticipating a surplus of more than 400 students on campus this year, Ithaca College offered $2,000 incentives for students within a 60-mile radius to live at home and commute.

I am always happy to see spring arrive, but my absolute favorite season has got to be autumn.

We all know that times are tough economically. Many seniors on fixed incomes may find that their money just doesn't stretch as far as it once did.