Yates County News

Angered by a Town Board vote in Italy, Yates County, to kill a turbine proposal, a wind-energy company is asking a judge to override the elected board members and allow the project to go forward.

Susan Noble has been named executive director of the Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park, also called the Technology Farm.

A Yates County man was killed Tuesday afternoon when dump truck rolled over an embankment and crashed into a building where he was working, Yates County deputies said.

Authorities say a construction worker was killed when a truck hauling stone crashed into the Finger Lakes boathouse where he was working.

A Penn Yan man died Tuesday in a construction accident in Yates County. The Yates County Sheriff's Office said Joshua F. Larham, 28, of 404 Liberty St.

Grape growers in the Finger Lakes region had been hoping for an average size crop this season, even though a cold summer and fall has delayed the harvest.

A Dundee man died last night after his pickup truck left the road, according to Yates County sheriff's deputies.

With more business, Bob's Alignment Shop loses more money. His free tire-plugging policy for all tires purchased at his shop seemed like a great customer service pitch up until a year and a half ago.

Hunt Country Vineyards in Branchport, Yates County, has installed a small vertical-axis wind turbine that generates up to 1.2 kilowatts of electricity.

In what may have been a first for New York state, the Italy Town Board voted last night to deny an application from a company that wanted to build an 18-turbine wind farm in the picturesque Yates County town.

Hundreds of people gathered Friday to support cancer patients and research during the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Western and Central New York's 10th annual Light the Night Walk.

Decades ago, local real estate mogul Max M. Farash put a few of his not-inconsiderable assets into a trust fund to benefit his wife, Marian M. Farash.

Dr. Brad Berk is hoping to eventually make a full recovery, but his doctors say it's impossible to predict just what will happen.

Love can be found in the strangest of places - even amid deceit, chicanery and multimillion-dollar white-collar crime.

Cayuga Lake could become the centerpiece of a $50 million, 40,000 square-foot museum and cultural complex.

The unusually wet summer season in the Rochester region has resulted in an excess of yellow jacket wasps swarming around homes.

Red Tail Ridge Winery in Penn Yan, Yates County, on Sunday began using its new environmentally low-impact production facility for fermenting wine, co-owner Nancy Irelan says.

To The Editor: Several years ago, we received a survey regarding the viability of expanding the runway length at Blue Earth Airport as well as adding an adjacent taxiway.

A public hearing will be held Saturday morning in Italy, Yates County, on a proposed 18-turbine wind energy project now pending before the Town Board.

On the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the New York State Association of Counties has applied for federal broadband stimulus funding to construct a comprehensive public safety emergency communication system to link all levels of government law enforcement agencies.