Retired Fork Lift Operator Wins Top Prize on Scratch-Off Game

Winner is fifth Lottery millionaire from Onondaga County in past two months FAYETTEVILLE, NY (08/25/2010)(readMedia)– The New York Lottery today introduced 77-year-old Albert “Al” Nanni of Fayetteville as a top prize winner of the Emerald 8s scratch-off game. The Lottery’s Gretchen Dizer presented Nanni with his over-sized check at the Wegmans where he purchased his [...]

Blackford to head softball program at Morrisville State College

Former Fayetteville-Manlius, Hamilton High School coach By Brandy Thurston, Director of Sports Information (Morrisville, NY) Morrisville State College Athletic Director, Greg Carroll, recently announced the addition of Tom Blackford as the head coach of the Mustang softball program for the 2010-11 season. Blackford brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Morrisville State, having coached [...]

Things Are Getting Political

111th Assembly District Competition Between Bargabos and Skeele Saturated with Petition Challenges and Election Law Maneuvers By Aaron Gifford Richard Bargabos of Smithfield, a candidate for the 111th Assembly District, has the Republican Committee nod and is all but guaranteed to be on the Independence Party line in the November election. And yet, he’s still [...]

Daughters Start Walk/Run in Memory of Father

By Franci Valenzano (Dewitt, NY) Debra Barsha isn’t much of a runner. But that won’t stop her from participating in an event that is dear to her heart. Clad in a t-shirt emblazoned with a silhouetted runner holding up two victory fingers, she will join sisters, Amy, Cindy and Janice Barsha, in a walk/run they [...]

Man’s Charred Body Found, Police Investigate

(Town of Manlius, NY) Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin E. Walsh reports that Sheriff’s Detectives are continuing to investigate the death of a Fayetteville man found at an outdoor fire. At approximately 6:15 p.m. July 11, firefighters and the Manlius Police Department were called to an outdoor fire located on Alverna Heights Road, near the Metropolitan [...]

Shoplifter Arrested in Fayetteville

(Fayetteville, NY – July 9, 2010) State Police in North Syracuse arrested 44 year-old, Juliet Lane of Spring Street, Fayetteville, for Petit Larceny, a class ‘A’ misdemeanor. Lane was arrested after store personnel reported that she had stolen $345.89 worth of merchandise from Wild Birds Unlimited, which is located at 402 E. Genessee Street, Fayetteville. [...]

Ropp Joins Bailey, Haskell & LaLonde Agency

Nick Ropp has joined the Bailey, Haskell & LaLonde (BHL) firm as a Personal Lines Account Executive serving the Cazenovia, Fayetteville, Manlius area. Formerly with Allstate Insurance Company-John Spencer Agency, Ropp has nearly five years experience in Personal Lines Insurance sales. He is a graduate of Onondaga Community College and is currently working on a [...]

Stirpe, local school officials: Paterson’s veto leaves taxpayers holding the bag, hurts schoolchildren

Assemblyman Al Stirpe (D-North Syracuse) expressed frustration and anger over Governor Paterson’s veto of more than $10 million in aid for North Syracuse, East Syracuse-Minoa, Fabius-Pompey, LaFayette, Fayetteville-Manlius, Liverpool and Central Square schools. Paterson, under his executive budget, proposed slashing statewide school aid by $1.4 billion – the largest cut in state history. The legislature [...]

Tickets for Charity in Full Swing

(Verona, NY) Charities from throughout Upstate New York are raising much-needed funds through The Turning Stone Resort Championship’s Tickets for Charity program. This is the fourth year of the initiative, administered in conjunction with the  official PGA TOUR event scheduled for Aug. 2 -8 at the Oneida Indian Nation’s Atunyote Golf Club. Now through July [...]

Fayetteville, Weedsport Residents Win Oz Story Contest

From left are sixth- through eighth-grade winner Samantha Levy of Fayetteville and third- through fifth-grade winner Mackenzie Dorward of DeRuyter stand in front of ninth- through 12th-grade winner Laura Boland of Fayetteville and adult winner Sharon Blowers of Weedsport. To the right of the picture are Lynn Beltz, vice president of the International Wizard of [...]

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