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September 30, 2007
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A slew of choices in Bath area elections
By ROB PRICE THE COURIER-ADVOCATE
BATH - There is no shortage of candidates in this year's November general elections for the Bath town board and town supervisor. The emergence in August of the Bath Citizens Party already had set up a contest for two town council positions and the top job of supervisor. More...
How do you feel when the world tells you your child is a genius?
PROUD
By ROB PRICE THE COURIER-ADVOCATE

BATH - Most parents believe their children are geniuses, even if the rest of the world hasn't tumbled onto that fact. But a Bath couple recently had the rare pleasure of seeing their child recognized as extraordinary when their son recently was awarded one of 24 prestigious MacArthur awards for ... More...

Mossy Bank Park site of Operation Paul Bunyan
By BRENT WUCHER SPECIAL TO THE COURIER

BATH - Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 389th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, made up of drill sergeants and future drill sergeants from units in Webster, Syracuse and Ithaca, converged recently on a hill top park in Bath for a special mission. The assignment was officially named Operation Paul Bunyan. The ... More...

 News
•ABC film crew at Hickory Hill
BATH - AN ABC "Primetime" television crew recently visited The Wellness G.I.F.T.S. camping retreat program at Hickory Hill Camping Resort as part of an upcoming program on Tourette's Syndrome. The resort was the setting for a camping retreat that focused on children suffering from Tourette's Syn... More...
•Correction
•Five Star donates to Pro Action
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 Columns
•Everything you always wanted to know about astronomy
This month, the highlights of the heavenly objects include: • A spectacular grouping of Venus, Saturn, and Regulus with the crescent moon • Tthe Orionid Meteor Shower At dusk, Jupiter sinks in the Southwest. Mars is getting brighter and rises later and later in the night sky. More...
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 Opinions & Letters
•50 years of science
Fifty years ago, on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, a 184- pound satellite that weighed less than the average professional baseball player. More...
•Political Cartoon
•You get what you pay for
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 Police Blotter
•POLICE
Assault Bath village police last week arrested Lee Jones, 40, of Bath on a charge of second degree assault. Jones allegedly cut another man with a sickle during a fight. More...
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 Sports
•Fuller lifts Prattsburgh
CAMPBELL - Following a scoreless first half, Prattsburgh's Wade Fuller made certain Wednesday's, Sept. 26, Steuben County encounter with Campbell- Savona wouldn't end in a 0-0 tie. Not quite 15 minutes into the second half, Fuller punched in a high shot at point-blank range to put the Vikings on... More...
•Bath swim team defeats Marcus Whitman
•The Haverling girls Swim Team Defeated Letchworth 96-78.
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 Hammondsport Happenings
•HAMMONDSPORT HAPPENINGS
• What wonderful weather we were given the entire weekend of the Glenn H. Curtiss Seaplane Fly-In. With our home just 1 and a quarter miles down the West Lake Road, we enjoyed sitting out on our porch just about all the time, I confess, to watch the seaplanes come and go! How much my mother,... More...
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 Regional News
•Fall colors breaking out
Season peaking in Adirondacks, still in early stages around Finger Lakes
Vibrant, near-peak autumn color have made their way to New York's Adirondacks region, according to observers for Empire State Development's I LOVE NEW YORK program. Other areas of the state showing the most color progression are the Catskills and Thousand Islands-Seaway regions. More...
•Fall foliage festival set for Cohocton
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 Great Outdoors
•Far Afield
When bucks are in 'The Lull'
It seems like each and every whitetail archery season, bowhunters report a lull, or slow time when activity and deer sightings drop off. It's significant because some archers lose their confidence, quit hunting, think they are doing something wrong, because they don't see the deer they were accus... More...
•DEC: New York moose numbers grow to 500
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 Health
•HEALTH NEWS
Gastric Bypass support The monthly meeting of the Gastric Bypass Support Group of St. James Mercy Health System will be held on the third Monday of every month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Cafeteria at St. James Mercy Hospital. The next support group will be held Oct. 15. More...
•Does menstruating cause headaches?
•Autism Awareness
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 Schools
•AP classes: are they worth it?
Are you a high school junior or senior planning to go to college? Would you like to bypass some of the general education requirements and have a lighter class load and perhaps even a lower tuition bill? Yeah? Well, then taking advanced placement (AP) classes may be for you. More...
•Quality education for all
•Local student to travel to D.C.
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 Obituaries
•Morrell O. "Bunk" Watkins, Jr.
CAMPBELL - Morrell O. "Bunk" Watkins Jr., age 80, of Campbell, went to be with the Lord surrounded by his loving family on Monday, Sept. 24. He was born March 2, 1927 in Woodhull, the son of Morrell A. and Vinnie Taft Watkins. More...
•Jack D. Smith
•Hugh W. Tombs
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 Community
•Sea of Color
2007 Fall Voliage Festival Oct. 4- 6 Cohocton Village Green
Thursday, October 4 7pm Prince & Princess Contest - Cohocton School 5pm Open to children of the Wayland-Cohocton School District 7pm Ages Kdg. More...
•Local area High School sports schedule for the week of Sept. 23-29
•Get to know your local library
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 Home & Garden
•Safeguarding sprinklers from winter storms
Thanks to Old Man Winter's icy breath, there's little need or use for that sprinkler system threading through the front and back yards. So you really don't need it until green sprouts again atop the trees outside. But you shouldn't ignore it, particularly if you have an expensive and intricate sp... More...
•Bringing fall inside
•Going 007 with home security
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