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BATH - The Haverling Music Department will offer a unique concert at 7 p.m. March 5 in the high school auditorium. More ...
Karen Nadjadi, sales manager for The Courier-Advocate, presents a check to Bath fire Chief Ron Delio in support of the fire department's new station. The funds were raised through a special Courier publication saluting the fire department. Copies are held by Bonnie Albee, director of the paper's com... More ...
BATH - The Haverling Art Department last week announced two students, Elizabeth Congdon and Jessica Sokolowski, won awards in the 2008 Scholastic Art Awards competition. Since 1927, Scholastics has sponsored a national contest to honor outstanding achievement in the visual arts by junior and sen... More ...
Gavin Goodman, a senior at Hammondsport Central School, recently won the Future Business Leaders of America's District 11 Impromptu Speaking Contest. He will go on to represent District 11 at the 2008 NYS FBLA State Leadership Conference on April 7-9 at the Nevele Grande Hotel in Ellenville, New ... More ...
The Glenn Curtiss Elementary School in Hammondsport celebrated its 100th day of school Feb. 13 with lots of zeros. More ...
Pictured at right, Robert Kenville, president of the Bath Lions Club, and Tifini Royce pose with the winning ticket for the Lion Club's Valentine's "Goodie Basket," held by Kenville. Pat Shugar of Bath is the winner of the basket. More ... Tickets on sale for St. Pat's concert, dinner BATH - Area residents can enjoy an evening of Irish music and dancing when the Bath Rotary Club and Interact Club host their annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner and Concert at Haverling High School. The celebration is scheduled for March 14 with dinner to be served at 5 p.m. and a concert featuring ... More ... Two H'port grads to be honored HAMMONDSPORT - ammondsport Central School will be holding its Wall of Fame Induction Ceremony on March 28, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in the High School Library. Two HCS alumni will be honored at the event. Richard Young will be inducted into the Wall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement and William R. Bills ... More ... Steuben RSVP looking for volunteers •Mentors are needed to help in both youth and adult programs through the Steuben County Youth Bureau or Catholic Charities. Youth mentors should attend information session on March 17. •ProAction Home Delivered Meals is in need of substitute drivers as needed. More ... Girl Scouts give women skills and friends For the past 35 years, Belinda Elliston has been involved with Girl Scouting. She first joined the group at age 7 as a second grader. Her involvement continued through high school, college and graduate school. Now an adult, Elliston leads a troop of middle schoolers. More ...
By Bruce Dennis March During the entire month of March, Mars can be observed in the early-evening sky. This will be closely followed by Saturn, which will also be visible during the whole month. Just before the Sun comes up, Jupiter can be found in the Southeast, climbing higher each night. Venus and Mercury can... More ... YOUR COMMUNITY Improving driver safety The staff of the Caregiver Resource Center of the Steuben County Office for the Aging can help sort out issues and make suggestions for improving elderly driving safety. For confidential help visit the Steuben County Office for the Aging website at www.steubencony.org. More ... LOCAL NEWS Military News Coast Guard Seaman Craig S. Deats-Cascio, son of Carlette S. and George S. Cascio of Cameron, , recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N. J. More ... Sex abuser pleads guilt BY JOHN ZICK GATEHOUSE MEDIA BATH - A former Prattsburgh man who skipped bail last year on child-sex charges has pleaded guilty and will serve 4.7 to 15 years in state prison. Anthony P. Kroeger, 48, pleaded guilty last week in Steuben County Court to charges of use of a child in a sexual performance and bail jumping. More ... Savona audit: Court funds are missing BY MARY PERHAM GATEHOUSE MEDIA SAVONA - Savona officials may request a criminal investigation into allegations by the state Comptroller that more than $4,000 was stolen from village court financial accounts. In a report issued this month, auditors reported a shortage of $4,920 in deposits made between April 24, 2004 and May 17... More ...
An accident occurred Tuesday, Feb. 26, on Country Route 105 in Avoca, a vehicle driven by a 69-year-old woman slid off the road, struck a tree, and came to rest in a ravine, according to Steuben County Sheriff's Office. The woman had to be cut out of her vehicle by the Avoca Fire Department, and she... More ...
A business retrospective of central Steuben County Article Courtesy of Jim Hope Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History The first settlement in the Town of Bath was made in the spring of 1793, by Colonel Charles Williamson. The vast track of land, later called the Pulteney Estate, of about one million, two hundred acres included what is now ... More ...
Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History Article Courtesy Grace Mary Fox Avoca is a community, a town, a village and a memory - "The Sweet Vale of Avoca." It is part of the geographic entity of the Conhocton Valley with broad, loamy fields in the valley and steep wooded hillsides topped by a rolling plateau. It sits on top of the Conhocton aquifer and a thick deposit o... More ...
Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History Article Courtesy Robert Smith Campbell is located in the southeastern portion of Steuben County, New York. The declivities of the hills are generally steep, and their summits are from three to five hundred feet above the valley. The Conhocton River runs through the western part of the town in a southeasterly direction. More ... Cohocton Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History Article Courtesy of James D. Folts The Town of Cohocton was erected by the legislature from Bath and Dansville on June 18, 1812. Its original area was about double its present size, encompassing parts of Avoca, Fremont, Dansville and almost two-thirds of the Town of Wayland. A section of Avoca was taken off in 1843, and a portion ... More ...
Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History Article Courtesy of Elsie H. Moon Captain Joel Pratt of Colombia county, New York, first visited the area that would become Prattsburg in 1879, according to Clayton's History of Steuben County, published in 1879. His nephew, Jared Pratt, moved here in 1801. More ...
Reprinted from "Steuben County: The First 200 Years, A Pictorial History Article Courtesy of Terry Bretherton The topography of the township is divided almost equally by the valley of Keuka Lake and Pleasant Valley, which lies at the head of the lake. The lake and the valley are bounded by hills that rise about them by some thousand feet at the highest places. The first permanent settlers came o Pleasant... More ... |
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