WATERLOO — The Seneca County Board of Supervisors could take the first step toward borrowing $20.7 million to upgrade county Sewer Districts No. 1 and 2 when it meets Tuesday.
There ought to be a law guaranteeing every citizen of New York clean water, air and a healthy environment. We have an opportunity on Nov. 2 to do just that.
FAYETTE — The public is invited to a meeting of the Seneca Watershed Intermunicipal Organization at 7 p.m. Oct. 27 in Town Hall.
SODUS POINT — The village of Sodus Point is seeking two permits from the state Department of Environmental Conservation for a shoreline stabilization project along Lake Ontario.
WATERLOO — After more than 20 years, hazardous waste cleanup efforts at Evans Chemetics property on East Main Street may be coming to an end.
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GENEVA — Last week, Seneca Lake had one of the most widespread events involving harmful algal blooms since 2014, according to the Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association.
CANANDAIGUA — The owners of a former dry-cleaning business in the Parkway Plaza on Eastern Boulevard have submitted a plan to remediate contamination at the site.
GENEVA — The city is asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation permission to dredge part of the north end of Seneca Lake, a move aimed at expanding the marina there.
GENEVA — In the Finger Lakes region and throughout New York state, rural youth will have the opportunity to strengthen their communities’ readiness for climate-related challenges thanks to a $449,278 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of only eight such proje…
Someone wise once said, “Nothing is permanent except change.” How true. We live in an ever-changing environment, an ever-changing world. In the same respect, we are creatures of habit, and the stressors of life’s constant changes seem to challenge most people while they navigate through dail…
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GENEVA — The Finger Lakes may be invaded by the spotted lanternfly soon.
WATERLOO — The proposed Trelina Solar Energy Center has generated even more interest in solar projects. Many landowners, particularly farm owners and operators, are being approached to lease land to solar energy companies.
PENN YAN — The watershed that drains into Seneca and Keuka lakes is huge, covering 633 square miles in five counties.
Town of Geneva Climate Smart Coordinator Jacob Fox answers your questions about recycling, composting, lawn care, etc.
GENEVA — The city of Geneva Green Committee is hosting a native plant sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Geneva Farmers Market at the Finger Lakes Visitor Center.
I remember living in St. Mary’s, Ga., before I-95 came through. It was hot and muggy. The coldest it ever got was just touching freezing and then only for an hour or so.
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WATERLOO — A Packwood Road resident’s request for information from Trelina Solar Energy Center should be denied, said attorneys representing the company that wants to build and operate an 80 megawatt solar facility in the west end of the town.
Almost every day I read one article or another in a newspaper about topics of interest to me — good government, natural disasters, foreign policy, COVID-19, climate change and environmental destruction and stewardship.
BENTON — The deadline for written comments on an application for a mined land reclamation permit for Martin’s Sand and Gravel is Oct. 8.
I spent the summer with other volunteers at the city’s Lakefront Park pulling weeds. It was more time than I’d ever spent there, and it drove home what I already knew: The city has a treasure. That’s not my opinion only, but what people told me who stopped to say they love our park and how u…
Queen Anne’s lace bordered the Deer Haven Park roadways like a white carpet laid out for our arrival. The tour bus crept along roadways originally paved in 1941 as tour guide Frank Arpino and driver John Hunt hosted their visitors. Late-summer crickets hummed, their song carried on the westw…
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TORREY — As a state agency begins the process of reviewing air permit applications for the Greenidge Generation plant, the issue has the attention of U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
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PENN YAN — More than four years in the making, a Nine Element Watershed Management Plan to protect the Seneca and Keuka Lake watershed will be subject to three public presentations in the coming months.
GENEVA — Big aLICe Brewing Co. plans to release its new Seneca Cream Ale to the public from 4-9 p.m. Thursday(Sept. 9) — and Seneca Lake Pure Waters Association will share in the proceeds from sales of the new beer.
WATERLOO — The latest filing by Trelina Solar Energy Center in its quest to obtain a building permit is a letter asking that concerns about loss of farmland and decommissioning and glare from solar panels be rejected.
GENEVA — Have a computer, television, microwave or other electronic device you want to junk?
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SAVANNAH — Comments are due today(Sept. 2) on an application from the Carncross Nature Preserve on County Route 274 for a permit to apply the herbicide Rodeo to control a non-native plant species that surrounds the inland salt marsh there.
Several local publications recently printed another public relations statement by Greenidge Generation. The bitcoin mining operator along the western shore of Seneca Lake in Dresden is trying hard to convince the community that its business model is a net benefit for the region — that is, bu…
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Town of Geneva Climate Smart Coordinator Jacob Fox answers your questions about recycling, composting, lawn care, etc.
Welcome to the last of a three-part series in which we are exploring three men of purpose as to directing alternate energy into the future. Nikola Tesla said the sun could power everything (1899), and Thomas Edison said that electricity was the way to power automobiles (1905). Now I point to…
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WATERLOO — For more than 90 minutes Monday, residents questioned a Trelina Solar Energy Center official about the $110 million project proposed for the Packwood-Serven Road area of the town.
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PENN YAN — On the morning of Aug. 5, Keith Prather woke to the sound of chain saws near his back yard.
WATERLOO — Are you interested in the environment and concerned about the changing climate?
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GENEVA — For many Genevans with Norway maple trees in their yards, it may appear that fall is coming early this year.
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WATERLOO — Friends of the late Mary Anne Kowalski have nominated her posthumously for the Woman of Distinction Award for Volunteer Service from the Professional Women of the Finger Lakes organization.
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WATERLOO — Seneca County is one of 12 in New York without a state-approved, 10-year solid waste management plan.
FARMINGTON — Registration is underway for a free household hazardous waste collection day involving Ontario County residents.
It is said a part of oneself becomes a fragment of the greater whole when one deeply loves — be it person, place, or thing. Perchance an essence of one’s energy lingers to further enhance the environment whereupon it is instilled. As time passes, such energy may manifest into loved ones’ end…
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GENEVA — Impact Earth is doing some Dumpster diving in Geneva.
WATERLOO — A representative from Trelina Solar Energy Center will attend the Aug. 23 Town Board meeting and will answer questions about the 80 megawatt project in the west end of the town.
ROMULUS — In a reversal of its July 27 vote, the Water & Sewer Treatment, Management and Operations Committee of the Seneca County Board of Supervisors voted Aug. 3 to approve a contract with the Village of Waterloo to operate the county’s water and sewer districts.
SENECA FALLS — In order to reduce the amount of municipal solid waste that is sent to Seneca Meadows Landfill and decrease landfill odor for Seneca Falls residents, the Town has established a food waste collection and composting program for town restaurants. The goal is to create a foundatio…
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ROMULUS — Mary Anne Kowalski would have celebrated her 75th birthday on Aug. 18.
CANANDAIGUA — A British company is seeking Clean Water Act certification from the state Department of Environmental Conservation for a solar project on County Road 10 in the town of Canandaigua.
INTERLAKEN — The village is applying for two permits to modify its State Pollution Discharge Elimination System discharge permit for its wastewater treatment plant on Cayuga Street.
GENEVA — Monitoring of Seneca Lake for harmful algal blooms for the 2021 season began Sunday and will continue until Oct. 10 or possibly longer.
GENEVA — A mattress recycling event has been scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the town’s waste transfer facility on White Springs Road.
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SODUS POINT — Cathy Contant loves everything about her summer home in this bucolic village, where the computer technician and photographer captures scenic photos that she often shares on Facebook.
The course of history can change not so much by momentum as by direction. In other words change can occur by simply going left instead of right.
Imagine that you worked for a company that didn’t produce anything. A company whose sole function was to take garbage from Municipality A and dispose of it in Municipality B. Imagine now that your function as an employee of that company was to make this seem acceptable to the residents of Mu…
