The former interim director of the Yates County Chamber of Commerce will spend some time behind bars for cashing a forged check in 2017. In Yates County Court Tuesday, Judge Jason Cook sentenced Julie Coleman to five years’ probation. District Attorney Todd Casella said Coleman will spend the first 80 days of that probation in... more

Nearly 65 years after the U.S. Supreme Court banned the concept of “separate but equal” institutions in its Brown v. Board of Education decision, American schools are still profoundly segregated. Educator and scholar Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum explores the ramifications of an education system that remains separate and very much unequal. Why are public schools... more

A Penn Yan man is facing rape and drug charges following an incident on Tuesday. According to authorities, 25-year-old Travis Vermilye is accused of having sex with a person less than 17 years old. When officers arrived at his home in Penn Yan to execute a search warrant on Tuesday – Vermilye fled. After a... more

A local woman accused of stealing more than $5,000 from her employer pleaded guilty to several charges Tuesday in Yates County Court. District Attorney Todd Casella said Jo Ann Gilbert pleaded guilty to felony charges of third-degree grand larceny, second-degree computer tampering, and first-degree falsifying business records. Gilbert, 61, is scheduled to be sentenced May... more

“Beyond frustrating.” That’s how Keuka Moorings developer Chris Iversen describes attempts to get State Attorney General office approval for the Condominium Offering Plan that must be in place to begin marketing the units planned for the former Penn Yan Marine Manufacturing property off Mace Street. Iversen has reached out to Penn Yan Village and Yates... more

Yates County Legislator Tim Cutler and Treasurer and Acting County Administrator Winona “Nonie” Flynn will kick off a campus lecture series this month organized by the College’s Political Science, History, and Pre-Law Club – just one sign of the organization’s recent resurgence. “We wanted to try to add value to the club,” says Ann Stull... more

Yates County Legislator Tim Cutler from District I and Treasurer Winona Flynn will kick off a campus lecture series on March 14 organized by Keuka College’s Political Science, History and Pre-Law Club — just one sign of the organization’s recent resurgence. “We wanted to try to add value to the club,” said Ann Stull, vice... more

To shed light on the situation at the southern border of the U.S. and the refugees seeking to cross it, the Penn Yan Action Coalition sponsored a community event featuring volunteer Ann Meyer-Wilbur Saturday, March 2 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Penn Yan. The organizers were astonished that their maximum planned attendance of 80... more

The former owner of Lloyd’s Limited will spend three years in prison for sexually molesting two unconscious females at his Main Street pub in December 2017. On Tuesday morning in Yates County Court, Judge Jason Cook sentenced Bob Champlin to three years in prison, part of a deal the 61-year-old accepted after he pleaded guilty... more

The construction of a conference center for Penn Yan has the green light from Yates County and Penn Yan Village Planning Boards. At the Feb. 28 meeting of the Yates County Planning Board, Chris Iversen’s application for site plan review to build a 12,340 sq.ft. conference center attached to the Keuka Lake Hotel at 110... more

Take a trip to Treegap, New Hampshire this weekend as the Penn Yan Academy Drama Club presents the hit Broadway musical Tuck Everlasting. Tuck Everlasting, based on the beloved novel by Natalie Babbitt, follows the story of 11-year old Winnie Foster (Junior Genevieve Elliott) who feels stifled by the expectations of her mother (Junior McKelvie... more

Keuka College’s Community Luncheon Series will continue Wednesday, March 20, with a presentation on organic farming. Penn Yan residents Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens will discuss their business, Lakeview Organic Grain, at a noon luncheon held in the Geiser Dining Commons, inside Keuka College’s Dahlstrom Student Center. Check-in for the luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m. Yates... more

A hearing on the 2019–2020 budget for the Penn Yan Public Library will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 2 at the Library. There will be a special meeting of the voters of the Penn Yan Central School District to consider a proposition to adopt the upcoming budget Tuesday, April 9. Voting will be held... more

The Penn Yan Action Coalition will sponsor a community event featuring local volunteer Ann Meyer-Wilbur from 6 to 8 p.m. March 2 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Main and Clinton Streets, Penn Yan. The event will begin with a dinner prepared by learners in the Literacy Volunteers English Language and Citizenship class that meets weekly... more

Elizabeth Catlin and her attorney David Morabito continue her defense against felony charges levied last fall in connection to assisting area women in childbirth. While Catlin’s story continues to resonate in national media, women in the local Mennonite community have been working with Yates County Public Health officials and four licensed midwives who have begun... more

Yates County’s post-revolutionary history is rooted in the area we now know as a beautiful natural area in a ravine that connects Keuka and Seneca Lakes. The mills that were powered by the flowing water of the Keuka Outlet became the basis of industry here. As the mills prospered, other businesses and services were needed.... more

Yates Sheriff Ron Spike has issued a statement following media inquiries regarding the investigation into a 2002 homicide – involving a 16-month-old in Dundee. The child’s mother, Kelly L. Axtell, who was 24-years-old at the time, found Ethan M. Eslick, the 16-month-old, deceased at a home in Dundee, according to Spike. Spike says Ronald McGuire... more

The Penn Yan Board of Education got a first look at the 2019–2020 budget picture Feb. 13, with a presentation that Assistant Superintendent for Business Cathleen Milliman explained is simply a carry-over of this year’s budget, with no adjustments to individual line items. Mandated increases in such areas as salaries, benefits, and retirement expenses are... more

A local man was sentenced to prison Tuesday for vandalizing two area churches last June. Yates County Judge Jason Cook sentenced Michael Badamy to 2½ to 5 years in prison for breaking into the United Methodist Church in Penn Yan and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Benton. Badamy had been charged... more

Residents in Penn Yan are getting ready for a wintry good time. Winterfest, a family-friendly event in Penn Yan, will be held Friday and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day. Winterfest is a collaboration between the Finger Lakes Museum & Aquarium (FLM&A) and the Hampton Inn Penn Yan, is funded in part... more