Newsletter-Early-Week

EXTENSION CORNER Gardening Matters Day, April 12

PENN YAN - The Master Gardeners of Yates County are excited to invite you to Gardening Matters Day — a special event dedicated to all things gardening! Topics Include: Companion Planting "Planting Is the Last Season" Biodynamic Farming Native Alternatives Planting Flowers in A Vegetable Garden Gardening For the Birds The event will be held indoors at the Yates County Building Auditorium. The attendance fee is $20 (donations are appreciated), and refreshments will be provided.

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New digital x-ray machine, suite unveiled at Soldiers & Sailors

PENN YAN – Patients at UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health's Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Penn Yan will benefit from a new digital X-ray machine and renovated radiology suite, thanks in part to community donations and event proceeds from the celebration of the hospital's centennial last year. Community members and hospital staff took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony on February 27 to open the suite.

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PAGES PAST 1875: Woman saves four men from Seneca Lake

The Chronicle-Express: Consolidation, January 1, 1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and the Gorham New Age (1902) The Yates County History Center's volunteers have gleaned these entries for your enjoyment from their digitized newspapers. You can access them at the free site www.nyshistoricnewspapers.com.

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O'MARA: 'Local Roads Are Essential'

Approaching final negotiations over a new state budget, it's critical to begin stressing that this year's budget must address the right priorities – and one of the top priorities, in my view, is the future of our local roads and bridges. It's a priority that I and local Assemblyman Phil Palmesano, together with many of our Senate and Assembly colleagues regionally and statewide, have long worked to strengthen.

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The Bon Ton Roulet July 22-26

FINGER LAKES - The Bon Ton Roulet is a 5-day bicycle tour through the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State. Our fully supported tour takes cyclists from wide-open farm fields, past stunning overlooks of our lakes to cavernous water-carved gorges, National Historic Sites, and award-winning wineries.

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FLHEDC awarded $375,000 state grant to revitalize downtown Dundee

The Finger Lakes Horizon Economic Development Corporation (FLHEDC) an affiliate organization to the Finger Lakes Economic Development Center (FLEDC), announced Governor Kathy Hochul awarded a $375,000 New York Main Street (NYMS) Grant to the FLHEDC, to support a comprehensive Building Renovation Program in the Village of Dundee. This funding will provide financial assistance to mixed-use building owners for façade improvements, first-floor commercial space renovations, and construction or renovation of upper-floor apartments in downtown Dundee.

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Greenidge provides 90%+ of production to local grid during recent frigid weather

DRESDEN – Greenidge Generation supplied more than 90% of the generation from the Dresden power plant to the local electrical grid during recent extreme cold weather and peak demand on the local grid. The power generated from Greenidge's Yates County plant ensures electrical system reliability and helps keep power prices down for local residents and businesses.

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