Driving courses offered at GCC in July
Genesee Community College will once again offer Driver Pre-Licensing and Defensive Driving courses in July. more

Experience Erie Canal heritage on bicycle tour
Join as many as 250 people of all ages - singles, couples, family groups - and all bicycling abilities on this ride across New York state along the historic Erie Canal, recently named a National Heritage Corridor, and enjoy great scenery, interesting history, and unparalleled cycling. Whether a seasoned bike tourist or novice, participants will experience the canal and enjoy canal historians' stories about the people, places and things that made life along the Erie Canal so unique in its day and so important to the history of New York state and the country. more

Hilton Baptist Church welcomes new pastor
Pastor Walter T. Steenson has been called to minister to the people of Hilton Baptist Church and community. He will be in the pulpit on Sunday, August 5, offering his first sermon and sharing communion for the first time, as pastor of the Hilton Baptist Church family. more

Interpreter for the hearing impaired
at Hilton UM services
The Hilton United Methodist Church extends a special invitation to the members of the hearing impaired community to join them for Sunday morning services. more

Local youth group prepares for Romanian visitors
"They talked about how amazing it would be if they could come to America," Mary Johnson said of the teens she met in Romania last year. Now, the 13 Romanian teenagers will be hosted in the homes of Brockport's Christ Community Church families. One teen is already visiting the area, the others will be here by the end of July. more

Sidewalk Sale entertainment fills up
The Brockport Merchants Association Sidewalk Sale (July 12-14) entertainment schedule is loaded with activities. Featured events include Chess Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Participants can play on one of 18 chessboards or use the two-foot chess pieces played on a 13-foot square chessboard. All ages are invited to play and there will be gifts for all players. more

Stride Toward Freedom celebrates Emancipation Day
The Rochester-Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission presents "Stride Toward Freedom," a dramatic celebration commemorating New York state's freeing of those who had been enslaved since before New York became a state. From noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, July 7, New York Emancipation will be celebrated much as it was on July 5, 1827. more

Sweden residents continue to resist Bergen pole plans
The Village of Bergen held a condemnation hearing on June 27 for six Sweden properties whose owners have declined to sign easements that would allow the village to erect utility poles along West Sweden Road. A hearing for Town of Bergen property owners who have not signed easements for the same purpose was held the night before. more

Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse annual celebration
This year marks the sixth annual Summer Lighthouse celebration, and the 126th anniversary of Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse. more

Two Brockport business women take sacred journey
Gail Kihn, licensed massage therapist and owner of Pleiades Health Center in Brockport, and her colleague Jean Sauberan, Reiki practitioner and teacher, returned on June 23 from a ten-day tour of sacred healing sites in southwest and north central Ireland. The tour commenced in Shannon on the west coast and ended in Dublin on the east coast. It included visits to pre-Christian era holy wells, 5,000 year-old standing stone circles, Neolithic and Iron Age burial mounds and Megalithic artworks, early Christian ceremonial sites and grave yards, a Celtic Crystal Cave, and a fairy fort. more

Walk the Agri-Mile at the Orleans County 4-H Fair
Grab a map and join the treasure hunt for agri-facts as you journey across the Orleans County 4-H Fairgrounds. Along the way children and adults alike will find friendly animals to pet, demonstrations to watch and a myriad of hands-on activities. more

BOCES 2 launches alternative high school for at-risk students
Beginning in September, the nine component districts that comprise Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES will have another alternative for at-risk students. Westside Academy, the new BOCES 2 alternative high school, will open its doors at Westview Commons on Buffalo Road in Gates in time for the 2001-2002 school year. At its helm will be Maureen Viel, who currently works for BOCES 2 as a secondary instructional specialist and will take over the position of principal on July 1. Viel also taught at the BOCES 2 Special Education Alternative High School for two years and at Greece Olympia High School for five years. more

Brockport selected for Consortium on
Trauma, Illness and Grief in schools
The Brockport Central School District has been selected by the American Red Cross to participate as a pilot school district in the Consortium on Trauma, Illness and Grief (TIG) in Schools. The purpose of the Consortium is to offer intensive training and ongoing support around the content areas of illness, grief, trauma and disaster reactions and interventions - not the logistics, which may be individual to each school district. As a pilot district, Brockport will help determine which of several training modules will be most useful for schools. more

GCC offers new scholarships to Hilton area students
Genesee Community College in Batavia is seeking at least two eligible students from the Hilton area to apply for and receive the college's new Citizenship Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship is geared toward students who plan to attend Genesee and live in the college's new student residence. The Citizenship Scholarship is a competitive award given to students who have exhibited involvement and leadership in school, community, or church activities during their high school years. more

Students learn about paleontology
Holley fifth-grader Derek Kohmann reads information he wrote about dinosaurs to his schoolmates. He was part of a target group of students who worked with science educator Ron Walker (right) during a weeklong residency entitled "Paleontologists: Fossil Detectives," a Project ADEPT through Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES. more

New leader appointed for Byron-Bergen School District
Gregory Geer, Ed.D., is the new superintendent of the Byron-Bergen School District, effective August 1. Dr. Geer has served as principal of Eastridge Junior High School in the East Irondequoit District since 1996. more

Summer classes offered through H-P Recreation
Hilton-Parma Recreation is offering summer swim lessons for all levels of experience. Red Cross certified instructors and lifeguards will provide instruction. Two-week sessions for children will be held from July 16-27 and July 30-August 10. The cost is $38 per person per session. All participants are placed at a level that is most comfortable for them. more