GENEVA — In the fall of 2019, the staff at the Geneva Family YMCA hosted a kickoff event for a capital fundraising campaign and planned $4 million expansion and renovation project.

GENEVA — The year was 2005. Mike Combs had been a career (paid) firefighter with the Geneva Fire Department for about seven years when one of his mentors, legendary GFD Chief Ralph DeBolt, decided to retire after close to 20 years in the position.

PHELPS — Karissa VanCamp-Smith did a little research and figured that her new sons, Zachariah, Lincoln, Ian and Daniel, will require about 800 diapers a month when they come home later this summer.

Ed. note: This is the sixth article in a monthly series the Finger Lakes Times is writing on the faculty and staff at Cornell AgriTech, and how their work impacts our way of life.

GENEVA — The city’s fire chief is praising a local teacher and students, and two unidentified citizens, for helping the man trapped underneath a vehicle Thursday.

GENEVA — A man was injured Thursday evening when a pickup truck he was working under moved, trapping him underneath for a brief time.

CANANDAIGUA — One of the candidates running for Ontario County sheriff has named a 25-year veteran of the sheriff’s office as his running mate.

CANANDAIGUA — As of Thursday afternoon, the investigation into the cause of a fire that destroyed a Canandaigua Lake home Wednesday was ongoing.

CANANDAIGUA — Had they been asked about running for Ontario County sheriff in 2022 a year ago, Dave Cirencione and Silvio Palermo say their answer would have been no.

GENEVA — Five people were displaced Monday evening when fire broke out in the attic of a house on Lafayette Avenue.

By the time Friday morning arrived, many Finger Lakes-area residents had all but forgotten about the line of thunderstorms that rolled through the region Thursday afternoon — and a tornado watch alert.

GENEVA — City police have arrested the second suspect in the death of a Waterloo man found in a parking lot behind Geneva General Hospital.

GENEVA — A longtime city firefighter has been promoted to a new position in the department.

CANANDAIGUA — The recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award highlighted the Ontario County Chamber of Commerce’s annual membership gathering June 2 at Lincoln Hill Farms.

PHELPS — After five years, the superintendent of the Phelps-Clifton Springs school district is leaving to take the same job in another part of the state.

GENEVA — One person has been arrested, another is being sought and more people could be implicated in the death of a Waterloo man found Sunday in a parking lot behind Geneva General Hospital.

GENEVA — One person has been arrested and another is being sought in connection with the dead body found Sunday night behind Geneva General Hospital.

MANCHESTER — There was a massive police response Wednesday evening at the Hill Cumorah Visitors Center on Route 21 after a volley of gunfire was reported at about 5:45 p.m.

SENECA — Let the debate on the future of the Ontario County Landfill begin.

GENEVA — As of Tuesday, city police had not revealed the identity of the man found dead Sunday evening behind Geneva General Hospital.

GENEVA — City police are now calling the discovery of a body Sunday night behind Geneva General Hospital a “suspicious” death.

CANANDAIGUA — Following an extensive search process for both jobs, Ontario County has a new economic developer and deputy administrator.

SENECA — The town of Seneca has hosted the Ontario County Landfill since 1974. The landfill’s current state permit expires in 2028 — and town officials want to know what town residents feel about the future of the 389-acre facility.

GENEVA — City police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate vandalism last weekend at and near Geneva Club Beverage.

If you fill up your car at gas stations in Wayne or Yates counties, you might be noticing something unusual: The price has dropped.

CANANDAIGUA — Another arrest Wednesday makes it three Finger Lakes-area residents who have been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy in South Carolina last month.

CANANDAIGUA — Another Ontario County resident has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy in South Carolina.

CANANDAIGUA — A South Carolina sheriff’s statement that “New York is not far enough” rang true when it came to a local resident arrested for his alleged connection to a fatal shooting in the Palmetto State.

GENEVA — The Town Board has approved two local laws related to agricultural commerce and tourism in the town.

GENEVA — Members of the North Side Fire Company spent nearly two hours Wednesday night rescuing a dog from a storm drain.

While there is no information pointing to a specific threat, local police agencies are stepping up their presence at schools in response to the mass shooting in Texas.

GENEVA — John DeFazio Jr. is disappointed his tenure as Geneva Middle School principal was a brief one.