Category: Romulus

A 97-year-old woman has decided she’s going on a “Stayin’ Alive” tour, and one of her stops was here in the Finger Lakes to see her brother at Five Points Correctional Facility. Rita Hart lives in a care facility in Mason, Ohio, ... MORE

Deputies say an Elmira woman was arrested for DWI after an investigation into a personal injury crash that happened in Romulus on Monday. According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, Casey Taylor, 30, of Elmira was arrested for driving while ... MORE

Five Points Correctional Facility is being taken to court in a class action lawsuit, according to an announcement from two nonprofit organizations. Disability Rights Advocates and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York filed a suit against the New York State Department of ... MORE

Mary Anne Kowalski, a Romulus activist, was honored at Seneca Lake Wednesday. Kowalski died unexpectedly May 13 at age 75 just after being nominated for a spot on the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency Board of Directors. She has been nominated posthumously ... MORE

The Friends of the Three Bears, in partnership with the Romulus Historical Society, will host Shipwrecks of Seneca Lake: A Community Briefing at the historic Three Bears Complex on Wednesday, August 4 at 6pm. Art Cohn, Director emeritus of the Finger Lakes ... MORE

After more than a year of Social Distancing, Quarantines and cancellations, the Deer Haven Park Bus Tours are back! On July 15th, Deer Haven Park will begin offering Bus Tours every Thursday and Saturday. Bus Tours will feature many of the same ... MORE

Romulus Central School District has announced this years valedictorian and salutatorian. Madison Cirencione, daughter of David and Suzanne Cirencione of Geneva, is valedictorian. Cirencione has taken 38 Gemini credits, which are college level courses available to students in high school. She has ... MORE

First responders were called to a vehicle fire on June 5 in the town of Varick. It happened on State Route 96 around 1:40 p.m. No injuries were reported. Deputies said that the truck involved was unsalvageable due to the blaze. Firefighters ... MORE

The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Romulus man following a dispute on Wednesday. Around 1:46 a.m. the 911 Center received a call that a person was damaging property inside a residence at 1908 Seneca Street. Upon arrival, deputies ... MORE

Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery was simply at an advantage against others considered for status as New York’s first veterans cemetery. It had plentiful space, a long-standing record of strong management, as well as the backing of the local community. Despite how well-equipped ... MORE

A protest led by the Ithaca Tenants Union in partnership with the Party of Socialism and Liberation and Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Cayuga peoples grabbed the attention of the federally-recognized Nation’s leadership and a crisis public relations firm based out of the nation’s capital. As ... MORE

Seneca County will be the home of the state’s first veterans cemetery. That decision came on Monday with a vote to identify Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery as a state veterans cemetery. The vote was unanimous among the nine-member committee tasked with selecting ... MORE

In a tragic turn of events for Seneca County- a local resident who had been recently appointed to the Industrial Development Agency died. Mary Anne Kowalski died unexpected after being appointed to the IDA at last Tuesday’s meeting. The circumstances around her ... MORE

The Seneca Falls Police Department reports the arrest of a Romulus man following a property damage crash on Kingdom Rd. Desmond Lawton, 30, of Romulus was traveling north on Kingdom Rd. when a deer ran in front of his vehicle. He struck ... MORE

Health officials in Seneca County say the boil water alert that was active for an apartment complex in Romulus has ended. A water main break at the Spring Meadows Apartment complex along Rt. 96 prompted a boil water alert, which lasted two ... MORE