Johnson Helping Wayland Out, With FIre Recovery Plans

In February 2022, there was a devastating fire in downtown Wayland.  Several buildings suffered enormous damage.  The latest in that situation is, Steuben County Industrial Development Agency Director Jamie Johnson has been working with Wayland village officials to get state money out of the New York State, Restore New York Program.  "Restore NY is a grant that the state resurrected a few years ago," Johnson said.  "It's a great program.  It provides communities with an opportunity to go out and apply for up to $2,000,000 in funding for specific projects in their community."  Johnson hopes that this year's proposal from Wayland Village Hall to the Restore NY Program officials, will be successful.  

 

County Landfill Is Bringing In Some $$$ From Nat'l Gas

The Steuben County Landfill in Bath is making some nice extra money from a French owned energy company called WAGA.  WAGA delivers renewable natural gas from the landfill to the Corning Natural Gas System.  "Per the agreement, WAGA will make a fixed annual payment of $75,000 for the well field improvements," Steuben County Public Works Commissioner Eric Rose stated.  'This will offset the annual maintenance expense," Rose explained.  "So the goal is to maximize the output of the county landfill's natural gas.   We have all be sending landfill natural gas to WAGA for the past two weeks.  We're fully at 100% injections so we should see some turnaround on this," Rose said.  

 

Bath Man Charged After A Break-In 

The Bath Village Police Department reports the arrest of 41 year old Jason Arnold of Liberty Street in Bath.  He’s charged with 2^nd degree burglary, 1^st degree criminal contempt and aggravated family offense.   He’s alleged to have violated a protection order. 

 

Bath Board Of Ed Announces Upcoming Meeting Dates 

The Bath School Board says, the April 9 Bath Board of Education Budget workshop has been cancelled.  The Bath Board of Education will be having their regular meeting on April 17^th at 6pm in the high school library.

 

Assemblyman Chris Friend: On The Big Flats Hit And Run

Big Flats Republican Assemblyman Chris Friend says he’s trying to get criminal justice reforms passed in Albany.  Assemblyman Friend says that’s because of the incident last Friday when a Chemung County Investigator was struck by the suspects car, leaving the investigator with severe injuries, and is in critical condition.