One Idea Of What To Do, With The NY Forward Money

Bath Deputy Mayor Karen Causer spoke to Dave Taylor Smith on Community Focus this week, about what she’d like to see come out of the $4.5 million dollars the village of Bath won, in the New York Forward contest last year.  The Deputy mayor says, one good use of the money would be planting newer trees on Liberty Street and putting in newer sidewalks too. 

 

A Corning Town Official Is Facing Numerous Charges

FROM SHERIFF JIM ALLARD:  Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard reports that on June 3, 2025, Investigators of the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jenniffer L. Mullen, age 45, of Pine Hill Road, Corning, New York. It is alleged that Ms. Mullen offered a false instrument for filing to the New York State Department of Labor and received benefits in excess of $1,000 that she was not eligible to receive. Ms. Mullen is charged with Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, a class E Felony, Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, a class E Felony and Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, a class E Felony. Ms. Mullen was released with an appearance ticket to appear in the Town of Corning Court at a later date.

Sheriff Allard thanks the New York State Department of Labor for their assistance in this investigation.

 

Palmesano: Let Farmers Be Farmers

Republican Assemblyman Phil Palmesano took part in a press conference yesterday where the Assembly GOP spoke out against the New York City state lawmaker’s bill to limit the number of cows farmers can have, to 700.  

“This is just another example of downstate one-party rule imposing overregulation on upstate communities, as if the devastating Farm Labor Act wasn’t enough. The fact that this bill was proposed by two members from districts in NYC that do not contain dairy farms, and have no real-world experience or knowledge of farming, shows the Assembly Democrats' arrogance and how completely out of touch they are. They, unfortunately, think they know what upstate needs more than actual upstaters. This will do nothing but cause more dairy farms to leave the state, many of which are family-owned and operated farms, resulting in a devastating blow to our agricultural and overall economy. I think sometimes my downstate colleagues forget where their food comes from. They need to remember that if there are no farms, then there is no food. Our Assembly Republican Conference will continue to stand with our farmers and fight to make sure more of their critically important and vital industry isn’t damaged any further by these reckless and out-of-touch policies,” said Palmesano.

 

Schumer, Gillibrand: Don't Use The Finger Lakes Nat'l Forest For Commercial Logging 

The Syracuse Post reports that Democrat Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, are telling the head of the US Forest Services, saying not to use the Finger Lakes National Forest  for commercial logging.  Gillibrand and Schumer say what people get out of recreation there is more important than increased timber sales.