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Four Farm Workers Detained After Roadside Stop
Photos and Story by Louise Hoffman Broach | Wayuga Editor
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
NORTH ROSE – A Wolcott fruit grower is accusing the U.S. Border Patrol
of racially profiling four of his workers who were stopped on Route 414
Aug. 17 as they were returning to his farm from a trip to purchase
clothing.
The men were all detained and taken for processing; Border Patrol
Officer E. Rodriguez, who was in charge of the scene, told fruit grower
Brian Doyle the men volunteered they were in the U.S. illegally.
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Two Hurt on CSX Tracks
Louise Hoffman Broach | Wayuga Editor
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
SAVANNAH – Two teenagers were taken to University Hospital in
Syracuse’s trauma center by Mercy Flight Aug. 16 after they were
injured along the CSX tracks about two miles east of the hamlet. Wayne
County sheriff’s investigators aren’t sure if they were struck by a
train, tried to jump on or off one, or were hurt another away.
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Fire Kills Newark Father: Man accused of Setting Similar Fire Arrested
Jeremy Houghtaling | Wayne County Contributing Writer
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
NEWARK - A Newark man was charged with second-degree arson after a pair
of suspicious house fires, one of them fatal, in the village Aug. 13
and 14.
Rickey Baker, 55 of 318 Church St., was arraigned before Village
Justice Dan Barrett and sent to the Wayne County jail without bail in
connection with the second fire, in which there were no injuries. He
was charged after police say witnesses saw him set the fire that
damaged the porch and siding of a three-family home at 113 Elm St. in
Newark, around the block from the fatal Colton Avenue fire the day
before.
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Maffei Gets an Earful on Healthcare Reform
Photos and story by Louise Hoffman Broach | Wayuga Editor
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
NEWARK - For those at Congressman Dan Maffei’s town hall meeting on healthcare reform Aug. 15, it was all about the money.
Ruth Ann Ron, a small business owner from Walworth, spoke for many
people when she said that health care reform that would ensure everyone
had coverage might be a good idea, but it was one that the American
public, most of whom already have insurance, could not afford.
“In my business, if we can’t pay for something, we can’t pay for
something,” she said. “If we can’t pay for this (health care) bill,
then there is no bill.”
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"Hamlet" of Red Creek
Heidi Smalling | Wayuga Staff
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
RED CREEK - In a hot, but not heated, meeting held Monday night in the
Village of Red Creek nearly fifty community members joined for two
hours to discuss the future of the village. Cool heads prevailed as
Mayor Chuck Palermo, who organized the meeting in answer to a petition
for dissolution of the village currently being circulated, provided
information outlining the process of dissolution, what laws would be
evoked and the village’s responsibilities once the process is begun.
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