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State Police and the Vestal Police Department arrested 37-year-old Rashid Imhotep & 44 year old Nathaniel Williams on 2 counts each or criminal possession of a controlled substance & using drug paraphernalia, Imhotep was also charged with resisting arrest for jumping out of a window & struggling with officers. Both were arraigned in City of Binghamton Court and remanded to the Broome County Jail without bail. Police confiscated heroin with a street value of between $50,000 and $80,000, as well as packaging materials, grinders, scales and other items that are used to sell the drug.
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Governor Cuomo announced the approval of $5.9 million to support economic development projects throughout the state. Local projects assisted include the MARK Project of Delaware County for $250,000. Also the Delaware County IDA & the Amphenol Corporation of Sidney will use a grant of up to $750,000 for a portion of the cost to construct a natural gas distribution line from the Constitution Pipeline to Amphenol’s existing facility at 40-60 Delaware Avenue, as well as the new manufacturing facility to be being constructed at 171 Delaware Avenue, which will help retain 950 jobs.
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12-time GRAMMY Award winner and baseball fan Paul Simon, has joined the lineup for a concert in celebration of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s 75th Anniversary on Saturday, August 2nd. The concert event will take place in Cooperstown at the Clark Sports Center, and will feature the world-renowned Boston Pops & Bernie Williams, a four-time World Series Champion member of the New York Yankees and a GRAMMY nominee. Paul Simon will perform three songs at the concert event, which will celebrate baseball through music, film and video.
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Solitary confinement for juvenile, pregnant women and developmentally disabled prisoners will be limited under a deal struck by state and the New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU sued the state Department of Corrections, arguing the state’s system of solitary confinement violated the U.S. Constitution. The state will no longer place pregnant inmates in solitary housing units “except in exceptional circumstances” approved by the corrections department. Inmates who are age 16 or 17 would be limited to no more than 19 hours in their cell per day and offered the opportunity to exercise outdoors five days a week. For developmentally disabled inmates, the deal calls for the state to create an alternative program for those who have been in solitary confinement for more than 30 days
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Greater Maywood Rural Community Services is holding The “Lasagna And Laughs” organic fund-raising dinner will be held Saturday night at the Sidney VFW Hall, group spokesperson Lisa Barr comments:
(Lisa Barr 2-21-14)
Admission is $8.00 at the door. Money raised will help the group to continue to operate & maintain the former Sidney Center School building as a community center.
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State police at Sidney arrested 32-year-old Anthony Campisi of Bainbridge, for driving while impaired by drugs. The arrest resulted from a vehicle stop for not using his turn signal on State Route 7 in the Village of Bainbridge. Troopers determined that Campisi was impaired while driving, he was taken to Tri Town regional Hospital in Sidney, where he consented to a blood test. Campisi was issued tickets for the Town of Bainbridge Court on March 10th.
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Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 31-year-old Crystal Gonsalves of Davenport for 1 count of 2nd degree Aggravated Harassment. Gonsalves is accused of making threatening telephone calls to another person, she was arraigned & was released on her own recognizance, to reappear at Davenport Town Court February 25th. ____________________________________________
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is recusing himself from any role Congress plays in Comcast Corp.’s planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable after learning his brother was one of the lead lawyers behind the $45 billion deal. Federal regulators and lawmakers will scrutinize how the acquisition would affect competition and consumers, issues that could have come before Schumer as a member of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee
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State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued a warning to New Yorkers after consumers were contacted by scam artists who were posing as representatives of Microsoft. The callers identify themselves with “P.C. Solutions”, their caller ID is “Windows Support.” The scam artists attempt to gain remote access to consumers’ computers by claiming that their units infected with malware or viruses, they extract a fee up to $300 by obtaining credit card information over the phone, or by directing consumers to enter PayPal, bank or credit card information on a website the scammers control. Schneiderman recommends hanging up the phone, never give out passwords to such callers, change your email & other passwords & file a complaint with Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-771-7755 or www.ag.ny.gov.
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Greater Maywood Rural Community Services is holding The “Lasagna And Laughs” organic fund-raising dinner, this Saturday night in Sidney, with ingredients donated by area businesses. Group spokesperson Lisa Barr explains:
(Lisa Barr 2-19-14)
Proceeds from Saturday night’s dinner will go for the group to preserve the former Sidney Center school as a rural community center.
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New York’s draft energy plan was put to its first hearing yesterday, with dozens of speakers expressing concern about the state’s plans for natural gas, and the future of competitive energy markets. the New York energy planning board has to put out a long-term planning document every 4 years, documenting the state’s energy use, and offering guidance for future investment. Tuesday’s hearing is the 1st of 6 statewide, & it drew several groups opposed to hydraulic fracturing. The plan identifies 15 energy-related initiatives for the state to pursue while reaffirming New York’s goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 80% by 2050.