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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Twin City in Lafayette is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and longtime partnership with Purdue basketball.

WATERLOO — The issue that generated the most discussion at Tuesday’s Seneca County Board of Supervisors meeting wasn’t asking the State Legislature to pass home-rule legislation for the creation of

WATERLOO — The shortage of housing options for low-, medium- and high-income people in Seneca County will be addressed by the Seneca County Board of Supervisors.

WATERLOO — Seneca County’s 10 towns and four villages will benefit from a Board of Supervisors measure that will help each municipality’s bottom line.

A plan to have the towns of Covert and Ulysses and the village of Trumansburg form a local development corporation to operate, maintain and manage Boy Scout Camp Barton in

Last week, that changed with the unexpected announcement that the IDA was seeking a new board member. “I do not feel I could give the time needed with all that’s going on with the store and having recently joined the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce,” Cirencione said after the IDA announced it was seeking another member. She declined to go into any greater detail about the decision. An announcement from IDA leadership, which is headed by Executive Director Sarah Davi...

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Sharing sales tax is once again up for debate in Seneca County. A special committee has been re-identified to study the matter, which has been debated several times over the last 4-5 years. Chairman Bob Hayssen appointed supervisors Kyle Barnhart, Cindy Lorenzetti, Paul Kronenwetter, Michael Reynolds and Don Trout to the committee. In the past, the supervisors have considered sharing a percentage of sales tax with towns. The topic came up at the February 23 meeting by Barn...

It has been a busy few weeks for the Seneca County Board of Supervisors, even though their regularly scheduled session for Jan. 12 was cancelled.  Last week at a special session, Varick Town Supervisor Robert Hayssen, a Republican, was re-elected chair of the board. The final vote was 471-272 in favor of Hayssen, who was challenged for the second year in a row by Waterloo Town Supervisor Don Trout, another Republican. Temporary Chair Mike Ferrara, the Town Supervisor from Seneca Falls, led t...

Fingerlakes1.com Menu Pre-duty screenings will be standard for all Seneca County employees before starting work each day. It didn’t come easy, but the Seneca County Board of Supervisors utilized a ‘Rule 29’ proceeding to bypass committee – where two supervisors voted against the measure – temporarily stopping it. The new policy says that employees will have their temperature taken before working. They will also have to attest that they have not had symptoms, or knowingly came into con...