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USDA says deadline looms for farmers to apply for conservation funding

By Howard B. Owens
Oct 26, 2012, 3:56pm

Press release:

Genesee County farmers and private landowners were matched $1.5 million dollars in federal assistance this past fiscal year to install conservation practices on their farms, fields and forests.

Heath Eisele, district conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service said, “We are currently accepting applications for fiscal year 2013

GCC to hold half-day information showcase on SUNY opportunities

By Billie Owens
Oct 11, 2012, 12:21pm

Press release:

A half-day program aimed at showcasing the quality, diversity and opportunities available at all colleges within the State University of New York (SUNY) system will take place at the Batavia campus of Genesee Community College on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

More than 100 guidance counselors from high schools in

Alexander dirt-track racer rides adversity to victory, heading into historic final in Pomona, Calif.

By Billie Owens
Oct 3, 2012, 4:34pm

Cody Johncox, an 18-year-old dirt-track racer from Alexander has experienced extremes in one season from breaking his leg to breaking into the list of AMA Pro winners. In just six months, Johncox went from a broken femur to earning his first-ever AMA Pro dirt-track race win this September at

BHS students hear Holocaust survivor still telling it like it was

By Billie Owens
Apr 28, 2014, 2:48pm

If you will but listen to Henry Silberstern he will tell you his abominable memories. For 22 years, this 84-year-old Holocaust survivor has told countless students, dozens of groups, the media and others of his adolescence as a Nazi prisoner. He even has a book out (available on Amazon, aptly

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