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11th Annual Family Game Night
Sponsored by the Genesee County Youth Bureau. April 30th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm @ 2 Bank Street, Batavia. Turn off the TV/ internet and spend quality time together. Learn about our County Departments, enjoy a light dinner, play a board game and leave with a board game of your own to start your Family Game Night tradition. $3 per person or $10 for a family of four. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored Post: The Batavian's Guitar-Giveaway Contest at the Genesee County Fair
Sponsored Post: The Batavian's Guitar-Giveaway Contest at the Genesee County Fair
Sponsored Post: The Batavian's Guitar-Giveaway Contest at the Genesee County Fair
Sponsored Post: Insource conducting free seminar on the Affordable Care Act

The following topics will be discussed in an Open Community / Town Hall Forum:
- The impact of the Affordable Care Act on Employers and Patients
- Telemedicine and Telehealth improving Access and Quality
Sponsored Post: Oakfield Fitness, a convenient and well-equipped place to maintain health

A busy MBA student at St. John Fisher, Katie Joslyn, needs to make sure never has an excuse for missing a workout.
The 22-year-old Oakfield resident said Oakfield Fitness and Cross Training Center, at 116 N. Main St., is perfect for her. It's right in the village, is open 24/7
Local basketball promoter signs agreement to bring pros to town for camps, clinics
Press release:
The Showtime Sports Academy has partnered with the Buffalo 716ers (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Erie Hurricane (Erie, Pa.), who participate in the Premier Basketball League (PBL). The objective of the Showtime Sports Academy is to provide high quality AAU basketball programs, which service the youth in grades K-12, throughout
GCC students ready to pitch Batavia Loop Trail project in statewide competition for funding

In something like a dress rehearsal for their big presentation in Albany on Friday, five Genesee Community College students stood before local officials and the media and made their pitch for a bike and walking trail that would surround Batavia.
The Batavia Loop Trail project is one of the finalists
The Batavian's guitar contest inspired by the area's community of music artists, today's opportunities for young musicians
It was as if we arranged the tribute band The Eaglez to perform at Genesee County Fair during The Batavian’s debut, along with WBTA, for the first-time official Media Center at the Fair this coming week.
Along with the Media Center’s booth, The Batavian is sponsoring an eagle drawing
Byron-Bergen students selected for National Junior Honor Society

Press release:
On March 19, a distinguished group of 23 students from Byron-Bergen Jr. High School was welcomed into the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) by its President, Lauren Burke. Ms. Burke addressed the audience with a challenge: Continue to excel in the five qualities that members of National Junior
Summer reading program at Byron-Bergen is a win-win for everyone

Submitted photo.
Press Release:
There are some new faces in the halls at Byron-Bergen Elementary School this summer. 20 graduate students from SUNY Geneseo are participating in the Summer Reading Clinic, part of SUNY Geneseo’s Reading and Literacy Graduate Program. The clinic pairs a graduate student, many of whom are working
Saturday's downpour didn't dampen competitive spirits for 2023 talent show

A nearly perfect week — at least in terms of no rain clouds to disrupt outdoor fun at Genesee County Fair — ended with a continuous downpour Saturday, muddying the parking lots and puddling the stage for the 2023 talent show.
The weather didn’t dampen the competitive spirits of nearly two dozen contestants, however, including Batavia’s Aria Fox, who was concerned that her hard work might have been for nothing.
“She really likes performing,” her mom Karla said. “She was so excited. She saw the rain, and she goes, ‘I’m so glad they didn’t cancel it.’"
$45M Batavia capital project includes repairs, turf fields, a move back for fifth grade

A proposed $45 million city school district capital project would make way for the fifth grade to move back to John Kennedy, for student-athletes to run bases on a synthetic field at the high school and for buildings to be upgraded and equipped with emergency blue light phones, Superintendent Jason Smith says.
The project is not about expansion, rather, it’s about ensuring that the facilities are maintained or improved for all five district buildings plus Richmond Memorial Library, Smith said Monday afternoon before reviewing the plan during the board of education’s meeting.
Longtime Le Roy outdoorsman shares insights into new turkey call
John Arneth was in the fifth grade when his father drove him to Barrett's Batavia Marine to see Paul Butski. The year was 1980 and Butski was at Barrett's to give a demonstration on calling turkeys. Then a former world, state and Grand National champion caller, Butski took aside the
Restoration work was in progress, landlord says, when city condemned apartment building on Jackson

The four-unit apartment building at 113 Jackson Street has been condemned by city officials and its residents relocated, but the owner says things sound a lot worse than they really are.
The most notable problem is the south wall, according to Guy Pellegrino, which is clearly bowed out, but Pellegrino
BHS students hear Holocaust survivor still telling it like it was
