State Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced a clergy abuse hotline and online complaint form where victims and anyone with information can provide that information, as part of the ongoing investigation into sexual abuse of children within the New York dioceses of the Catholic Church. The hotline is 1-800-771-7755, online complaints are located at ag.ny.gov/ClergyAbuse.
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Governor Cuomo today announced the ratification of a 6-year labor agreement between the state and United University Professions, the nation’s largest higher education union, representing more than 35,000 SUNY employees. The agreement won the approval of nearly 98 percent of union members, the agreement includes a 2% wage increases each year through 2021-2022 fiscal year, it’s the first labor union agreement with the state that includes Paid Family Leave benefits since the policy took effect on January 1st.
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Chenango County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 55 year old James Miles of Norwich for 3rd degree Assault, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance and Resisting Arrest. Miles is accused of subjecting the victim of a domestic dispute to physical injury and for resisting officers upon being placed in a marked patrol unit, he also was found to be possessing methamphetamines at the time of the arrest. Miles was arraigned in the Town of Norwich Court and was remanded to the Chenango County Jail on cash bail pending action in Town of Norwich Court.
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Chenango County Sheriff’s department arrested 39 year old Zachariah Zwickel of Endicott on an active arrest warrant issued out of the Lackawanna County Sheriff’s Office in Pennsylvania. Zwickel was wanted as a fugitve from justice for escape, he was spotted in a car in the Town of Norwich. Zwickel was taken into custody without incident following a traffic stop and was arraigned & was remanded to the Chenango County Jail until extradition back to Lackawanna County.
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Governor Cuomo today announced the distribution of $25.2 million dollars in federal funding through the Opioid State Targeted Response Grant, which will expand critical initiatives to combat the opioid crisis. In the second year New York State has been awarded this grant, nineteen additional counties have been selected to receive funding. Funding will be distributed to programs that offer prevention, treatment, and recovery services in high-need areas across the state to increase access to treatment, and reduce unmet need and overdose-related deaths. in the Southern Tier, the Addiction Center of Broome County will get $1,145,674
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Sidney Superintendent of Public Works Mike Mercurio announced that the Main Street Railroad Crossing will remain closed longer than initially expected. Mercurio told WCDO News that Norfolk Southern Railroad Crews will have the intersection closed until early next week for repairs & maintenance.
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Governor Cuomo announced New York will utilize the $127.7 million received from the 2016 Volkswagen settlement to increase the number of electric vehicles and other clean vehicles in the state. Covered vehicles include new buses, trucks, locomotives, ferries, tug boats, and cargo handling equipment, as well as the availability of electric vehicle charging equipment statewide. The state DEC, DOT, NYSERDA and others developed Clean Transportation NY, which is a plan to invest settlement resources to build on clean energy and fighting climate change.
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State Police arrested 34 year old Zachary Hearn of Mooresville, North Carolina for Aggravated DWI with a Child 15 or Under As Passenger. Hearn was arrested after he was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint on State Highway 12 in Norwich. A 23-month old child was also in the vehicle. Hearn’s B.A.C was .19%, he was arraigned in the town of Norwich Court and released on his own recognizance. He was ordered to reappear on September 20th..
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The Binghamton Rumble Ponies announced that they had their best season attendance at NYSEG stadium in 25 years, for the just concluded 2018 season. Binghamton welcomed an average of 3,553 fans per opening, they had 3 games ranked in their all-time top 20 best attended, including a franchise-record 7,488 at their game against the Trenton Thunder on July 20. 220,279 fans streamed through the NYSEG Stadium turnstiles through 62 home games. Binghamton opens the 2019 season on Thursday, April 4 in New Hampshire, more information is available at BINGRP.com.
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The Bainbridge-Guilford Central School will hold a Board of Education Meeting Today in the Guilford Elementary Cafeteria at 6:30 PM. The business portion of the meeting will start at 7:00 PM.
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