New Years start off with fireworks and high winds follow
Written by WBTA STAFF on January 1, 2019
Batavia brought in the New Year with fireworks last night at 9p at Batavia Downs. The time was moved up to avoid potential hazards due to the high winds that arrived after midnight, the original time of the fireworks. No reports of major damage today due to the high winds but be aware of tree limbs and downed power lines in your area.
A grand jury has indicted a man who was arrested over the summer at the August 10th Jason Aldean concert at Darien Lake. Robert Maharrey was indicted for disorderly conduct, multiple counts of harassment for striking a female patron in the face, 2nd degree assault a class D violent felony for allegedly striking a sheriff’s deputy, assaulting a police officer a class C violent felony when he spit and struck another deputy assisting in the arrest.
Friday evening Livingston County Sheriffs were in the middle of the state wide stop DWI effort, when deputies pulled a vehicle over on 390 for speeding. Upon further investigation a 27 year old Geneseo man Patrick Dunn was charged with DWI. Dunn’s BAC was .25% and was further charged with felony DWI from a previous 2015 conviction. Dunn is now being held on 1,5k bail or 3k bond and remanded to the custody of the sheriff.
Yesterday afternoon, Genesee County Sheriffs made a traffic stop in Oakfield on Lewiston road when a Rochester man, 20 year old Damian Schoonmaker of Smith Street was found to be in possession of marijuana in his 2000 Buick LeSabre. He was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana and is scheduled to appear in Oakfield town court 1/21
A motor vehicle accident yesterday in Elba led to a lane closure around 3:30p. Two vehicle collided at Oak orchard and Lockport roads in Elba. Elba fire police and 2 ambulance responded along with Elba Fire dept.
New Yorkers are seeing a number of new state laws in the New Year. Among them, a law that requires diaper changing tables in all new public men’s and women’s restrooms.
Other changes include a requirement that health insurance companies give male patients free prostate cancer screenings and that residents be allowed to return unused prescription meds to pharmacies for free.
Many homeowners will enjoy an increase in property tax rebates, of an average of more than five-hundred dollars.
There’s the hike in the minimum wage. In our area, the minimum wage goes to eleven-dollars-and-ten-cents.
