Afternoon News Brief

31 year old Henry Horton of Clarendon was arrested at a residence in Albion on Wednesday and charged with Robbery 2nd degree, Criminal Use of a Firearm 2nd degree, Menacing 2nd degree and Petit Larceny.  On October 17, 2023, Troopers and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to Crosby’s on Holley Byron Road in the town of Clarendon for an armed robbery. An Investigation determined that an unidentified suspect, later identified as Horton, entered the Crosby’s with a firearm and demanded money. Horton took cash out of the register and a few packs of Newport cigarettes.  Horton is also the suspect in multiple robberies in the Monroe County area.  He is being held on bond.

There’s someone new to haul away your waste.  Triple R Waste Removal was started by Joey Raziano and Bre Downs and has been operating for the past 5 months.  They offer a monthly garbage service, garbage and junk removal services, clean outs, and moving services. They also have a Veterans Program, which offers $11 off the monthly fee of $30 for trash removal.  Downs is 22 and is currently going to school for nursing and is planning to become an RN. She also works at UMMC as a Patient Care Technician part time. Raziano is 24 and is working on getting his CDL and currently works for a paving company in the summer, and a plowing company in the winter.  They say they have about 60 customers in the GLOW area and are thinking of branching out and hiring employees.  They like to bring a personal touch to their work that they say the big companies don’t have.

A new poll shows growing approval for New York Governor Kathy Hochul.  The Siena College poll finds Governor Hochul has a 45-percent favorability rating, up from 40-percent in November.  However by margins of between 21 and six percentage points, a majority of New Yorkers think that Hochul will not make progress on any of the five issues she’s put forth as goals including making New York a more desirable place to live, making New York the A.I. capital of the world, making the state safer, fixing the mental health care system, and increasing the housing supply.

Goodwill of Western New York has completed the expansion and renovation of its location in the Batavia Plaza at 4152 West Main Street doubling the amount of its retail space while adding a covered drive up donation center.   The new location, one of their largest in Western New York, now features a new open layout allowing it to expand its offering of gently used donated men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing. The store also features a broad array of previously owned housewares, decorative items, small appliances, electronics, and furniture. Goodwill is excited that the open format and wider selection will make the store a destination for its current and new customers.