Evening News Brief
Written by Dan Fischer on February 17, 2022
There is a Flood Warning out for the Tonawanda Creek in Batavia.
The Warning is in effect from tomorrow morning through Saturday morning.
The Weather Service predicts what they term minor flooding along the Tonawanda. Pay close attention to Batavia’s most flood prone areas: Kibbe
Park, Walnut Street and Law Street. Flooding is also possible in areas of Alexander.
There is also a Winter Weather Advisory for Genesee County in effect from 7p.m. this evening through tomorrow morning. Mixed precipitation and snow is expected.
Snow accumulations of two to four inches, ice accumulation of a tenth to 2-tenths of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 35 miles per hour.
Quamane Santiago
In Genesee County Court, a Batavia man who had been accused of assaulting a city police officer has entered a guilty plea.
23 year old Quamane Santiago entered what’s called an “alford” plea. It means that he does not admit any wrong doing but recognizes that if the case goes to trial he would likely b e convicted.
Santiago allegedly caused injury to BPD Officer Peter Post as the officer tried to take him into custody at a Walnut Street residence last October.
The Genesee County legislature is poised to approve $8,000 to purchase uniforms for volunteers to provide military honors at the veteran’s cemetery in Pembroke.
The Western New York National Cemetery Honor Guard consists of 78 members, 32 of them from Genesee County. They are all volunteers.
The money appropriated by the legislature would cover the uniform costs for the Genesee County volunteers.
A project being paid for by HP Hood may create minor traffic delays over the next few weeks.
Crews will be installing a 16-inch water line off of Route 5 between 7 Springs Road and Ag Park Drive. Construction is expected to continue through April with only intermittent need for occasional traffic delays.
HBO is shooting down the possibility of a spinoff of “The Sopranos.” Hopes of a spinoff were out of control on social media after a TV ad for Chevrolet featured Jamie Lynn Siegler and Robert Iler, who starred as Tony Soprano’s children in the original series.
An HBO executive told the New York Post he didn’t think David Chase, the creator of the series, had any interest in doing anything more with “The Sopranos.”
