Weekend News Brief
Written by Tom Tharp on August 27, 2022
One of the 2 men accused of stabbing 2 other men to death in a trailer on a farm on Rt 98 near Alexander has pleaded not guilty. 23 year old Prince Wilson of Albion is facing a five-count indictment with murder in the 1st degree, 2 counts of murder in the second degree, arson, and petit larceny. Wilson had argued with his public defender and asked the judge to reassign him during Friday’s arraignment. Wilson remains in jail with bail set at $300,000. He originally was remanded to jail without bail by a local court when first arrested. Wilson is to return at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 24 in Genesee County Court for oral arguments.
Batavia City School’s superintendent Jason Smith addressed the report from New York’s comptroller’s office that the district had paid exorbitant service fees, did not maintain an IT equipment inventory, and had lost 229 computers and 62 tablets. Smith outlined 3 steps the district is taking. They have started working with a third party IT company to assess their IT department, started reducing their BOCES costs and service charges by purging and returning unused inventory, and are writing a policy for tracking and maintaining their IT inventory. The district was overpaying by about 17 thousand dollars.
We have some smart dairy farming kids and they had a chance to show off at the New York State Fair Friday. Genesee County 4-H members Bing Zuber, Tate Zuber and Annalise Sybertz competed at the 4-H Dairy Judging Contest at the New York State Fair. Their team placed third in the Junior Division of the contest. Individually, Annalise also placed in the top ten juniors. Youth participating in these competitions learn the anatomy and physiology of the dairy animal and gain the capability to choose the proper animal to take in the show ring or keep for breeding on the farm. They also learn confidence and public speaking skills while defending the reasoning for their placements to the judges.
The Darien Alexander Townline Rd Bridge has been reopened after months of work on it. Work on the bridge started on May 23rd for a bridge replacement project. It is now also able to take full legal loads instead of the previous 12 ton limit.
The Buffalo Bills had a perfect preseason going but fell and fell hard against the Carolina Panthers Friday night. They were shutout 21 to 0 by the Charlotte team. Araiza did not kick for the Bills. This was the Bills last preseason game. They need to drop players to get down to 53 by 4pm on Tuesday.
