Gidget Hopf has brought her store to her hometown. A Geneseoan who has been the president and CEO of The Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired for the past 24 years, Gidget facilitated Goodwill Industries’ association with ABVI and then nurtured offspring stores which, with the expected November opening in Geneseo, will be nine in number.
The Third Annual Livonia Youth Football Camp is running all week at Livonia under the direction of various high school and youth football coaches.
American Rock Salt is proud of the company’s successes, which they say are largely due to its outstanding workforce, many of whom are local to the Genesee Valley and graduates of Livingston County high schools.
The company has a program that rewards its employees’ children who earn Valedictorian or Salutatorian rank in their graduating class among Livingston County Schools.
On July 14, York Central School Salutatorian Leann Chen received a laptop computer from company founders Gunther Buerman, Co-CEO and chairman; Joseph Bucci, Co-CEO and vice-chairman of operations and Neil Cohen, Co-CEO and vice chairman of finance and marketing.

Today’s teenagers live in a very different world than did those of us who have hit middle age. Between technology, school demands, media influence and navigating the social scene, teens have a lot to juggle. Unfortunately, for too many teens, life includes regular tobacco use, either cigarettes or smokeless tobacco.
During my two years “in exile” in Indiana, I have written about friends and friendship and family and familiarity, because I was physically separated, except for brief visits, from where I have lived for 40 years. However, I have another set of friends in the city of Siena in north central Italy.