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State Legislature restores cuts to program that serves developmentally disabled

State lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation that will restore $90 million in budget cuts to programs that benefit people with developmental disabilities, including the Arc of Livingston-Wyoming.

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MOUNT MORRIS AUDIT

Comptroller questions role of accounting firm

The Village of Mount Morris has been taken to task by the New York State Comptroller after an audit of its treasurer’s office showed the treasurer’s ability to perform “discretionary duties” was compromised when the village board contracted the firm of LaDelfa, Schroder & Walker to do work for the treasurer.

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OUTDOORS
Dog's Brodie (right) and Thor walk around the dog park that was built at Highland Park in Geneseo.

Geneseo dog park is proving popular

In the few weeks since its opening, the Dog Park has been well used — at least on the warmer days — while the village has received a number of positive compliments.

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SPECIAL SECTION
The cover of the Livingston County News' special graduation section that is included with this week's print editions of the newspaper.

Graduation section featured in this week’s paper

By weekend’s end, 11 school districts serving students in Livingston County will have picked up diplomas and other honors during one of the milestones of their young lives. Readers, too, can share in the occasion.

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COMMUNITY
The Arc of Livingston-Wyoming presented the Geneseo Wegmans with The Arc's "Community Hero Award" on June 7. The in-store ceremony was followed by cake.

Wegmans is Arc ‘Hero’

The Arc of Livingston-Wyoming Foundation celebrated its “long and fruitful” relationship with the Geneseo Wegmans by presenting the grocer with its “Community Hero Award” during an in-store reception on June 7.

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Sports
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Basketball Camp
Livonia Boys Basketball Camp information UPDATED

Livonia Boys Basketball Camp information UPDATED

High School boys can attend June 24-28 while elementary and middle school boys will go July 8-12.

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STATE PLAYOFFS
Jake Clar runs the bases during Geneseo's state semifinal game against Vorheesville. Geneseo won 2-1 to advance to the championship game, where they lost 9-0 to Seton Catholic.

Geneseo baseball advances to state title game

Two weeks ago, the Geneseo Central baseball team was one out away from being eliminated in the sectional quarterfinals. Saturday afternoon the Blue Devils were playing for a state championship.

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BASEBALL
The Geneseo baseball team's victory over Red Jacket on Wednesday night has the boys playing a state qualifier game Saturday afternoon in Canandaigua.

Geneseo baseball to play state qualifier Saturday

Geneseo baseball will plays its state qualifier game Saturday afternoon in Canandaigua.

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LCAA Football
2013 LCAA Football Schedule

2013 LCAA Football Schedule

2013 LCAA football season promises to be another good one. Hornell, which hasn't lost a league game in four years, opens up at Hartwood Park in Le Roy to take on the Oatkan Knights in a rematch of last year's Class C sectional finals.

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Sectional Softball
Cal-Mum's Courtney Flagler, Hannah Anderson and Kelsey McMullen raise the Section V Class C2 championship trophy following Thursday's 5-4 win over Cuba-Rushford.

Cal-Mum repeats sectional softball crown

Anderson's alley blast scores Grattan with winning run in bottom of the seventh during No. 1 Red Raiders' 5-4 victory over Cuba Rushford.

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Sectional Baseball
Batavia's Tom Grammatico (right) gets the tag on the leaping Matt Feldman of Livonia in the bottom of the second inning of the Blue Devils 7-3 win over the Bulldogs in the Class BB semifinals at Wayland.

Batavia ends Livonia’s season

Blue Devils top Bulldogs 7-3 to advance to Class BB final.

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Softball Sectionals
Keshequa's Grace Mehlenbacher, shown here laying down a bunt against Kendall last Saturday, had a big RBI Tuesday in the Lady Indians' 2-0 win over Oakfield Alabama. Mehlenbacher and the Keshequa softball team will put it all on the line Thursday when they meet undefeated Bolivar-Richburg in the Class C3 title game.

Keshequa softball advances to finals

Undefeated Indians (20-0) will meet undefeated Bolivar-Richburg (21-0) in Thursday's final.

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CHILDREN

Conesus park to be site of Vacation Bible School

Conesus United Church Vacation Bible School is scheduled June 24 to 28 at Ricky Greene Park.

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CHILDREN

York churches host bible school

York Baptist Church and York United Presbyterian Church invite area children to “Kingdom Rock” vacation bible school, June 24 to 28.

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BOARDS

2 local women named to Child Care Council

Two local women are among the new board members of the Child Care Council Inc.

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AWARENESS

Free colon cancer screenings available

What can men do to prevent health problems such as heart disease and cancer of the colon or prostate?

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ACTIVITY
Tom Moran, who is living with cerebral palsy, has dedicated himself to helping children with disabilities find opportunities to play sports.

Nunda native overcomes barriers; will lead sports workshops

As a youngster with cerebral palsy and growing up in Nunda, Dr. Thomas E. Moran asked God, “Why me?” At 16, while working as a camp counselor at Genesee Valley Rotary Camp, Moran says he got his answer.

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Voices
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ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
Paul Watkins, left, and his sister Rebecca Wilcox Barnhoorn, were given up for adoption shortly after they were born. They were reunited as brother and sister for the first time on Dec. 17, 1990, by Barnhoorn's son, Steve, who took this photo in June 1992.

Lives in balance of adoptee bill

With the State Legislative Session scheduled to end June 20, which means things sometimes move pretty quickly as the session winds down, there is a legislation pending in the New York State Assembly and State Senate, known as the Adoptee Bill of Rights.

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TRIBUTE

‘Big Man’ touched lives of all sizes

When a person lives their whole life in one place, with family and friends in large numbers, there is a thread that both runs ahead of him and trails behind. He picks it up the day he is born, and he carries it with him. Every person who comes in contact with him is touched by it, changed by it.

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LESSONS
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's painting of St. Michael slaying a dragon.

An intense art experience

While many people can recognize Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” or Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling or a Monet painting of lilies on a pond, Ambrogio Lorenzetti is largely a stranger to those who are not students of art history.

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