Mark Gillespie

Editorial

Rethinking foreclosure

You can spend 30 years paying off your home, find yourself retired and on a fixed income, and still lose the six-figure investment you’ve spent most of your life building.

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Top stories of 2013

Some of these predictions about news potential in Livingston County are based on fact, while others, alas, are based only on wishful thinking.

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New year, new editor

I’ve taken a job leading the launch of a new city-regional magazine with another company. It’ll be called “585” covering the counties in our area code.

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I’m proud of Livonia

There is always much room for improvement, and our collectives visions will be realized when Livonians do what they do best — roll up their sleeves and get to work.

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SHERIFF'S RACE
Thomas Dougherty, an investigator with the Livingston County Sheriff's Department is also a candidate for sheriff.

Tom Dougherty announces run for county sheriff

A seven-year veteran of the Livingston County Sheriff's Office will run for the county's law enforcement job in the upcoming November election.

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Livingston County Sheriff
A Sheriff's Investigator reports watching Manuel Gonzalez and Shantel Nilsson as they wheeled away several hundred dollars in stolen merchandise from the Geneseo Walmart Supercenter

Walmart theft leads to felony arrests

A Livonia couple faces felony charges after a Livingston County Sheriff's Investigator arrested them for allegedly stealing a shopping cart full of merchandise.

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Editorial

Merchandising your cupboard

Perhaps we can learn a thing or two about “reverse merchandising” in our own homes. The cookie jar, if we have one at all, belongs on the top shelf — not the counter.

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UPDATE: Teen injured in accident at Fallbrook

UPDATE: Teen injured in accident at Fallbrook

A group of teenagers from Livonia were swinging from a rope at the falls site upstream from the alfalfa plant on Route 39 outside Geneseo.

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One man’s trash is another man’s taxes

We should take active interest in whatever kind of agency has been placed in charge of life’s necessities — and protest unfairness wherever we suspect it.

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Livingston County Court

Hit-and-run driver sentenced with felony charge

Michael Manley, 27, of Honeoye Falls will serve six months in jail followed by five years of probation after a September plea deal.

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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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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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NY SAFE ACT
Livingston County Clerk James Culbertson is shown with some of the thousands of forms that have been submitted by gunholders to keep their information hidden from the public.

Clerk receives 4,000 ‘opt-out’ forms

Licensed pistol permit holders and those that own registered firearms in Livingston County have submitted 4,000 of the state’s “opt-out” forms to the county clerk’s office — and the number continues to increase, said County Clerk James Culbertson.

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COMMUNITY

Foundation offering grants for community health projects

The Greater Rochester Health Foundation is accepting applications for its 2014 GRHF Opportunity Grants, awarded to projects that have a measurable effect on a community's health.

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UNEMPLOYMENT

Jobless rate continues spring improvement

The unemployment rate in Livingston County dropped more than 1 percentage point in April, the third consecutive month the rate has declined, according to data from the state Department of Labor.

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