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Geneva restaurant owner Dick Austin discussed the increased cost of to-go containers since the state enacted a ban on styrofoam at the beginning of the year

We asked Dr. Steven Schulz with Rochester Regional Health whether we can expect COVID-19 surges every winter

Pediatrician Dr. Steven Schulz with Rochester Regional Health discusses the importance of eligible kids getting COVID-19 boosters

Hans Walter-Peterson with the Finger Lakes Grape Program talks about the heavy rain right before harvest time.

Remarks by newly elected Auburn City Councilor Ginny Kent

Remarks by re-elected Auburn City Councilor Terry Cuddy

Remarks by outgoing Auburn City Councilor Debby McCormack

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason discussed the purchase of body-worn cameras for the Auburn Police Department.

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason on the closing of the city landfill

The Remove the Stain Act, a bill reintroduced before Congress, aims at revoking the Medal of Honor distinctions for those U.S. Army soldiers who served at Wounded Knee and received the highest military decoration possible. The future is uncertain, and its status still stays in limbo. Yet Native communities continue struggling to cope with generations of trauma that stem from the Wounded Knee Massa...

The Wounded Knee Massacre is far from a fatal affair in the Wild West. New Yorkers played a prominent role in the violence that happened on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. L. Frank Baum, the author of "The Wizard of Oz," born in Chittenango, openly called for the extermination of Indigenous peoples while serving as the Aberdeen Saturday Review's newspaper editor. First Sergeant Frederi...

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason comments on the work done by retiring City Councilor Debby McCormack

On Wednesday, Ontario County officials held a news conference on the state of COVID-19 in the county at Christmastime. County officials, elected leaders, Health Commissioner Mary Beer and hospital administrators addressed the challenges they are facing and urged the public to get vaccinated, get boosted and wear masks. Speaking were County Administrator Chris DeBolt, State Senator Pam Helming, Ass...

Ontario County Health Director Mary Beer says the sickest COVID patients are those who are not vaccinated.

Ontario County Administrator Chris DeBolt says the county hopes to hand out at-home COVID tests December 30th

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason discusses the holiday trash pickup schedule.

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason discusses the skate park planning meeting earlier this week.

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason comments on pilot program offering two hour downtown parking for free.

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason

Valerie Knoblauch on tourism relief grants

Nichole Ostrander on tourism relief grants

Auburn City Clerk Chuck Mason talks about skate park.

Paul Winnie, an enrolled member of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, speaks with FingerLakes1.com's Gabriel Pietrorazio, Indigenous affairs editor, in a conversation about the Christopher Columbus controversy and prominent rise of Indigenous Peoples Day into the mainstream discourse. This special program was recorded on Friday, Oct. 8, edited and later produced by Gabriel Pietrorazio virtually in Washi...

The full conversation between Charles Bowman, Scott Porter and Seneca County District Attorney Mark Sinkiewicz from September 21, 2020, is a FingerLakes1.com audio exclusive.