Your Morning Edition for Tuesday, Nov. 22nd!
Shooting in Farmington, Wayne County baker wins startup money, Greenidge crumbling, Auburn shooter arrested in Seneca Falls, and updates on Wayne County crashes.
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FARMINGTON SHOOTING: Investigators with the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help after a road rage shooting in the town of Farmington. It happened just north of Rt. 96 late-Sunday. The victim was sent to Strong Hospital. [MORE]
FAIRVILLE BAKER: Greg Stachowicz, known throughout Wayne County as The Fairville Baker recently won the fourth annual Wayne County Kick Start competition held in Newark. He was in-studio yesterday talking about that win, how his business got off the ground with the help of his family, and what the future looks like now. [MORE]
GREENIDGE DISASTER: Greenidge Generation LLC reported a net loss of $23.1 million for the three months that ended Sept. 30 and sounded new warnings about its bleak financial condition in a regulatory filing late Monday. The company that operates a Bitcoin mining facility at its power plant on Seneca Lake also acknowledged a growing risk that the Nasdaq stock market will move to de-list its Class A common stock. [MORE]
AUBURN SHOOTING: Authorities say a Geneva man who was wanted in connection with an Auburn shooting was taken into custody by Seneca Falls police late last week. Zachariah McKoy, age 30, of Geneva was arrested by the Seneca Falls Police Department following an indictment warrant charging him with a felony count of criminal possession of a weapon and assault. The June shooting left one person hospitalized. [MORE]
FATAL CRASH IN WAYNE: Deputies say a fatal accident in Butler, Wayne County is under investigation. A 50-year-old was traveling east on Westbury Road when his vehicle left the road and struck a tree. Additional information, like what caused the crash, was not immediately available. [MORE]
UPDATE ON FATAL PLOW ACCIDENT: Police have identified the person who was struck-and-killed by a plow late-Friday. The accident happened just before 7:30 p.m. on Friday in Palmyra. [MORE]
PRESSURE FOR CHANGE AT RG&E: Should electric and gas utilities be made public? There’s a major push happening now for just that in Rochester, New York. Why? Because billing issues with RG&E, which is owned by a massive corporation, have continued, and the only thing the public has received is the threat of increased prices. [MORE]
WOMEN IN TRUCKING: Women make up around 12% of the trucking and/or transportation industry. But Leonard’s Express, a family-founded company in Farmington, Ontario County is changing that. They were recently recognized as one of the top companies for women to work for in transportation. CEO Ken Johnson and VP of People & Development Shannon Struzik were in-studio talking about how it started with vision, and came together through steadfast implementation. [MORE]
POWERBALL: The record-setting $2 billion prize wasn’t won by a New Yorker, but that doesn’t mean the state isn’t cashing in. Nearly $100 million will go toward education and lottery retailers as the state receives its chunk of tax collection from it. [MORE]
