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Geneva PD chief announces retirement, Bath chief talks sex offender released while facing felony charges, short-term rentals in Gorham, SF orders stoppage of landfill leachate, and rainbows with snow.
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GENEVA RETIREMENT: Police Chief Mike Passalacqua will retire in June 2023. It will be 20 years after he started his career in law enforcement — and come at a time when the Geneva Police Department is facing an uncertain future. City officials confirmed his retirement plans on Tuesday. [READ MORE]
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE: Bath Police Chief Colin Taft is calling it a miscarriage of justice, that a level-three sex offender, with a local warrant for a felony kidnapping charge, was released from the Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections. Police took all the steps they were supposed to, to ensure extradition took place. But instead, Anthony Kroeger was released. Now, authorities are searching for him. [READ MORE]
REGULATION QUESTIONS: Today we take a look at a short-term rental law proposed in the town of Gorham. This is the third installment of our four part series on issues in the town of Gorham, which resulted in a heated meeting last week. Check out Part I and Part II by following those links! [READ MORE]
NO MORE LEACHATE: On May 3, Seneca Falls town officials ordered the Seneca Meadows Inc. landfill to stop pumping its leachate into the town’s sewer system. During the previous week or more, several businesses near the landfill that straddles Waterloo and Seneca Falls had been reporting overpowering stench emanating from within their buildings. [READ MORE]
UNIONIZED AT LAST: Employees at the Starbucks location inside Eastview Mall have unionized. The vote was 8-0. Workers there say they have faced union busting efforts since the discussion began in September. [READ MORE]
STAND-OFF UPDATE: What prompted a stand-off and shelter-in-place in the village of Webster? East Main Street was shut down for more than an hour as investigators worked to locate a person involved in an earlier dispute. Here’s what we know. [READ MORE]
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