Interview with Merritt Holly, superintendent, Le Roy Central schools, about going back to full-time in-class teaching and the school's capital project.
Both Bryn Luckey and Jillian Curtis did their part Thursday night in Le Roy but it wasn't enough for the Lady Knights to overcome Haverling.
Haverling won 60-45.
Luckey scored 23 points and Curtis scored 13 and pulled in 12 rebounds. Goose Dunn had nine rebounds.
In other girls basketball:
Photos by Tim McArdle.
On Senior Night, Le Roy beat Letchworth 61-30.
Jillian Curtis scored 22 points, grabbed 18 rebounds and knocked back five shots. Bryn Luckey scored 25 points and snatched four steals. Zharia Newton scored eight points and had seven rebounds. Jen Pullyblank scored 10 points.
Also in girls basketball, Pavilion beat Cal-Mum 50 to 18.
Photos by Tim McArdle.
A gas line has reportedly broken and is leaking gas at 111 Lake St., Le Roy.
Le Roy fire dispatched.
UPDATE 1:05 p.m.: Ice fell on the line.
UPDATE 1:30 p.m.: Le Roy cleared the scene and the residents are awaiting a repair crew from RG&E.
Ta-Da!
Cherry bumped off Raspberry to win the first virtual poll of favorite flavors hosted by the world's only Jell-O Gallery Museum, located in Le Roy.
This year, 530 people picked a flavor they found most toothsome in honor of Le Roy's first celebration of National Jell-O Week.
The final tallies were totaled up on Saturday. And it was the votes counted last -- from fourth-graders at Wolcott Street School -- who shook things up.
There were 458 voters from 40 of the 50 U.S. states, including Hawaii. Missing were votes from: North and South Dakota, Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. They also had voters in Canada, England, Italy and Scotland.
Then 72 fourth-grade students at Wolcott Street School weighed in with their choices.
Early results forecast Lime in a slight lead over Cherry, followed by third-place Raspberry. Then when the bulk of votes were added up, Raspberry was just jiggling past Lime -- 104 to 100.
Here are the tallies before and after the kids had their say (as denoted by the number after the addition sign):
Lynne Belluscio, director of the Le Roy Historical Society, Village Historian, and museum director, was gobsmacked.
"Lime and Raspberry are now tied at 110!" she says, and then here comes "Cherry climbing to first at 113!"
Orange was out in front of Strawberry by one vote, now they, too, are tied for third-place honors at 75.
"It was too close to count," Belluscio said drolly. "Have had a demand for a recount. LOL."
(Couldn't hurt, right?)
Things got a little complicated when factoring in numerous "write-in ballots."
Some people couldn't choose just one and voted for “all.” Some people, likely contrarians, voted against a flavor -- Lime). Some people voted for pudding. (Jell-O makes pudding but it's not a gelatin dessert -- hello!)
Other flavors mentioned, honorable all (with the possible exception of Celery, of course), were:
So when adding on 31 votes for "random" flavors, pudding, votes for "all flavors," and even ballots cast stating "I hate jello" (sic), the total vote count was higher than the 530 votes for standard flavors.
In all 561 voters had their say.
Belluscio initiated the virtual voting campaign because the museum has been closed most of the past year due to COVID-19.
Thousands of visitors who would normally vote throughout the year could not do so, so she began accepting votes through different Facebook pages.
The polls remained open through Feb. 21, the last day of National Jell-O Week. Le Roy celebrated it for the first time this year -- and a week early at that.
And as always, people from all over voted, just as they do in person. In fact until 2020, the Gallery recorded votes with Zip Codes from all 50 states.
"So that is the count through Jell-O Week, but we will continue to take votes and zip codes through the year," Belluscio said. "We expect to reopen the last weekend in March and anticipate going to a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday schedule in April.
Previously: The jig is up: Le Roy 'jumped the gun' to celebrate National Jell-O Week early
Two members of the Ice Devils, the hockey team that represents Batavia, Le Roy, Alexander, Elba, and Oakfield-Alabama, tested positive for COVID-19, meaning all players and coaches must quarantine at home until Feb. 24.
Three regular-season games have been canceled and won't be rescheduled.
Batavia Athletic Director Michael Bromley said one person tested positive last week and after consulting with the health department and the school's medical director, they would quarantine the team if a second person tested positive. That positive test came in on Tuesday.
This is only the second time a Batavia-affiliated team has been required to quarantine during the regular season. It happened previously with the Alpine Ski team.
Bromley said he can't emphasize enough how important it is for a parent to keep a child home from practice and games if a player is showing any symptoms because it can affect the whole team.
The Ice Devils were 0-4 on the season. The three missed games will be counted as "no contest." There will be five games left in the regular season once the team returns to the ice. Bromley said it will take multiple wins in those final five games for the team to reach the playoffs.
Le Roy sustained another close loss Thursday night, dropping a hoops match to Hornell 57-52.
Cody Lytle scored 17 points and had 12 rebounds. Andrew Loftus, 12 points and 10 rebounds, Mitch Hockey 11 points, and Zach Vanderhoof scored 10 and had six rebounds.
The 1-2 Knights play the next five games on the road.
Also in boys basketball, Pavilion beat Mount Morris 47-38.
Photos and info submitted by Tim McArdle.
A fully involved car fire is reported near a structure at 73 W. Main St., Le Roy.
Le Roy fire is on scene.
Fire police are closing Route 5 between Royal Drive and Gilbert Street.
UPDATE 6:31 p.m.: Fire is knocked down.
The following local residents made the dean's list at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2020 Fall Semester.
Undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their GPA is greater than or equal to 3.40 for nine credit hours of traditionally graded coursework; they do not have any grades of "Incomplete," NE, D, or F; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours.
Nicholas Kelly, of Byron, who is in the Software Engineering program.
Celia Mercovich, of Bergen, who is in the Physics program.
Erik Scharlau, of Alexander, who is in the Physician Assistant program.
Andrew Pickard, of Batavia, who is in the Software Engineering program.
Ava Vescovi, of Le Roy, who is in the Business Administration-Marketing program.
Bethany Zwolinski, of Corfu, who is in the Biomedical Sciences program.
Sophia Zwolinski, of Corfu, who is in the Mechanical Engineering program.
Tyler Henry, of Bergen, who is in the Illustration program.
Haley Scripp, of Le Roy, who is in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program.
Taylor Schofield, of Pavilion, who is in the biomedical engineering program.
Lauren Burke, of Bergen, who is in the applied mathematics program.
Amelia Pestillo, of Batavia, who is in the management information systems program.
Maddi Howard, of Elba, who is in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program.
Cambria Kinkelaar, of Bergen, who is in the Mechanical Engineering program.
Alex Warren, of Corfu, who is in the Computer Science program.
Alex Rosse, of Byron, who is in the Computing Security program.
Grace Vogler, of Corfu, who is in the Business Administration-Management program.
Lily Mercovich, of Bergen, who is in the Film and Animation program.
Charlie Stevens, of Le Roy, who is in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program.
Melissa Mountain, of Batavia, who is in the Interior Design program.
David Lapierre, of Oakfield, who is in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program.
Rachel Schauf, of Batavia, who is in the Applied Arts and Sciences Program.
Brett Lubberts, of Linwood, who is in the Computer Science program.
Ella Frank-Doyle, of Batavia, who is in the Medical Illustration program.
Molly Huber, of Batavia, who is in the Robotics and Manufacturing Engineering Technology program.
Will Palmer, of Batavia, who is in the New Media Design program.
John Mercovich, of Bergen, who is in the Mechanical Engineering program.
Chase Roth, of Alexander, who is in the Mobile App Development program.
Charles Carroll, of Oakfield, who is in the Chemistry program.
Ethan Stone, of Batavia, who is in the Computer Engineering program.
Colin Hunt, of Batavia, who is in the Packaging Science program.
Matthew Pencille, of Le Roy, who is in the Biomedical Engineering program.
Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers. Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls about 18,600 students in more than 200 career-oriented and professional programs, making it among the largest private universities in the U.S.
The university is internationally recognized and ranked for academic leadership in business, computing, engineering, imaging science, liberal arts, sustainability, and fine and applied arts. RIT also offers unparalleled support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The cooperative education programis one of the oldest and largest in the nation. Global partnerships include campuses in China, Croatia, Dubai and Kosovo.
The Knights dropped to 1-1 on the season losing at home Tuesday night to Livonia 58-48.
Mitch Hockey scored 10 points for Le Roy. Cody Lytle scored nine and had seven rebounds. Merritt Holly scored eight points.
In other boys basketball:
In girls basketball:
Photos and info of Le Roy game submitted by Tim McArdle.
Even with four grapplers winning their matches, Le Roy's wrestling team couldn't hold on for a win in its first meet of the season on Tueday night at Cal-Mum, losing 36-16.
Winners for Le Roy:
Photos and information submitted by Tim McArdle.
The Byron-Bergen/Le Roy girls swim team won the Genesee Regional Championship over the weekend, placing first out of seven teams at the meet.
The team scored 492 points. Notre Dame/Batavia finished second with 419 points.
Swim Coach Sara Stockwell said it has been 10 years since Byron-Bergen won the league championship meet.
Senior Alaura Rehwaldt won the 100-meter butterfly and broke her own school record with a time of 1:03.59.
Alaura Rehwaldt, Jorie Strzelecki, Peyton Koukides and Natalee Shepard won the 200-meter freestyle relay and also broke their own school record with a time of 1:46.36.
Information and photo submitted by Sara Stockwell.
Le Roy won its season opening-boys basketball game Friday night at home beating Haverling 53-51.
Andrew Loftus scored 19 points and had 13 rebounds. Cody Lytle scored 16 points and Mitchel Hockey scored 12 points.
Also in boys basketball on Friday, Batavia beat Honeoye Falls 62-57.
Photos and game information for Le Roy submitted by Tim McArdle.
Press release:
As this week comes to a close in Le Roy, folks are still talking about all the fun things that happened during Le Roy’s first celebration of National Jell-O Week.
Plans for the event were a last minute idea of Lynne Belluscio, director of the Le Roy Historical Society and Village Historian, who also serves as the director of the world’s one and only Jell-O Museum.
For those people who aren’t acquainted with Jell-O history, Jell-O was introduced in LeRoy in 1897 by a carpenter, Pearle Bixby Wait. Belluscio is quick to point out, that Jell-O wasn’t really invented in Le Roy.
Dishing Up the Right Name
For hundreds of years, people had been making flavored gelatins, which were called “jellies” but in the 1800s, several gelatin products were developed and sold in stores. The names of these jellies weren’t too appetizing. Who would want to eat "Bromongelon," or "Tryphosa." Wait bought powdered gelatin, sugar, flavoring and coloring. Mixed it together and. according to the Wait family history, his wife, May, came up with the name: J E L L hyphen O – and it has to have the hyphen.
Wait didn’t patent his new product. He trademarked the name. For two years he tried to find interested customers to buy Jell-O but was discouraged.
In 1899, he sold the rights to Jell-O to a businessman in Le Roy, Orator Woodward for $450. By 1907, a year after Woodward died, Jell-O was a million dollar a year industry in Le Roy. And the rest is Jell-O history, which is on display, of course, at the Jell-O Gallery.
The history of National Jell-O Week began in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2001 when the students of Brigham Young University petitioned the state legislature to declare Jell-O the state food. The state legislature agreed and Jell-O became the official Utah State Snack. This is because the people of Utah consume more Jell-O than another other state, and for a curious reason, they also eat more lime Jell-O than any other state. (Iowans give them a run for their money though.*)
Celebration Time -- the Second Week in February
It seems that the students at Brigham Young decided that National Jell-O Week would be the second full week in February (and one declared nationwide was in 2009**). which in 2021 would be from Feb. 14 through the 21.
This year, the second week in Februaryt runs from the 14th to the 21st. As Belluscio explained, that posed a problem in Le Roy, because the plans included Jell-O week at the school, and school would be closed for Presidents’ Holiday, so she decided that Le Roy would jump the gun and start the celebration a week early.
Le Roy’s Jell-O Week included activities in the fourth-grade classes. Virtual tours of the Jell-O Gallery were organized by the Mrs. Bertrand, the technology coach at the school.
These tours were followed up with new Hands-On-History booklets written and printed by the Historical Society and given to each student in the fourth grade. All the teachers sported new Jell-O t-shirts for the week, and students performed several Jell-O science experiments.
Probably the most surprising experiment took place on Monday when student attempted to build structures that would survive an earthquake. The structures were built on a large plate of Jell-O and the “earthquake” would occur when the Jell-O was shaken. Much to their surprise, early the next morning, a 2.2 earthquake occurred just north of Le Roy in Byron!
Students at the high school participated in Jell-O box stacking and a variety of other challenges.
In the meantime, Jell-O Days were declared at the Le Roy Village Green nursing home.
On Thursday, Ruth Harvie, a former employee at the Jell-O Gallery, and a recent resident at the Village Green, was recognized for her dedication to America’s Most Famous Dessert, and was crowned the “Jell-O Queen” in a special coronation ceremony. Special Jell-O displays were installed at the nursing home and at the Woodward Memorial Library.
The D & R Depot had a special Jell-O dessert on the menu this week (and today's the last day to get it, according to restaurant co-owner Sean Valdes. It's a dark and delicious Mandarine orange treat***).
Vote for Your Favorite Flavor
Belluscio also initiated a “Vote for Your Favorite Flavor” campaign. Usually, several thousand visitors would come to the Jell-O Gallery and vote for their favorite flavor, but the museum has been closed most of the year because of the pandemic, so the Gallery is accepting votes through a variety of facebook sites.
Hundreds of votes have been cast, and the polls will remain open through Feb. 21, the last day of National Jell-O Week.
At this time, Belluscio reports that lime has a slight lead over cherry, followed by raspberry. The Gallery is also asking that people share their zip code, as if they had visited the Gallery. Each year, until 2020, the Gallery would record votes from almost all of the 50 states. This year, votes have been received from 40 of the 50 states -- including Hawaii.
The last part of Le Roy’s 2021 celebration has been the construction of the largest paper Jell-O Jigglers barn quilt. A 4 x 4 barn quilt, in a colorful pattern named Jell-O Jigglers, has been on display at the entrance of the Jell-O Gallery since 2011.
This unique pattern, was duplicated on the back page of the Le Roy Pennysaver this past week, and folks are instructed to color in the appropriate pieces and to drop off their quilt squares at the Le Roy House. All of the squares will be assembled into a large quilt and put on display at the Jell-O Gallery this year.
Belluscio also mentioned that a large 8-foot wooden barn quilt was painted last year, and when the weather allows, it will be placed on the Le Roy Town Highway garage on Asbury Road.
Plans for Le Roy’s National Jell-O Week in 2022 are already underway.
* / ** / ***(Editor's notes) (Plus here's a link to 36 old-school Jell-O recipes.)
Michael J. Stack Jr., 44, of Le Roy (no address provided) was arrested by NYS troopers out of Warsaw Feb. 7 for driving while ability impaired by drugs. It is alleged that Stack exhibited signs of impairment during a traffic stop on Route 246 in Town of Perry. According to their police report, Stack failed standardized field sobriety tests. He was transported to SP Warsaw barracks where he was evaluated by a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) from the Warsaw Police Department. Stack was released with appearance tickets for the Town of Perry court, where he is due at a later date.
A male who lives on Garfield Street in Holland and a female who lives on Cherry Tree Lane in Alden, both age 18, were arrested Feb. 16 in connection with an incident that occurred at Six Flags Darien Lake at 1 a.m. on Dec. 12. Their names are not disclosed because they may qualify for youthful offender status (at the time of the incident). It is alleged they climbed over multiple fences and trespassed in restricted areas of the Six Flags property. They were released with appearance tickets to be in Town of Darien Court at a date to be determined.
From movie nights to crafts, it’s been a fun-filled start to 2021 at La Rosa Villas in Le Roy!
Situated on the site of the former Lapp Lumber Mill on Mill Street across from Oatka Creek in Genesee County, DePaul’s La Rosa Villas feature 60 units for individuals 55 years old and above.
Thirty of the units have on-site supportive services, which promote stability, health and independent living for persons with histories of unstable housing.
There are 20 ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act compliant) and three Hearing and Visually Accessible (HVA) units in the building. For more information about La Rosa Villas, click here.
Pictured, Shelley Gillman (inset photo above left) wears a homemade New Year’s Eve hat, and Cindy Barber (inset photo above right) shows off her beaded snowflake craft.
Corrine Elizabeth Navarra, 39, of Mill Street, Le Roy, is charged with third-degree grand larceny and third-degree welfare fraud. Navarra was arrested after an investigation by Department of Social Services Investigator Robert Riggi. It is alleged that starting on Jan. 17, 2020 she failed to report income while receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which would have lowered her benefit. It is alleged that Navarra received $3,840 in benefits that she was not eligible for. She was arraigned in Genesee County Court on Feb. 10 and released on her own recognizance. The case was handled by Genesee County Sheriff's Sgt. Thomas Sanfratello.
Jason William Doohan, 37, of Jerome Place, Batavia, is charged with fourth-degree grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree. Doohan was arrested after an investigation by Department of Social Services Investigator Robert Riggi. It is alleged that on March 1 of last year Doohan failed to report income he earned scrapping metal, which resulted in Doohan receiving $1,464 in public assistance benefits that he was not entitled to. The defendant is due in Batavia Town Court on March 1. The case was handled by Genesee County Sheriff's Sgt. Thomas Sanfratello.
Press release:
Le Roy Central School District Universal Prekindergarten registration began today (Feb. 4)!
Pick up a registration packet between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at the Wolcott Street School Main Office, 2 Trigon Park, Le Roy.
An “eligible child” is a child residing in the Le Roy district and who will be 4 years old on or before Dec. 1, 2021. If the student will be 5 years old before Dec. 1, 2021 they are not eligible for the program.
We do not offer transportation.
UPK classes will be held for half days: 9 - 11:30 a.m. (morning session) and 12:15 - 2:45 p.m. (afternoon session).
Completed applications will be accepted up to March 5 on a first come, first served basis.
For more information visit www.leroycsd.org, click on Wolcott Street School and go to Universal Prekindergarten in the left-hand column or call Kelley Caffo, Wolcott Street School building secretary at (585) 768-7115.
ESL Trust Services LLC, a subsidiary of ESL Federal Credit Union, recently named Lauren Whiting as fiduciary officer.
In her new position, Whiting will coordinate the legal and financial paperwork associated with trust accounts and work closely with administrators of the estate.
Whiting holds more than seven years’ experience working with estate law, most recently working with Nixon Peabody LLP, as an associate attorney.
Whiting received her juris doctor from Michigan State University College of Law, and her bachelor’s from Grand Valley State University. She is a member of the Monroe County Bar Association, a board member of the Estate Planning Council of Rochester and membership chair of Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys.
Whiting also volunteers her time with several organizations and is on the advancement committee of Volunteers of America.
She is a resident of Le Roy with her husband and daughter.
Le Roy's winter track and field teams participated in a virtual track meet today.
Photos by Tim McArdle.
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