steuben county

The towns of Addison and Wheeler in Steuben County voted down similar ballot measures during this year’s general election. Both wanted to eliminate the elected highway superintendent position and replace it with an appointed one.

The village of Addison in Steuben County is facing major financial loss after its only full-time employee, the clerk-treasurer, was arrested for allegedly stealing more than a million dollars.

Officials in the town of Thurston passed the measure because of concerns about PFAS or “forever chemicals” in the area’s water and soil.

The town of Bath is celebrating the opening of a new multimillion-dollar wood-siding processing plant. State Senator Tom O’Mara says these kinds of projects are "critically important."

Steuben County is addressing the opioid crisis by making Narcan, the opioid overdose-reversing drug, available to the public at local fire departments.

Forty people overdosed in April, a nearly 40% increase from March, according to overdose data the county health department collects.

The county's health department said it hopes publishing the monthly data will raise awareness about the scope of the overdose epidemic.

New York state is still sorting out how to spend over $2 billion in opioid settlement money from pharmaceutical companies, which played a role in the opioid crisis. Southern Tier counties, many still battered by rising overdose rates, are deciding how best to spend funds they’ve received from signing on to settlements.

Judge Patrick McAllister wrote in his decision that he believes the Assembly lines are unconstitutional, but the attempts to intervene in the lawsuit came too late.