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The Cayuga Community Health Network and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Cayuga County are offering free cooking classes for individuals who have been diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes, or who are at risk for diabetes.

AUBURN, NY, September 3, 2010 /Cambridge Who's Who/ --Joan D. Sigona, Teacher at Cayuga-Onondaga Board of Cooperative Educational Services, has been named Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year in Health and Technical Education.

The city of Auburn overnight repaired a major water line break on Franklin Street without having to shut down the water, Public Works Director Jerry DelFavero said.

The battle between budget-strapped New York State and the sovereign Indian nations located within New York rages on over whether or not New York can impose a $4.35 sales tax on cigarettes sold on reservation territory.

Three court decisions in three days left New York right where it's been for more than a decade: Not collecting taxes on cigarettes sold at Indian reservations.

While it's no secret that diabetes, obesity and heart disease are problems nationwide, the statistics in nearby Cayuga County are staggering.

The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb says a federal judge's decision delaying New York from moving forward with the collection of taxes on cigarettes sold on Native American land to non-Indians was more than just the wrong decision.

Officials are hoping for the best but bracing for the worst when the city of Auburn tries to repair a large water line leak on Franklin Street Wednesday night.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. Judge Richard Arcara granted the Seneca and Cayuga nations' request for a court order that stops ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted New York state's plans to begin collecting taxes from cigarettes sold at Indian smoke shops.

Two New York tribes are making last-ditch efforts to block the state's plans to tax reservation sales of cigarettes to non-Indian customers.

Boaters cruise down Cayuga Lake near Seneca Falls on July 5. Environmental groups say a Tompkins County coal-ash landfill is contaminating the lake.

Representatives from all six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy emerged from a daylong conference here Wednesday to say they are forming a united front to resist state encroachment on their treaty rights.

A Brutus homeowner is missing several pieces of electronic equipment after a daytime burglary Tuesday, the Cayuga County Sheriff's Department said.

Throughout September and October, wineries along the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail are hosting the Wine & Herb Grow & Show Contests.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit today issued its long awaited decision in the Oneida Land Claims, finding in favor of New York State and its Counties.

It costs $72 less a week on average to send an infant to a licensed child care center in Cayuga County than in neighboring Onondaga County, Child Care Solutions said this morning.