BATAVIA — Statistics from the National Weather Service give a snapshot of the severe drought gripping the GLOW region.

BATAVIA — Fifteen candidates for various public offices in Genesee County have signed up to participate — and all of them in person — in next Tuesday’s Meet the Candidates Day at the Independent Living of the Genesee Region agency, 319 West Main St., Batavia.

ALEXANDER — Three candidates have been endorsed by Town of Alexander Republican Committee.

ATTICA — Users of the village’s water system may be experiencing temporarily discolored water.

BATAVIA — The City will have an open house Tuesday for projects for a potential $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) application.

BATAVIA - A man who's been working with the Seneca Chief, the replica of a boat built in 1824, will speak about his experience at the Richmond Memorial Library.

BATAVIA - Musicians of Note, which honors Batavia High School graduates who have made an impact in music, will host its sixth annual ceremony on Thursday, October 23, at 7 p.m. in the Frank E. Owen Auditorium at Batavia High School.

BATAVIA - Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties want to collectively apply for federal funding to spend on a study of the guardrails on their county roads. They hope a study will help them to apply for national highway safety money in the future.

The New York Young Republicans group, a youth action arm of the state Republican Party, will be dissolved this week, further fallout from the damaging exposure of bigoted, racist, sexist and antisemitic conversation between the group’s top leadership.

MEDINA — The federal government shutdown has kept the National Wildlife refuges closed and affected five employees at the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge in Basom.