STANDISH-JONES EVENT PAGE

Standish Jones has set up a Facebook event page for their big shindig in June...

https://www.facebook.com/events/599452460208886/

ROYALTON LOOKING FOR A TRUCK MECHANIC

The town of Royalton is looking for a full-time truck mechanic.

Contact: Highway Superintendent Jim Spark

Address: 5316 Royalton Center Road Middleport, NY 14105

Phone: 716-772-2363

Type: Permanent

Application can be obtained online at www.townofroyalton.com under the Employment Section,or at Royalton Town Hall, 5316 Royalton Center Road, Middleport, NY. Please submit application with a resume to Hwy. Supt. Jim Spark on or before 5/6/2016.

$30 MILLION PRICE TAGE FOR ROY-HART REPAIRS

Labella Associates has told the Roy-Hart board of education that it would take $30 million to get the 3 campuses up to snuff. Here's the report in the Lockport US&J...

http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/royalton-hartland-repair-tab-is-m/article_38ca4a7b-865e-5a65-bafe-deebeff1c0c2.html

OLYMPIAN RETURNS TO ROY-HART

Here's a great write-up in the Lockport US&J about Olympian Lou Rosselli's return trip to Roy-Hart to help run a wrestling camp

http://www.lockportjournal.com/sports/high_school/u-s-olympian-lou-rosselli-coach-lang-highlight-camp/article_a98dcf5b-de6d-5bcc-ac8e-5ee3dd99ada6.html

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Attention all Royalton and Lockport Historical Society members: The Royalton meeting that was scheduled for April 30 with speaker John Hall has been changed. Please note, the next meeting date will be Saturday, May 7th at 1:00 at Royalton Town Hall, 5316 Royalton Center Rd, Middleport.

John Hall will be the speaker on the subject of the transformation of farming from Horses to Tractors. They will also be awarding and honoring the Bicentennial Logo Contest Winners. All are welcome.

If you have any questions, please call the Historical Society President, Jennifer Bieber at 716-735-7335.

MEAT & PICNIC RAFFLE

MIDDLEPORT COMMUNITY YARD SALE

Residents are eyeing their trash while they are spring cleaning for anything that they can sell at the 16th annual Middleport Community Yard Sale that takes place in and around the Village on Saturday, May 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Local Middleport residents will be setting up and selling their wares in their yard, garage or driveway. The sale continues to grow each year has been a great success and residents are hosting sales again this year. Last year, there were more than 100 sales in and around the Village of Middleport during the yard sale.

There will be hot dogs, pop and chips for sale at the Middleport United Methodist Church on Vernon St. near Park Ave.

Residents sell their oldies but goodies, and it doesn’t matter how much they have to offer. Any money they make is theirs to keep.

For more information call the Village Hall at 735-3303.

FOOD PANTRY: APRIL 23rd

This coming Saturday is the fourth Saturday of the month, which means the Gasport food pantry is in operation. 

JUSTIN WYPIJ TO SPEAK MAY 1st

"GADGETS & GEAR" AT LIBRARY

Residents with questions about their laptop, tablet, e-reader, smartphone or any other electronic devices can bring them to the Gadgets & Gear Session at the Royalton Hartland Community Library for answers. This hands on help session will be held Saturday, April 30 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

With the new digital services offered by the library, especially the latest called “Hoopla” that offers free music, eBooks, TV shows, movies and comic books via digital download, learning how to use electronic devices is more important than ever.

Sara Taylor, an e-mobile trainer from the Nioga Library System’s BTOP Program, will be at the library to answer questions about these services, and can show how to use just about any electronic device that is brought to the session. 

Interested residents are encouraged to bring in their own devices and their charging cords and ask questions about them. Attendees will be able to download digital items from Hoopla as well as eBooks from Overdrive and eMagazines from Zinio right at the session so they will know how to use these services available at no charge to library patrons through the Nioga system.

As the Gadgets & Gear programs are well attended, registration for the upcoming April 30 session is requested.

The Royalton Hartland Community Library periodically offers sessions like Gadgets & Gear and residents are encouraged to check the library’s website at www.RoyHartCommunityLibrary.com or stop by 9 S. Vernon Street in Middleport for program information, or they can call the library at 735-3281.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

NATE JACKSON EVENT

ROY-HART'S PROPOSED BUDGET

The Lockport Union Sun and Journal is reporting today that the Royalton Hartland Board of Education has adopted a tentative $23.9 million budget for the 2016-2017 school year. The plan comes with no tax increase, after the board OK'd application of some excess fund balance to absorb a nearly $1 million spending hike.

Read about the details and investments here:

http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/roy-hart-school-budget-adopted/article_21fbbdc9-5961-5132-aec6-43d4df9248d8.html

CLOTHES DRIVE

HARRIS FARM YARD SALE

Harris Farm Market on Route 104 in Gasport is having an indoor community yard sale in their greenhouse. It runs Thursday, April 14th through Saturday, April 16th from 9am to 5pm.

ROY-HART'S OPT-OUT RATE

The opt-out rates for state exams are rising locally with Roy-Hart leading the pack....56% of our students opted-out of the ELA assessment:

http://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/state-testing-opt-out-rates-on-the-rise-locally/article_e6822568-82c4-56a4-9909-7e63a2bb6cca.html

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

LIBRARY TO HOLD CRAIGSLIST SEMINAR

Garage sale season is coming and many people may want to buy or sell their unwanted or unused items online using Craigslist. 

Craigslist is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and even discussion forums that began in 1995. More than 60 million people use Craigslist to buy or sell items each month in the US alone.

Now you can learn how to buy and sell your stuff on Craigslist.org at a special technology help session on Monday, April 18 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Royalton Hartland Community Library, 9 S. Vernon Street in Middleport.

Knowledgeable staff from the Nioga BTOP program will show how to create a listing, upload pictures and contact buyers and sellers.

The library will provide the laptop computers; participants just have to bring their own smartphone or camera (with cables) to learn how to upload pictures for a listing.

Space is limited for this class, and attendance is free, so registration is required. Interested participants can register by phone, online or at the Library Desk.

More information about the library’s other programs or to register for the Craigslist training session, please call 716-735-3281 or visit www.RoyHartCommunityLibrary.com.

JEN PERKINS & WOLF MAPLE DEAL

HARRIS'S INDOOR COMMUNITY SALE

Harris Farm Market will be holding their annual indoor community yard sale from April 14th to the 16th. Tables are available; interested parties should contact them via their Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/HarrisFarmMarket/ or by phone at 716.772.5229.

TROOP 18 DINNER

RUMMAGE SALE & BBQ AT COVENANT

Covenant UCC in Gasport will be holding its first-ever Grandmas Attic Sale & Chicken Barbecue in a couple of week. On Friday April 22nd from 10 to 5 the sale will run with a light luncheon and a bake sale. Then, on Saturday the 23rd they will be offering a drive through chicken barbecue for $10.00 and $3.00 bag sale from 10 to 3. Check out their very large sale as they have all cleared out their basements and attics.

TERRY'S CORNERS UPCOMING EVENTS

PANCAKES IN HARTLAND

As a part of Maple Weekend Part II, there will be a pancake breakfast at Hartland Fire Hall this Sunday, April 3rd from 8:00 till 1:00. Complimenting the flapjacks will be sausage, eggs, coffee, and juice. Cost is $9. Kids under 10 are $5.