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Schulz said she and her husband, Marc, considered more than a dozen sites in Auburn and another dozen outside the city, as far as Rochester and Ithaca, for their brewery's new facility. But the North Street site won out for several reasons. Being in Auburn, it has city utilities like water, electrical and sewer. And by building the brewery from scratch, Schulz said, Prison City's need for those utilities can be met precisely.

"Retrofitting a building to become a brewery wouldn't be as beneficial to our manufacturing process," she said.Ìý

That stretch of North Street is also high-traffic, Schulz said, almost 13,000 vehicles a day. The traffic light at the site will provide easy access to the facility. And the size of the property will allow Prison City to create about 70 parking spots, she added.

More than the tangible benefits of the site, however, staying in Auburn was important to Prison City's identity, Schulz said.

"Prison City doesn't really make sense outside of the Auburn area," she said. "We really love this community."

The facility's construction will be contracted to the Kyle family's KyleCroft Development, Schulz said. Likely to be titled Prison City Brewing, it will be about 20,000 square feet, with a little more than half of that space dedicated to beer production. The facility will also include a 4,500-square-foot courtyard, titled The Yard, as well as a tasting room, kitchen, office space and dining/event space.

About 20 to 25 full-time jobs will be created by the facility, Schulz said. At first it will open for customers on weekends only, though that could change as Prison City assesses demand. Staff will also brew there during the week, she added.

The facility's brewing system will produce about 10,000 barrels annually, Schulz said, though she noted that it will take Prison City some time to master the system to reach that figure. There will also be a "foeder forest" of the large wooden barrels for aging sours, stouts and other beers, and a line for bottling them. A canning line, meanwhile, will package the brewery's popular hoppy beers, like its critically acclaimed Mass Riot India pale ale.

Releases of Mass Riot and other Prison City beers have routinely attracted lines of people outside the State Street brewpub. The demand for brewer Ben Maeso's beers led the Schulzes to announce their plan to build the production facility in the summer of 2016. The brewery opened in December 2014 with a 2.5-barrel system, and has since expanded into the basement of its space with more fermenters to raise its annual production to about 1,000 barrels. Schulz said the opening of the facility will allow Prison City to dedicate the brewpub's system to small-batch beers and research and development, but otherwise, the downtown space will remain as is.

The Schulzes at first looked to open the facility at 39 Genesee St., the former Nolan's Sporting Goods, as an anchor tenant of the city's Riverside Regional Public Market.ÌýAs the market project stalled, the Schulzes began searching elsewhere, including  in Auburn, before selecting the North Street site.Ìý

During that time, Prison City was designated to receive $900,000 in state funding through the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council. Schulz said those funds may be reimbursed to Prison City over the next five years based on the money it spends to build the facility and the number of jobs it creates.

Schulz said Prison City will submit its plans for the facility to the city planning board in December. She hopes to break ground in the spring and open by fall 2019. Though that timeline may seem "aggressive," Schulz said, it follows years of planning and working with architects and engineers to make Prison City's expansion happen.

"We're excited to move forward with a location," she said. "We feel like we've done so much research on so many locations that now it's time."

Hutton was also charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and fourth-degree conspiracy. He was arraigned in Auburn City Court and remanded to Cayuga County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 bond.Ìý

The Finger Lakes Drug Task Force raided Hutton's Orchard Street home on Nov. 9. Authorities said at the time that multiple people were found to be "actively engaged in the production of methamphetamine." Orchard Street between Baker and Jefferson streets was closed for several hours as police conducted the raid and removed hazardous materials from the scene.Ìý

There were other adults and children in the home at the time of the raid.Ìý

The investigation is continuing, the sheriff's office said. More arrests are expected.Ìý

Anyone with information about this case should contact Detective Blanchard at (315) 253-3902. Tips can be left on . Tipsters may remain anonymous. 

The babysitter who brought the baby to the hospital said the baby had been dropped off to her by the baby's 17-year-old mother, police said. The mother said she had left the child with her boyfriend, Eugene H. Scott Jr., 37, on the night of May 3 to the following morning. Scott told investigators that he accidentally caused the injuries, but evidence did not support his claims, police said.

During the investigation, police concluded that Scott was the biological father of the baby, and that the child was conceived while the mother was a minor, the APD said.

On Monday, Scott was arrested at the Cayuga County Jail on an indictment warrant. He was arraigned in Cayuga County Court Tuesday on charges of second-degree assault, third-degree rape and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. He was remanded back to the jail without bail. Police said additional charges are forthcoming. The child has been placed in foster care and has made a full recovery.

Scott was already serving a sentence at the jail for an unrelated conviction. According to records, Scott was charged with petit larceny in separate instances in May and August and had been charged with two counts of failing to register as a sex offender in May 2017.

Scott is a Level 2 sex offender, according to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. The state's sex offender registry said Scott was arrested and convicted of second-degree sexual assault in Texas for having intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in 2002.

According to the , he was convicted in Wayne County in 2013 for fourth-degree grant larceny and was released on parole in 2015.

Police ask that anyone with information on the case or similar contact with Scott call Auburn Police Detective Bryant Bergenstock at (315) 258-9880 or (315) 253-3231. Callers may be anonymous.

An altercation ensued between one of the suspects and a male victim. The victim suffered a small cut to his right hand. During the altercation, the two other suspects demanded prescription medication from the victims. A woman turned over the medication to the suspects, according to a news release. After the medication was turned over, the suspects left the residence and the victims called 911.Ìý

As police investigated the robbery, a call was received reporting a stolen vehicle. The suspects in the theft of the vehicle were the same as the robbery, police said. A countywide "be on the lookout" was issued for the stolen vehicle. A short time later, New York state troopers located the vehicle in Auburn.Ìý

A traffic stop found there were six people in the vehicle, including the three robbery suspects. Evidence from the robbery was recovered from the vehicle, police said.

Two suspects, Joshua LaClair and Randi Vorhis, both of Auburn, were charged with first-degree robbery, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and first-degree unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Steven Felder, also of Auburn, was charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.Ìý

Police said the investigation is ongoing.Ìý

Anyone with more information about this case should contact Detective Meagan Kalet at (315) 255-4702 or (315) 253-3231. Callers may remain anonymous.Ìý

According to a news release, the charges are the result of an investigation into an inappropriate relationship Klino had been engaging in with a juvenile female for several months at a local hotel.

Klino has been held at the Cayuga County Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash or $50,000 bond since being arrested Nov. 13 and charged with first-degree disseminating indecent materials to a minor.

Police at that time had said those charges resulted from an inappropriate relationship Klino had with a girl younger than 17 and included him sending sexually explicit images and messages through a number of mediums such as text messages and social media platforms.

 Klino is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges Friday in Auburn City Court.

The sheriff's office said that the investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information regarding the investigation is asked to contact detective Sgt. Frederick Cornelius at (315) 253-6562. Tips may also be left at .

At that time, in exchange for his plea to fourth-degree arson, Fandrich promised to sentence the teen to a term of shock probation and five years of post-release probation supervision.

But just weeks after his release from the Cayuga County Jail, where he had been held since his April arrest, Couturier committed another crime. In Cayuga County Court on Tuesday, Fandrich said that on Oct. 30 Couturier was charged with petit larceny and third-degree burglary by the Auburn Police Department for stealing liquor from an Auburn bar.Ìý

"Unfortunately (it's) very evident to me that community supervision isn't going to work," Fandrich said.

Cayuga County Chief Assistant District Attorney Chris Valdina said that it seemed Couturier and a friend were playing with fire in the building and accidentally started the fire, which ultimately destroyed the structure.

Valdina recommended that Couturier be given an indeterminate sentence of one to three years at the Hudson Adolescent Offender Facility, a special state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision facility for juveniles. The facility offers a full range of programs to 16 and 17 year olds including academic education, vocational training, substance abuse treatment, transitional services and more.

Couturier's defense attorney, Joseph Sapio, noted that the teen has "had a tough upbringing," with a father who was in prison and a mother who has "serious issues," and he has spent much of his young life in family court.

"The upbringing is obviously not an excuse, I think Michael understands that," Sapio said. "I think he's understanding and realizing actions have consequences and he's here to face those today."

Sapio requested that Couturier be sentenced to one year of local incarceration, or, if to be sentenced to one to three years in prison, asked that he be granted youthful offender status, which would seal the records on his case.

Couturier told the judge that he was "looking to get out today," and asked for "one last chance" — expressing that he wants to make his life better and would be able to get a job right away if released.

While Fandrich agreed that Couturier "had a very difficult life" with a "lack of guidance and upbringing from parents," he revoked his probation. He then paused for some time before saying that had Couturier been successful on probation, he was "fairly certain" he would've granted youthful offender status. Because of his breaking probation within a matter of weeks post-release, however, he denied that request.

He then sentenced Couturier to one to three years at the state's Hudson Adolescent Offender Facility for fourth-degree arson, a class E felony, and denied Valdina's request for him to pay restitution.

Couturier's case involving his burglary and larceny charges, which violated his probation, was then transferred to family court as Valdina saw no "extraordinary circumstance" for those charges to keep him in criminal court.

The county's General Municipal Law 239 review committee on Nov. 15 determined all three of the development projects in Sennett to "have no intermunicipal concerns and to be of local concern only," according to meeting minutes.

David Nelson, a planner in the department, said Monday that the committee had no other comments or concerns for the projects.

Among the projects is Ken and Diana Sroka's request to modify the allowable uses granted to their Repair Plus shop at 2682 Turnpike Road through an approved 2011 Planned Development District. The Srokas hope to add uses that would allow them to build a convenience store with gas pumps for retail gasoline at their property.

The Srokas' initial commercial PDD application sought 17 uses, but was scaled back to include the allowable uses of construction vehicle sales and service; concrete pumping equipment service; fabrication and sales of trucking equipment and truck repair, sales and rental.

Since then, Sennett has changed its zoning regulations and the property now has a commercial overlay district that would allow for convenience stores and retail gas stations.

Another business is looking to relocate to and expand in Sennett after operating from a horse barn in Auburn for the past 16 years.

Xcelerated Auto, an auto repair shop, is proposing building a 10,368-square-foot service garage on a roughly 2.5-acre site on Mutton Hill Road. The shop, currently on less than an acre at 191 Grant Ave., sells used cars, works on domestic and foreign vehicles, offers inspections, brakes, shocks, diagnostics and more.

A construction equipment and rental equipment company is also looking to relocate to Sennett.

The Duke Co., which offers building materials, de-icing products, concrete forming systems and much more, is hoping to open its fourth location at 482 Grant Ave.

The company is proposing to build a 4,555-square-foot building addition to an existing building located on a 7.8-acre lot. The addition would be used as a shop and wash bay for equipment maintenance, while the existing building would be renovated into a retail space.

Having passed the county review, the projects will return to the the town of Sennett and its planning board. The next planning board meeting is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. Town Clerk Penelope Dennis said the town won't know until the end of the week what businesses hope to be heard at that meeting.Ìý

Helming said the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame was created to honor and recognize outstanding veterans with both distinguished military and civilian careers. With one veteran from each of the 63 senate districts selected to be inducted each year, Helming said she's chosen to open up nominations for the honor to the entire community. About two years ago, Helming said about a dozen veterans were nominated — which pales in comparison to the 120 nominees in the 54th District this year.

"I want to thank you for your selfless service, your sacrifice, your bravery and your courage," Helming told the veterans gathered in city hall. She added that "every single veteran is worthy of this distinction."

With veteran nominations ranging from people who served in World War II to the Vietnam War to modern-day conflicts — and spanning all five military branches — Helming voiced respect and admiration for all.

"One thing each and every nominee has in common, is that at some point you signed a contract committing yourself to your country. Saying you would lie down your life for the greater good and for that, we are eternally grateful," Helming said.

One by one, Helming invited each nominee to the podium.ÌýAs each veteran came up, Helming shared their background and shook their hands individually, saying it was an "honor and privilege" to thank them for their "brave and courageous service."

Veterans, some honored posthumously, included people whose service ranged from the Korean War to Operation Desert Storm to peace-time assignments. Veterans who deciphered enemy air messages, received bronze stars, purple hearts and some whose stories are included in a Washington WWII exhibit were honored. The same veterans continued to invest in the community by joining the local workforce, becoming police officers, teachers, villages trustees or running nonprofits, to name a few occupations.

When Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould, a nominee, came to the podium, he also thanked Helming for her advocacy for veterans by saying "every veteran in your district appreciates your thought of us. ... You've made us feel wanted, comfortable and loved."

Patrice Shultes, of Clifton Springs, said the ceremony "was beautiful, very moving." Shultes said that she came to the event because she saw that Tech. Sgt. Dana Wilbur, who was the superintendent of the Williamson Central School District when she was a student, was being honored. Serendipitously, she ended up sitting right next to him during the ceremony.

Sgt. 1st Class Karen Macier, of Auburn, the only female nominee, said "it certainly is an honor" to be nominated. Previously unaware of the hall of fame until her sister nominated her, Macier said "everyone that serves, gives something up to do so," and she's thankful that the event provided the opportunity for veterans' stories to be shared.

At the ceremony's closing, Helming announced that each veteran was going to be sent home with a plaque prepared for them as well as a New York state flag, which was a gift from state Assemblyman Gary Finch. In addition to thanking all veterans for their "brave service to this great nation of ours," she also reminded people to remember active military in their thoughts and prayers.

The veteran who will represent the 54th district will be notified and named in April, ahead of the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame ceremony which will be held at the state capitol in May.

Officers searched the neighborhood for the alleged assailant, including both sides of the Miller Street dam.

Other officers gathered at a residence on South Fulton Street, where it appeared the altercation had originated.

One person was later reported to have been taken into custody, and at least one person was transported to Auburn Memorial Hospital to be treated for injuries.

Additional details were not available Thursday night.

VanNostrand's vehicle was then struck by a pickup truck traveling eastbound on state Highway 5S.Ìý

VanNostrand was transported to Albany Medical Center where he died of his injuries. The driver of the box truck was Aaron M. Munsie, 32, of Amsterdam. He was not injured in the crash. Robert E. Crews, 52, of Fort Plain, was the driver of the pickup truck. He suffered non-life threatening injuries and was transported to St. Mary's Hospital for treatment.Ìý

The weather doesn't appear to be a factor in the crash, the state police said. No tickets have been issued and the investigation into the crash is ongoing.Ìý

A six-year veteran of the state police, VanNostrand served in Troop F at the Middletown and Liberty barracks, then with Troop G at the Granville barracks. His most recent assignment was at the Fonda barracks in Troop G.Ìý

Before joining the state police, VanNostrand was a corrections officer for eight years with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.Ìý

He is survived by his wife, their daughter, his parents and brothers.Ìý

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that flags on all state government buildings will be flown at half-staff in honor of VanNostrand. Flags will fly at half-staff beginning Wednesday until VanNostrand's internment.Ìý

"Trooper VanNostrand, who served as a member of the New York State Police for six years, dedicated his life to protecting New Yorkers," Cuomo said. "His legacy of service, as a state corrections officer and then as a member of the New York State Police, was an inspiration to us all, and his example will live on for generations to come."