Still behind the wheel

WEEDSPORT - As Beverly Hunter pulled away from the curb Wednesday with a busload of New York State Fair-goers, she was cut off by a car careening across Route 31B from a side street.

The diminutive Hunter, who has driven the Centro shuttle from Cayuga County to the fair in Syracuse for 22 years, deftly avoided hitting the car. It immediately got caught between the bus and a slow-moving truck, much to the delight of some of her passengers.

For Hunter, of Auburn, the erratic driver was just another challenge to what she does nearly every day. When she's not driving to the fair, she's picking up senior citizens for grocery runs, or bringing workers at the Moravia Correctional Facility back and forth to Auburn.