HIT: For some unknown reason - perhaps it's a special type of lake effect - Fair Haven is filled with women entrepreneurs. There are at least a dozen businesses owned or co-owned by women in this small north county village. Few have noticed the trend, and even fewer can figure it.

"Maybe it's because Fair Haven is a peaceful town and women like peace," said Barbara Gillis, co-owner of Gillis Restaurant.

MISS: After more than 150 years, the Throopsville Rural Cemetery Association is dissolving. The association, which has not been able to keep up financially with the maintenance of the cemetery, is turning it over to the town.

The two main expenses of the cemetery, maintenance and insurance, cost the association $1,200 a year. But for the last eight years, there have been only about four new burials annually which does not cover its expenses. There are more than 1,000 loved ones buried in Throopsville.

The town is now reluctantly taking on the cemetery; it would have been required by law to maintain the plots regardless.

HIT: For what was a reasonably safe, happy New Year's weekend in Cayuga County. And to all those involved in putting on the New Year's Eve celebration at Casey Park - complete with their own version of a Times Square crystal ball - a special thanks for providing an alternative for families during what is often known as a drinking holiday.

HIT: Congratulations to the first baby of the New Year. David Andrew Herndon III was born at Auburn Memorial Hospital on New Year's Day, though he almost waited until Jan. 2. His mother, Rebecca France, was in labor for the majority of the day and finally delivered David at 10:16 p.m. The year's first baby at AMH weighed in at six pounds, 10 ounces and was doing well, along with mother and father, David Herndon Jr.