Auburn man faces menacing charge
A 21-year-old Auburn man was arrested Monday night after allegedly threatening to hit another man with a crowbar near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and Parker Street, police said.
Henry Kennedy Evans, of Parker Street in Auburn, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor.
Auburn police said they received a call about the fight at about 6:30 Monday night. Evans was said to have threatened Michael Bertollini, 237 Woodlawn Ave., with a crowbar.
When officers arrived, Evans was walking up the street with a crowbar in hand, police said. After seeing the officers, he threw the crowbar down and continued to walk away from the police but was eventually apprehended.
Evans told the officers that Bertollini was on his porch and would not leave after being asked to. Police said he told officers, “I lost control ... I was just going to whack him in the head with a crowbar.”
He was arraigned Tuesday and remanded to Cayuga County Jail.
Sterling accident leaves two injured
State Police in Wolcott investigated a two car accident on Monday around 1 p.m. on Route 104A at Old State Road in the town of Sterling. Douglas Duer-Balkind, 23, of Washington D.C, was driving a Ford Explorer northwest on Old State Road and failed to yield at the stop sign at the intersection of 104A into the path of a Ford pickup truck traveling southeast. The driver, William Lynch, 62, of West Port Bay Road, Wolcott, attempted to avoid the Ford by braking and veering, but struck it in the driver's door. Both vehicles came to rest in a ditch.
Duer-Balkind was treated for head and chest injuries at University Hospital in Syracuse. Duer-Balkind's passenger, Amanda Hayford, 21, of Leesburg, Va., was treated for lacerations. Lynch and his passengers were uninjured. Charges are pending.
BOCES meeting to take place Thursday
The regular meeting of the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES Board of Education will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the BOCES Administrative Offices, 5980 South Street Road.
Wells College finds new athletics coach
Wells College has hired a new field hockey and softball coach. Kimberly Faust, of Syracuse, graduated magna cum laude from Frostburg State University with a bachelor's degree in health fitness. Having been named to the National All-Academic Squad by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association, Faust is currently working toward a master's degree in exercise science from Syracuse University. For more information about athletics at Wells College, please contact Lyn LaBar, the athletics director, at 364-3410, or visit the college's Web site at www.wells.edu.
Local author to
discuss new book
The Women in Business Network will bring cars and cats into the mix when Diana Sobus presents her new book at the annual meeting.
The group will gather from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Cayuga County Education Center's auditorium, 248 Grant Ave. Parking is available in the rear lot.
Organizers request participants pre-register by calling Jeannie at 255-1183. They will serve a light breakfast.
Local author Sobus will speak about her book, “Two Cars, Two Cats, Two Aunts, my Mother and Me.” She will share perspectives captured in the book.
- From staff reports
Henry Kennedy Evans, of Parker Street in Auburn, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, and second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor.
Auburn police said they received a call about the fight at about 6:30 Monday night. Evans was said to have threatened Michael Bertollini, 237 Woodlawn Ave., with a crowbar.
When officers arrived, Evans was walking up the street with a crowbar in hand, police said. After seeing the officers, he threw the crowbar down and continued to walk away from the police but was eventually apprehended.
Evans told the officers that Bertollini was on his porch and would not leave after being asked to. Police said he told officers, “I lost control ... I was just going to whack him in the head with a crowbar.”
He was arraigned Tuesday and remanded to Cayuga County Jail.
Sterling accident leaves two injured
State Police in Wolcott investigated a two car accident on Monday around 1 p.m. on Route 104A at Old State Road in the town of Sterling. Douglas Duer-Balkind, 23, of Washington D.C, was driving a Ford Explorer northwest on Old State Road and failed to yield at the stop sign at the intersection of 104A into the path of a Ford pickup truck traveling southeast. The driver, William Lynch, 62, of West Port Bay Road, Wolcott, attempted to avoid the Ford by braking and veering, but struck it in the driver's door. Both vehicles came to rest in a ditch.
Duer-Balkind was treated for head and chest injuries at University Hospital in Syracuse. Duer-Balkind's passenger, Amanda Hayford, 21, of Leesburg, Va., was treated for lacerations. Lynch and his passengers were uninjured. Charges are pending.
BOCES meeting to take place Thursday
The regular meeting of the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES Board of Education will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the BOCES Administrative Offices, 5980 South Street Road.
Wells College finds new athletics coach
Wells College has hired a new field hockey and softball coach. Kimberly Faust, of Syracuse, graduated magna cum laude from Frostburg State University with a bachelor's degree in health fitness. Having been named to the National All-Academic Squad by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association, Faust is currently working toward a master's degree in exercise science from Syracuse University. For more information about athletics at Wells College, please contact Lyn LaBar, the athletics director, at 364-3410, or visit the college's Web site at www.wells.edu.
Local author to
discuss new book
The Women in Business Network will bring cars and cats into the mix when Diana Sobus presents her new book at the annual meeting.
The group will gather from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Cayuga County Education Center's auditorium, 248 Grant Ave. Parking is available in the rear lot.
Organizers request participants pre-register by calling Jeannie at 255-1183. They will serve a light breakfast.
Local author Sobus will speak about her book, “Two Cars, Two Cats, Two Aunts, my Mother and Me.” She will share perspectives captured in the book.
- From staff reports