SPECIAL SECTION
The cover of the Livingston County News' special graduation section that is included with this week's print editions of the newspaper.

Graduation section featured in this week’s paper

By weekend’s end, 11 school districts serving students in Livingston County will have picked up diplomas and other honors during one of the milestones of their young lives. Readers, too, can share in the occasion.

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COMMUNITY
The Arc of Livingston-Wyoming presented the Geneseo Wegmans with The Arc's "Community Hero Award" on June 7. The in-store ceremony was followed by cake.

Wegmans is Arc ‘Hero’

The Arc of Livingston-Wyoming Foundation celebrated its “long and fruitful” relationship with the Geneseo Wegmans by presenting the grocer with its “Community Hero Award” during an in-store reception on June 7.

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NY SAFE ACT
Livingston County Clerk James Culbertson is shown with some of the thousands of forms that have been submitted by gunholders to keep their information hidden from the public.

Clerk receives 4,000 ‘opt-out’ forms

Licensed pistol permit holders and those that own registered firearms in Livingston County have submitted 4,000 of the state’s “opt-out” forms to the county clerk’s office — and the number continues to increase, said County Clerk James Culbertson.

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UNEMPLOYMENT

Jobless rate continues spring improvement

The unemployment rate in Livingston County dropped more than 1 percentage point in April, the third consecutive month the rate has declined, according to data from the state Department of Labor.

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GROVELAND
Students from Olie Olson's metal trades class from the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership's Charles G. May Center in Mount Morris pose for a photo with the newly replaced fence and the historical marker for Groveland's Williamsburg Cemetery.

Cemetery gets bicentennial fix-up

Livingston County’s oldest cemetery has been given a facelift by students from the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership's Charles G. May Center.

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Sports
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Basketball Camp
Livonia Boys Basketball Camp information UPDATED

Livonia Boys Basketball Camp information UPDATED

High School boys can attend June 24-28 while elementary and middle school boys will go July 8-12.

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STATE PLAYOFFS
Jake Clar runs the bases during Geneseo's state semifinal game against Vorheesville. Geneseo won 2-1 to advance to the championship game, where they lost 9-0 to Seton Catholic.

Geneseo baseball advances to state title game

Two weeks ago, the Geneseo Central baseball team was one out away from being eliminated in the sectional quarterfinals. Saturday afternoon the Blue Devils were playing for a state championship.

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BASEBALL
The Geneseo baseball team's victory over Red Jacket on Wednesday night has the boys playing a state qualifier game Saturday afternoon in Canandaigua.

Geneseo baseball to play state qualifier Saturday

Geneseo baseball will plays its state qualifier game Saturday afternoon in Canandaigua.

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LCAA Football
2013 LCAA Football Schedule

2013 LCAA Football Schedule

2013 LCAA football season promises to be another good one. Hornell, which hasn't lost a league game in four years, opens up at Hartwood Park in Le Roy to take on the Oatkan Knights in a rematch of last year's Class C sectional finals.

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Sectional Softball
Cal-Mum's Courtney Flagler, Hannah Anderson and Kelsey McMullen raise the Section V Class C2 championship trophy following Thursday's 5-4 win over Cuba-Rushford.

Cal-Mum repeats sectional softball crown

Anderson's alley blast scores Grattan with winning run in bottom of the seventh during No. 1 Red Raiders' 5-4 victory over Cuba Rushford.

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Sectional Baseball
Batavia's Tom Grammatico (right) gets the tag on the leaping Matt Feldman of Livonia in the bottom of the second inning of the Blue Devils 7-3 win over the Bulldogs in the Class BB semifinals at Wayland.

Batavia ends Livonia’s season

Blue Devils top Bulldogs 7-3 to advance to Class BB final.

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Softball Sectionals
Keshequa's Grace Mehlenbacher, shown here laying down a bunt against Kendall last Saturday, had a big RBI Tuesday in the Lady Indians' 2-0 win over Oakfield Alabama. Mehlenbacher and the Keshequa softball team will put it all on the line Thursday when they meet undefeated Bolivar-Richburg in the Class C3 title game.

Keshequa softball advances to finals

Undefeated Indians (20-0) will meet undefeated Bolivar-Richburg (21-0) in Thursday's final.

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ACTIVITY
Tom Moran, who is living with cerebral palsy, has dedicated himself to helping children with disabilities find opportunities to play sports.

Nunda native overcomes barriers; will lead sports workshops

As a youngster with cerebral palsy and growing up in Nunda, Dr. Thomas E. Moran asked God, “Why me?” At 16, while working as a camp counselor at Genesee Valley Rotary Camp, Moran says he got his answer.

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COMMUNITY

Foundation offering grants for community health projects

The Greater Rochester Health Foundation is accepting applications for its 2014 GRHF Opportunity Grants, awarded to projects that have a measurable effect on a community's health.

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SPECIAL EVENT
Volunteers from the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum restore, operate, and maintain historic vintage trains for the public to ride and enjoy.

Today is ‘Railroad Day’ at Rush museum

The New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 East River Rd., and nearby Genesee Valley Railroad Museum celebrates the legacy of the railroad industry in shaping America as part of today's "Railroad Day" at the Museums.

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GOT A MINUTE?
Teens think they are invincible and parents always fear the worst when faced with making decisions about their teenagers' driving privileges.

When teens get ready to take the wheel, minimize the risks

There is ongoing turmoil in my house related to driving: my teenager riding with other newly licensed teens, my teen driving with her friends in the car (she will get her license any day now), and the possibility of her driving home after dark from her boyfriend’s house 25 miles away.

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VALLEY HORSES
Jean Donnon on Karen Berger's Lindor HB won the Beginner Novice B division at the GVRDC Spring Event. Donnon also won the Open Novice division on her own horse, Charlotte.

Riding crop more than apparel

Use of a crop is a skill that does not come naturally.

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Voices
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ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW
Paul Watkins, left, and his sister Rebecca Wilcox Barnhoorn, were given up for adoption shortly after they were born. They were reunited as brother and sister for the first time on Dec. 17, 1990, by Barnhoorn's son, Steve, who took this photo in June 1992.

Lives in balance of adoptee bill

With the State Legislative Session scheduled to end June 20, which means things sometimes move pretty quickly as the session winds down, there is a legislation pending in the New York State Assembly and State Senate, known as the Adoptee Bill of Rights.

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TRIBUTE

‘Big Man’ touched lives of all sizes

When a person lives their whole life in one place, with family and friends in large numbers, there is a thread that both runs ahead of him and trails behind. He picks it up the day he is born, and he carries it with him. Every person who comes in contact with him is touched by it, changed by it.

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LESSONS
Ambrogio Lorenzetti's painting of St. Michael slaying a dragon.

An intense art experience

While many people can recognize Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” or Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling or a Monet painting of lilies on a pond, Ambrogio Lorenzetti is largely a stranger to those who are not students of art history.

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