Members of the New Hartford Fire Department are holding a benefit on Sunday for one of their own. Firefighter Mark Schafer, who has over three decades of service with the department, was diagnosed in 2022 with stage four colon cancer.
Fire officials are still working to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at a former Central New York church that gained notoriety after a child was beaten to death there several years ago.
New Hartford Police have made an arrest in a series of suspicious fires over the last couple of months on the campus of the Hillside Garden Apartments on Oxford Road.
In 2016 the Zeina family suffered a tragic fire that displaced them from their home. Now, the owners of the new Lafa Mediterranean by Zeina's is giving back to the fire department that assisted them during that difficult time.