First News With Keeler in the Morning

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced late Monday that a preliminary deal has been reached on a $254 billion budget deal that's arriving nearly one month past a deadline that's required by law.

A very rainy weekend in Herkimer County resulted in a dismal washout of the 1st Annual Herkimer County Outdoor Showcase, sponsored by Oak Hill Motors RV and Marine. The event ran Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Herkimer County Fairgrounds off the Frankfort exit of Rt. 5-S.

As April winds down, get ready to look for the signs of the slow flying bumble bees that are really carpenter bees that will be drilling holes into your deck and wooden structures.

Kaitlyn Conley has officially hired attorneys to represent her in a possible third trial, if an Oneida County Grand Jury indicts her again in the 2015 poisoning death of chiropractor Mary Yoder.

The Chairman of the Herkimer County Legislature has been arrested for a third time in the last year, this time after violating his parole, according to authorities.

The weather has warmed up and the Herkimer County Fairgrounds in Frankfort is the site for this weekend's first-ever Herkimer County Outdoor Showcase this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There will be plenty of vendors on hand for all of your outdoor wants and needs.

NY State Senator Joe Griffo is holding another electronics recycling event this Saturday at the Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority in Utica.

Once again the New York State budget is ridiculously late and once again, the majority has filled the budget with all sorts of policy. Do you want money for this important initiative? If so, you're going to have to live with the fact that it comes with some crazy policy that we'll most likely regret down the road.

Over the last few weeks, New York State Police have ben on the roads and highways looking for people illegally talking on their cellphones while driving.

I've had several people ask over the last few years to post the official Utica Greens Morelle recipe. My friend Joe Morelle, who passed away a few years ago, created Greens Morelle for the Chesterfield back in the 1980s. Nobody made Greens like Joe.