Editor’s Note: What follows are snippets from some of the top stories that appeared in The Evening Sun throughout 2016.

IRT-Greater Chenango Cares made rare return to Chenango

Take two of the 2015 summer installation of military vehicles, service personnel dressed in fatigues and scores of many appreciative community members took over the Norwich High School Campus during Greater Chenango Cares-Innovative Readiness Training (IRT).

Lead agency, Chenango United Way, spearheaded its own army of community volunteers to pull off yet another successful event that in 2015 performed nearly 15,000 procedures to some 2,400 patients at no cost – a value of more than $1.3 million.

“This was a great opportunity for our entire community in 2015, and we're pleased that the United Way was able to negotiate a contract for this to happen for a second year, right here in Chenango County,” said Victoria Mitchell of Chenango United Way in May. The military IRT is a Department of Defense (DOD) training exercise which provides real world training scenarios to military personnel and service members, all while supporting the needs of rural, under-served and economically challenged communities.

Drug Kingpin awaits retrial following judicial errors in County court