Orleans Hub’s most-viewed articles for 2025
Photo by Tom Rivers: Orleans Correctional Facility is shown on Feb. 28. Corrections officers went on strike at Orleans, the Albion Correctional Facility and nearly all of the 42 prisons in the state. The strike lasted 22 days.
Orleans Hub completed another year of covering local news in Orleans County. We started nearly 13 years ago on April 1, 2013 and haven’t a missed a day since.
Last year we reached 6,493,347 pageviews and averaged exactly 7,500 visitors to the news site each day.
We remain the county’s leading source for local news, covering community events, sports, local governments, county court and other breaking news in Orleans County.
The most-viewed articles tend to be tragedies or crime-related. They are a small percentage of about 3,500 articles we post a year.
Here is the list of the 15 most-viewed articles in 2025:
2. Kendall student, 16, dies in car accident this afternoon on Roosevelt Highway
3. Pedestrian killed after hit by car in Medina
4. 14 farmworkers detained from Orleans; Union protests at federal facility in Batavia
5. Magee gets 15-year max for manslaughter in Kingdollar death
6. Albion man, 21, charged with raping girl, 15, at village park
7. Retired Veterans Service Agency director killed in motorcycle accident in Albion
8. NY launches free community college program for in-demand fields
9. Clarendon official charged with felony grand larceny, falsifying records
10. Oral rabies vaccines will be distributed by plane, helicopter in Orleans, Genesee
11. 2 charged after investigation into cocaine distribution in Orleans County
12. Chick-fil-A celebrates ground-breaking in Brockport
13. 1 person detained, another presumed drowned after high-speed chase ends in canal
14. Medina PD releases name of pedestrian killed after struck by pickup truck
15. Ridgeway man facing manslaughter charge for allegedly killing mother with hammer
