Noted wildlife educator Tom Hudak died last month in his home in New Mexico.
Thomas Richard Hudak, a former Rochester-area resident, was a zoologist and botanist who made it his life s mission to educate others about reptiles and wildlife conservation and safety. He was 61.
His wife Amy Hudak said that Mr. Hudak died suddenly on July 21 from what appeared to be a recently diagnosed aortic aneurysm. He was also survived by his daughter Whitney, brothers John and Robert and numerous other relatives.
A graduate of Gates-Chili High School, Mr. Hudak studied horticulture at Alfred State College and biology at the State University College at Geneseo.
ORLEANS A bright red crane stood out against a nearly cloudless blue spring sky, hoisting blocks of scaffolding from the site’s access road into a massive concrete foundation.
The scaffolding was part of a temporary support system for the pouring of the slab of the first floor of Orleans’ new $38.1 million wastewater treatment plant, which is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2022. For the past two years, Orleans streets also bustled with crews installing the pipes for the $21.4 million downtown sewer collection system.
This is a moment capping over two decades of contentious debate in Orleans, and one that Alan McClennen, a former longtime Orleans select board member, could scarcely have believed possible just a few years ago when the cost of the town’s wastewater cleanup plan seemed insurmountable.