CJ Country Radio

07/09/2025

ATTENTION 🙂
For those of you that listen at 105.5: there are some temporary atmospheric issues that are affecting your ability to hear the signal and you might actually hear another station from elsewhere, overriding it. This is TEMPORARY and things likely will be better by this afternoon.

In the meantime, listen at 1140 AM or you can stream us at wcjw.com or this might be the day you download the free CJ Country app to your iPhone or android! Thank you for understanding – – APPRECIATE YOU ✌️

07/09/2025

CJ Country Local News for Wed, July 9

Two adults and a child sustained non-life-threatening injuries in a collision between a car and a tractor-trailer in the Town of Bethany. It happened at the intersection of Route 20 and East Road, known locally as "Su***de Corners." According to Genesee County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Henning, the car's driver failed to yield the right-of-way to the semi, which had the legal right to proceed. No signs of impairment or foul play were found, and the accident appears to have been caused by limited visibility and poor intersection design. Route 20 was temporarily closed while crews cleared the scene and the DEC responded to a diesel spill from the semi.

Accused of fleeing police leads to the arrest of a Batavia man. According to Batavia Police, 66yo Glen Quintern fled from officers on an e-bike, when they attempted to stop him for a traffic violation. He was arrested for Obstructing Governmental Administration and numerous traffic violations. Quintern was issued several traffic tickets and released.

A Batavia s*x offender is accused of providing false information. According to Batavia Police, an investigation found that 62yo Kevin Thomas, Sr. filed paperwork with the Police Department, falsely indicating that he resided at one address, when in fact, he does not live at that address nor had he lived at that address. Thomas was arrested for Falsifying Business Records and Failure to Register as a S*x Offender. Following arraignment, Thomas was committed to the Genesee County Jail on $5,000 bail. He is return to Batavia City Court at a future date.

A Batavia mother is charged stemming from an alleged incident in June. According to Batavia Police, 36yo Tiffany Kent was arrested after an investigation into when her daughter fell from a second-story window, while under Kent’s supervision. She was charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Kent was arraigned in Batavia City Court and released.

Allegations of showing oneself off results in the arrest of a Batavia man. Batavia Police say 56yo Anthony Cicoria exposed himself on West Main Street. He was charged with Public Lewdness. Cicoria was arraigned in Genesee County CAP Court and released.

The Genesee County Department of Motor Vehicles is officially back in operation. The office opened up shortly after noon Tuesday. This follows a temporary closure announced in a Monday press release. A critical component from New York State was delivered and installed earlier Tuesday by a technician. Residents had been advised not to visit prior to the installation work. With the system restored, DMV services have now resumed.

In the midst of summer travel, CSX reminds pedestrians and motorists to stay away from railroad tracks and to use caution at grade crossings. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, hundreds of people die each year while trespassing on rail property. To help avoid these tragedies, CSX reminds to always yield to trains as it can take more than a mile for a train to stop, and never trespass on railroad property, as it is both illegal and dangerous.

The State Labor Department highlights teen worker safety this summer. Officials say with teens seeking – sometimes for the very first time – summer employment, it is absolutely crucial that they and their parents have the right information to ensure their safety. Every year, approximately 200,000 teenagers in the United States are injured on the job, and about 70 teens are killed at work. Officials say teen workers need to be better educated about the hazards they may face on the job. And they need to know how to best address those concerns to ensure their safety and well-being. To learn more about youth employment, safety and related labor laws, go to labor.ny.gov/youth.

New York State Police issued 10,497 tickets during a crackdown over the July 4th weekend. The campaign started July 3rd and ended July 6th. It included sobriety checkpoints, more DWI patrols, and an extra eye out for people illegally using electronic devices while driving. During that time, police said they arrested 210 people on DWI charges. They investigated 716 crashes, including five fatal crashes. There were 3,508 tickets for speeding, 258 for distracted driving, 1,061 seat belt violations and 301 for violating the Move Over Law.

The Genesee County Department of Public Works will begin a series of road paving projects starting today. These begin on Kelsey Road and Pratt Road in the Town of Batavia. Crews will then move to Dodgeson Road in Alexander, from Route 98 to Halstead Road. Paving will then continue on East Bethany Le Roy Road, from Route 63 to Route 5. One-lane closures will be in effect, and flaggers and signage will be in place to guide traffic. Local traffic will have access to homes and businesses, and emergency vehicles will be able to pass through work zones as needed. Motorists are encouraged to plan ahead, expect minor delays, and use caution in work areas. All work is weather dependent.

The United States Department of Agriculture has an interactive tool to help families find free summer food service programs. The interactive map will give you information on the sponsoring organization, contact information, and times lunches will be available. The tool makes it easy for families to find the locations close to you. To view the map and find summer meal programs in your area, go to https://www.fns.usda.gov/summer/sitefinder

Long-distance runners may want to avoid ibuprofen for their aches and pains. A recent study from Stanford University finds ultra-marathoners may risk kidney injuries if they take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. They include over the counter ibuprofen and naproxen. Experts say taking minimal doses of these painkillers when necessary is usually safe for most people. One way to help avoid kidney problems is to stay well hydrated.

07/09/2025

It’s Elba garage sale days this weekend: here’s the list of who’s selling!

This is the updated and final copy of the garage sales list. I will be putting them out at Chap's Elba Diner and Sweet Life Country Store tomorrow. You can also get one from the Town or Village offices.
Happy Shopping-everything is better in Elba!

Please share this with as many people as you can. I expected a notice about the sales in the Pennysaver this past weekend and it was not there. By the time it comes out this week it will be too late!

07/09/2025

📚 Did You Know...

🔷 Saturn has a massive hexagon at its north pole — big enough to fit four Earths inside. The six-sided jet stream spans over 20,000 miles and has baffled scientists for decades. It likely forms from Saturn’s chaotic, fast-spinning atmosphere.

🍬 There’s no real difference between salt water taffy and regular taffy. It was just a clever marketing trick from Atlantic City to reel in beachgoers.

🗣 Word of the Day: Mumpsimus — Someone who stubbornly sticks to a mistake, even after being corrected. Like saying “expresso” instead of “espresso” and refusing to budge. The term comes from a 16th-century priest who misread a Latin prayer… and wouldn’t change even when shown the right words.

☘️ Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent. You WILL share the potatoes, Comrade.

✈️ Airplane oxygen masks aren’t connected to tanks. They use a chemical reaction to generate oxygen — just add altitude and panic.

🩸 In 2023, a 9-year-old girl in Australia got a liver transplant — and her blood type changed to match the donor’s. Her body accepted it so well, she no longer needed immunosuppressants. First case of its kind.

📖 Children’s books contain 50% more rare words than prime-time TV. So The Very Hungry Caterpillar might be better for your brain than bingeing NCIS.

🎭 The 1994 Jim Carrey movie The Mask was based on a much darker comic. Stanley becomes a murderous psychopath and gets shot by his girlfriend. Not exactly “somebody stop me!” family fun.

🍺 Gatorade once made a beer. In 1969, they launched Hop’n Gator — lemon-lime Gatorade mixed with beer. It flopped and vanished faster than your electrolytes after a keg stand.

🤟 Deaf Britons and Deaf Americans usually can’t understand each other. British Sign Language and American Sign Language are completely different — ASL is actually more closely related to French Sign Language. Same language, totally different signs. It’s like subtitles… but for hands.

07/08/2025

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07/08/2025

Did You Know...

About 1% of the static on an old-school, untuned TV comes from cosmic background radiation—a faint afterglow of the Big Bang. That fuzz isn’t just noise... it’s the birth of the universe.

There's a coast-to-coast hiking trail called The American Discovery Trail that connects Delaware and California. For when the Appalachian Trail just doesn’t punish your knees enough.

Some bees are blue. The blue carpenter bee lives in dead wood and minds its own business—just vibing in Southeast Asia.

The act of "giving the key to the city" is a continuation of a medieval practice where the cities would be locked at night but someone given the key could come and go as they please. It used to mean free passage through the gates—now it just means you wave at a parade and get a plaque.

There is a grocery store named "Thanksgiving" in Paris that sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts, Heinz ketchup, and Skippy peanut butter to homesick ex-pats. Nothing says ‘freedom’ like high-fructose nostalgia.

In the 1920s, the Ford Motor Company produced so much factory wood waste that they manufactured it into charcoal and sold it under the name Ford Charcoal. The company was later renamed to Kingsford Charcoal. Your summer BBQ? Brought to you by Model T leftovers.

Boxer “Two Ton” Tony Galento had a secret weapon: body odor. He’d skip showers before fights to throw off opponents with his stench. His opponents lost… and so did everyone within smelling distance.

During Prohibition, bootlegger William S. McCoy became famous for never watering down his booze... So people started calling his stuff "The real McCoy".

There’s a screenplay called 'Atuk' that’s never been made because actors interested in the lead—John Candy, Chris Farley, John Belushi and Sam Kinison—died unexpectedly. Urban legend? Maybe. But someone please don’t cast Seth Rogen, just in case.

In 1990, Michigan police arrested local drug dealers by throwing a fake wedding for two ‘customers’—who were undercover officers. When the (also undercover) band played 'I Fought the Law,' the arrests began.

07/07/2025

One of our listeners, Heather Gabriel passed along information about a meeting today in Avon at the Village Hall (74 Genesee St.) at 5pm.

"Hello CJ Country! First thank you for everything you guys do for the community. Best station ever. Now- I am reaching out today to see if the right person will see these messages.

Avon is currently facing issues with all of this flooding, caused by housing developments and rerouting natural waterways that has caused 4 floods onto Wadsworth Avenue in 20 years.

These are photos from what 2014 looked like, when they ignored all of the issues and didn’t fix a larger issue, but made it worse. Now the area is flooding again, twice in the last two weeks and the sewage plant, that has been known by DEC for years to be inadequately being maintained.

I’m pulling together documentation but we need some coverage for the meeting Monday 7/7 at 5pm. These town people have suffered enough and it’s time Avon gets the upgrades to the horrible systems in place that have been ignored and neglected for years.

Sewer was coming back up into our house, and I know I am not the only one who had this issue, but it has not been made public. We are one of the lucky few with smaller damages, but they could have been much worse."

07/07/2025

Did You Know...

Official temperatures used in weather apps are taken in shade, not under sunlight. That sunny 92°? Officially, it's a shady 86°.

Female frogs sometimes fake their own death to avoid mating with males they don't find attractive. Nature’s got ghosting down to a science.

In 2008, humans sent a digital message to the planet Gliese 581c, located 20 light-years away. The message is set to arrive in 2029—and if intelligent life responds right away, we wouldn't hear back until 2050. It's basically deep space’s longest game of "You up?"

Massachusetts is home to the Museum of Bad Art, located in Dedham—a real gallery for art that's “too bad to be ignored.” The kind that didn’t make the fridge… but somehow made the walls.

Staples was born out of frustration on July 4, 1985, when founder Thomas Stemberg ran out of printer ribbon and couldn’t find a single store open. That holiday headache inspired him to launch the first Staples store the following year.

In Japan, you can hire a professional apologizer to say sorry for you—face-to-face, by phone, or email. Why do I feel like this could make someone angrier?

Sliced bread was first sold on July 7, 1928 by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was so revolutionary, it was called “the greatest forward step in baking since bread was wrapped.” By 1933, 80% of U.S. bread was pre-sliced—giving rise to the phrase “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

In the 1950s and ’60s, General Mills wasn’t just making cereal—they were making spy gear. Their engineering division built surveillance balloons to monitor the Eastern Bloc, developed a deep-sea sub that explored the Titanic, and helped recover a lost hydrogen bomb from the Mediterranean. All, a balanced part of this delicious espionage.

Den Fujita, the founder of McDonald’s Japan, once said:
“If we eat McDonald’s hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years, we will become taller, our skin will become white, and our hair blonde.” You can’t make this stuff up—and you don’t have to.

A Hollywood executive once suggested casting Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman in a biopic. When told Tubman was Black, the exec reportedly said, “It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.” One of the worst casting ideas in Hollywood history—and that’s saying something.

07/05/2025

When fireworks meet lightning yesterday in Oklahoma.😳

07/03/2025

Local Band Rundown

Friday, July 4th

July 4th – 5th – The Batavia Ramble Explore Art and Music Festival is being held at Jackson Square in Batavia, featuring over 30 bands, artists and art vendors, food trucks, and children’s activities. Find the Batavia Ramble page for more information.

Solitude Brewing in Lakeville has live music all day, starting at noon, with The Bushel Brothers, The Flower Head Foks and Fabels and Fools

Mr. Monkey is at the Wadsworth Grill at 4pm

Rag Tag Rabble is playing at Dublin Corners Farm Brewery in Linwood at 6pm

Trilogy is performing at Four Winds Campground in Portageville 6-9pm

The Beachcomber on Conesus Lake has Part of the Problem 6-10pm

Begging Angels have a show at Gravel Ponds Campground in Scottsville at 7pm

West of the Mark is playing at the Lancaster Independence Days in Lancaster, starting at 7pm

Trolls 2.0 are in the Beer Tent at the Warsaw Fire Department’s Carnival at the Warsaw Village Park 9pm-1am

Saturday, July 5th

Solitude Brewing in Lakeville has Michael Versluys 1-4pm, and Chris and Kori 4-7pm

Mr. Monkey Duo is performing at the Naked Dove Brewing Company in Canandaigua 3-5pm

Justin Williams is at the Silver Lake Brewing Project in Perry at 5pm

Little Lake Brewing in Lakeville has Dan Ripley performing at 5pm

The Statin Brothers are performing at Dublin Corners Farm Brewery in Linwood at 6pm

Midlife Crisis is playing at No BS Brew Company in Livonia, starting at 6pm

Ryan Sutherland is doing a show at the Dark Horse Saloon in Dansville at 6pm

The Beachcomber on Conesus Lake has New York to L-A 6-10pm

Neil Van Dorn Band is at Rising Storm Brewing in Avon at 6pm

Lucky Number is opening for Queen Nation at the Forx Summer Stage in Wayland – doors open at 5pm, and the show starts at 8pm

Kelly’s Old Timers are playing at the York Field Days and Fireworks at York Central School 7-9pm

Dark Horse Run is at Seva Kitchen and Bar in Niagara Falls 7-10pm

Exit 13 is doing a show at Woodstream Campground in Gainesville 7-10pm

One More is doing a show at the Rabbit Hole in Rochester 7-10pm.

Herbal Tonic is performing at the Wadsworth Grill, starting at 7pm

Begging Angels are at Frost Ridge Campground in LeRoy 7-10pm

JT Rock and Blues Band are playing at Beaver Meadow Campground in North Java at 7pm

Dark Horse Trio is performing at The Dakota in Hilton at 7pm

Double Cross is in the beer tent at the Warsaw Fireman’s Carnival in the Warsaw Village Park 9pm-1am

Sunday, July 6th

Pat and Ben from Flint Creek are doing an acoustic show at Three Brothers Winery in Geneva at 1pm

7 Days is playing at Galene in Lakeville at 2pm

The Wadsworth Grill has the Ghost Riders at 3pm

Steve West is playing at the Beachcomber on Conesus Lake 3-7pm

Mr. Monkey Duo is performing at Wolffy’s Grill and Marina in Seneca Falls 4-7pm

Claudia Hoyser and Teagan and the Tweeds are playing at the Perinton Center Park at 5:30pm

Upcoming shows

Sunday, July 20th – Rebels Posse and Whey Jennings are performing at the Wadsworth Grill at 2pm

Monday, July 28th Log Cabin Blues, Brews and BBQ is being held at the Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant in Corfu from 6 to 9pm, featuring the band Bad Sign.

Dark Horse Run Band is at the Rock N Roll Heaven in West Seneca every Wednesday night 8-11pm

Raider Lanes in Caledonia has Open Mic Night every Wednesday 7-10pm

Wednesday are Open Mic Nights at the Wadsworth Grill 6-9pm, with the Battle of the Bands being held on Thursday nights at 7pm

Jack Fire is playing at the Stage in Clarence every Thursday night at 8pm

Iburi Photography holds Open Mic Nights on the first Fridays of the month at 35 Jackson Street in Batavia