Simply Hamlin

Simply Hamlin Simply Hamlin offers a forum for our town to share our passions, ideas, and concerns about Hamlin, New York. This page serves to promote all things Hamlin.

As a rural community without a "Main Street", learning about doings about town can be difficult. Simply Hamlin offers a community forum aimed at improving the quality of life in Hamlin, Brockport, and surrounding areas in Western New York. The absence of a real "Main Street" can make it difficult to connect with our neighbors. Simply Hamlin hopes to fill that gap. We encourage you to post whatever

fulfills this goal, especially if you have a business, talent, club, service, etc. you would like to promote or just interesting information about the area to share. We want everyone to be involved in this community building effort. Hamlin and Western New York is a wonderful place to live and we want to showcase everything that makes it a treasure. https://www.facebook.com/places/Things-to-do-in-Hamlin-New-York/112473655431379/

08/31/2026

Have you heard of Repair Cafes? At these free community events, you can bring broken household items and work alongside skilled volunteers to repair them. Whether it's clothing, small appliances, bicycles, furniture, toys, electronics, or other everyday items, Repair Cafés help keep usable products out of the landfill while teaching valuable repair skills.

We’re fortunate to have several active Repair Cafés right here in our community. If you have something that's broken, consider bringing it to a local Repair Café before replacing it. You might be surprised what can be fixed!

Check out these pages for further information!
Repair Cafe -South Wedge Mission hosting 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month from 1-4pm at South Wedge Mission
Color Henrietta Green hosting 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month 5-7pm and 3rd Saturday 9-11am at Henrietta United Church of Christ
Color Fairport Green hosting 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month 5-7pm at Fairport United Methodist Church

08/31/2026

Stop out and see Pitt’s Spices next Sunday (September 6) in Holley ,NY at the St .Rocco’s Italian Festival 11-5

08/31/2026

SAVE THE DATE!! Set up starts at 3… prizes will be handed out!!! Come in your street car or classic car!!!

https://orleanshub.com/go-art-announces-lineup-of-musicians-for-3-day-fest-in-holley-from-aug-28-30/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT-4F...
08/28/2026

https://orleanshub.com/go-art-announces-lineup-of-musicians-for-3-day-fest-in-holley-from-aug-28-30/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT-4FxwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMXB6Q1JuaUNCZ3h5OUZZQnhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeoDUlO6AZ5oplF_JOR9etGNpuX81CfKXZdwtHdKIvKtbbMi1j4_HLLPRIzNY_aem_j4sEW8E6UnsadecLd6KqbA

We hope to see you this weekend at the second annual Erie Canal Artisan Festival! ☀️🎉 We will be celebrating the rich heritage, arts, and culture of the canal and Orleans County, with artisan vendors as the main attraction! The festival will take place at the Holley Canal Park in Holley, NY, spanning over 2 and a half days from August 28th – 30th, 2026.

• Family Movie Night
• Live Band Performances
• Artisan Vendors
• Food Vendors and more

New help for SNAP recipients at Tops called Double Up Food Bucks.
08/24/2026

New help for SNAP recipients at Tops called Double Up Food Bucks.

Tops Friendly Markets provides groceries to your local community. Enjoy your shopping experience when you visit our supermarket.

Where's the outrage?  This is beyond barbaric.  You all do realize that anyone can put on a mask now and fake being an I...
08/14/2026

Where's the outrage? This is beyond barbaric.
You all do realize that anyone can put on a mask now and fake being an ICE Agent, murder your family, and get away with it BECAUSE fascism has become acceptable, under the guise of immigration.
This isn't going away and we haven't seen the worst yet.
Soon it will be EVERYONE who gets stopped that will be shocked and completely incapacitated so the police can detain you, just because they can.
You will be guilty until you prove you're innocent. If you live long enough after being grabbed.
Welcome to Beyond 1984.

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The company that makes the electric shock gloves ICE wants to buy put a warning in its own manual: don't use them on small children, pregnant women, or the elderly. The federal government is about to spend up to $20 million on them anyway.

The device is called the G.L.O.V.E. It looks like an ordinary patrol glove until an agent presses a button, and then it drives up to 380 volts into bare skin, roughly three times what comes out of your wall outlet, tuned not to wound but to hurt.

That's the whole design. Pain is the product.

A jail administrator in Tennessee whose facility already uses them explained the appeal to the BBC. Flip the switch, he said, and a small light comes on. The inmates learn what the light means. Most of the time, seeing it is enough. "An instant complier for me."

ICE won't be pointing this at cartel bosses. The agency is under orders to make around 2,000 arrests a day, so it's sweeping up landscapers, mothers outside courthouses, teenagers who showed up to their own asylum hearings.

The cruelty is also built to be invisible. A taser leaves barbs and a paper trail.

These gloves let an officer close a hand around a wrist in a crowd and drop a person with a motion no bystander would ever catch. No spark anyone sees, no sound, no camera angle that proves a thing. Just someone folding in pain with no way to explain why.

The contract is no-bid, handed to a single Kentucky company, and could be signed within days. There are no published rules on who reviews the activation logs, whether supervisors check them, or whether anyone shocked gets a medical evaluation.

The manufacturer's own manual concedes the device can cause injury or death if its safety instructions aren't followed. It advises a second officer stand by to hold the subject still while the shock lands.

We have built an agency that kills people during ordinary stops, and the plan is to hand its masked officers a tool engineered to make a human being buckle in three seconds without leaving a mark.

They didn't buy these to keep anyone safe. They bought them because they do exactly what they were built to do.
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08/13/2026

Folks, it's time to GET REAL. Before it's too late. This mid-term ... time to vote for normal people who can restore sanity.

-- LOCAL FACTS --
39% of young people in high school in neighboring Orleans county live in such abject poverty, they had to build a public shower for them so they can shower and go to school.

-- The federal government just pulled funding for Head Start in Orleans county and left them scrambling. --

-- Senior citizens are accessing food cupboards in Brockport at an all time high, and face paying more for prescriptions because funding was pulled for Medicare Part D. --

When you vote in November, remember -- the Billionaire's own the White House government right now, and WE, yes, YOU and ME are the only ones who can change this.

Or, it's going to get worse, yes, the worst is yet to come.

If we don't stop this, they're coming for your Social Security Retirement in 2032 - a 22% cut - that's only 6 years, because they refuse to raise the F**A Tax on the rich to sustain the SS Retirement Trust Fund to maintain our current benefits -- this is NOT welfare, folks, we paid for our retirement for decades, while the billionaires PAY NOTHING.

So when you get to the Ballot Box in November remember who stole your wallet.

https://youtu.be/OCIFPzG8n8s?si=n_dbVU-MKQ8Npxd1

What's happening here?  Some disturbing facts.**  Around 450,000 to 500,000 New Yorkers lost their low-cost health cover...
08/11/2026

What's happening here? Some disturbing facts.

** Around 450,000 to 500,000 New Yorkers lost their low-cost health coverage through the state's Essential Plan on July 1, 2026. Why the Coverage Ended: Federal Funding Cuts: Changes stemming from federal H.R. 1 legislation stripped federal tax credits that previously funded the broader Essential Plan.

** The new complex reporting and documentation rules are designed to create administrative barriers that lower total Medicaid enrollment rather than actively foster community work.

** The BBB legislation cuts over $1 trillion from federal healthcare programs over a decade, with a major focus on Medicaid. Low Income household's face major increased co-pays.

** The Medicare Part D subsidy program—known as the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration—will officially conclude on December 31, 2026. Was created to help offset insurance company cost adjustments for prescriptions drugs and keep monthly premiums low for stand-alone prescription drug plans. The 2027 base beneficiary premium will be $41.33, a 6% increase from the prior year.

You will also see changes to formulary coverage (i.e. which drugs are covered), as well as increased cost-sharing, such as co-insurance or co-pays.

** NYS SNAP Benefits will decrease, as states pay more due to federal cuts to SNAP.

Meanwhile, these cuts went to fund tax breaks for the rich. In just one sector, The BBB locks in lower individual income tax rates for the highest-earning brackets, costing about $340 billion over a decade.

This isn't Rocket Science here. The US Federal Govt. is milking the poor and middle class to fund the rich. When you vote this mid-term, let's not forget who stole your wallet.

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Rt 18 And Rt 19, Lake Road
Hamlin, NY
14464

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