Exeter's Alewife Festival, an annual tradition, will take place Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Founders Park in ...

According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), a high number of dead alewife fish have washed up along the shoreline stretching from Evans to Hamburg.

But this year, beaches are more pungent and fish-strewn than others. Millions of alewife, an invasive fish species in the lake, died over the winter and are now washing ashore. “This is an ...