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County to house people in motels after main homeless shelter closes
ITHACA, N.Y. — People who will be displaced by the closing of Tompkins County’s only year-round homeless shelter may be housed in local motel rooms for the foreseeable future, according to a press release Tuesday. The arrangement will help the county avoid declaring a state of emergency as...
Elmira woman arrested on welfare fraud charges after receiving unqualified SNAP benefits
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — An Elmira woman was arrested on Monday after police said she received nearly $2,000 in benefits she wasn’t entitled to. Christina Woodard, 55, was arrested on Monday, Oct. 28, on several felony charges including one count of welfare fraud in the fourth degree, one count of grand larceny in the fourth […]
New “sticker shop” crackdown law in Chemung County to begin Tuesday
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Chemung County Executive Chris Moss says he will sign a new law Tuesday that will allow the Sheriff’s Office to padlock “sticker shops” that sell unlicensed cannabis. This comes after residents had a chance to voice their opinions for or against the law. Eight people showed up at Monday’s nine a.m. […]
Restaurant inspections, eating out, a look into winter, sequoia in Rome
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Community blood screening to be held in Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (WETM) – The Watkins-Montour Rotary Club will hold its annual AMBA community blood screening on Saturday. The blood screening will take place on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Clute Park Community Center in Watkins Glen. The blood analysis will be done by Quest Diagnostics and includes […]
Booooo! Rain on Halloween
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Showers will hold off until tomorrow afternoon and into the evening with dry conditions returning after that. High pressure builds in and the associated southerly flow carries with it a warm breeze. The high allows temperatures to warm into the upper 50s to low 60s Tuesday afternoon. After Tuesday night’s rain […]
Early voting now open across New York
ITHACA, N.Y. — New York voters can officially head to the polls to vote in this year’s election, as the early voting period opened across the state on Saturday. Early voting will close after 5 p.m. on Nov. 3. Early voting was first introduced in New York in...
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