Elmira News

After months of frustrations and public outcry over dress codes in Elmira schools, district officials have decided to solve the problem once and for all by requiring students to come to class naked.

Chemung Canal Trust display opens Saturday in former bank building. By G. Jeffrey Aaron * jaaron@stargazette.com * August 7, 2008 In 1833, when there were only 24 states in the union and Andrew Jackson was the ...

You could soon see more businesses coming to downtown Elmira. An unnamed developer is interested in buying the old post office building at the corner of Church Street and Clemens Center Parkway.

Summer F. Cook, the Elmira mother who admitted she accidentally smothered her 6-week-old daughter, was sentenced Monday in Chemung County Court to 1 1/3 to four years in state prison for a criminally negligent ...

Kevin Granger of Elmira, a volunteer and program participant at Chemung ARC, received the New York State Senate Achiever's Award of Merit at the agency's annual membership meeting and picnic earlier this ...

Visitors to Elmira City Hall that attend Elmira City Council meetings or other after-hours meetings are reminded by the city to enter the building from the rear, rather than the front.

A 24-year-old upstate New York woman who admitted accidentally smothering her 6-week-old daughter is going to state prison for 1 1/3 to four years.

Fire investigators are at the scene of an early morning apartment fire on Elmira's Southside.

The crash happened at the corner of Clemens Center Parkway and Water Street after four o'clock . The driver was able to get out with one of the children.

Children can enjoy a fun-filled learning experience each Monday this August at Chemung Valley History Museum in Elmira.

On Saturday neighbors In Hathorn Court reported their power is still on. Thursday, around 2 hundred tenants got notices from NYSEG saying their power would be turned off today if their landlord did not pay the ...

Police block access to a Hathorn Court apartment as they investigate an early-morning shooting incident Friday.

City understands governor's orders to tighten belts, cut costs. By Ray Finger * rfinger@stargazette.com * August 2, 2008 Elmira officials are taking a wait-and-see stance as state agencies examine their ...

Police finished investigating the scene of the shooting at Hathorn Court just before eight o'clock Friday evening.

Police block access to a Hathorn Court apartment as they investigate an early-morning shooting incident Friday.

Elmira police said a woman drove her car into the path of an SUV at the intersection of Clemens Center Parkway and East Water Street .

The Elmira lawyer who plans to start a charter school in or around Elmira has withdrawn his application to the state for the second year in a row.

"All around good person, going to church, just loved the kids and everything else," said a neighbor.

As one story goes, city's moniker may have originated during judge's visit to tavern.

Elmira police have closed part of Woodlawn Avenue along the Hathorn Court housing complex in the nortwest part of the city while they investigate a shooting that took place early today.