Montour Falls News

Filled with adrenaline, Nadine M. Hair dashed into the Albany Street building without anyone from her assigned firetruck only to head back out slightly embarrassed about her rookie mistake.

Montour Falls will host its annual Bike Rally on Friday and Saturday. Events begin Friday with a $5 buffet breakfast from 8 to 10:30 a.m. at the Montour Falls Fire Department.

Lowering the speed limit on Route 414 in Hector will be one of the topics for discussion at the annual meeting of the Hector Community Association on Tuesday.

The Schuyler County League of Women Voters' Annual Picnic is 11:45 a.m. June 24, at Carol Bower's Home, Cass Road, Montour Falls.

MONTOUR FALLS - It's not a pretty picture: Directly across the street from the entrance to Watkins Glen State Park sits an empty, block-long structure with dirty, boarded-up windows and fliers posted on its walls.

Out of Town * PATRIGNANI - A daughter, Friday, March 6, 2009, to Tony and Danielle Good Patrignani of Troy, N.Y. Paternal grandparents are Robert and Jeannette Good of Montour Falls.

The Schuyler County League of Women Voters' Annual Picnic is 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, June 24, at Carol Bower's Home, Cass Road, Montour Falls.

Having a full-time coordinator dedicated to Schuyler County's housing problems is the only way those problems are going to be properly addressed, Bruce Adams, chairman of the Schuyler Housing Opportunities Council, told a recent meeting of the Schuyler County League of Women Voters.

On a recent Saturday morning, Lori Wheet went about her routine of watering flowers and tending to the gardens that surround her Elmira home without so much as a second thought.

Montour Falls Schuyler Hospital will hold its eighth M.A.S.H. Camp July 21-22 for junior high students interested in health care.

BIG FLATS - At times, 8-year-old Zack Spicer took his mother by the hand and pointed to an airplane that captured his interest during the Aviation Open House on Saturday at Wings of Eagles Discovery Center in Big Flats.

The Schuyler County Sheriff's Office is offering free Fundamentals of Alcohol Intoxication Recognition training for any business that sells any type of alcohol fit for consumption.

More than 40 teams are expected to participate in the third annual Relay for Life for Schuyler County from Friday evening through Saturday afternoon at the Watkins Glen High School track.

Budgets passed by comfortable margins in 10 of 11 Southern Tier school districts Tuesday - but the school board of the largest district, Elmira, decided on the advice of their attorney to not release any results until today.

The Business and Education Committee of the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with the New York State Fire Academy, will host a health care forum at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, at the fire academy in Montour Falls.

'It's like putting together a 3-D jigsaw puzzle with pieces from all different puzzles.' That's the opinion of 16-year-old Steve Benjamin on the challenges of building a fieldstone wall around the second eagle sculpture at the Schuyler County Veterans Memorial Park outside Odessa.

MONTOUR FALLS - Schuyler County lawmakers are partnering with Steuben County to help a few county residents get or keep jobs.

Schuyler Hospital recently announced two new and two returning physicians. Dr. Michael Eisman and Dr.

A Montour Falls man who was a maintenance supervisor for the state Department of Transportation was sentenced to five years probation last week for repeatedly fueling his personal Ford Excursion at an official state pump, New York State Inspector General Joseph Fisch announced last week.

Chemung County's Senior Games officially opened Monday morning for its 19th edition and plans already under way for a gala 20th year celebration in 2010.