steuben county

Election primaries are Tuesday, June 23. Voters in Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties have more choices on the ballots this year.

Pride month is in full swing in Elmira and Corning.

The State University of New York (SUNY) Reconnect program supports free tuition for adults ages 25-55 who want to pursue an associate’s degree and do not already have a degree. Five thousand six hundred students are currently enrolled in the program across the state.

Steuben is one of three counties in the state with a moratorium on landspreading, production or use of the fertilizer substitute.

WSKG News Director, Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo sits down with Elmira-Corning reporter Natalie Abruzzo to discuss police presence at a polling place during the Corning-Painted Post Area School District board elections and budget vote.

School districts in Steuben and Chemung counties held their annual budget votes and school board elections Tuesday. The Prattsburgh Central School District budget failed by fewer than nine votes.

The school board for the Corning-Painted Area School District approved a $150.7 million budget Wednesday. The proposed budget increased $6.4 million over last year and the district kept it within the tax cap at a 2.56 percent tax levy.

It is school budget season across the region. Some school districts in Steuben and Chemung counties are proposing no increases in tax levies. Voters go to the polls in May.

Steuben County’s most recent contract with the U.S. Marshals Service allows the Steuben County jail to continue to house federal detainees, including those held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Constituents packed the legislative chambers in Bath and voiced their concerns last week.

The New York Farm Bureau drastically updated its policy position on the practice of landspreading biosolids, which is used as fertilizer. This change comes at the same time the DEC announced more guidelines and testing practices for PFAS “forever chemicals” found in water, soil and air.