radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 06-17-26

Good morning. A massive summer road construction blitz is officially underway across Chemung County. Public Works officials announced that this year's preservation program will overhaul over seventeen miles of pavement across eight county roads. Commuters can expect localized traffic disruptions and fresh asphalt projects rolling out this week on major corridors, including Pennsylvania Avenue and Route Sixty-Four.In local sports, freshwater anglers across the Twin Tiers are hitting the water this week following the official opening of the New York statewide bass fishing harvest season. Largemouth and smallmouth bass can be legally kept through November thirtieth.And two veteran paddlers are generating major buzz along local waterways today. Seventy-year-old Maggie Monroe-Cassel and sixty-seven-year-old Karen Yeversky are on a four-day trek after launching their canoe in Hornell. The pair is expected to stop at downtown Elmira’s Chase-Hibbard Dam today to meet with local river enthusiasts.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.