radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 07-01-26

Good morning.A new community gathering space launches this week in Schuyler County. The inaugural Watkins Glen Farmers Market opens from five to eight tonight at Lafayette Park, running weekly through late August. Organized by the Finger Lakes Gateway Community Development Corporation, the market will feature local produce, food trucks, and artisans. The evening hours are specifically scheduled to align with the Village of Watkins Glen's popular summer concert series, which takes place in the same park starting at seven.Meanwhile, local coordinators have finalized an extensive lineup of public festivities to kick off the upcoming July Fourth holiday. Schuyler County’s official America Two-Fifty celebrations on Saturday will feature morning historical walking tours through Montour Falls, a nationwide church bell ringing ceremony at two in the afternoon, and the largest community block party in county history at Clute Park, leading up to a massive evening fireworks display.And local public libraries are expanding their ongoing civic season programming today, hosting special local history and America Two-Fifty trivia events on the patio of the Seneca Lake Events Center.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.