radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 07-16-26

Good morning.A widespread Air Quality Health Advisory is in effect across the Southern Tier today. Environmental officials warn that thick smoke drifting down from Canadian wildfires is creating hazy, highly polluted skies. With air quality levels reaching unhealthy ranges, health departments recommend limiting your time outdoors and keeping windows closed.A twenty-nine-year-old man is behind bars without bail following a sexual assault investigation in Steuben County. Corning City Police arrested Jonathan Rivaldo on multiple felony charges, including first-degree rape, burglary, and intimidating a victim.And a massive pile of rubble in the heart of downtown Elmira may finally be cleared away. Chemung County has foreclosed on the West Church Street site of a historic church that burned down last year, and is now working with the city on a one-point-one million-dollar cleanup plan to prepare the prime real estate for developers.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.