radioNOVO News for Elmira/Corning 09-10-26

Good morning.Eldridge Park in Elmira is extending its summer season this weekend to host the Future Firefighter Fun Fest on Saturday and Sunday. The event features interactive firefighter training shows, live rescue demonstrations, and an inaugural rubber duck drop from a one-hundred-foot ladder truck for a one-thousand-dollar prize.In Corning, organizers are preparing to join a nationwide day of action on October seventeenth aimed at boosting voter turnout. The event will feature community rallies to help residents make a voting plan just one week before New York’s early voting period officially opens on October twenty-fourth.And a new study by WalletHub ranks New York's public school system eighth best in the nation. While the state landed at number one overall for per-student spending, it scored lower in classroom safety and overall academic performance.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.