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The city of Elmira’s historic past meets its present when the Friends of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp hosts its first Civil War Symposium in August with Elmira College. Elmira’s connection with the American Civil War includes a Confederate soldier prison camp, a stop on the Underground Railroad, and its primary purpose as Union soldier enlistment and training camps.

The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes celebrates Christmas, Hanukkah, and the winter holidays in general with a "Not all Frozen Holiday Concert". We…

"In order to really encourage STEM education, we need to focus and start early."

The clinic is part of a larger effort to make access to preventative care easier in Elmira.

The Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes is presenting "Musica Diversa". We hear from Music Director Toshiyuki Shimada about this wide-ranging concert…

TheOrchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes presents a concert of traditional music for Christmas and Hanukkah, as well as new music by composer Polina…

“We want to help offer these necessary health screenings to members of the community so that we can begin to address these various health and social needs, because they’re not separate, they’re actually connected.”

Testing has shown some homes in Elmira Heights to have indoor air concentrations as high as 37 micrograms per cubic meter, over seventeen times the EPA’s maximum for homes.

Elmira commemorated the 20th anniversary of the first Juneteenth event in the city at Ernie Davis park.

“I want it to be part of the DNA of the town. I want it, I want you to feel it like I feel it.”