I've made a few changes to the site as planned.

1) 20th Century Nostalgia didn't have enough to warrant it's own category on the front page. So I've moved it and it's now a sub-forum under Pop Culture

2) "We Love Christmas," while nice, is time consuming to keep updated for a limited amount of overall interest. So it'll make an appearance seasonally. Same will apply for the Bills Mafia category, which will disappear after the Super Bowl and likely return when Training Camp starts up.

3) "Twin Tiers Memories" is also somewhat time consuming to keep updated with fresh content that hasn't already been seen here or isn't already available everywhere on social meida.

4) As you can obviously see, I've created a new sub-furom for Website News in order to keep members and guests appraised of what's going on here at the site.

IMPORTANT: If anyone has suggestions for new categories, I'm all ears. For aesthetic reasons, I'd like to reveal new categories in groups of three if at all possible.

Are you guys seeing the “20th Century Nostalgia” section since I moved it as a sub-category?

Some of you are already aware of this, but for those who aren't, we were gone for a little while but over the past several weeks I made the decision to keep the lights on after all. However I needed to make some changes to ensure I'm not glued to the computer desk for hours at a time, every day. If you're a long time visitor, you'll see there's been some changes made to the site:

• No Sunday Columns section. While it was always the thing that made this place unique, it was also time consuming on the weekends.

• No Community Calendar.

• Local and Regional news only. You'll see I've already removed the "Current Events" section among several others.

• Continued emphasis on lifestyle and fun topics as well. Let's just have fun with it. However you'll see I've done away with all of the meme forums like the 20th Century Nostalgia. Posting those pics all the time uses up space and wasn't really working for me. We can revisit that somehow needs be, but I don't think it got much traction.

• Less emphasis on trying to be a "news" website. I simply can't compete with social media.

To that last point, we'll still run some news stories, even if it's sharing them from other area news sources ( with full attribution and adherance to Fair Use policies, unlike other online platforms ).

I've added a Rants and Raves section as well, to be used similarly as the former "Reviews" section. Try to give a little grace when you can and avoid "call out" posts if someone cuts you off in traffic, parks crooked, etc.

As always, if someone has an idea for the site, I encourage you to let me know. If the platform allows it, and it adheres to the site's mission, we'll try it.

If you see something that you think would be of interest to the site members, by all means post it.

While I will occasionally post links to social media, my goal is torely on that as little as possible. So please, be sure to stop by the site often. If there's a topic you're particularly interested in, be sure to click the "follow" button and you'll get an email notification when someone responds:

Any questions about how to use the site, please, don't hesitate to ask!

Okay, by request, the entire "Chemung County Memories" section will be brought back on.

I'll do my best to keep it interesting and current. Maybe a weekly photo dump or something. As with everything else, I'm open to ideas!

For the time being, we'll stop doing the weekly "We Want To Know..." because it's not getting a lot of response.

If you use iOS ( not sure about Android ), apparently this new platform allows you to set up an app on your Home Screen for Elmira Telegram.

In Safari, you can click on the share icon at the bottom:

Scroll down to “Add to Home Screen” and make sure that “Open As Web App” is toggled on:

And that’s it! You’ll know have a bookmark in your Home Screen there with any other apps you may use. Easy peasy.

I brought back the 20th Century Nostalgia section for a while. While I was at it I had to pare it down a little bit and I tried to keep it to the posts that didn't kick off a lot of conversation or get much reaction.

What I may do is use that slot for seasonal sections. Perhaps the "That's Interesting" section as well, we'll see.

On a hunch, I did some more investigating and found that I can assign an image to the app if you add this site to the Home Screen. Happily it worked:

If you’ve already added the site/app to your home screen, you’ll need to delete it and add it back. At least I did.

If you’ve already added haven’t, what are you waiting for? 😃

EDIT: It appears that, while any phone can save the site to the home screen, the chosen icon only shows up for iOS.🤷‍♂️

I’ll look into it more.

Thank you, I just had a blank white square with site title on my Home Screen.

Not gonna lie, this is discouraging as hell:

There's not a lot on here lately because there's not a lot of really interesting news going on around the area. And I won't drum up activity like out local engagement farm groups, so...

You guys may ( or maybe not ) notice that sometimes I'm not posting local arrests. The reason for this is because by the time I get the release, it's already been on social media and spread all over. So it's kinda pointless when you've likely already seen it. It's not really "news" anymore at that point.

Admittedly, I'm also not running right to the computer to post new stuff anymore either.

Rather than start another thread, I'll just ask the question here: Is there anything you guys would like to see added to the site? Specifically I'm talking about topic areas.

I changed the header on the site to something more seasonal. I also tweaked a couple topic names, particularly the Local and Regional news sections.

Open to any other suggestions, as always.

ElmiraTelegram.com is pleased to announce we're partnering with a new independent website, ElmiraCorningEvents.com

It's your one stop shopping for a listing of all of the events coming up in the Twin Tiers! You can find the link on the top of the site's sidebar ( on desktop ) or wherever it shows up on mobile.