Finger Lakes Times
{{Short description|Upstate New York newspaper}}
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{{use mdy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{use American English|date=August 2021}}
{{TOC right}}{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Finger Lakes Times
| type = Daily newspaper
| owners = Community Media Group
| publisher = Mike Cutillo
| newseditor = Alan Brignall
| sportseditor = Pete Lambos
| foundation = 1895
| headquarters = 218 Genesee St., Geneva, NY
| website = {{URL|fltimes.com}}
}}
Finger Lakes Times{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/22/nyregion/our-towns-a-4-30-manager-learns-to-play-utility-infielder.html
|title=Our Towns; A 4-30 Manager Learns to Play Utility Infielder
|date=July 22, 1988}}{{cite news |newspaper=Watertown Daily Times
|url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/NY-sheriff-5-killed-9-hurt-in-tractor-collision-1472418.php
|title=NY sheriff: 5 killed, 9 hurt in tractor collision
|quote=AP Photo/Finger Lakes Times, Spencer Tulis
|date=July 19, 2011}}{{cite web |website=WGVA (fingerlakes1.com)
|url=https://fingerlakes1.com/2020/12/23/wood-stove-likely-to-blame-after-mill-leveled-by-blaze-in-galen/
|title=Wood stove likely to blame after mill leveled by blaze in Galen
|quote=told the Finger Lakes Times that
|date=December 23, 2020}} is an upstate New York daily (except Sunday) newspaper with 19th century roots
|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031371/
|title=About The Geneva times. [volume] (Geneva, N.Y.) 1955-1977
|quote=(Aug. 22, 1955)-83rd year}} under an earlier name, Geneva Times.{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/20/archives/george-b-williams.html
|title=George B. Williams
|quote=editor and publisher of The Geneva Times
|date=September 20, 1966}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/peter-tauber-56-a-journalist-who-wrote-vietnam-era-memoir.html
|title=Peter Tauber, 56, a Journalist Who Wrote Vietnam-Era Memoir
|quote=reporter for The Geneva Times in upstate New York
|date=March 19, 2004}}{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/06/19/archives/walinsky-seeks-inquiry-on-a-campus-infiltrator.html
|title=Walinsky Seeks Inquiry On a Campus Infiltrator
|date=June 19, 1970
|quote=in The Geneva Times on June 11.}} Their information is picked up by other newspapers,{{cite news |author=Spencer Tulis |date=July 20, 2011 |title=Amish wreck driver had police chase on record |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Amish-wreck-driver-had-police-chase-on-record-1474172.php |newspaper=Times Union (Albany)}}{{cite news |date=August 26, 2014 |title=NNY cable system pulls anti-Astorino ad |url=https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/219355/watertown-cable-station-pulls-anti-astorino-ad |newspaper=Times Union (Albany)}} including The New York Times.{{cite news |date=June 11, 1984 |title=When Small Town Meets Big City: Students Find A Common Ground |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/11/nyregion/when-small-town-meets-big-city-students-find-a-common-ground.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}
History
The first edition of Geneva Times was published on May 28, 1895.{{Cite web |last=Cutillo |first=Mike |date=2024-02-24 |title=MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER: FLT to go to digital-only Monday editions |url=https://www.fltimes.com/business/message-from-the-publisher-flt-to-go-to-digital-only-monday-editions/article_87c26300-d1b8-11ee-ac25-1bd0f4509fbf.html |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Finger Lakes Times |language=en}} The newspaper's initial 19th-century name reflected a more local name, Geneva. In 1977{{cite web
|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031376
|title=About Finger Lakes times. [volume] (Geneva, N.Y.) 1977-current}} it was renamed for the region,{{cite web
|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031371
|title=Chronicling America: About The Geneva Times
|quote=Succeeding Title: Finger Lakes Times (Geneva, N.Y.), 1977-current}} whose name did not exist when the paper was founded.1882 paper by Thomas Chamberlin, Preliminary paper on the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch: Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, pp.291–402.R. S. Tarr, 1893, Lake Cayuga a rock basin: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 5(1), pp.339-356.1893 Geological Society of America paper. See [https://exploringupstate.com/how-the-finger-lakes-was-named-part-2 How The Finger Lakes Was Named: Part 2.]
In February 2024, the paper's Monday edition transitioned from print to digital only.
References
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Category:Daily newspapers published in New York (state)
Category:Newspapers established in 1895
Category:1895 establishments in New York (state)
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