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Finger Lakes Times [1] [2] [3] is an upstate New York daily (except Sunday) newspaper with 19th century roots [4] under an earlier name, Geneva Times. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Their information is picked up by other newspapers, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] including The New York Times .
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States. This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau , known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion ...
At 38 miles (61 km) long, it is the second longest of the Finger Lakes and has the largest volume, estimated at 3.81 cubic miles (15.9 km 3), roughly half of the water in all the Finger Lakes. It has an average depth of 291 feet (89 m), [ 2 ] a maximum depth of 618 feet (188 m), and a surface area of 66.9 square miles (173 km 2 ).
Geneva is in the Finger Lakes region, the largest wine-producing area in New York State. The Cayuga-Seneca Canal is part of the watershed of Keuka Lake . It flows north through Geneva, connecting to the Erie Canal , which was completed in 1825, giving access for the region to the Great Lakes and midwestern markets for their produce, as well as ...
Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. [1] [2] Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, the Capital District, the Mohawk Valley region, Central New York, the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes region, Western New York, and the North Country.
The Times of Smithtown – Smithtown, Nesconset, Hauppauge, St. James, Nissequogue, Head of the Harbor, The Branch, San Remo, Kings Park, Fort Salonga, and Commack Vaba Eesti Sona – New York City The Village Beacon Record – Miller Place, Sound Beach, Rocky Point, Shoreham and Wading River
Map of the Finger Lakes. The lake depth, with steep east and west sides and shallow north and south ends, is typical of the Finger Lakes, as they were carved by glaciers during the last ice age. The water level is regulated by the Mud Lock at the north end of the lake. It is connected to Lake Ontario by the Erie Canal and Seneca Lake by the ...
The movement of glaciers from the Laurentide and Wisconsin ice sheets shaped the Finger Lakes region. The lakes originated as a series of northward-flowing streams. Around two million years ago the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation.