The Most Visited Website in the Finger Lakes!

With an average of nearly 14,000 daily visitors to the FingerLakes1.com Local Network we have created an environment where local users can find local news, businesses, services and events online, from the comfort of their homes and offices. Our users also contribute to the content on our local network through hundreds of daily posts to our online community forums.

We aren't resting yet, however. Our staff is at work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to ensure that we remain the Local Leader on the web in the Finger Lakes.

To check out our network homepage visit www.FingerLakes1.com or click here! To learn more about the features availble at FingerLakes1.com please continue reading below:

Local News Index
Everyday at FingerLakes1.com we index all the local news available on the web and make it available in one place at our homepage. We index news from over 40 local sources as well as national news from the Associated Press, Reuters and several other sources. Also, our partnership with the Finger Lakes Radio Group allows us to publish news summaries and audio clips that are heard on the radio. Our news is updated every weekday morning by 6:00 am and then again throughout the day as news happens. We update our news 7 days a week, 365 days per year. We are the most reliable source of local news available anywhere, online or off. Search for news at our homepage or click on your county to see the news, sports, business and life stories that are important to you where you live. We cover Cayuga, Ontario, Schuyler. Seneca, Tompkins, Wayne, Yates, the Southern Tier, Syracuse area, Rochester area and NY State news headlines. If we were your only source of local news you would never miss a thing! The best way to start browsing our news is to visit our homepage where you can read the top stories, visit our News, Sports, Life, Business or Computing sections, click on your home county, or search or news database/

Local Weather Center
Our Weather Center is the quickest, most reliable way to get the important weather information you need living in upstate New York. Live local radar, our 7-Day Finger Lakes Forecast, storm warnings and watches, weather related closings and cancellations, current conditions, national weather info, NYS Thruway and roadway conditions and much more are just a click away at our Weather Center. No need to wait for the 11:00 news or "weather on the 8's" when FingerLakes1.com is your homepage!

Online Community Forums
No matter what time of day you log on to our forums there are dozens of users posting and reading comments on local topics from their neighbors. We have over 4,000 registered users who contribute hundreds of posts each day to our forums. There is always something going on at our Forums!

Finger Lakes Online Marketplace
Our Free Classified section, or our Online Marketplace, is an amazing tool that allows local buyes and sellers to connect through the Internet. Unlike Ebay where you have to worry about fraud or shipping charges, when you use our Online Marketplace you can connect with other local residents and arrange for the transfer of goods or services. Our listings are inexpensive and highly effective. Click here to check out our Online Marketplace.

Local Website Directory
Our Local Website Directoy is the largest index of Finger Lakes only websites anywhere. Over 2,000 local websites organized in over 100 useful categories including our Dining Guide, Tourism, Shopping Guide, Service Guide, Colleges and Schools, Governmental sites and many, many more make our directory an invaluable tool for local web surfers. Click here to check out our Local Website Directory.

Local Photos & Live Webcams
We boast the largest collection of recent local photos from local photographers at Finger Lakes1.com. We index all our photos by date and run the most recent photos on our front page. Our goal is to have a new photo every day so when you log on to our site you see a new photo, taken within the past 24 hours from somewhere in the beautiful Finger Lakes region.. Click here to check out our recent Local Photos. In addition to our photos, we also feature an index of live web cams broadcasting live views from across the Finger Lakes and New York State. Click here for our Web Cam Index.

Contests
Since we launched FingerLakes1.com in December of 2000 we have given away over $14,000 worth of prizes on our website. Some of our best giveaways have included new computers, trips to Toronto and Niagara Falls, free landscaping, movie passes, tickets to sporting events, concert tickets, pizzas, specialty items, FingerLakes1.com tee-shirts, golf shirts, coffee mugs and much more. Our contests range from competitions with a local flavor, fantasy sports leagues, March Madness contests, Super Bowl Squares contests and other giveaways. Click here to check out our Contests Page.

Community Calendar
Our Community Calendar is the most complete and current listing of upcoming events in the Finger Lakes. Registered members are able to add events directly to our calendar. The events on our calendar are also read regulary on the 8 stations of the Finger Lakes Radio Group. Click here to check out our Community Calendar.

Local High School Alumni Directory
Over 50 area high schools containing listings of local alumni by class. Add your own listing or browse your class and keep up to date with your classmates. More complete than the national sites and we won't sell our database to spammers. Click here to check out our Alumni Directory.

FingerLakes1.com Search
That little search bar on our homepage is more powerful than it looks! With one click you can search our entire website or Google! More useful than the major search engines when looking for local information. Give it a try!

Original Content
We also feature the content of several local writers whose blogs are featured on our front page. We bring original photos from the cameras of local photographers like Kevin Colton, Nigel Kent, Linda Solan, and many, many more contributors straight to your computer monitor.

Breaking Local News
Breaking Local News is our specialty at FingerLakes1.com. Because we are a live media, online 24/7 we have the ability to bring you the news before anyone else. Make us your homepage and be the first to know when news happens in the Finger Lakes.

Helpful Links
In addition to all the news links and website directory listings we provide several useful links for our users. Whether you need lottery numbers or movie listings we have well-placed links throughout our site designed to give you quick access to information and make your life easier. On Sports Page, for example, we have links to every local sports team and league, links to all the major sports leagues, the latest line, ESPN.com, Sportsline.com and many more.

Make Us Your Homepage!
We firmly believe that if you live in the Finger Lakes you will find more value in the Internet and your computer if you make us your homepage. This means that everytime you log on to the Internet, our network homepage will automaticall come up when you start your browsing. Take the FingerLakes1.com 7-Day Challenge. Make us your homepage for 7 days, we promise you'll keep us after the week trial is up.

Check back to this page often as we are always
working on great new features for our network!