Jake DiBari from Positively Rome stopped by the studio to fill us in on the Hot Air Balloon Festival, the Bike Share Program and more all going on in Rome.
A hot air balloon caught fire early Saturday near the city of Lockhart, TX. At least 16 people are feared dead after the incident, according to officials.
Last week a story exploded in Utica about a balloon landing that many surmised must've been an emergency landing. Turns out that this is totally routine and after we aired the story, word quickly spread to the ballooning community worldwide
Did you hear about that balloon that landed in someone's back yard on Oneida St? The owners weren't even home, but naturally a crowd drew anyway including myself and my family. I tracked down the pilot, Dwight Cramer of Airborne Adventures and got him in studio
So, my family and I are enjoying some goodies at the Ice Cream Factory when we notice a hot air balloon way up in the humid sky and as we're watching, we realize it's getting closer and closer
What two things draw people in droves to the Jamesville Balloonfest for 35 years straight? One of course is the balloons and the other has to be the music. The balloons were grounded due to weather so the attendees that stuck around were there to watch Orleans
On the heels of the worst-of-it's-kind balloon tragedy in Luxor, Egypt it naturally begs the question in many of our minds about the safety of hot air balloon flying. While our knee-jerk reaction is to breathe a sigh of relief that we're on the ground, the fact is you're actually more likely to get hit by a car walking to your next destination than you are to be an unlucky passenger on a doomed ba