Fresh at 5pm every weekday we bring you local news headlines from across our listening community—all in about 2 minutes. Listen live (88.1FM in Ithaca, 91.9FM Watkins Glen, and 89.7FM across the southern Finger Lakes) or wherever you get your podcasts.
– New Ithaca police chief selected – A 23-year veteran of the Schenectady police department has been…
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Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October there have been several separate rallies in Ithaca supporting Palestine or Israel. Public emotions ran high when the Tompkins County Legislature briefly considered a resolution…
Read MoreWRFI Community Radio and The Ithaca Voice are bringing you conversations with candidates in the contested Ithaca Common Council races and the mayoral race. Tonight Matt Butler interviews Ward 5 candidate Jason Houghton. Houghton is running on…
Read MoreWRFI Community Radio and The Ithaca Voice are bringing you conversations with candidates in the contested Ithaca Common Council races and the mayoral race. I’m Celia Clarke, with Matt Butler Editor-in-Chief of The Ithaca Voice. Today, Ward…
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– Horseheads man arrested triggered state, federal discovery of explosives – New York State Police held a press conference on Thursday about the investigation of a 43-year-old Horseheads man who is under arrest, charged with possessing explosive materials. Michael Hilliard was arrested last Saturday. Horseheads is about 7 miles north of Elmira. Residents in a…
Read More– This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is from Broome County – This year’s Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center is from Vestal outside Binghamton. It arrived in New York City this past Saturday. The tree is an 80-foot-tall Norway spruce that weighs 12 tons. It will be decorated with 50,000 lights and a 900-pound crystal…
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