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Overdue Marathon Results!

By katrina

Huge thanks go out to everybody who contributed to our 3rd Annual Fundraising Marathon! This past November, we raised $15,092 from some 193 wonderful donors — our best results yet!  Some of the generous supporters that we are proud to acknowledge here include (in no particular order): David Mazzarella Frances Helmstadter Gail & Naoki Sakai…

Talking about race – January 6th, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Aryeal Jackson speaks with Kim Munson-Burke about her personal experiences of discussing race with her children and other members of the Ithaca community.   This interview originally aired on the January 6th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

Fighting the hemlock woolly adelgid – January 5th, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Samuel Whitehead speaks with Tim Noon, Natural Resources Specialist with the U.S. Forest Service working in the Finger Lakes National Forest, about the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid and what the U.S. Forest Service is doing to stop it.   This interview originally aired on the January 5th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

Ruling on public art – January 1st, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Last summer, a piece of unsanctioned public art appeared outside of Ithaca’s Beverly J Martin Elementary School–a pink fairy spraypainted on the sidewalk. The artists were eventually caught and the case made its way through the city courts. But even though the perpetrators admitted to their acts, the case was recently dropped. To get more…

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