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Farmer Storyslam: Joe Soto and Sean Cummings [AUDIO]

By WRFI News Staff

What you’re about to hear are stories by Joe Soto and Sean Cummings performed live at the Farmer Storyslam, an event hosted by Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming and Trampoline which took place in June of this year. The theme of this event was Tales from the Fields, was hosted by the Micky…

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A Proposal for a Galvanizing Plant moves along in Romulus. What does the Community Think? [AUDIO]

By Jimmy Jordan

A project proposal for a galvanizing plant in Romulus has captured the attention of many in the town, and in Seneca County. The proposal comes from Earl Martin, the owner of Seneca Dairy Systems LLC. The galvanizing plant, also known as hot-dip galvanizing, will mean over a hundred jobs for the area, but is being…

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Andy Adelewitz and Lesley Greene, talk about Porchfest 2019

By Esther Racoosin

Lesley Greene and Andy Adelewitz, co-organizers of Porchfest, talk about the music festival that originated 12 years ago in Ithaca. Porchfest is a music festival taking place in the Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods of Ithaca, on Sunday, September 22, 2019. Photos: courtesy of Porchfest  

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Joseph Margulies

From 9/11 to Where We Are Today: Interview with Joseph Margulies [AUDIO]

By WRFI News Staff

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, affected the United States and the world in many lasting ways. Some of those impacts were clear immediately, while others unfolded gradually. WRFI’s Roger Smith spoke with Cornell law and government professor Joseph Margulies on September 11, 2019. Margulies argued some important cases on the legal rights of…

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