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Your Community, Your Radio: WRFI’s New Summer 2018 Schedule

By Felix Teitelbaum

Your Community, Your Radio: WRFI’s New 2018 Schedule In a media-saturated world where content is controlled by fewer and fewer hands, community radio like WRFI provides a unique opportunity for local people to become media-makers and tell their own stories. We are very excited to announce that our new schedule (which started June 1, 2018)…

2018 Listener Survey

By Felix Teitelbaum

We’d like to hear from you! WRFI strives to provide unique, informative, and inspiring content through our music and public affairs programming. Please take moment to fill out this brief survey about your experience as a listener. Loading…

Behind the scenes of the Community Unity Music Education Program (CUMEP) at Southside Community Center [AUDIO]

By WRFI News Staff

We take a look at what goes on at Southside Community Center every summer. WRFI’s Jimmy Jordan recently visited their Community Unity Music Education Program (CUMEP), a unique program where kids learn about music and discussing social justice. Jordan spoke with Southside’s Dr. Nia Nunn and Dr. Baruch Whitehead and captured some magical, musical moments. …

What is the future of Ithaca’s Rescue Mission, the main homeless shelter in the city?

By WRFI News Staff

The Ithaca Rescue Mission has served Ithaca’s homeless community for years. Many community members are concerned about the future: There has been tension between the Rescue Mission and Tompkins County, the announcement of their possible closure, and a public proposal process to take over the Ithaca homeless shelter. What exactly is going to happen to…

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