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Adjustments Expected to Ithaca Water Bills Ithaca property owners may face unexpected water bills starting this year. The city has relied on equipment to remotely read water meters since 2005. However, batteries in the equipment started to fail during the pandemic and were never replaced. This means that many bills have been based on estimated water use. Now that the city has started to replace the equipment, bills based on actual usage can be issued. Many accounts may have been underbilled and some overbilled. Customers who’ve overpaid will be reimbursed. According to the Ithaca Voice, Common Council is looking at a plan to place a $1,000 cap on back charges to customers who…
Lori Sonken speaks with Ithaca High School students, Elliot Richards and Karina Burbank, about the Code Red Robotics team’s recent victory and their plans to attend the world championship in April in St. Louis. This interview aired on March 28, 2016.
Read MoreEsther Racoosin talks with Elisheva Glaser, the Ithaca High School student who will be playing Mary Poppins in the upcoming musical production of the same name. They discuss how Mary is an “enigma”, how she interacts with the children of the cast, and the magical stage set. This interview originally aired on the March 31st,…
Read MoreEsther Racoosin talks with Ithaca Voice contributor Brian Crandall about what might happen after Cornell University closes the Graduate and Professional student housing in Maplewood Park and Hughes Hall. This interview originally aired on the March 22nd, 2016 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.
Read MoreLori Sonken talks with Andy Zepp, executive director, Finger Lakes Land Trust, about how conservation easements and land acquisitions protect watersheds. This interview aired March 18, 2016.
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Adjustments Expected to Ithaca Water Bills Ithaca property owners may face unexpected water bills starting this year. The city has relied on equipment to remotely read water meters since 2005. However, batteries in the equipment started to fail during the pandemic and were never replaced. This means that many bills have been based on estimated…
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Student Protestors Occupy Cornell’s Arts Quad- Activists at Cornell set up an encampment Thursday morning in the university’s arts quad. The Coalition for Mutual Liberation (or CML) called the encampment a “liberated zone” meant to further pressure Cornell to divest from what they call the university’s complicity in genocide in Gaza. Malak, a fourth year…
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Pilot Program in Tompkins Adds Emergency Responders- Emergency response times in Tompkins County should be getting shorter. State Senator Lea Webb was in Ithaca Tuesday to announce additional state funding for the county’s Rapid Medical Response program. The two-year pilot program operates three emergency response vehicles and employs nine EMTs. According to Webb, emergency response…
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Cornell Undergrad Vote Supports Gaza Ceasefire, Divestment- Last week Cornell undergraduate voted in a referendum polling their views on a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from 10 military contractors supplying Israel. According to the Cornell Sun, nearly 50% of eligible students voted. And votes for a ceasefire and divestment outweighed those against by nearly two…
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