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Ithaca City School District Election Roundup The district-wide Ithaca City School District election is coming up on May 21. Eligible voters in the district will vote on three ballot measures and for candidates for three seats on the school board. The first measure is a vote on the district’s proposed $169 million budget. It will require 60% or better support as it exceeds the state cap on school budget increases. Proposition three would approval to sale of $125 million in bonds to fund capital projects inlucluding school bus electrification, new bus barn construction, and athletic field improvements. Proposition two would authorize drawing down more than $3 million from the district’s capital reserve fund…
Youth Farm Project participants Stella Sapp-Dietrich and Etienne Exantus and Ray Hage Assistant Director of Cornell’s Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP) with Greta Garrison of the Youth Radio Project on WRFI.
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Listen to author Raul Palma in conversation with student organizers April Morales, Emily Trage, Riley Rhoder and Professor Jacob White. The 2024 New Voices Festival runs from April 24-26 at Ithaca College and in your community.
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What does community radio mean to you? We think this commercial-free, free-form, independent station helps make our listeners lives-and life in our communities-just a little better. We strive to make programing that opens ears, opens hearts, and leads us to ask important questions about our world. Even if it’s just to ask yourself, “What in…
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This is the last of my three stories about freedom of expression at Cornell University this year. Here are links to the first and second stories. The academic theme at Cornell this year is “Freedom of Expression.” In earlier stories, we reported about the general mood at Cornell around free speech, and students’ opinions about…
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The 2021 Spring Writes Literary Festival, organized by the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) of Tompkins County, begins Wednesday, May 5th and continues to Sunday, May 16. Thirteen different writing workshops will be offered to the public starting in late May, continuing into September. Artistic Director Jen Tennant and CAP Program and Grant Director Robin Schwartz…
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It was a cold and blustery April day at the Bernie Milton Pavilion on Ithaca’s Common. Over 50 people were admiring a brand new TCAT bus sporting the electric bus logo. TCAT General Manager Scott Vanderpool was on hand to answer questions. He said that he doesn’t know what the change in operating costs are…
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In New York State, Code Blue is in effect anytime the temperature reaches 32 degrees or lower. December 1st through April 15th is considered a mandatory Code Blue period. During these months, people who are unhoused can be certain they will have a safe and free place to escape the elements. However, with the mandatory…
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A storyteller, a musician, a font of American roots: Rev. Robert Jones Sr. is coming to the Trumansburg Conservatory’s virtual stage this weekend. Here we have a conversation with Rev. Jones where he talks about how music entered his life; how he addressed the tension between his work as a Pastor and his passion for country,…
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