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Chemung Sheriff’s Office Gets Boost for Door Breach Training The Chemung County Sheriff’s office has a new training tool. WETM reports that the Elmira-based manufacturer the Hilliard Corporation donated a reinforced door to the Sheriff’s Special Services Unit. The door will be used in training deputies in breaching locked, reinforced doors. The technique is used in situations including executing no-knock warrants used to enter well guarded drug houses. A study by the New York Times showed that raids of this sort led to the deaths of at least 81 civilians and 13 law enforcement officers between 2010 and 2016. INHS Proposes Project in Varna Ithaca Neighborhood Housing is eying a large-scale project in…
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 Tompkins County Health Department is reporting another potential public exposure to COVID-19. This time, the positive case was detected in a person who rode TCAT bus number 32 on Friday, January 15th. The individual boarded the TCAT bus around 1:50 pm at Gaslight Village Apartments and left the bus at Seneca Street Station at…
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The COVID vaccine has been at the forefront since last March. On January 8th, WRFI contributor Susan Fortson-Eginton attended a virtual presentation on the Covid-19 vaccine held by Cayuga Medical Center and featuring Dr. Jamie Loehr. Susan later spoke with Dr. Loehr in more detail about the FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccines. “Syringe and Vaccine” by NIAID…
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Thank you so much to everyone who filled out our listener survey! Since January 25, 2021 we’ve been focusing on bringing you headline newscasts throughout each weekday and we must be doing something right because we won the 2021 regional award for Best Newscast from the New York State Broadcasters Association! We heard from dozens…
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CHAMPELLI: It’s Martin Luther King Junior day – and this past Saturday, the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, or GIAC, held their annual Breakfast event commemorating the civil rights leader. CHAMPELLI: Thanks so much for making time to talk with me today. MCBEAN-CLAIRBORNE: Thank you, you know it’s important to me because it’s Sunday football and…
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