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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…
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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Employees at Collegetown Bagels and Ithaca Bakery outlets expressed relief Monday after the owners of the local food cafes responded to a widely-circulated workers rights petition. The Cornell Daily Sun reports that the employees’ requests for better COVID-19 safety measures and hazard pay were heard. In their petition, employees at CTB and Ithaca Bakery asked…
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The Tompkins County Health Department is alerting the public of numerous potential COVID-19 exposures in the area. The latest warning details that an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 had attended a funeral service at Perkins Funeral Home in Dryden during the time when they could have infected others. The individual who tested positive is…
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It was revealed at a press conference held Friday by New York Governor Cuomo that household and social gatherings account for nearly 74% of COVID-19 transmissions. The state’s date doesn’t even account for the number of cases that have grown exponentially since the holidays. For two months, 46,000 cases were studied beginning at the start…
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Tompkins County held another COVID-19 town hall last night to speak to the community and take questions. There, county leaders talked about the coronavirus vaccine and handling nursing home outbreaks, reports the Ithaca Times. Public Health Director Frank Kruppa says the Southern Tier will be getting 4,500 doses of the Pfizer vaccine sometime this week.…
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