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Ithaca Passes Short Term Rental Ordinance, Green New Deal Plan- Ithaca’s Common Council passed to major resolutions at its regular meeting Wednesday night. The first enacts a long-discussed short term rental ordinance. Under the new regulation, a permit is required to operate a short term rental. A “short term rental” is defined as one for fewer than 30 days. Only owners or long-term lease holders would be granted the permits. Permit holders must live in the building at least 184 days per year. Short term rentals are allowed only in one- and two-family homes and owner-occupied apartments. The other resolution Common Council passed Wednesday is called Justice50. It lays out a plan to…
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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As Cornell students move into their living spaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic, those coming from states on the New York quarantine list must stay in their apartments for a period of 14 days. Because Cornell is supplying food only to students living in on- campus housing, students living off campus have to find a way…
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During their regular meeting Tuesday night, the Ithaca City School District Board of Education approved the expenditure of $1.2 million dollars to enhance buildings for reopening schools during the pandemic. The Ithaca Voice reports over $300,000 will go towards repairing deficient or outdated HVAC and air filter systems to strengthen airflow and combat the spread…
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Looking at the local COVID-19 caseload, the latest numbers, released today from the Tompkins County health department, indicate that there are 2 additional positive cases, and no new recoveries. According to the County Health Department, that leaves 10 active cases of COVID-19 in Tompkins County. In Schuyler County, there are 0 new cases of COVID-19…
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This past Saturday, August 22, the Tompkins County Health Department announced that an employee at Simeon’s American Bistro in Ithaca has tested positive for COVID-19. The health department states that diners might have been exposed if they were at the bistro this past Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 am to 2:00 PM, or from…
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