Ithaca News

Break out the sleds, kids! A storm may bring 7 inches or more of snow to the region this weekend, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

Every municipality uses a comprehensive plan to guide its development. The document is a way to look at the future residents want, as well as a road map for getting there.

Ithaca-based software security company GrammaTech announced Thursday it is collaborating with Raytheon BBN Technologies on a $4.8 million defense contract to help federal agencies fight malicious code in information-technology devices.

Downtown Ithaca's Winter Festival continues this weekend with Ice Wars Ice Carving Competition and speed carving beginning at 5 p.m. today on The Commons.

The City of Ithaca has been certified living wage employer and will announce the certification with the Tompkins County Workers Center on Monday.

The Burns & Kristy Band will host a Winter Light Holiday Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Unitarian Church of Ithaca.

Ithaca police along with the Ithaca Fire Department and Bangs Ambulance responded around 2:55 p.m. Wednesday to an area known as The Jungle located near the railroad tracks in the 100 block of South Fulton Street.

In the ballet world there are two seasons: "The Nutcracker," and everything else.

Cornell University's Eastern Wine and Grape Archive has expanded its collection of historic material from Pleasant Valley Wine Co.

Batavia's First Presbyterian Church will be alive with rousing holiday spirit when "Christmas with Vox, a Festival of Carols" comes around on Friday, Dec. 20. "Vox Lumine," a professional chorus group made up of 25 members from all over Western and Central New York, is performing for the public free of charge at the church, at 300 East Main St. in ... (more)

A program that explores consumer fraud on the internet takes place at 11 a.m. Thursday at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave. Assistant Attorney General Mike Danaher will be present and explore ways for consumers to protect their identity, financial accounts, and personal information, and what they can do to resolve problems should they ... (more)

Ellen M. O'Connor has been named the new chair at the Loretto Board of Trustee .

The Ithaca region is atop the nation's 2013 list of metroplitan areas for the highest per capita number of Peace Corps volunteers.

Word is likely to come from Albany Wednesday on whether up to $375,000 a year for three years will be awarded to Cornell University, Binghamton Univesity and the Ceramics Corridor Innovation Center at Painted post for a business start-up incubator network for the whole Southern Tier.

The Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong will perform at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Tompkins County Library, 101 E. Green St. Performances feature stories from the troupe's lives, about fear, that are both humorous and serious.

This particular recipe came to us in 2004 from reader Lisa Adamick Lapeyre, who shared her grandmother's recipe for hot fudge sauce that was a family favorite.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick had a different story to tell at White House forum on manufacturing last week than the other mayors who attended.

The Introduction to Fly Tying program features nine 2-hour sessions with several instructors teaching the basics of tying the dry fly, wet fly, nymph and streamer patterns that are the most effective in the Finger Lakes area.

The City Federation of Women's Organizations awarded roughly $20,000 to community organizations on Monday for gender equity initiatives through the first ever Women Building Community Grants cycle.

Amid push back from Tompkins County residents, lawmakers are holding a public meeting today on a planned $900,000 Tompkins County Jail renovation.