Ithaca News

There's more to Easter weekend than just ham and jellybeans. Here are some ideas to get you out of the house on what's supposed to be a lovely, sunny weekend: * The infamous 1997 flick "Batman and Robin" will get Mystery Science Theatre treatment at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Movie Poster Store, located on the Commons.

New York's Draft 2014 Energy Plan sets bold goals to address climate change but offers few real actions to attain those goals, according to planned speakers at an upcoming public forum.

It is a Saturday night in Ithaca, New York. The temperature is 7 degrees, and the gusts of 26 knots blow snow across the ramp.

The Ithaca Police Department urges the public to be aware of the following reported scams: * A caller pretending to be NYSEG is advising victims that their utility bill is overdue and that payment must be made over the phone to avoid the utility being shut off.

State police troopers arrested an Ithaca man for driving while intoxicated Thursday after he attempted to flee the scene of an accident.

The Cornell University Student Assembly voted to table indefinitely a resolution to divest from companies that do business in Israel.

Pubs are a dime a dozen, but brew-pubs are special. They have a cachet that makes them stand out because you get to drink the beer in the place where it was brewed.

The Drama League have announced the stage directors who have been selected as the 2014 Fellows of The Drama League Directors Project: Zi Alikhan , Melissa Crespo, John Michael DiResta, Ellie Heyman, Lavina Jadhwani, Michael Leibenluft, Michael Osinki, Hannah Ryan, Teya Sugareva, Caitlin Sullivan, and Emma Weinstein.

Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca were on opposite sides of the first-quarter sales tax trend that across the state raised concerns among many local governments that their budgets will be increasingly strained.

Waverly police have issued arrest warrants for a 26-year-old man wanted in connection with a mobile methamphetamine lab police say they discovered in his crashed Jeep on Monday.

* Kathryn Nivison grew up in Cazenovia and came to Ithaca in the mid 1980s. She received a degree in human resources management from Walden University and worked for TransAct Technologies and Goodrich Corporation/Ithaco Space Systems.

"When schools ban chocolate milk, we found it usually backfires. On average, milk sales drop by 10%, 29% of white milk gets thrown out, and participation in the school lunch program may also decrease," said Andrew Hanks, lead author and research associate Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

World of Skills, the Job Fair in Ithaca, is 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, April 24, at The Hotel Ithaca , 222 S. Cayuga St. Thirty-five of this area's important employers with positions to offer will be available to talk with job seekers.

More than 50 people attended Wednesday's grand reopening for Ithaca's emergency homeless shelter and daytime drop-in Friendship Center.

A Tompkins County Jail inmate was found dead in his cell Wednesday morning, less than a day after he entered the jail to serve a 60-day sentence for a larceny conviction.

Democrat Martha Robertson has topped the $1 million mark in campaign fundraising in her bid to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Reed in the 23rd Congressional District.

Volunteers will once again have an opportunity to help improve the Ithaca Dog Park at Allan H. Treman Marine State Park and other state parks and trails during the third annual "I Love My Park Day," scheduled for May 3. In the Finger Lakes Region, the Catharine Valley Trail, the Ithaca Dog Park at Allan H. Treman Marine State Park, and Stony Brook ... (more)

An Owego woman has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands from the independent accessories boutique where she was employed.

The best breaking food news in the last few weeks is that butter is back , and better for you than ever .

Scientists from KAUST and Stanford create a novel way to do time-lapse studies of crystallization that will lead to better flexible electronic displays, circuits, and possibly more effective drugs This is a high speed video of the crystal ribbons forming as the solution is spread using a squeegee like technique.