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Lehman Alternative Community School is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend with a series of events for former students, graduates and their families.

Joshua M. Lagerwall of Vestal, N.Y., the son of Glenn Lagerwall of Pittsfield and Eileen Mulcahy of Vestal, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in a ceremony on May 23. Lagerwall entered scouting at age 7 and worked his way up the ranks through Cub Scouts, entering Boy Scouts Troop 225 in April 2007.

It was a place where no one would be sucking down a large Jamoca Almond Fudge Swirl Iced Latte through a plastic straw while surfing the Internet.

Continuing its 40th Mainstage Season, the Hangar Theatre's artistic director Jen Waldman will direct, Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken , today, July 10 until July 26, 2014.

The significance of golf architect Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s massive collection of business and personal records -- and the fact that they're being kept in Ithaca, where his professional life began -- is enormous, according to author and historian James Hansen.

The storm that barrelled through the Ithaca area last night at about 55 miles per hour left thousands of homes and businesses without power overnight.

After responding to a dispute, Tompkins County sheriff's deputies found cocaine and marijuana in a car, resulting in the arrest of a Maryland man.

Address correspondence to: R.N. Spreng, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

Cornell University School of Hotel Administration 149 Statler Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-6902 United States Tollfree: 800.257.2228 Phone: +1 607-255-6376 Fax: +1 607-255-9540 Visit Website The Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations at the School of Hotel Administration recently welcomed four new hospitality industry leaders to ... (more)

The first annual Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes Golf Open is scheduled for July 25 at the Country Club of Ithaca, 189 Pleasant Grove Road.

A West Plains trucking company is at the center of a growing national uproar over interstate safety following a fiery crash last month that killed a young woman at an upstate New York restaurant.

Hey, our Skift Global Forum is starting to take shape in New York this coming fall, with some great speakers coming onboard.

In this Friday, March 26, 2010, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq.

Port Chester is the lone Westchester representative named among the top 10 exciting places to live in New York, according to a report by Movoto.

Jacob Close, 25, was taken into custody after he posed for a photographer for the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg, Pa., published his photo and response, along with that of several other people, to a question in the news.

It took three months to fill 50 apartments after Breckenridge Place opened in March, and 60 percent of the tenants are over 50 years old.

Ithaca Common Council has approved the creation of special zoning units that could be created one at a time for mixed-use developments in industrial zones, a change that may help redevelop the former Emerson Power Transmission factory on South Hill.

The Rotary Club said it intends to fund several smaller grants in full, and that small non-profit organizations are especially encouraged to apply.

Movoto, which previously put Ithaca ninth on its list of the country's most exciting college towns, put Ithaca ahead of New York City based on its parsing of Census and business data for each of the 62 Census Bureau-designated places in the state with populations over 25,000.

DATABASE: See how much NY teachers are earning in retirement Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1m8NWZF The number of teachers in New York collecting pensions jumped 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, and the average pension grew 6.5 percent over that period, Gannett's Albany Bureau reported over the weekend.