Tompkins County News

The Tompkins County Republican Party announced that it endorsed U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, for another term.

Wood is the son of Colleen and Daniel Wood of Candor. * Sgt. Emmett Neno, of Groton, serving with the New York Army National Guard 222nd Military Police Company was promoted to the rank of sergeant.

From a former furniture shop in the late 1960s, in Trumansburg, pulsing, futuristic sounds unlike anything anyone had ever heard before emanated out onto Main Street, piquing the curiosity of passers-by in an otherwise quiet town.

Lansing Supervisor Kathy Miller told the Town Board Wednesday that the level of trihalomethane in a water tank in northwest Lansing is still a problem.

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.

New York state communities, landowners and politicians need access to unbiased information to make up their minds on hydraulic fracturing, according to three Tompkins County scientists who recently published a book on the controversial natural-gas-extraction method.

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.

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

As heroin use and overdose surges in the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier, two Tompkins County police departments are seeking the training and resources to revive people from possibly fatal overdoses.

The Hangar Theatre celebrated their accomplishments of 2013 at their annual meeting on Monday, April 7th where one business organization and three community members were recognized as substantially impacting the artistic integrity and financial health of the Center for Performing Arts.

Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies responded to a tractor trailer accident around 10 a.m. Tuesday on Auburn Road in the Town of Lansing.

It's part of $1 million in grants going to 31 law enforcement agencies across the state through the State's Division of Criminal Justice Service.

Tompkins County residents felt temperatures take a nosedive Tuesday in what most hope is winter-like weather's last gasp.

In light of Child Abuse Awareness Prevention month, the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca and the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, is bringing the "Pinwheels for Prevention" movement to Ithaca and have planted a "pinwheel" garden at Aurora and Buffalo streets.

A Whitney Point woman was charged with driving while intoxicated following a motor vehicle accident Saturday night.

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Advanced Design Consulting, the homegrown custom-engineering company that makes scientific instruments and equipment on Ridge Road in Lansing, plans to nearly double its manufacturing and office space to help it keep growing.

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport Manager Robert Nicholas will retire July 31 after 25 years in the job, it was announced Monday.

Elshabazz is accused of possessing a loaded firearm and possessing heroin and cocaine on Oct. 30, 2013.

Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies charged a Trumansburg man with unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and other charges following a pursuit on April 6. Nathan R. Nehrbass, 32 of Halseyville Road, Trumansburg, was charged with unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree, aggravated unlicensed operation ... (more)