Tompkins County Legislators Travis Brooks, Veronica Pillar, and Lee Shurtleff have announced their intentions to seek re-election in the upcoming November 2025 elections.
Arnot revises Waters Edge proposal, offers smaller waterfront project redesign

ITHACA, N.Y. — Arnot Development has revised its plans for a major waterfront project, seeking a smaller buildout of its Waters Edge project on the Ithaca waterfront. Revised plans for […]
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Two new projects approved by city Planning Board

ITHACA, N.Y. — A comparatively light agenda accompanied the first City of Ithaca Planning Board meeting of 2025, with two projects receiving approvals, while a third project received a lukewarm […]
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Update: After widespread confusion, federal aid freeze rescinded

Update (1:00 p.m.): On Wednesday afternoon, the federal Office of Management and Budget rescinded the memo pausing most federal grants and aid spending. The memo faced several legal challenges since […]
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USDA issues public health alert for Wegmans’ chicken nuggets

ITHACA, N.Y. — After a handful of consumer complaints alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to bone fragments in a Wegmans’ chicken nuggets product, […]
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Town planning board signs off on hundreds of new units for Cornell grad housing

ITHACA, N.Y. — Plans for a second phase of Cornell University’s Maplewood graduate and professional housing have made a big step forward, following the Town of Ithaca’s preliminary approval of […]
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County Legislature in favor of further environmental review of Cargill mine

Update (10:50 a.m.): A Cargill representative sent a statement to The Ithaca Voice that was initially not included in this story. The article has been updated to include that statement. Original […]
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Urban Outfitters closes downtown location after 15 years

ITHACA, N.Y. — Urban Outfitters, the sole national retailer to operate a brick-and-mortar location in downtown Ithaca, closed its store on Green Street on Jan. 19 after 15 years. Nan […]
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City sticking with Inlet Island project for now, despite complications

ITHACA, N.Y. — What had seemed a simple denouement at the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency monthly meeting turned into yet another contentious debate about the future of a mixed-use project […]
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Weather: Glancing blows from storms, and gusty winds

ITHACA, N.Y. — On the one hand, temperatures will be fairly seasonable over the next week. On the other hand, there will be several storm systems, either weak or delivering […]
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