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ITHACA, N.Y. — The U.S. Customs Facility at the Ithaca-Tompkins International Airport, celebrated at its 2018 groundbreaking as a way to make Ithaca a global destination, will close just four years after it opened following a tenure marked by sizable financial losses and little usage. After brief comments from Airport Director Roxan Noble and some […]
In the first official response to a use-of-force report by Independent Police Auditor Anthony Finnell, Akron Police Chief Brian Harding and, apparently, Mayor Shammas Malik, rejected calls to discipline the officer who body slammed and arrested Dierra Fields earlier this year, along with the sergeant on site who didn’t intervene.
He glances through the wet, foggy press box window on a recent Friday night, searching for green and gold. His right leg shakes in anticipation. Within seconds, the man with the familiar voice watches St. Vincent-St. Mary football players and staff start to run out on their home field. He takes a short breath and moves […]
Memories of the former Kelly Avenue landfill are close to the surface in East Akron. At the Joy Park Community Center, about 40 community members gathered over a breakfast of French toast, eggs, sausage and bacon Saturday to learn about a new proposal from WM that would build a waste transfer station less than a mile from the park. In the 1960s, the landfill was transformed into the recreation center.
