The City of Ithaca’s proposed 2025 budget tops $107.5 million, an increase of about 6% from last year.
There’s an effort in Rochester to get phones made available to people who can’t afford them. The initiative to provide this free phone service began when local photographer and Assistant Professor at RIT/NTID Eric Kunsman was doing a project several years ago to document the dwindling number of pay phones locally. He said that as…
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. — The site of the former Friendly’s restaurant at 561 Harry L. Drive is becoming a car wash as Splash Car Wash of Connecticut expands its operations with a new facility. The Friendly’s, a long-standing fixture in the Binghamton area, closed its doors in September after nearly four decades, and the building…
ITHACA, N.Y. — An estimated $85 million tax break was approved this week for a massive development project that will change the face of Ithaca’s South Hill. The Tompkins County […] The post Massive tax break resoundingly approved for neighborhood-scale South Hill development appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
ITHACA, N.Y. — One of Tompkins County’s only homes for youth transitioning out of homelessness may close in the coming weeks. In an unexpected reversal, the program’s federal funding will […] The post A home for formerly unhoused kids may close. Some residents have nowhere to go. appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
ITHACA, N.Y. — Workers at GreenStar Food Co+op’s Collegetown and Dewitt Mall locations voted on Monday to unionize with Workers United. Of the 26 eligible voters, 12 votes were cast […] The post GreenStar workers voted to unionize Collegetown and Dewitt Mall locations appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
Wall Street is holding its own in New York, with employment in the financial industries near its highest level since 2000, average wages that tower of any other sector and soaring profits this year that will translate into a much needed tax revenue windfall next year. While other industries like tech have become much more…
Consumers should be prepared for ongoing fluctuations in egg prices, according to Amy Barkley, a livestock and farm specialist at Cornell Cooperative Extension. This instability is primarily due to the time required for U.S. egg farms to rebuild the population of egg-laying hens that were euthanized following an avian flu outbreak late last year. Barkley…
Micron Technology announced its revenue for fiscal year 2024 exceeded that of 2023 by nearly $10 billion, coinciding with its chip-manufacturing initiatives in Central New York. The company’s revenue for fiscal 2024 reached $25.11 billion, compared to $15.54 billion in fiscal 2023. This figure includes $7.75 billion generated in the fourth quarter, an increase of…
Tasha Nickols takes pride in being a go-getter. She never shied away from working extra hours as a nursing assistant. Still, it wasn’t enough to keep Nickols and her three children from becoming homeless. She felt demoralized having to call the United Way 2-1-1 Help Center early this year to find space in a shelter.…