There was no meeting of the City of Ithaca Planning Board last month, but the board made up for lost time on Tuesday with a five-hour long meeting that featured the Planning Board’s introduction to the initial Downtown Neighborhood Plan proposal.
Former U.S. House of Representatives member Carolyn Maloney stopped in Ithaca Tuesday as part of a statewide bus tour to generate support for the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
Members of the United Auto Workers Local 2300 approved a new contract with Cornell University that will deliver major wage increases to workers and officially end a strike that heavily disrupted the Ivy League school.
La Tourelle Hotel and Spa, set on 15 acres of farmland on Ithaca’s South Hill, was purchased this spring by a group of mostly Cornell University alumni after being owned and managed by the Wiggins family since the late 1980s.
The City University of New York board of trustees last Monday authorized a contract worth approximately $4.4 million for three years with Kansas-based Mammoth Sports Construction to manage and operate athletics at its eight senior colleges. “Will this make us bowl eligible?” one trustee jokingly asked. “The CUNY Bowl,” replied trustee Bill Thompson Jr., chairperson…