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In an effort to offer the same junior varsity athletic opportunities to women as it does men, Ithaca College is considering cutting some women’s sports club teams. At this point, the topic has only been discussed, and no final decisions have been made at this time.

Alienation. As a vocal conservative in a liberal college town, Mark Finkelstein knows the feeling all too well.
He remembers one of the first times he experienced it. The year was 1991 and Finkelstein had just revealed to three of his longtime tennis partners that he was running for mayor of Ithaca as a Republican.
“When [...]

By: Zachary Tomanelli
ITHACA, N.Y. — Paula Mikkelsen and the team at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y. are charged with an interesting task: making people appreciate clams and mussels somewhere other than a table at a summer barbecue.
The institution, which runs Ithaca’s Museum of the Earth, is one of three centers nationwide engaged in [...]

By Briana Padilla
ITHACA-
The Ithaca Commons will hopefully be a site for renovation and construction this Spring as business owners use a portion of $1.15 million in grants to create 13 new apartments downtown, ten of which will be moderate to high-income housing. The money, granted to the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, was gained through New [...]

Zachary Tomanelli
September 23, 2009
ITHACA – At a time when small business owners are struggling to stay afloat, Sunit Chutintaranond is a rarity — a successful restaurateur who is readying for an expansion.
            Chutintaranond, who owns ZaZa’s Cucina with his wife Flamina Cervesi, has recently bought the old dollar-store building on the Commons with plans to [...]

Keenan J. Slusher
September 23, 2009
Ithaca, NY
It is makeover season again all across New York State and the Ithaca Commons, not to be left out, is getting a facelift. Governor David A. Paterson recently announced the award of $153.6 million in Restore New York funds to communities across the State as part of the third round [...]