Ithaca Minute from 14850 Magazine

Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 24th!

Trumansburg Fire Department tells us there were only minor injuries resulting from a Jeep colliding with a utility pole on Route 96 between Ithaca and Trumansburg on Monday afternoon.

The crash occurred at about 4:15pm, near Renovus Solar between Iradell and Krums Corners Roads, knocking down lines and slowing traffic on Route 96 as police, fire, rescue, and utility company crews responded to the scene.

Foodnet Meals on Wheels is taking delivery today of one of 50 Subaru Outback all-wheel-drive vehicles to help with their mission of delivering meals to homebound area residents. Maguire Family of Dealerships is helping host an event at the Space at GreenStar at 4.

And did you know Smart Yogurt is back in Ithaca at Rogan’s Corner? Check it out on 14850 Dining.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 23rd!

Subaru of America is donating 50 vehicles to Meals on Wheels programs around the country, and Foodnet Meals on Wheels of Tompkins County will receive one of them at an event in Ithaca this Tuesday, hosted by Subaru, Foodnet, and Maguire Family of Dealerships.

The all-wheel-drive 2018 Subaru Outback “will tremendously improve our ability to deliver meals to our older adult neighbors, especially during difficult weather conditions,” says Foodnet executive director Jessica Gosa. “On average each month, Foodnet drives 9,229 miles to deliver meals.”

Tuesday’s event is at the Space at GreenStar, from 4-5:30pm.

No injuries and limited property damage at a fire on Ithaca’s west hill Sunday afternoon are thanks to a quick response from the Ithaca Fire Department, according to officials.

IFD says the Tompkins County 911 center received multiple calls at about 1:15pm reporting a fire at 14 Abbott Lane, in a west hill apartment complex. The entire event took about an hour, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 20th!

The Ithaca Police have released surveillance images of a man who’s a suspect in a “forcible touching” incident that occurred on the Ithaca Commons on October 17 at 4:45pm. Police say “The subject is a white male, about 45 years old, and has short dark hair.” Find photos at 14850.com. Anyone with info that could help identify the suspect is asked to contact Investigator Cady at 607-216-3232 or [email protected].

The City of Ithaca says a roadway striping contractor will be continuing to paint crosswalks, stop bars, and traffic symbols “throughout the City” on Saturday, October 21st. “Motorists should expect temporary lane closures and traffic delays,” according to city officials.

And six final shows for Ithaca electro-rockers Jimkata, over the next couple of weeks, start tonight in Rochester with a show at Flour City Station. The popular local band says they’re going “on hold indefinitely” after this fall’s tour.

From Rochester, they head to Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Manchester CT, and New York City.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 19th!

This Tuesday, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of 14850 Magazine with an event at Luna Inspired Street Food, and Mayor Svante Myrick issued a proclamation naming it 14850 Magazine Day in the City of Ithaca!

We teamed up with Luna Inspired Street Food in Collegetown to help them introduce their new fall menu to the community, and we used the occasion to raise money for our friends at the Just Be Cause Center.

Early next Wednesday afternoon, Cornell University is conducting a test of its emergency mass notification systems. Sirens on campus will be heard around Ithaca as the test is conducted at 12:10pm. Cornell says students, faculty, and staff who have registered for personal alerts will receive a text message, an e-mail, or a voice phone call, and CUView information screens on campus and some Cornell web sites will display an emergency message banner.

And why were four kilted Nebraskans at the Cornell football game on Saturday? The four Omaha-area friends spotted a winning Big Red score scrolling across an ESPN broadcast, and “Go Cornell!” became a rallying cry that eventually brought them to Ithaca.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 4th!

Fall is the time to celebrate a bountiful harvest, and this week the P&C Fresh supermarket on Ithaca’s east hill is celebrating with a couple dozen special guests, including local farms, beverage and dairy producers.

This Thursday, October 5th, the family-owned store has a one-day sale with unusual discounts, and from 4-7 Thursday afternoon, they’ll have food sampling, beer sampling, live entertainment, K-9 dogs from the Cornell University Police Departments, and representatives from Cops, Kids & Toys accepting new, unwrapped toys for the upcoming holiday season.

And we reported this week that City of Ithaca crews are paving a portion of Stone Quarry Road. Assistant superintendent of public works Ray Benjamin says the project is now projected to end October 13th, next Friday. He says the road will be closed to through traffic, and residents who live above the railroad crossing should come in from the top.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 3rd!

The City of Ithaca says they’re paving Stone Quarry Road from Spencer Road to the city line this week, and weather permitting, the project will be done by Friday, October 6. The project includes repairing the road base and then paving the road, which runs from South Hill to Ithaca’s southwest.

Driveways will be accessible during the project, say city officials, but there may be some delays on paving days.

Six years ago, an effort to turn a declining independent bookstore in Downtown Ithaca into a community-owned cooperative saved Buffalo Street Books, and now the store’s executive board has called an emergency meeting to decide what’s next. “Though we have cut the yearly losses, the store continues to lose money every single year,” they say. The emergency owners meeting, at which all interested community members are welcome, is at 7pm on Thursday, October 12th in the BSB store in the Dewitt Mall at 215 North Cayuga Street.

And the Ithaca Fire Department put out a reminder on its Facebook page Monday morning to alert authorities if something seems out of place, in the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting incident in Las Vegas. Ithaca Fire Department also suggests, “Practice evacuation and emergency drills regularly at home, school and work.”

“If you are caught in a random act of violence, find the nearest exit or safe place, then call 911 and give calm, clear, pertinent information.”

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for October 2nd!

The Ithaca Police Department says they are working with the Cornell University Police Department to investigate “multiple reports of suspicious activity on the east hill area of Ithaca.”

Reports over the last week have included “various accounts of males peering into windows of apartments, entering apartments, and lingering in and around the locked entryway of apartment buildings,” according to IPD public information officer Jamie Williamson.

Police ask that anyone with information that could aid the investigation call police at 607-272-3245 or 607-255-1111, or “dial 911 immediately if you are the victim of a crime or observe suspicious activity in your neighborhood.”

Good news for late-night arrivals at the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport! The fall TCAT bus schedule includes a late-night addition to Route 32 with an 11pm departure heading downtown, Monday through Friday.

Airport officials say passengers can’t expect the bus to wait for delayed aircraft arrivals, but travelers should be okay “as long as the flights arrive on or close to schedule.”

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for September 22nd!

Despite some delays and pauses in work, the City of Ithaca says projects to repave Lincoln Street and paint the Stewart Avenue Bridge are both finished ahead of their projected end dates.

In Fall Creek, crews finished repaving East Lincoln Street last week, and painted new lane markings and crosswalks. The project also upgraded sidewalks and added ADA-compliant curb ramps at corners.

Ithaca Fire Department is hosting a Car Seat Check Event Saturday morning September 23 from 9am-12noon at the central fire station at 310 West Green Street. Firefighters and certified child passenger safety technicians will be there to help you decide whether your 15-month-old should be in a forward-facing or rear-facing car seat, or whether your bigger kid is big enough to skip the car seat entirely. Many of the car seats and the bike helmets being provided free are being purchased through a grant from Cops, Kids and Toys.

And the Ithaca Police Department says a week of extra patrols focused on distracted driving resulted in 108 tickets for “driving while using a cell phone and driving while manipulating an electronic device violations.” More than half were on a single day, Thursday, September 14. That one day’s patrol used an unmarked police vehicle with marked chase cars, which “resulted in officers issuing 58 tickets for using a cell phone or electronic device while driving.”

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for September 19th!

The regional carrier that provides Delta Air Lines flights in and out of the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has eliminated two flights from its daily schedule to catch up on aircraft maintenance. Airport officials say the change is temporary.

Airport director Mike Hall says Skywest Airlines, which operates Delta Connection regional flights for Ithaca, has to catch up on deferred maintenance, so they’re keeping more aircraft overnight at their Detroit maintenance base.” As a result, the late-night flight from Detroit to Ithaca, and the early-morning flight from Ithaca to Detroit, have been removed from the schedule. Hall says the change is likely to last through “the fourth quarter of 2017, with resumption of full service expected early in the new year.”

And Ithaca College has scheduled a test of its emergency alert system “during the noon hour” on Tuesday, September 19. Sirens and PA announcements on campus may be heard around Ithaca. The outdoor system includes a siren tone and loudspeaker message, and the emergency notification system supports voice calls, emails, and text messaging. To sign up for voice, email, or text alerts, Ithaca College community members can go to www.ithaca.edu/emergencynotification and sign in with their IC username and password.

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Here’s the Ithaca Minute for September 18th!

After a racially charged Collegetown incident sent a young man to the hospital, Cornell University president Martha E. Pollack says this is “not who we want to be” in a statement that outlines steps to address “persistent problems of bigotry and intolerance at Cornell.”

A verbal exchange between Cornell students including the use of racial slurs led to a physical assault and the arrest of one undergraduate student early Friday morning. Witnesses describe the student who was arrested for physical assault as having used racial slurs, said Cornell vice president Ryan Lombardi.

President Pollack says Cornell’s leadership team worked through the weekend to begin “to develop and implement steps to be a more equitable, inclusive and welcoming university.”

If you missed the Deany’s Day musical benefit at The Loft on Sunday, you can still donate via GoFundMe or YouCaring.com!

And family Mexican restaurant Old Mexico is opening a satellite location in Collegetown. Look for it this fall on Dryden Road.

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