Here’s the Ithaca Minute for September 6th!

After receiving a missing person report for a 27-year-old Ithaca woman, the Ithaca Police Department has “exhausted all leads” and are asking the public for help.

Police say the family of Nicole Dawn Marranca filed the missing person report “after they had not spoken with her in several days,” so Marranca may not have been heard from in at least two weeks. She may have last been seen in Ithaca around August 17th or 18th, police said in a statement. Photos are on 14850.com.

Kids are heading back to Ithaca schools this week, many of them walking, and a local father has taken the initiative to put up signs at several pedestrian crosswalks to remind drivers to yield.

“City leaders need to step up and take pedestrian and cycling safety more seriously,” says Armin Heurich, whose son Toby was hospitalized this summer after being hit by a car while on his bike.

The frustrated father took to a crowdfunding initiative to help pay for professionally printed signs that would be noticeable and informative and hold up to the elements.

And the presidents of Cornell University and Ithaca College have both issued unequivocal statements on the Trump administration’s decision to roll back protections from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Both expressed concern for the move and support for students.

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