- By Dan Veaner
- Around Town
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The voice of the WHCU Morning News Watch host is like an old friend you look forward to hearing every morning. The show has been on the air for 25 years. Before popular host Dave Vieser left in January there had been only five permanent hosts since the show began. At the end of April Lee Rayburn took the microphone as the new Morning News Watch host."To walk into a venerable institution like the Morning News Watch on WHCU, which has been around in a radio station that's almost 100 years old, and a show that's had five hosts over that time... to walk into that is terrifying," Rayburn says. "I've called people by their wrong names. The beautiful thing is that even though I am sitting in an institution of a radio show people have been willing to bend over backwards to forgive me."
It’s typical for the topic of tipping (try saying that ten times fast!) to come up in discussions I have with my food and wine students and friends. The most controversial question concerns wine service.
May 9, Sciencenter executive director Charlie Trautmann joined five other leaders in the fields of education, media, and community development to launch the 
Working closely with Ithaca Festival organizers, the folks at 14850.com are making it easy for Ithaca Festival attendees to find out about this weekend's musical goings-on, right on their smartphone. Without even having to download an app, anyone with a web-capable phone can visit the festival web site and see a mobile-friendly schedule of events.
In collaboration with the Tompkins County Health Department’s Tobacco Free Tompkins program, Cayuga Medical Center joined other community organizations and businesses and become a T-Free Zone yesterday (May 31, 2012) – World No Tobacco Day. The main hospital campus, Island Health Center, and the Convenient Care Center campuses at Ithaca and Cortland officially extend their tobacco free policies to include all outdoor grounds, properties and parking areas. The implementation of this policy will create a healthier environment for Cayuga Medical Center patients, visitors, and employees by reducing the harmful exposure to secondhand smoke.
The Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau (FIYB) has donated $12,000 to the Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) to support funding for IYB programs.
Hey there, my name is Li'l Alice. I'm a one-year-old domestic shorthair/ mix. I'm a loveable girl who's looking for a good home, so please come and visit me at the SPCA to see if i'm the right cat for you!
The Lansing Middle School Drama Club performed "A Thousand Cranes" March 28-31, 2012, directed by Audrey Hummel and Kimberly Williamson. As the students learned of the story about Sadako, a little girl that was their age, they wanted to fold 1000 origami cranes and send them to the Hiroshima Peace Park in honor of Sadako's dream of peace. The finale of the play talks about how the message of peace has been extended to other places in the world.
Aurora, N.Y.—Wells College welcomes back the “Portrait of Henry Wells” by American painter James Edward Freeman. After being on loan at two museums, the portrait rendered in Rome more than 150 years ago returned to its home in Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus Friday, May 18.
Hey there, my name is Triscuit. I am a four-year-old domestic shorthair/ mix. I'm a friendly girl who is looking for a loving home so please come and visit me at the SPCA.
Supervisor Kathy Miller asked the Town Board to consider renovations to the Lansing Community Center at Wednesday's Town Board meeting. Miller said that making the building more usable will help relieve room scheduling issues at the town hall, and that the Lansing Lions Club and Boy Scouts have volunteered to be part of the project.
The Lansing Community Library building is leased from the Town for $1 per year. But an eviction provision in the lease has made it impossible for the Library to obtain state grants for capital projects. Wednesday the Town Board considered Town Attorney Guy Krogh's idea to give the building to the Library.