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Popular Ithaca Festival returns for the weekend
ITHACA, N.Y. (WENY) -- The popular Ithaca Festival has returned to the city with the theme “Let The Sunshine In!”. The free event is set to run Friday through Sunday. The festival kicked off with a parade through Cayuga Street Thursday evening. Next up: the Ithaca Festival Spring Craft Fair, which will feature 100 local and regional vendors who will have food, drinks, jewelry and pottery, among other things. The craft fair is scheduled from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. The fair will be held on E. State Street.
Tompkins County real estate: nine most expensive homes sold, May 25-31
A house in Ithaca that sold for $507,500 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Tompkins County in the past week. In total, nine residential real estate sales were recorded in the county during the past week, with an average price of $315,497. The average price per square foot was $220.
Officials appear to have missed a public hearing requirement before issuing $2.9M in tax breaks
ITHACA, N.Y. — A local authority approved millions of dollars of additional tax breaks across three projects without holding what appears to be legally required public hearings. The Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency (IDA), which has the power to authorize tax breaks for developers, is required by state law...
Gallery: Ithaca Festival Parade 2024
ITHACA, N.Y. — Hundreds of Ithacans marked the unofficial start to summer during the 47th annual Ithaca Festival Parade. Ithaca Mayor Robert Cantelmo and his family led the parade along with law enforcement officials and Alderperson Ducson Nguyen. Marchers — among them a delegation of bottle gourd enthusiasts, several...
Dryden Planning Board weighed in on $16M affordable housing project proposed in Varna
DRYDEN, N.Y. — The town of Dryden Planning Board had their first formal look at Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services’ (INHS) $16 million plan to revitalize a vacant corner in the hamlet of Varna on May 23. The proposal, the latest in several attempted efforts by different developers to...
Planning Board Recap: Townhomes near Ithaca Falls obtain approval
ITHACA, N.Y. — If this month’s City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board meeting could be described in one word, it would be “pithy”. While on the shorter side as these meetings tend to go, it was rather dense with material. One project got the green light of final Site Plan Approval, while plans for a large mixed-use development along the waterfront stared down a very long review timeline. In contrast, Cornell tried to reduce their timeline by splitting a project up into two independent submissions, a move which had to be approved by the planning board.
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