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Fall Creek Brass Band

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Ithaca High School Walkout

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Ithaca conducts a 'March for Science' Rally

Ithaca conducts a ‘March for Science’ Rally

Written by Angela Poffenbaugh Speakers rally for science as posters hang throughout the Ithaca commons. Jamie Dangler, Cortland, steps up to a microphone and takes a deep breath. As she looks around, she sees hundreds of people standing in the crowd, ranging from children to older adults. Some people are holding signs with sayings…

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Cornell University celebrates annual Dragon Day

Cornell University celebrates annual Dragon Day

Cornell University freshman Chi Yamakawa wipes her forehead as she continues to push a life-sized, steel dragon down the streets of Cornell University along with her fellow classmates. After weeks of advertising the event plus a week of building this life sized dragon, Yamakawa’s hard work has paid off. Dragon Day has been a long…

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Family plants new roots in Upstate New York as organic farmers

Family plants new roots in Upstate New York as organic farmers

Eric and Birgit Landowne have seen it all from radishes to basil to strawberries as local organic farmers. However, this was their first year coming to farm in Lodi, New York. After farming for 15 years in Pennsylvania they took over for Blue Heron Farm this year, one of the 200+ Community Supported Agriculture farms in Upstate New…

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Ithaca community gathers to create pro-democracy event

Ithaca community gathers to create pro-democracy event

By: Angela Poffenbaugh and Sandra Aguirre – Ithaca, NY In light of recent political demonstrations, last Wednesday GreenStar Cooperative Market and Tompkins County Progressives organized an event to inform the public of political issues affecting the community. This event was created as a followup to the Women’s March earlier this year, featuring multiple speakers who led dialogue about a variety…

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Student Assembly Passes Resolution to Allow Laptops in Lectures and Discussion

Student Assembly Passes Resolution to Allow Laptops in Lectures and Discussion

By: Sandra Aguirre and Angela Poffenbaugh Last week on February 21, Cornell University’s Student Assembly passed a resolution advocating that Cornell faculty refrain from banning the use of laptops in their classrooms. The resolution is merely a suggestion by the Student Assembly, since they cannot make policies or dictate on how the faculty run their classes. Student Assembly member Noah…

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Western media's influence on Asian beauty

Western media’s influence on Asian beauty

Produced by Lauren Murray, Kate Nalepinski, and Angela Poffenbaugh for The Global Trot Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke adjusts her pigtails and red dress before stepping up to the microphone at the opening night of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Miaoke belts out a performance of “Ode to the Motherland,” a patriotic song for the people of…

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Ithaca hosts fifth consecutive international film festival

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Ithaca College Students Develop StopPack Stoppack is an original invention invented by three Ithaca College students, meant to help people stop smoking and help them quit. Watch the package here.

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Ithaca Coffee Company showcases roasting machine

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Celtic Festival hosted as a fall festival for the first time Ithaca's annual Celtic Festival was hosted as a fall festival for the first time ever! The event was filled with live music, food, and shops. Watch the package here!

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Cornell symposium raises awareness about donkeys This year was the 2016 Donkey Welfare Symposium, held at Cornell University. Watch the story here!

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Ithaca City of Asylum celebrates 15 years

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Beer or Nukes; the Curious Case of North Korea

Beer or Nukes; the Curious Case of North Korea

Key Points: North Korea hosted its first ever beer festival in it’s capital, Pyongyang, running for 20 consecutive days. This festival was so popular that it’s been planned again in the month of September. There has been controversy and debate if this festival is genuinely for the good of North Korean citizens or merely just a…

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Kitchen Theatre set to perform ‘Hand to God’ until Sept. 25

Kitchen Theatre set to perform ‘Hand to God’ until Sept. 25

While at most theater shows the audience can expect singing, dancing or acting, one unusual theatrical element is puppetry. More specifically, one doesn’t expect puppets that contrast with the typically cheerful, singing, “Sesame Street”–style characters that people have grown up with. The Kitchen Theatre in downtown Ithaca is hosting “Hand to God,” a show that breaks social boundaries through…

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What I learned about social media reporting

What did I learn in my #ICParkSM class? Read here to find out!

This semester, my Social Media Reporting professor Anthony Adornato laid out a syllabus and gave us a list of goals that he hoped we’d accomplish by the end of the semester. Some of them entailed: Effectively use social media for newsgathering, dissemination, and audience engagement. Gain the technical skills of mobile news gathering through the use of mobile devices and apps to gather, produce,…

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