TompkinsWeekly for the week of March 9th

Download the newspaper in Acrobat Format Here City Plans Solar Energy Array February set an all-time record for lowest average temperature in Ithaca, breaking the 1979 record of 11.3 degrees with a 10.1 average recorded at the Game Farm Rd weather station. Despite a severe lack of sun this winter, or maybe because of it, the City of Ithaca is thinking solar. Full Story »   Comprehensive Plan Approved The Tompkins County Legislature adopted the 2015 Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan on March 3, representing the first full update of the plan since it was first approved by the legislature 11 years ago Full Story »   PTA team captures A\adult spelling beepage 2 More than 300 members of the community of all ages gathered for the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) Adult Spelling Bee on March 1 in the Ithaca High School Wellness Center Gym. Full Story »   Cornell education program gives ex-cons a new lease on life page 3 Richard Gleason was a criminal and an addict nearly all of his life. As an inmate at Auburn Correctional Facility, he enrolled in journalism and creative writing classes through the Cornell Prison Education Program, (CPEP) and his life began to veer in a new direction. Now out of prison, he owns his own business and is sober. Full Story »   Ithaca studies revisions to industrial zone reguloations page 5 An amendment to the I-1 Zoning District in the City of Ithaca has recently been proposed in a memo written by the city’s Senior Economic Development Planner, Jennifer Kusznir. The amendment, if passed, would require that all new commercial construction projects built in Industrial Zones be two or more stories. Full Story »   On KDT trips, half the fun is getting there page 9 Kids Discover the Trail! Ithaca (KDT) provides all Ithaca City School District (ICSD) students with unique learning experiences with the world-class Discovery Trail, and some of these happen in an unlikely place, outside the classrooms and field trip sites: on the bus. Full Story »   Youth find a voice to express personal issues with race page 10 This a continuation of a story (Tompkins Weekly, Feb. 9) from youth and children. This article talks about bi-racial youth and children, and about both internal and external turmoil because of the first acknowledgement of skin color. Full Story »   TC3 president provides a progress report with State of the College address page 11 Delivering his annual “State of the College” message to the Tompkins County Legislature on March 3, Tompkins Cortland Community College President Carl Haynes characterized the past year as one of notable accomplishments in the context of financial challenges. Full Story »