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Grand Opening Celebrated for Tioga County Catholic Charities
Celebrating with a large group of supporters, Catholic Charities of Tompkins / Tioga (CCTT) held an official ribbon cutting with the Tioga County Chamber of Commerce on Monday, July 8, and at the Grand Opening of their new location at 932 W. River Rd. in Nichols, N.Y. Renee Spear, executive...
County seeking bids to replace closed detox center services
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials have started the effort to replace the Alcohol and Drug Council’s short-lived Withdrawal and Stabilization Center, issuing three Requests for Proposals (RFP) Wednesday calling for agencies to submit their plans. An announcement from county officials stated that organizations submitting RFPs will be...
School and county offices closed, flights delayed, as global Microsoft & CrowdStrike outage affects Tompkins County
Some Tompkins County services are unavailable on Friday morning, school offices may be closed, and some Ithaca flight departures are delayed, in the wake of a “CrowdStrike outage affecting Microsoft systems worldwide,” officials say. According to local IT professionals, “a problem with an update distributed by CrowdStrike is...
Severe Monday storm led to record-breaking number of emergency calls
TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials believe the county set a record for calls for emergency service in response to the severe thunderstorms on Monday. The severe weather prompted Governor Kathy Hochul to declare a statewide state of emergency. The storm produced heavy rain, high winds, lightning, and even inch-sized hail in some areas.
Ithaca's downtown brought in business, Crowdstrike outage, ADA mapping NYDEC, outage info
Good morning and welcome back to the Ithaca Journal’s Daily Briefing ☀️ I’d like to start this week off right by sharing this post highlighting the wonderful work of Sergio Arce at the TST BOCES Smith School, which I mistakenly neglected to include a link to last Friday. If you have any Finger Lakes...
Tompkins County Accepts Applications for Emergency Food and Shelter Program Funding
Tompkins County has been awarded $30,619 in federal funds through the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. This funding aims to supplement local emergency food and shelter programs, wth applications to receive funding due by July 26. “The Emergency Food and Shelter Program is a national program created in...
Update: Nationwide Crowdstrike glitch closes local DMV among other impacts
ITHACA, N.Y. — The national Crowdstrike outage and its ripple effects on Microsoft systems has wrought havoc Friday morning, with impacts that stretch from around the globe to Tompkins County. Crowdstrike, one of the largest cybersecurity providers in the world, updated its software at some point Thursday night or...
Public meetings set for Tompkins County traffic safety plan
ITHACA, NY (CortacaToday) — Four public meetings are coming up this month to address traffic safety in Tompkins County. The first is an online presentation on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. In-person meetings for the Joint Safety Action Plan, which includes several municipalities across the county, kick off next Friday at Newfield Old Home Days from 4-9 p.m., the Ithaca Farmers Market on July 27th from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Pavilion, and lastly the Trumansburg Farmers Market on Wednesday, July 31 from 4-7 p.m.
Newfield offering funds for septic system repairs
As the town of Newfield reaches the conclusion of its sewer system enhancement project, officials are offering funding for septic repairs on specific properties. Newfield Supervisor Michael Allinger mentioned that the town is offering funds through Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for eligible homeowners within Newfield’s sewer district to make the necessary repairs, including to their own septic tanks. The funding is available for single-family and one- to four-unit rental properties, with eligibility based on a low-to-moderate income scale.
Local agencies and hospitals experience system outages due to global Crowdstrike problems
ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) — Millions of people around the world have been impacted by a global IT outage on Friday that shut down servers and grounded flights. Here at home, government agencies and hospitals are seeing the impacts of the outages. According to Chemung County Executive Chris Moss, Various Chemung County departments are experiencing computer […]
Microburst leaves trail of destruction in Montour Falls
MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. (WETM) –One of the places in our area that is cleaning up right now after this week’s storms is Montour Falls. That’s where strong downward winds called a microburst hit parts of the village and forced some families out of their homes. John Parker lives in Rock Cabin Park in Montour Falls […]
Southern Tier government offices close temporarily amid global technology outage
A global technology outage that has affected airlines, banks, healthcare and public transit has also disrupted county offices and services in the Southern Tier. Broome County officials announced Friday morning all county offices will be closed to the public until further notice. Employees will still report to work. The Broome...
Billion Dollar Wind Turbine Project Set For Western New York
Chicago-based investors are working with four Southern Tier counties on a series of wind turbine developments whose final price tag could top $1 billion - with the largest percentage to be spent in Cattaraugus County. Alle-Catt Wind Energy LLC, the development team behind the project, has proposed to build 83...
Storms wreak havoc across NY, lanternfly threatens Vinyards, drive-through dispensary
It’s Thursday so I’ll be looking at some of what Ithaca’s got going on this weekend later on in this newsletter. If you have any Finger Lakes moments you’d like to share, send me your best photos and a short passage to JMack@gannett.com so I can share the love with other readers this Friday. Click here to sign up for more daily briefings from the Ithaca Journal.
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