Who wouldn’t want to witness the rare sight of the world going dark in the middle of the day, the moon’s shadow moving closer and closer to the sun until crickets start chirping and suddenly you can see the stars shining? “That final stage is like switching off the lights,” said Philip D. Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University. […]
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Photographer captures ‘Spirit of Tompkins’
When Robyn Wishna took a photo of residents of Freeville for the village’s centennial in 1987 for the Ithaca Journal, she never thought that decades later she would again take a group photo of residents of the village, and this time the residents who were present in 1987 would hold up signs that said “87” in honor of the original […]
Cayuga Nature Center to keep some live animals due to large donation
Following a January announcement that it would be ending its live animal program, Cayuga Nature Center, located on Taughannock Boulevard in Ithaca, recently announced that it will be keeping a portion of its live animal collection after all. “I’m so excited,” said Amanda Schmitt Piha, associate director for philanthropy and communications for the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), of which the […]
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