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Fill up on fun at the Finger Lakes region. With more than 100 wineries, distilleries and breweries there, the area makes for the perfect summer getaway. Located in upstate New York, the Finger Lakes offer quaint, picturesque towns; antique stores; and the distinct flavors of New York’s best restaurants. There are art galleries, casinos and shopping outlets as well as spas, nature areas and hiking trails where you can relax. Four-legged friends are welcome as well, with dozens of pet-friend...

This story is part of a group of stories called New York went into lockdown just as the city was blooming. Many of us are now familiar with the way one week smears into the next when you rarely leave your home, but I still find it alarming how muddy my memories of those early days in quarantine are. What I do remember, vividly, is taking anxious early-morning walks around my neighborhood in Brooklyn and feeling utterly disoriented by the magnolia trees that had blossomed along the sidewalk...

Carmen Cosentino Special to The Citizen Today I was in Ithaca for lunch with my nephew Tom. Tom is a research scientist in astronomy at Cornell. We had a great time for nearly two hours. Suddenly, it was time for him to get back to his work and for me to get back to Auburn. I called in and it was an unusually slow Monday, so as I came upon a small greenhouse/garden center operation I stopped in. While we have a large, fantastic garden center right here in the Auburn area in Dickman ...

Lake Flato Architects/Provided An artist’s rendering of Atkinson Hall, to be built on the north side of Tower Road overlooking the Cornell Botanic Gardens. The multidisciplinary building will house the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, the new Master of Public Health Program, and lab and office space for other disciplines. Atkinsons’ $30M gift to name multidisciplinary building March 8, 2021 A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson wi...

February 11, 2021 Carolyn Finney, author of “Black Faces White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors,” and scholar-in-residence at the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College, will give a lecture about her nationally recognized work to increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to inform and determine policy and action on environmental issues. Finney is giving the Class of 1945 Lecture, part of the Cornell Botanic Gardens Lectur...

Fresh The NCAA hit Southern Californias mens basketball program with two years probation on Thursday because a former assistant coach violated NCAA ethics rules when he accepted a bribe to steer players to a business management company. 1 hour ago in Sports Fresh Hall officials revealed the full list of presenters Thursday. Members of a Hall class are asked to choose who they would like to accompany them to the stage and present them before their acceptance speech; when the ...

An emerald ash borer flashes its wings. (Provided photo — Benjamin Smith, via Wikimedia Commons) ITHACA (AP) — An invasive insect that kills ash trees is prompting Cornell University to fell 1,700 of the trees on its lands, a step it says will visibly alter the campus’s appearance. The trees infested by the emerald ash borer will be felled between January and the end of March and include trees on and off campus, the university said Dec. 22. The beetle, which bores under the tree�...

Jack Barclay to discuss burrowing owls Jan. 10 Burrowing owls will be the topic of a Jan. 10 lecture by Jack Barclay, sponsored by the Sussex Bird Club. FILE PHOTO December 30, 2020 The Sussex Bird Club will offer a lecture on burrowing owls by Jack Barclay at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 10, via Zoom. Barclay studied burrowing owls for more than 20 years in California, observing them in the close-cropped fields near airport runways that offer good burrowing owl habitat. Barclay is a senior w...

Todd Bittner/Provided Emerald ash borer larvae and galleries discovered under the bark of an ash tree at Arnot Forest, March 2018, marking Tompkins County’s first documented emerald ash borer occurrence. Cornell removing ash trees, as replanting effort launches December 22, 2020 Cornell will be removing more than 1,700 of its ash trees infested by devastating emerald ash borer insects, mostly between January and March 2021, to reduce potential harm to people and property. At the s...