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February 22, 2021: The City of Ithaca and Tompkins County jointly released a draft report on their process to reimagine public safety in the community. Before that rollout had been shared with the Common Council or IPD, though, an interview of Mayor Svante Myrick appeared in GQ outlining the plan and quoting His Honor as saying it involved “abolishing the city’s police department as currently constructed and replacing it with a reimagined city agency.” The plan proposes replacing the current police force with an agency made up of armed “public safety workers” and u...

ITHACA, NY -- Mayor Svante Myrick announced the city has hired Luis Aguirre Torres as the new director of sustainability to lead the city’s Green New Deal initiative.  “Since the Green New Deal initiative was unanimously approved by Common Council in June 2019, we have sought the right person to lead the City in achieving our ambitious climate and equity goals.” said Myrick. “We were all disappointed when the pandemic caused a delay in the search process. The silver lining is that we had the opportunity to hire Luis, who brings impressive experience and knowledge to the...

NY Current Conditions as of 01:00 AM EST Tuesday, March 9,...

NY Forecast for Wednesday, March 10, 2021

NY Binghamton NY Zone Forecast March 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail _____ National Weather Service Binghamton NY 1235 AM EST Tue Mar 9 2021 This is an automatically generated product that contains an area forecast using an average of the gridded forecast data for each zone. The forecast may not be representative of the exact location that you are interested in. For a more site-specific forecast, please visit weather.gov/bgm. NYZ009-092000- 1235 AM EST Tue Mar 9 2021 .OVERNIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 m...