Not everybody likes a popularity contest, but a lot of people do, and they vote every year in the Best of Ithaca poll. We collect entries in August and September and tally them up

Randi Anglin started “Crossroads,” a blues shows at WVBR-FM (93.5), in 1991. Three years later he was ready to move on with his career as a music photographer, and he approached the “traffic manager” at the station who was doing a lot of fill-in shifts for many shows at WVBR and asked him, “…

When Ithacans hear the name Ezra Cornell, they typically think of Cornell University—and rightfully so. However, Cornell, a year before founding his university, gave the community another institution that incubates education: a free, public library. 

Whether you’re new to the area or have been here for 15 years, it’s possible, if not likely, that you’re knowledge of the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI) ranges somewhere between lacking or nonexistent. 

America’s first black fraternity got its start in Ithaca at Cornell. Now, the house where the Alpha Phi Alpha “social study club” held its first meetings is officially a city landmark. 

Like a child, a puppy, or a kitten, saplings need to be given attention so they grow up into strong, healthy trees. Ithacans who have a notion they might want to help raise a little honey locust or sugar maple are in luck: It’s that time of year when the city and the Cornell Cooperative Exte…

When John Guttridge, a native Ithacan, purchased a 25,000-square foot building formerly owned by the Ithaca Journal along Green and Geneva streets a few years ago, he had a “lot of big dreams about the cool stuff that we can do.” The “first brick in the wall” would be Life’s So Sweet, a choc…

When you coach for 42 years, you will see some milestones. Ithaca College baseball coach George Valesente hit the magic 1,000-win milestone three years ago—and that meant a lot—but the first 90 wins came during his coaching stops at Brockport, New Paltz and New York Maritime, and getting to …

Whether you are a youth, an adult, or golden-aged, the team at Primitive Pursuits wants you to experience the Great Outdoors. 

Bishop Cecil A. Malone didn’t take vacations from helping people and loving the Lord. 

In the 19th century, Ithaca had the sobriquet “Forest City”. It’s easy to see why. Back then most of the surrounding countryside was agricultural and almost entirely denuded of trees. Even now, in the early 21st century, if one walks through the city in summer, it is remarkably like walking …

The Ithaca Times sat down with Scott Morris at REV, Ithaca’s startup incubator, to talk about the new local alternative currency that Morris is promoting: Ithacash. Morris talked about how he got interested in alternative currency, how he plans on promoting Ithaca dollars, and what social go…

When the original Commons was completed in summer 1975 Stu Lewis had already been in the retail clothing business on East State Street for 19 years and his father, Irv, had been there before him in the space now occupied by Benjamin Peter.

Porchfest 2015 was the biggest collection of musical talent Fall Creek has seen playing in one afternoon yet. 

For many Ithacans, Rik Daniels is a familiar face. He has worked at the Tompkins County Trust Company, and until January, was working part-time at Wegmans. Little did Daniels know, when he was dancing in the aisle during a Michael Franti concert, that two years later, he’d be flown to Califo…