WRFI Community Radio News

Fresh at 5pm every weekday we bring you local news headlines from across our listening community—all in about 2 minutes. Listen live (88.1FM in Ithaca, 91.9FM Watkins Glen, and 89.7FM across the southern Finger Lakes) or wherever you get your podcasts.

Local News: May 28, 2024

Mass Evictions and Rent Hikes at West Hill ApartmentsResidents at a West Hill apartment complex in Ithaca…

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Features and Interviews

Local Food Security Roundtable [AUDIO]

By Felix Teitelbaum | September 12, 2024

How can we ensure access to healthy, sustainable food for everyone in our community? What can we do as individuals? What changes would you like to see to government policy? How did the pandemic affect the way you eat? …

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Alcance Latino: Starting a Small Farm Business [in Spanish]

By Felix Teitelbaum | September 5, 2024

María José Oviedo y Tim W. Shenk del equipo de Futuro en Ag del Cornell Small Farms Program comparten con Carlos Gutiérrez en el programa Alcance Latino. Invitan a conocer las oportunidades disponibles para productores y aspirantes a…

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Alcance Latino: Starting a Small Farm [in Spanish]

By Felix Teitelbaum | September 1, 2024

María José Oviedo y Tim W. Shenk del equipo de Futuro en Ag del Cornell Small Farms Program comparten con Carlos Gutiérrez en el programa Alcance Latino. Invitan a conocer las oportunidades disponibles para productores y aspirantes a…

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Local Headlines

April 12th, 2022 Daily Headlines

By George Christopher | April 12, 2022 | Comments Off on April 12th, 2022 Daily Headlines

Two weeks ago students at Cornell protested a debate hosted by the school’s chapter of the Federalist society. According to the Cornell Daily Sun, the debate was between Cornell law Professor Nelson Tebbe and Jordan Lorence, a senior Counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The ADF has been classified an ant-LGBTQ+ hate group by…

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April 11th, 2022 Daily Headlines

By George Christopher | April 11, 2022 | Comments Off on April 11th, 2022 Daily Headlines

On Friday, Ithaca made national headlines when the employees at all three local Starbucks locations voted to unionize by an overwhelming margin. Workers at the South Meadow Street Starbucks voted 13 to 1 for unionization. Workers on Seneca street approved unionization by a vote of 15 to 1 and workers in Collegetown voted 19 to…

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