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Fall Thanks

By katrina

We have some fine autumn donors to recognize, like Kevin Kelly, Beth Cohen & George Dillmann, James & Terry Byrnes, Winthrop Wetherbee and Saskya Van Nouhuys & Andy Ruina!  Thanks go to them for supporting their local independent community radio station.  To learn how you can join them, please visit our Support page.

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Preserving land with natural burial – October 2nd, 2014

By WRFI News Staff

Among the rolling the hills of Newfield sits the Greensprings Natural Cemetery Preserve. Greensprings is a green–or natural–cemetery, which means they work to make sure a burial has as little negative environmental impact as possible. But Greensprings is also a nature preserve–by burying people in select portions of their hundred acres, they’re working to ensure…

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How a single burglary changed J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI – September 30th, 2014

By WRFI News Staff

Samuel Whitehead talks with former Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger about her book The Burglary, which tells the story of the theft of secret documents from an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and how the information found in those documents changed the face of the FBI.   This interview originally aired on the September 30th, 2014 edition of…

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Revving up Ithaca’s startup incubator – September 25th, 2014

By WRFI News Staff

Earlier this week, Rev: Ithaca Startup Works opened its doors. Rev is a joint-effort of Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3), and everyone involved says the incubator will help boost the local economy by supporting up-and-coming entrepreneurs. To get a better sense of how Rev might make this happen, Producer Samuel…

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