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Mass Evictions and Rent Hikes at West Hill ApartmentsResidents at a West Hill apartment complex in Ithaca are facing eviction. According to the Ithaca Times, the Delaware-based new owners of Cayuga Gardens Apartments plan to raise the rent in all units by $600 a month. In February they served every resident in the complex with a 90-day eviction notice. Many renters in the 60-unit development have already moved out. About a dozen remain, many of whom are elderly or disabled. Wednesday is the deadline for them to vacate. Cornell DACA Assistance Program Gets BoostA Cornell-based group providing legal assistance to migrants has been granted $1.5 million. According to the Cornell Sun, Path2Papers provides legal…
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 la producción agrícola que son de la comunidad latina o hispanohablante. De particular interés es el curso virtual…
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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 la producción agrícola que son de la comunidad latina o hispanohablante. De particular interés es el curso virtual…
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Get tickets for the September 17 screening here. So much has happened since the lockdowns at the height of the pandemic that it can feel like the distant past. But those days exposed a range of vulnerabilities in our culture that persist today-nowhere, perhaps, more acutely than in our food system. At WRFI, we understand…
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Following months of strategic planning work by WRFI’s leadership, staff, and community, in June, Executive Director Felix Teitelbaum proposed a plan to restructure station management to improve its organizational resilience and deepen its commitment to local programming. In July, WRFI’s Board of Directors unanimously approved that plan. The station has since begun a search for…
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