Cayuga Heights News

A proposal to create a 'Greater Ithaca' entity through the consolidation of the city, town and Village of Cayuga Heights will need further study and sound data before being seriously considered, a joint meeting of municipal leaders heard Thursday.

In completing their state-required environmental impact statement, the Cayuga Heights trustees are figuring out the nuts and bolts -- or rather the guts and bullets -- of their plan to sterilize 20-60 does then cull the rest of the deer in the village.

As a Cornell graduate who has been involved professionally in environmental issues, I find the Cayuga Heights proposal dismaying: upwards of $800,000 for sharpshooters to kill deer, undetected, in backyards and around the village? Residents opposed to this lethal plan have suggested options such as fencing and landscaping with plants deer ...

GROTON -- Moore Tree Farm in Groton is donating real Christmas trees as part of the nationwide Trees for Troops program, sponsored by Christmas Tree Farmers of New York, the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation and FedEx Corp.

Cayuga Heights has no plans to accept gas drilling wastewater in the foreseeable future, Mayor Jim Gilmore said Tuesday.

I am concerned about the proposed culling of deer in Cayuga Heights. I have taught 8th grade English at Boynton Middle School for three years and at other Ithaca schools since 2000.

Dart: I am completely opposed to this deer-killing program. I hear the plan calls for silenced rifles to be used by out-of-town sharp-shooters at undisclosed locations.

Three months after work halted at Ithaca Gun, there's still no word about when or if demolition debris piles will be removed, though the developer is still eager to move forward on redevelopment plans.

The City and Town of Ithaca have nearly completed a new agreement on their long-expired fire services contract.

Police are looking for two males suspected of robbing another male in a wooded area near Triphammer and Highland Roads on Monday evening.

In a Nov. 2 letter, the writer suggested a solution to the deer problems in the Village of Cayuga Heights: 'If each homeowner who wants to fence in the backyard is allowed to do this in a tasteful and creative fashion, the deer would go in peace; no culling would be necessary, and no sterilization would be needed.' This is a sentiment that's ...

To keep alive the memory of James Joseph 'Jay' Kaplan close to his childhood home, the Ithaca City School Board recently approved a motion to name the Cayuga Heights Elementary School soccer field the 'James Joseph Kaplan Field.' He died Dec.

My first letter to the editor of the Journal in 30 years of living here is about the Village of Cayuga Heights hiring snipers to shoot deer so that residents of this affluent community don't have to buy fences to protect their tulips.

As Cayuga Heights argues about how to control its deer, some villagers wonder why they can't protect themselves by fencing their properties.

Cayuga Heights village residents spoke overwhelmingly Wednesday evening in favor of a plan to either sterilize or cull all the deer in the village.

October 24, 2009, 8:25 AM / The project manager for the Depew School District's capital project got some additions to his "to do" list from the Board of Education Tuesday.

The Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission recently voted to preserve the Markles Flats, or Old Gas Works, building on Court and Plain Streets.

The violations listed below relate directly to factors that could lead to food-borne illness or injury.

Cayuga Heights Cayuga Heights Fire Department will hold its open house from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

In a few short years, Dan Segal has built a landscape and nursery business, hitting a sweet spot in the niche for native plants in central New York.