Newfield News

ITHACA -- A Newfield man was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail for leaving the scene of an accident that permanently injured an Ithaca College student.

ENFIELD -- A family of three has been displaced following a fire which gutted the second floor of their two-story residence in Enfield on Wednesday evening.

Neighbors of Markles Flats will begin 2010 much the same way they began 2009; uncertain about the ultimate fate of the historic building, or the coal tar beneath it.

Despite the accolades, Tompkins County Sheriff's Deputy Gerald Hoffman maintains that saving lives is within the call of duty.

When Don and Melody Reed decorated their Christmas tree this past weekend, they couldn't take out the boxes of treasured family ornaments, because they were among the possessions lost in a fire that ravaged their Newfield home on Jan.

28, 2008, to Nov. 27, 2009, during Operation Iraqi Freedom 08-10 at COP Summers in southern Iraq.

An Ithaca man and a Newfield woman face charges after a multi-agency drug raid at a Town of Ithaca residence early Friday morning.

A jogger has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries after being hit by a car Thursday afternoon on Route 13 in Newfield.

TRUMANSBURG -- A state-sponsored survey of students at Trumansburg schools showed many students overestimate drug and alcohol abuse by their peers, as do many students in other Tompkins County public schools.

After more than three months working under the terms of an expired contract, the Newfield Teachers' Association and the Newfield Central School District reached an agreement on a new contract.

Tompkins County was blanketed in a few inches of snow Wednesday as the first significant winter weather hit the region.

ITHACA -- The sizzling smells of latkes and apple fritters sent holiday senses tingling Sunday as Temple Beth El kicked off its Hanukkah celebrations with an all-day event.

Welcome to December. Don't ask me where the summer went or fall, or even the entire month of November because I just don't know.

A discrimination case against the Newfield Central School District is back in the hands of the New York State Division of Human Rights because the district did not exhaust all administrative remedies for resolving the case before challenging the division's jurisdiction, an appeals court has determined.

GROTON -- Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen were put to work over the weekend as the Christmas season began in earnest at Moore's Tree Farm.

There are Americans going to bed hungry every night. There are Americans working at their computers constantly.

Thank you, to all the voters, who supported my bid for the District 8 seat, on the Tompkins County Legislature.

The H1N1 virus continues to circulate in Tompkins County, with absenteeism related to flu-like illnesses hovering high above the yearly average.

ITHACA -- The station, the desk, the road -- these are the worlds of New York State Trooper Ben Emery, and he handles them equally well, according to his superiors.

The results are finally in, officially. Two weeks after the Nov. 3 elections, all ballots have been counted and earlier leads have been confirmed, although some by even narrower margins.