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  CASDE | Ithaca -- Saunders County
Ithaca, founded in 1866 and named for Ithaca, N.Y., was the "stopping place" for travelers between Ashland and Wahoo.
Ithaca has a rural Lutheran Church, Zion, which was founded in 1886 and is still an important part of the community.
It concluded with the crowning of a king and queen, and a dance in the community house.
casde.unl.edu /history/counties/saunders/ithaca   (737 words)

  
 CRP - Contact - Ithaca, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In important ways, the Ithaca area is still a place shaped more prominently by glaciers than developers, and most of the campus complements this dramatic beauty and rugged charm.
Ithaca itself is a surprisingly lively and sometimes rambunctious little city with more bookstores, movie screens, coffee houses, specialty shops, and restaurants than you would expect, given its size.
Debate over local development is practically a sport in Ithaca, and it is not unknown for members of the City and Regional Planning faculty to weigh in on the editorial pages of the local newspapers and in public forums.
www.crp.cornell.edu /contact/ithaca.mgi   (232 words)

  
 Ithaca Community Radio FAQ
Ithaca Community Radio is an initiative to create a non-commercial, community radio station for the Ithaca area that will focus on news, issues and local culture.
Ithaca Community Radio is not a part of WEOS, nor do we receive any funding or financial support from WEOS or their underwriters.
Ithaca Community Radio is also working with other organizations and individuals under the umbrella of the Ithaca Social Forum to develop a weekly radio program to air on WEOS and 88.1 fm, devoted to Ithaca area news and issues.
ithacaradio.org /faq.html   (642 words)

  
 Ithaca Hours -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ithaca Hours is a (additional info and facts about local currency) local currency in (additional info and facts about Ithaca, New York) Ithaca, New York.
Stacks of the Ithaca Money newspaper were distributed all over town with an invitation to "join the fun".
The Advisory Board incorporated the Ithaca HOUR system as Ithaca Hours, Inc. in October 1998, and hosted the first elections for Board of Directors in March of 1999.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/it/ithaca_hours.htm   (888 words)

  
 Ithaca Group
Ithaca acts as developer, consultant, owner's representative, building contractor, real estate broker and property management for all types of real estate.
The Ithaca Group is a mission-driven real estate development and management organization that was created to develop community housing and commercial properties.
Ithaca and its staff have garnered a reputation for excellence, an impressive portfolio of projects, and a competitive financial position.
www.theithacagroup.com /index.htm   (227 words)

  
 tcgreens.org: Greens Add Color to Local Elections (Ithaca NY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ITHACA -- Two Green Party candidates have joined a slew of Democrats and one Republican running for office in the City of Ithaca.
A brochure he distributed in the Fifth Ward said he was born and raised in Ithaca, graduated from Swarthmore College with a political science degree and has since worked for numerous not-for-profit agencies in Philadelphia, New York and Tompkins County.
Ithaca, the largest city in Tompkins County, is home to many progressive organizations.
www.tcgreens.org /gl/article.php?story=20030825084131113&mode=print   (844 words)

  
 The Ithaca Community News
The Ithaca Community News (ICN) is a non-profit news service bringing alternative news and views from Ithaca, NY to readers all over the world.
ICN is also a weekly email newsletter with more than 8,000 subscribers.
Paul Glover founded ICN in 2000 and published it for five years before handing the reins to Elizabeth Field, a freelance journalist, in November, 2005.
www.ithacanews.org   (283 words)

  
 ithaca - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ithaca (city, New York), city, seat of Tompkins County, south central New York, on hills at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake; settled 1789,...
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Ithaca College, private, coeducational institution in Ithaca, New York, well known for its school of music and for its programs in television and...
www.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/SRPage.aspx?search=Ithaca   (153 words)

  
 Flagstaff Tea Party - Neighborly Notes
Here in Ithaca, New York, we've begun to gain control of the social and environmental effects of commerce by issuing over $65,000 of our own local paper money (called HOURS) to over 1,300 participants, including 370 businesses, since 1991.
Here's how it works: the Ithaca HOUR is Ithaca's $10 bill, because ten dollars per hour is the average of wages/salaries in Tompkins County.
The Ithaca HOURS headquarters were also recently visited by a top official of China's central bank, Wen Tiejun, sent from Beijing by the President of the People's Bank of China (their Alan Greenspan) to talk about adopting HOURS as money in China.
www.flagteaparty.org /Subjects/FNN/moneyarticle.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Tompkins County | Guide | History of Tompkins County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The state of New York created Tompkins County on April 7, 1817 and named the new county for Daniel D. Tompkins, governor of the state (1807-17) and Vice President of the United States (1817-25).
Some from eastern New York and the south brought slaves with them, and until the abolition of slavery in New York in 1827, there were both enslaved and free African Americans in the county, although their numbers were small.
A closer look at those figures shows the village of Ithaca having a steady increase in population while most of the towns in the county reached a peak population around 1850 and then dipped to half that level in the early years of the twentieth century.
www.co.tompkins.ny.us /guide/history.html   (1961 words)

  
 Ithaca Community Radio FAQ
Ithaca Community Radio is an initiative to create a non-commercial, community radio station for the Ithaca area that will focus on news, issues of local and regional interest, and local culture.
Ithaca Community Radio is not a part of WEOS, nor do we receive any funding or financial support from WEOS or their underwriters.
Ithaca Community Radio is being formalized as a New York non-profit corporation and is currently completing our application for 501-C3 (tax-exempt status) from the Internal Revenue Service.
www.ithacaradio.org /faq.html   (844 words)

  
 Ithaca Side-By-Side
Concurrently with the Ithacas, there were doubles made in upstate New York, noting other communities also named after cities from antiquity such as Utica Fire Arms Co., which made some rather nice guns in the early 20th century.
Of the various Ithaca doubles, this one is the New Ithaca Doubles (NID), introduced in 1925 and made until manufacture of Ithaca doubles ceased in 1948.
The New Ithaca Doubles, of course, were made from 1925 to 1948.
www.gunsandammomag.com /classics/ithaca_022505   (1002 words)

  
 Earth&Table: The Community Garden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mandella Community Garden - This garden is slated for development, though the founders are striving to have it accepted into the Parks and Recreation Department.
New York City Community Gardens - Part of the EarthCelebrations.com site, this is the map and list of the community gardens in NYC's Lower East Side --of which there are 84.
Vermont Community Botanic Garden - News release explaining the general outline of the planned community garden expansion, kid's garden, and the demonstration and heritage gardens by the University of Vermont.
www.earthandtable.com /commgarden/gardens.html   (1810 words)

  
 MAKING CHANGE: Ithaca Leads Local Currency Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The current rise in the use of local currency programs nationwide has been inspired largely by the Ithaca HOURS program, created by Paul Glover in 1991 to foster economic self-reliance, connect people and create a community identity during the recession of the early 1990s.
Ithaca’s program has made the largest loan ever issued in a local currency, 3,000 HRS ($30,000 in value) to Alternatives Federal Credit Union to help finance construction of a new building.
Community leaders from Korea and Senegal, and even French anti-globalization activists have visited Ithaca to seek advice on how to get an upper hand on the global economy.
via3.net /Reports/Ithaca.htm   (997 words)

  
 Cohousing Magazine - News - October 28, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A new cohousing community is forming in east Denver.
Community members are negotiating with the City of Olympia for permits to build 13 units on the site.
To compile their list of trend-setting architects across the nation, NHandG editors looked at criteria such as breadth and depth of experience in green building, holistic perspective, understanding economics of building, emphasis on healthy building, understanding of how houses are built and working with builders, attention to occupants' comfort, health, and spiritual well-being and enjoyment.
www.cohousing.org /magazine/news.html   (978 words)

  
 Where Does Ithaca's Food Come From?
Ithaca's grand orchards, gardens, wheat-, oat- and corn fields lost ground to Great Plains' harvests, to federal farm policy, and to the region's latest crop: suburbs.
Ithaca has become an army camped far from its sources of supply, using distant natural resources faster than these renew.
These new laws, organizations and personal styles show understanding that, no matter how super our computers, we will never invent substitutes for food, water and air, that our nation will progress or erode with its soil, that ultimately the land is the law of the land.
www.healthdemocracy.org /ithacafood.html   (1253 words)

  
 The Ithaca Community News- Latest News
She describes herself as an "advocate for awareness" and came to Ithaca of her own volition—without pay or reimbursement for travel expenses—because she feels that South Hill residents have enough of a case to take this to the courts.
She says she's impressed with the work the community has already done, and the documents they've been able to acquire.
The New York State Assembly is proposing a safety limit of 0.2 micrograms per cubic meter (available in a report here).
ithacanews.org /news.htm?newsID=93   (780 words)

  
 happily stuck in Ithaca: November 2004
Ithaca is blessed to have a thriving indy theater scene with two locations.
With this piece of news (Charles Schumer not interested in seeking New York's Governorship), it becomes clearer that the long rumored showdown between Schumer and Eliot Spitzer is not going to materialize, and that Spitzer is gonna be the Dem candidate that wins back the Governorship.
The City of Ithaca is considering implementating legislation similar to that recently passed at the county level, to require contractors that bid on city projects to have an active apprenticeship program.
www.happilystuckinithaca.com /archive/2004_11_01_archive.html   (7998 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Ithaca Hours Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ithaca Hours is a local currency in Ithaca, New York.
The next day Paul Glover issued 10 HOURS to Ithaca Hours, the organization he founded to run the system, as the first of four reimbursements for the cost of printing HOURS.
The Ithaca Journal did a fine introductory article about HOURS, followed by a short interview with Casey Stevens on Radio WHCU and stories in the Syracuse Post-Standard, The Grapevine, the Cornell Daily Sun, and the Ithaca Times.
www.ipedia.com /ithaca_hours.html   (907 words)

  
 TCPL News: Ithaca Made Movies presents: "Still Standing"
The documentary was made for the Ithaca Centennial Celebration in 1988.
Ithaca’s buildings were used as the backdrops for many silent films during the 1912-1920 moviemaking period.
Note: TCPL News is an atom news feed and requires a reader that supports atom.
www.tcpl.org /news/2007/03/ithaca-made-movies-presents-still.html   (345 words)

  
 On U.S. academe, post-Sept. 11 - Opinion - theithacajournal.com - The Ithaca Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
News from Ithaca, Tompkins County and the Finger Lakes region
As evidence of this paranoiac fantasy, he cites, among other things, the publication of my essay in the "Ithaca College Quarterly" (the essay is an edited version of a talk I gave at a community event last September).
Crocker wants to give all us tenured boy/girl radicals hiding in the recesses of terrorist universities a reality check, he could benefit from one himself: The reality is that the Academy functions to support the status quo and my "type of people" exist on its margins, not at its core.
orig.theithacajournal.com /news/stories/20020211/opinion/1625680.html   (800 words)

  
 Cornell News: Inauguration in Ithaca
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Beginning with a trip to the Tompkins County Public Library, Cornell University President Jeffrey Lehman's Inauguration Day Oct. 16 in Ithaca will be a community affair that will feature distinguished speakers, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and a live phone call from the International Space Station.
Lehman's trip to Tompkins County Library at the beginning of his inauguration day in Ithaca will highlight the historical and continuing connection between the university and the Ithaca community.
Lehman will have a conversation with community leaders, and with Janet Steiner, executive director of the library, he will unveil a library exhibit commemorating the interrelationship between Ithaca's town and gown.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Oct03/inauguration.ithaca.lgk.html   (504 words)

  
 Ithaca News - Topix
Prior to Tuesday evening's Ithaca City School District Board of Education meeting, a group of about 120 people gathered outside the district's office to protest what they see as a lack of equity in the...
ITHACA - The Ithaca Fire Department was able to quickly rescue a child who fell about 20 feet into a gorge area along East State Street Saturday, a fire official said.
ITHACA - Ithaca College softball players Hannah Shalett and Nicole Cade were selected first-team All-Americans this week by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
www.topix.net /city/ithaca-ny   (605 words)

  
 The Ithacan Online | New minors broaden horizons - March 1st, 2007
Two new minors, African Diaspora — the study of African culture in the Americas — and Latino/Latina studies, will be available in Fall 2007.
The Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies submitted a proposal for the minors to the academic policies committee in the fall.
He said members of the center hope the new minors contribute to the school’s goal to prepare students for the increasingly globalized world.
theithacan.org /am/publish/news/200703_New_minors_broaden_horizons.shtml   (573 words)

  
 The Ithaca Community News- Community Profiles
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Rather than convincing them to stay in Ithaca, the destruction following the storm confirmed their commitment to helping residents in whatever ways they could.
Last week at the Ithaca Festival, during the Thousands of One show on the Commons, vocalist for the group Jhakeem Haltom spoke about "the myth of race" being designed to keep us separate.
www.ithacanews.org /profiles.htm   (373 words)

  
 Local Currencies in the 21st Century: Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
David Boyle is an associate of the New Economics Foundation, the pioneering green think-tank in London, and the editor of Radical Economics.
Through her experience with sustainable communities and ecovillages she realized that money, if designed and used properly, is an important tool in community building.
Currently Auta serves as the Interim Community Revitalization Director for Time Dollars USA, where she and other Time Dollar pioneers from around the country are working with Dr. Edgar Cahn (Founder of Time Dollars) on organizational development for the new national network.
www.localcurrency.org /speakers.html   (4530 words)

  
 Directory - Society: Activism: Regional: United States: New York
Ithaca Community News  · cached · Semimonthly collage of news, activism, labor, environment, arts, local links, letters and editorials for Ithaca, NY.
New York State Tyranny Response Team  · iweb · cached · A peacful conservative counter protest network.
Coalition Against Gambling New York  · cached · Statewide Coalition dedicated to informing the public of the true economics of gambling and promoting positive economic growth in New York while addressing the negative ramifications.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=322093   (403 words)

  
 happily stuck in Ithaca: December 2002
Every news show, every political talk show, every half hour update was dedicated almost in its entirety to the topic of Trent Lott.
In the community and among close friends, the couple is revered as 'Mr.
You said Fox News Network has been passed over consistently at the Emmys and that one of your particular reports about charities after 9/11 'which by all accounts blew other reports out of the water' (I'm paraphrasing, don't sue me) was snubbed at the Emmys.
www.happilystuckinithaca.com /archive/2002_12_01_archive.html   (7613 words)

  
 Community Activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Zarutskie said this new direct link is more convenient because the web “surfer” does not have to go to the General Code web page, and then scroll through the list of states, and then New York municipalities, serviced by that company.
Not-for-profit community service organizations are invited to submit links to their websites.
Much of the information listed here is submitted by the business, group or organization, and must meet Mid-Hudson News Network guidelines pertaining to community standards and non-advocacy of discrimination based on age, race, gender or sexual preference.
www.midhudsonnews.com /communitycalender.html   (1123 words)

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