Community

On December 18, the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) is hosting Santa’s Workshop with a community stocking stuffer/gift exchange, festive games, sweet treats, and free “Nice List” certificates.

Crews are pushing back a renovation project at the Cayuga Heights Fire Station after hoping the bunker kitchen would be improved upon this month.

A meeting on a data center law in Dryden, which may also include a vote on adopting the law, begins at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Dec. 18.

Ithaca Police Chief Tom Kelly says they aren’t seeing the usual increase in package thefts from porches and doorsteps as law enforcement has seen during previous holiday seasons.

After a nationwide search, the TCPL Board of Trustees announced on Tuesday, Dec. 16 that Emerson DeMeester-Lane will take the helm next month.

Found Antiques is holding a soft opening at their new location in the former Emerson Power building, now Southworks.

The Hangar Theatre is hosting Midnight Creative’s A Christmas Cocktail Carol on Friday, December 19th and Saturday, December 20th.

Cornell received $55 million from alumnus Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, which will establish the Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).

On Tuesday, Dec. 16, a cross-country skier was bitten around 2 p.m. in a Cornell-owned field south of Hanshaw Road and west of Freese Road.

Dairy Queen is moving into the former Tim Horton’s across from Home Depot on Elmira Road.