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On December 15, the Virgil Fire Department was called to a possible gas leak around 9:45 p.m. on South Cortland Virgil Road.

The Apalachin Library recently received $3,034 from the Floyd Hooker Foundation.

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).