City Urges People to Use Caution in Gorge Areas
Since we live between two beautiful gorges, a reminder is always a good idea!
With the on-set of warm weather, Ithaca's waterfalls and gorges become popular destinations. These areas are beautiful but as natural water bodies, they also have hidden and changing dangers. To ensure public safety, City Officials urge everyone to obey all posted rules and regulations, such as:
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- No swimming, wading, or bathing in any natural waters in the City
- No rock climbing, or cliff jumping
- Stay on posted trails
There are hidden rock formations and water currents that can pin even strong swimmers underwater. Weather conditions cause variations in water levels that can also increase danger. The gorge walls are mostly shale that breaks easily and can trap climbers or cause dangerous falls.
Violating these safety regulations put people at risk of serious injury and death and place emergency response workers in danger by performing high risk rescues. People who violate the regulations are subject to arrest.
Ithaca's gorges and trails provide a source of beauty and inspiration. By using good judgment while enjoying these sites, everyone can return home safely.
Here is something that applies to all of us.
Eating Local is the theme for July and August for Get Your GreenBack Tompkins, a community-based campaign to inspire all 42,000 households and every business in Tompkins County to take at least one step to save energy and money in the areas of Food, Building Heating and Lighting, Transportation, and Waste.
Read on if you are interested......
Get Your GreenBack’s Summer Steps - Eat Local & Save
Summer brings an abundant harvest and opportunities for affordable and flavorful feasts. This is a great time of year to take a new step to eat local and save:
- Shop farmstands--it’s on your way home
- Pick your own--picking fruits and vegetables is family fun
- Farmer’s markets--did you know you can use WIC and Food stamps?
- Go fishing & eat wild
- Dine at restaurants serving local food
- Create, learn and share recipes that use local food
- Preserve the harvest--can, freeze, dry, ferment, pickle
- Grow your own--Summer’s the perfect time to start a Fall garden or join a community garden
- Share from your garden and cook together
- Learn to stretch your food dollar & food stamps
- Buy, prepare and preserve in bulk
- Plan your recipes around what’s in season
- Glean--let no part of the harvest go to waste
Learn more and register your step to win local food prizes at GetYourGreenBack.org or call 272-2292.
Ithaca Road construction has forced a detour through Mitchell and Cornell Streets.
Please report concerns to the non-emergency police number: (607) 272-3245. An example of a concern happened a few days ago when a truck broke a large limb off of a tree on the northeast corner of Cornell and Mitchell Streets. The Fire Department arrived promplty to remove the limbs and branches from the road. Unfortunatey, that corner is receiving a little less shade than it once provided.
The City of Ithaca Board of Public Works has a Facebook page where you can view pictures of construction progress not only in our neighborhood, but all throughout the city.
We need two to three able volunteers to organize our neighborhood picnic this August.
Please contact Marybeth Tarzian if you can help: marybeth.tarzian@gmail.com.
The picnic will not happen if we can't find people willing to plan it.
Thanks!
The Belle Sherman Cottages will now be open each Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
In addition to touring the home, you can view flooring, countertop, cabinetry and other options to individualize your custom BELLE SHERMAN COTTAGE.
There is still time for fall occupancy! Prices start in the mid-$300,000 and a $10,000 incentive is available to the first two buyers.
For more details, contact Margaret Snow or Karen Eldredge, Licensed Associate Real Estate Brokers at Audrey Edelman RealtyUSA and Representatives of the Belle Sherman Cottages, 607-220-5333.
We are ready to serve you at our two locations in Ithaca, 710 Hancock Street and 2333 N. Triphammer Road.
The City of Ithaca GIS Program is pleased to announce the release of the City of Ithaca Public Interactive Web Map.
This public service is made possible by the Tompkins County-City of Ithaca Initiative, a 12-year inter-governmental collaboration. This partnership has allowed both governments to serve staff and the public with the latest, most powerful online mapping technologies, while limiting costs and eliminating redundancy.
The release of the public map completes our migration to a new enhanced method of making data accessible to citizens, visitors and the business community. Via this citizen access tool, constituents can find detailed information about any property, zone, historic district, ward, City managed tree, park, road configuration, and can overlay any of these pieces of information with the color aerial photography for a complete picture.
The new viewer has over 50 tools to help individuals access publicly available information, extract or annotate measurements and coordinates, and see alternate views of any City location through Bing Maps or Google Streetview.
Properties can be searched by address or parcel number, digitally annotated and emailed or printed to share ideas with City Officials.
Citizens are invited to explore, discover and spread the word!
View the Public City Map and start exploring for yourself. Additional Public Viewers for the City and County can be found via the Tompkins-Ithaca Geoportal.
More information is available by contacting Ruth Aslanis, GIS Manager at gisrequest@cityofithaca.org or (607) 272-1717.
