This article was originally published by the Cornell Chronicle on Oct. 7.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mayor Svante Myrick is in a precautionary quarantine after attending an event with Binghamton mayor Rich David, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday.
ITHACA -- An employee at GreenStar Food Co-op at the 770 Cascadilla Street location has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently in isolation. The Health Department has identified and contacted those who had close contact with this employee, and the protocols for essential workers are b…
Cornell University has returned to alert level green after 13 straight days at level yellow. The change comes just after Cornell’s total "cases by week" had broken 50 cases over the week, and 60 in the week prior.?
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that six?states?have been removed from New York State's COVID-19 travel advisory— California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada?and?Ohio.
My son went to college with merely two suitcases and a backpack in tow, following Cornell’s creative Coronavirus packing policy. The limited load was so that he could move himself into his room alone to?quarantine once he took a COVID test. We said goodbye briefly in a car pool line to keep …
The Coronavirus has upended many of the tried and true practices of just about everyone on our planet…and, of course, has significantly affected restaurateurs and diners everywhere.? If you spend time with owners and managers of restaurants in the Greater Ithaca Area, you might share my admi…
UPDATE | Tompkins Cortland Community College announced its intention to extend its move to remote instruction for the week of Sept. 8-11 in order on Sept. 6. The college said that it is working with the Tompkins County Health Department to conduct thorough contact tracing after new COVID cas…
Cornell University announced that it has moved to alert level yellow in its COVID-19 tracking dashboard, following a week-long rise in positive test results among its students, meaning that the university considers the potential of obtaining the virus low, but indicators show increased or po…
A Boatyard Grill employee has tested positive for COVID-19 possibly exposing the public to the virus, according to Tompkins County Health Department.
The Aurora Streatery experiment could last longer than initially thought if several restaurants decide they’ll be able to successfully install heat lamps in their allotted outdoor areas to combat the changing weather.?
The Tompkins County Department of Health issued an alert that an employee at Simeon's American Bistro, located at 224 E. State St. on the Commons, tested positive for COVID-19. The health department says that the employee worked several shifts before learning their status.
RECAP:?The Tompkins County Legislature voted unanimously (14-0) to appropriate funds to ongoing community surveillance testing contracted with Cayuga Health System (CHS) on Aug. 18.?
The Ithaca City School District's Board of Education held a special voting meeting Tuesday night at which it voted unanimously to delay in-person classes until Oct. 5. All students will be remote learning until that date, and the current plan is to offer in-classroom learning for students wh…
The Ithaca City School District's Board of Education will vote at a special meeting Tuesday night on how to start the academic school year of its 5,000 plus students as the coronavirus pandemic continues nationwide.?
Cayuga Health announced on Monday that it has launched a Coronavirus Tracking Tool on?the Cayuga Health System website. The tool includes?up-to-date?statistical data providing official numbers as they are released by the Cayuga Health Sampling Center in Ithaca, NY.
Every morning Hector Aguillar-Carreno wakes up, greets his family and then descends the stairs to his basement to work. He’ll be there for several hours, give or take a meal break. He'll stay in that room with his children's artwork and his monitor before him trying to lead his team to one o…
The City of Ithaca is expanding its efforts to help businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn, announcing today a new recovery loan fund for "anchor storefronts" in the city, called the Ithaca Anchor Storefront Recovery Loan Fund.
Cornell University highlighted its optimism for the coming semester in a recent report by the Cornell Chronicle. In the article, the university shared that of the more than 4,000 tests it has conducted so far, only five tests have come back positive.?
As long as their specific plans are approved by the New York State Department of Health, Tompkins County schools will be allowed to reopen for in-person classes in the coming weeks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday morning, even as the coronavirus pandemic slows but continues in New York.?
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