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After their first budget was voted down, the Newfield Central School District’s second proposed budget for the 2024-25 school year has been passed by voters, with a 59.7% approval rate.
Business Administrator for the Newfield School District Perry Gorgen outlined challenges that the district has faced in the past and what the district is facing in future budget years at the Monday, June 10 budget hearing.
On Tuesday, June 18, voting residents will head to the polling locations in the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) and Newfield Central School District to vote on their respective re-vote budgets, after both schools budgets failed to pass in the May elections. Approximately 3% of school budg…
After Newfield’s proposed school budget failed by just 18 votes on Tuesday, May 21, the district proposed a new budget with a lower tax levy increase during a special meeting on Thursday, May 30. If this budget doesn’t pass, the district will have to adopt a contingency budget, in which the …
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On Tuesday, May 21, the Newfield Central School District's 2024-25 budget was voted down by just 18 votes, leaving the district's board of education with the choice of whether to propose a new budget for the public to vote on or go with a contingency budget. The original budget failed to pas…
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The Newfield Public Library Director Susan Chaffee gave a presentation at the Newfield Board of Education meeting On Thursday, April 11 to ask taxpayers for increased funding for their programs and services.
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Members of the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office and the Tompkins County Probation Department collaborated on April 23 to conduct a probationary check on 23-year-old Rayquan T. Brooks, a Newfield resident currently on probation for Attempted Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree.
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In a conclusion to a week-long trial, Richard A. Marks Jr, a 39-year-old resident of Newfield, was found guilty by a jury on multiple charges, including Menacing a Police Officer, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Third Degree, and Criminal Contempt in the Second Degree.
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The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national …
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On August 1, 2023, at approximately 3:32 p.m., New York State Police at Ithaca were dispatched by the Tompkins County 911 Center to a report of a multi-vehicle crash on State Route 13 in the town of Newfield near Smiley’s.
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On Thursday, July 13, the boards of education for the Candor, Newfield and Spencer-Van Etten School Districts held their annual reorganizational meetings, during which they appointed members and took care of annual business prior to the 2023-24 school years, such as officially approving stan…
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On June 29, 2023, New York State Police at Ithaca arrested Stephan R. Starks, age 74, of Newfield, NY for the class “A-II” felony of Predatory Sexual Assault Against a Child and the class “D” felony of Sex Abuse in the first degree.
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Following the withdrawal of Second Wind Cottages’ application to the Community Recovery Fund, the Tompkins County Legislature has decided to re-allocate $510,000 in funding to other applicants.
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Randy Brown, who represents Newfield and part of Enfield in the Tompkins County Legislature, gave his regular legislature report to the Newfield Town Board at its meeting on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m., sharing the latest updates from the county and talking about many budget-related issues.
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On April 15th, 2023, the Tompkins County Sherriff's Office and the New York State Police responded to 1177 Trumbulls Corners Road in the Town of Newfield for a physical domestic in progress.
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According to a New York State Police press release, a Newfield resident died following a car crash on Elmira Road in the Town of Ithaca On April 12 at around 7:40 p.m.
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The executive director of Second Wind Cottages, David Shapiro, announced the organization would be pulling its application for the Community Recovery Fund during the March 22 Tompkins County Legislature meeting after speaking about the opposition the organization has faced from the Town of N…
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On Thursday, March 9, the Newfield Town Board voted to appoint new members to the planning board to fill vacancies.
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On Thursday, Feb. 9, the Newfield Central School District Board of Education voted to approve income tax exemptions for low-income and disabled seniors.
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On Thursday, Jan 26, the Town of Newfield held hearings for and passed the first two local laws of the year 2023 - one to repeal the override of the tax levy limit and another to authorize a property tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
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On Thursday, Jan. 26, the Newfield Central School District hosted a public forum about low tax exemptions for low-income and disabled seniors, as well as other finance- and budget-related issues facing the district.
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Elisa Rodriguez, an Academic Intervention Specialist for Reading for the Newfield Central School District, was named to the International Literacy Association's 30 under 30 list, which was released on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
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On Thursday, Jan. 19, the Newfield Fire Hall hosted a Hamlet Planning Forum to discuss potential improvements to Main Street, Bridge Street and the Shaffer Road intersection - the core of the hamlet - in a way that would encourage constructive dialogue and forming consensus.
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