Category: Trumansburg

A garage caught fire on Wednesday night in Trumansburg. The garage is a detached two car garage. Trumansburg Fire Department, Enfield Fire Department, and Mecklenburg Fire Department responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m. The garage was knocked down upon arrival to ... MORE

Camp Barton, a 130 acre Boy Scout camp, may go up for auction. A vote was held to decide whether the Boy Scouts of America’s Baden-Powell Council should sell the property assessed to be worth $4.5 million dollars. The sale would help ... MORE

INHS, a regional affordable housing organization, continues to evolve its footprint by recently purchasing the former Auble’s Mobile Home Park, now known as Compass. The 138-pad manufactured community, located in both the Village of Trumansburg in Tompkins County and the Town of ... MORE

Cayuga Nature Center located just outside of Ithaca offers various exhibits and programs to help visitors better understand nature. Animal lovers can stop by the outdoor animal exhibits and nature lovers can venture off through the wooded trails or check out the ... MORE

Taughannock Falls in Trumansburg, New York is one of the most beautiful natural attractions the Finger Lakes Region has to offer. At 215 feet tall, the waterfall can be seen from above on the rim trail, or below at the end of the ... MORE

Grassroots Live is facing one issue after another this season, and one of their biggest headliners for the upcoming weekend has been moved to the Grandstand. When Grassroots was working to follow Covid-19 restrictions, they had sold PODS for upwards of $399 ... MORE

A Trumansburg woman was killed in a two-car crash in Tompkins County. It happened Monday night, as an 86-year-old woman, and her dog both died in the wreck. Police said Joyce Oltz, 86, of Trumansburg failed to stop at a stop sign ... MORE

Travel and Leisure have compiled a list for travelers looking for places to go with low population density and accessible outdoors. The list is for some of the best small towns in New York with less than 10,000 residents for people to ... MORE

As Tompkins County returns to normal after the pandemic, Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival organizers are planning an event for 2021 called GrassRoots Live! The event will have a series of limited capacity PODS (Personal Outdoor Dance Space) concerts every night from July ... MORE

Scott Sherwood, who before this week served as the president of the Trumansburg Central School District Board of Education, resigned after giving an emotional speech. It came at a meeting on Monday, which was reported by The Ithaca Voice. Sherwood had posted ... MORE

The Addiction Center estimates that nearly 21 million Americans suffer from some form of addiction. Yet only 10% of them receive treatment. Since 1990 overdose deaths have more than tripled; and between 1999 and 2017 more than 700,000 Americans died from overdosing ... MORE

The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trumansburg man on a felony contempt charge after an investigation in Interlaken. John Orak, 52, of Trumansburg was found to have violated a court order on Christmas Day around 3 a.m. by ... MORE

The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trumansburg resident following a property damage crash on Route 96 in Covert. Deputies say Steven Gravina, 63, was arrested after a crash on December 20th around 3 p.m. His vehicle was located ... MORE

In this edition of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable deals with the Flood of 1935 that devastated the southern Finger Lakes. The July 1935 flood killed 44 people and caused millions of dollars in damages. This extended episode ... MORE

Grassroots has been cancelled. For the last 30 years the annual festival has been a major event for Tompkins County. Organizers said in a message that it would be cancelled until July 2021. Photo by Greg Cotterill “We come together several times ... MORE