Finger Lakes Life

The F.F. Thompson Foundation hosted its “Twilight in the Trees” gala Sept. 3 at Hotel Canandaigua, drawing about 300 people. The money will support six projects ranging from expanded memory care and maternity services to ... more

A flapjack breakfast at the First Baptist Church of Penfield on Saturday, Oct. 17, will raise money for the Penfield Ecumenical Food Shelf. The breakfast will run from 8 to 10 a.m. at the church, ... more

An old hard drive has yielded nearly 1,000 moon photos requested by middle school students during a NASA mission more than a decade ago. Cornell's Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility is working to restore information needed ... more

An Oct. 19 public talk at Cornell University will ask who gets to judge art and architecture that shape shared spaces: experts, elected leaders or the people who use those spaces. Art historian and critic ... more

Mary Malaney and fellow performers will bring a Halloween-themed cabaret to the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca on Sunday, Oct. 11, to raise money for its KIDDSTUFF children's theater series. The all-ages show runs from 3 ... more

The fourth annual Shields of Honor Gala will bring supporters of Geneva's police officers and firefighters to Ventosa Vineyards on Saturday, Nov. 7, with expanded auctions and a program honoring local first responders. Organizers say ... more

A candlelight vigil in Newark on Oct. 24 will honor people who have died from domestic violence, support survivors and share information about help available to people experiencing abuse. The public gathering, called Beyond Silence, ... more

Patients who had lymph nodes removed from the neck during cancer care showed more cognitive impairment than expected from general-population estimates in a retrospective study. The finding is an association, not proof that the surgery ... more

A. Reeve Parker, a Cornell University professor emeritus who taught English literature for more than four decades and later worked with incarcerated students, died Sept. 16 in Ithaca. He was 89 ... more

Fall foliage and seasonal festivals are drawing visitors to upstate New York resorts, according to Spectrum News 1. At Peek'n Peak in Chautauqua County, resort operators are preparing fall activities as changing leaves become part ... more

T-Mobile will pay up to $800 to help some customers leave another phone company. Think about the economics of that for a moment. A company that has never received a dollar from you may be ... more

Near the end of the year, someone at a meeting says the group should "put a little video together." Heads nod. A few weeks later, one volunteer is holding a promise and a pile of ... more

Cornell classics professor Michael Fontaine draws on Socrates and a second-century satirist to examine what it takes to speak freely — and to tolerate speech that challenges those in power — in a new book ... more

Cornell University students will hold a remembrance walk Wednesday, Sept. 30, as the university marks Orange Shirt Day and recommends films about the history of Indigenous boarding schools, according to Cornell's College of Arts and ... more

Pamela Young has been named executive director of Hobart and William Smith Colleges' Melly Institute for Business, Innovation and Leadership. Young joined the Geneva college this summer and will oversee its work connecting classroom study ... more

Hobart and William Smith Colleges has begun renovating the first floor of Williams Hall in Geneva to create a permanent home for its Melly Institute for Business, Innovation and Leadership. The college said the project ... more

More than 100 SUNY Cortland students wrote messages of encouragement for their peers on a “hope wall” during a campus suicide prevention event earlier this month. The Sept. 10 event outside Cornish-Van Hoesen Hall marked ... more

Seneca Dairy Systems plans to give away 1,000 chicken barbecue dinners to residents of Romulus, Varick and Ovid on Saturday, Oct. 10, while supporting the Romulus Fire Department through the purchase. The free meal distribution ... more

Journalist and author Nancy Lynch will share wartime letters from women who served in Vietnam during a free presentation at the Seneca Falls Library on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The talk, “The REAL Women, Veterans of ... more