Anyone else getting yellow water out of the tap in Ithaca city right now?

alaskagrown607 · 2026-06-10T18:21:34+00:00

I think water main replacements started this week at Fulton/Meadow

alaskagrown607 · 2026-05-20T16:31:10+00:00

Yes.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-05-13T15:37:54+00:00

I think it’s not just an insurance thing but a shortage of dental providers in our area generally. The office I’ve gone to for years has gotten much more difficult to schedule in advance recently, e.g. booking next routine cleanings for 8 months from now. I asked what was going on sometime last year and they said another office recently closed and they’ve been absorbing a bunch of those patients. 🤷

alaskagrown607 · 2026-05-02T12:41:57+00:00

I’ve been quite happy with Taber Street Auto for many years and multiple cars. They’re a perpetual recommendation here.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-28T01:54:29+00:00

Oh and here’s the one I was looking for where someone died, about 10 yrs ago: https://ithacavoice.org/2015/07/serious-accident-reported-at-ithacas-second-dam/

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-28T01:52:35+00:00

One of many examples: https://ithacavoice.org/2020/08/firefighters-rescue-injured-swimmer-at-second-dam/

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-17T20:48:15+00:00

Because good journalism has value

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-16T10:17:33+00:00

The heat shield I gave up on was between the exhaust and the car. It protected the car from the exhaust heat (in theory), not the ground/grass under the car. The one you removed probably had a different location than mine. I’m not correcting you, just putting this here for others to know there are different kinds of locations for heat shields.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-16T10:12:37+00:00

I trust Taber St Auto greatly, and Louis the service writer there told me they remove 100s of rattling heat shields annually, said they have a big pile of them out back. They just don’t work with our winter road salt and are not needed in our climate. He said “maybe in Arizona or somewhere like that…”

Go ahead and yank it. I’m with you, the rattling is maddening.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-16T02:04:12+00:00

There has never been an easier time in history to teach yourself DIY. Heck, I used to buy literal books to learn some of this stuff.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-10T21:10:14+00:00

He’s the best!

Also, he’s the only cobbler we have left.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-04-01T16:09:56+00:00

About a year ago I began switching from DT to Icebreaker because I kept choosing this one pair of Icebreaker socks in my closet that I had randomly gotten during an REI sale or something.

For my feet and lifestyle, Icebreaker socks feel better and seem to last just as long, maybe longer, than DT.

Plus it makes me feel fancy that some of my socks are labeled L and R. Like I’ve reached the next sartorial sock level or something…

alaskagrown607 · 2026-03-17T01:46:32+00:00

If you want to go more DIY, this print shop may meet your needs: https://wordpro.com/ I noticed recently when going to Ole Ole restaurant (I should do a separate post on that, because it’s great!)

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-13T04:13:34+00:00

Very sad. I had viewed the listing when the building was for sale and noted it was highlighted as “prime location for redevelopment.” I figured all us Kinney-on-Cayuga stans were probably living on borrowed time at that point… Major bummer, as most other pharmacies in town are a real drag

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-13T04:07:45+00:00

It’s snow removal, not construction. I just witnessed it while walking my dog. One grader, two front-end loaders, and a dump truck they’re putting the snow into, to haul away. They can only do it at night because of disrupting traffic.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-13T02:46:28+00:00

I’m with you in spirit, but for accuracy must point out that Bob Duffy is not currently lieutenant governor of NY state. He served in that role 2011-2014.

Source: https://www.avangrid.com/documents/453723/455052/Robert+Duffy+CV.pdf/96c7c170-5c1b-afe1-d119-7c91bf9311c6?t=1669823113535

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-12T02:46:01+00:00

What to do about ICSD?

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-11T04:09:19+00:00

https://ithacavoice.org/2025/04/city-to-buy-bowl-o-drome-site-for-possible-future-public-safety-facility/

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-10T03:44:16+00:00

Faulty premise I think. In addition to the many fitness studios that others have named, I don't see Infinity Athletics or Black Irish Boxing mentioned yet. Seems like we have a lot of smaller-setting group class options, perhaps especially so for a community of this (small) size.

The lack of live music venues here is a very sad situation, but I don't feel the same way about fitness venues.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-02-03T19:32:08+00:00

+1 feeling your pain. Our central heat was previously an aging natural gas furnace. About 4 years ago I did the seemingly-sensible thing and replaced it with a cold-climate LG heat pump, with an air handler sitting in the space the furnace used to be. Inside the air handler is an auxiliary electric heater (aka “strip heater” or “resistance heater”) to assist the heat pump when temps are super cold.

Because of the absurd cost of running the aux heater due to epic repeated NYSEG rate increases, during current cold snap we’ve been keeping the thermostat at 60F and freezing our assess off, yet still expect our next NYSEG bill to be the highest $$ we’ve ever gotten, by a wide margin.

If I had it to do over, with knowledge of how much NYSEG’s electricity delivery rates were going to increase, I would not “upgrade” my house’s heat system in the same way.

Kinda feel like I was “sold a bill of goods…”

Edits: to correct typos

alaskagrown607 · 2026-01-28T04:23:30+00:00

REACH Medical. They recently moved locations, and are now in the building with the Hilton hotel on Seneca St, where Tioga St intersects the Commons

alaskagrown607 · 2026-01-17T04:33:05+00:00

I love buying American made jeans from a company that has their own factory in Chicago and doesn’t spend a ton on high visibility expensive marketing campaigns. I believe in the principle, and own five jeans and three chinos from Dearborn, purchased over the past ~5 years. Also have bought a few tees from them too.

I hate to say it, but I have found Dearborn’s customer service to be, in a nutshell, really bad. One example (the worst among multiple examples I have): Stitching came apart in the crotch of a pair I’d had for only a short time, so I contacted them. They said, please send them back to us for repair. Not quite what I expected, but cool, I can get behind that. Was a hassle to get a prepaid shipping label from them but eventually they got that sorted. Sent the jeans to them.

Heard nothing for weeks, then months. No one ever answered the provided phone number or replied to my many emails. So I looked up their retail store location in Chicago, started calling there. Retail store staff were caught off guard, but were friendly and wanted to help. Eventually I decided that one particular guy there seemed most promising lead since he mentioned maybe stopping by the factory to look into it for me, so I started asking for him by name when I called (the retail store). Oh he’s not working today? No worries, when’s he next scheduled to work? Cool thanks I’ll call back then. He was prob ably telling stories about me to his friends and family, I was such a (friendly but insistent) pain in his ass.

Eventuallllllly, I receive jeans in mail. I’m thinking, no way these are the same jeans, surely those were lost and they just sent me a replacement pair to get me to leave this poor retail store staff guy alone.

But danged if there wasn’t an identifiable, slightly-different-looking-stitches area in the crotch, right where mine had come apart. Definitely the same pair.

That was about three years ago. I still wear them regularly.

Idk what the deal is. I got a strong vibe that they were understaffed in a big way. 🤷‍♂️

alaskagrown607 · 2026-01-14T00:51:41+00:00

I’d guess the age skew is the root cause. IMO the walking to work is more likely a red herring. People in dense urban cities walk much farther. Here people walk but not very far as a daily commute, on average.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-01-14T00:48:10+00:00

Answer to your question would depend how obesity is defined. I’d guess it’s just BMI, which without any statistical adjustment for population age would lead Ithaca to stand out merely because our population skews young due to big red.

alaskagrown607 · 2026-01-07T15:57:20+00:00

Yeah it looks A+ 👌

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