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The Student News Site of Ithaca College

The Ithacan
Ithaca Buddhist Meditation
The Student News Site of Ithaca College

The Ithacan
First-year student Cole Turner discusses the importance of exploring the community the City of Ithaca offers. Turner notes the many festivals, restaurants, wineries and natural wonders found around the city.

Commentary: Students must explore beyond their residence hall

By Cole Turner • September 28, 2022
Compared to other big state universities which are entire towns themselves, we’re so fortunate to call a town with so many opportunities our home.
Ithaca College sophomores Kendall Martin, Anna McCracken and Jay Tagliani admire the prisms displayed on The Commons during the 2019 Winter Light Festival. The prisms will make a reappearance during this December’s Winter Lights & Bites Festival.

Prism lights and little bites return to The Commons

By Elijah de Castro, Staff Writer • December 4, 2020
The Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) combined the Winter Light Festival with the Bite of Ithaca restaurant promotion to create the Winter Lights & Bites Festival.
Some of the brightest attractions at the first Winter Lights Festival will be luminescent prisms that glow with colorful light. The festival will begin on Dec. 5 and end on Dec. 15 and also feature a chowder cook-off and an art bike parade.

New Winter Lights Festival will illuminate The Commons

By Maddy Martin • December 4, 2019

Last December, blocks of ice were carved into dragons, knights and a surfing goat in downtown Ithaca. This year, 25 light prisms will be taking their place as the new Winter Lights Festival replaces Ice...

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