Pencil sketch by Mary Ann Barr 2021
Town Hall, 1830 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
Tonight the Town of Danby Planning Group will meet for a presentation from Town Planner, David West. The presentation will focus on how the Town’s existing zoning and subdivision regulations […]
(Ithaca, NY) Farmers, rural landowners, and local government officials are invited to attend the 2021 Tompkins County Agriculture Summit to hear updates from agencies whose work funds, supports or impacts […]
For media inquiries: Samantha Hillson, 607-274-6714, shillson@tompkins-co.org; Dominick Recckio, drecckio@tompkins-co.org March 22, 2021 HEALTH ALERT Recent Increase in COVID-19 Cases, Reporting Variants of Concern in Tompkins County (Ithaca, NY – March 22, […]
Your survey response could help Tompkins County receive grant funding to pay for repairs or replacement of some income-eligible househoulds’ septic systems… Wednesday, March 3, 2021 Tompkins County is applying […]
Starting March 1st, 2021, the Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste Center will be operated under a new contract with Casella Recycling. Changes under the new contract include: Plastic Bags […]
Let your voice be heard regarding conservation management plans for town-owned properties at the upcoming public meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 17 February 2021 at 7PM via zoom. The management plan proposal […]
In recent weeks, recycling collectors have noticed an uptick in curbside recycling contamination, with Styrofoam, plastic bags, and paper towels and tissues identified as the most common culprits. These items […]
White Hawk Ecovillage, located in Danby NY, has recently announced a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties to build a Habitat home at the ecovillage. […]
New SPRING writing workshops offered through the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County! Register on the event page here (and watch videos from our November Festival events) * Donate if […]
shared by Barbara Lifton, outgoing Assemblywoman: The Governor, via Executive Order, has extended the NYS COVID-19 rent relief program to February. 1, 2021. $60 million is available in this next […]
The Town of Danby sits on the traditional & ancestral land of the Gayogoho:no’ (Cayuga Nation), one of the five nations to first form the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794.
