Your Morning Edition for Tuesday, Nov. 1st!
Finger Lakes Today debuts at 9 AM, Lyons sees several new/expanding businesses popping up, hospitals feeling stress of nursing home bed shortage, early voting in New York, and Ithaca's crime woes.
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DEBUTING TODAY: In a matter of hours the FingerLakes1.com team will launch a new daily show aimed at the entire community. Debuting at 9 a.m. Finger Lakes Today will feature daily news, sports, and weather updates with a combination of live and pre-recorded interviews with guests from across the region.
GROWTH IN LYONS: Construction is underway for a new Dunkin’ Donuts on a vacant lot next to Kwik Fill on Route 31 in Lyons. Cranes were out preparing the land Monday. Town Supervisor Jim Brady took a drive with FingerLakes1.com to showcase all the new things happening around town, and Dunkin’ is just one of several projects in the works. “It’s kind of exciting,” Brady said. “We have a Quicklee Mobile Station doing a million-dollar renovation and the word is that a Kentucky Fried Chicken or a Taco Bell drive through and restaurant is going in there. Then we have the Dollar General.” Those businesses are also on Route 31, but the growth isn't limited there. [READ MORE]
HOSPITALS STRESSED: Flu season is underway, and COVID is still a concern for some. But the biggest stress on hospitals right now is the lack of beds at facilities across the Finger Lakes. The region's largest hospitals are essentially at capacity. What does that mean? Elective surgeries could be paused again. A closer look at the real cause of this stress. [READ MORE]
EARLY VOTING: How many people turned out to vote over the first official weekend of early voting in New York? The answer is more than 261,000. Less than 98,000 of those ballots were cast in New York City. Meanwhile, 164,000 were cast outside of the city. [READ MORE]
ITHACA CRIME WOES: The president of the union representing cops within the Ithaca Police Department says violent crime in the city and a staffing crisis have combined to create an emergency situation. He called the combination of issues ‘critical’ and said that attempts by groups like the Ithaca PBA to get city officials to address staffing have fallen flat. Despite the attempts of the PBA to shed light on the issues surrounding staffing and violent crime, City Hall has remained mostly silent and has offered no real solutions even in the wake of the recent stabbing murder that occurred just blocks from the Ithaca Commons, a press release from the Ithaca PBA said. [READ MORE]
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