The Ithaca Community News (ICN) is a non-profit news service bringing alternative news and views from Ithaca, NY to readers all over the world. ICN is also a weekly email newsletter with more than 8,000 subscribers.

Paul Glover founded ICN in 2000 and published it for five years before handing the reins to Elizabeth Field, a freelance journalist, in November, 2005.


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Very informative, substantive, thoughtful newsletter. Thank you.
—Olivia

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Testimonials

Here is a sampling of some of the great feedback we get from our readers!

I've forwarded your newsletter all over. You do outstanding work. Please don't stop.
—Casey J. Ronas

ICN is cosmopolitan with a down home touch that let's you feel all warm and fuzzy and wanting to read it again. You remind me of UTNE Reader.
—Casey J. Ronas

I dropped an old email account over a year ago and have sorrily been missing the newsletter! So great to have it coming to me again. Fantastic job. Thanks!
—Victoria J.

Very informative, substantive, thoughtful newsletter. Thank you.
—Olivia

Being a mama is a big job in and of itself and I just want to say how wonderful I think it is that you make time to contribute so much to our community...
—Megan Miller

The whole community thanks you, Elizabeth, for all that you do.
—W.S.

Your site is very useful.
—P.J.

I deeply appreciate the work you are doing, it's so very needed. Soon there will be a breakthrough as more people realize they need real news and real community.
—David M.

Thanks for the newsletter. Because of your postings, I was able to connect with some really great happenings in the community.
—Chris B.

I have moved to Florida. I love the Ithaca Community News and it makes me pine for my beloved home. I'm glad to be on the receiving end.
—Brandt S.

What a joy to keep receiving the ICN. Thanks for sending it and keep up the great work.
—Elaine L.

Thanks for the newsletter. I appreciate the amount of effort that must go into putting this together.
—Robert R.

Elizabeth, THANK YOU SO MUCHO for adding these into the hip-and-happenings!!! You're great!!!
—Rosie

Thank you for sending Martin Luther King's words to me.
—Anonymous

Great editorial, Elizabeth. THANK you for keeping King's 'dot-connecting' message in front of us all, while we act locally and understand connections globally simultaneously.
—Michael K.

Elizabeth, this is fantastic!!! I have to drop everything and read it ALL, NOW.
—Barbara B.

Thanks for the ICN newsletter. It looks good and is well organized.
—Melanie

THANK YOU FOR JUST DOING IT!
—T.A.

The newsletter is very informative and interesting.
—Scott

The newsletter is a welcome read and wonderful way to keep up on all that goes on in our special city!
—K.W.

Thanks for taking over the ICN. I love it and am glad someone is keeping up with it.
—M.C.

Many thanks for taking over ICN. Paul will be missed, but your first issue was truly splendid. Great work and thanks for keeping it going.
—R.A.

"I'm from Candor, but I still love the Ithaca Community News!"
—J.D., Candor, NY

"This is the best website ever!"
—C.D., Ithaca