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Saga Communications, Ithaca, NY still looking for a DOE..?

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Hi all,

Anyone got any dirt on Saga Communications in Ithaca, NY...?

They've been advertising for a DOE for a while now, and I was wondering the if the company/cluster is a revolving door, or maybe the sites are a nightmare, or maybe no one wants to live in East Elbonia..?

I searched in the forum here for "saga ithaca" and there's a hit from 2008 that indicates they were looking back then, too..?? o_O

As it happens, I grew up West Elbonia - about three counties to the West, so the highbrow Elbonian lifestyle isn't anything I haven't seen before... Yee-haw. ;-)

Thanks.
 
Ins't Ithica sort of like Syracuse, only worse and moreof it? Rust - belt dying economy with lake effect winters thrown in? That it's 'home'probably gives you an advantage. Give themashout or a resume. Hit 'em up for a ticket to come talk and inspect the facilities.
 
Oh I love the cold. It's not a good winter until I can go outside to take a deep breath and have my nose hairs freeze into snotcicles. One of the things got me interested is Greek Peak is 30 mins to the right. 15 if I get a place in between. Lake effect is "snow problem". I grew up in it. Buffalo's record is 7 feet in 24 hours - mostly at the airport, I think that was in 2000 or 2001. But it's not unheard of for places like Oswego and Watertown to have 10 feet in 24 hours.
 
I can't speak to the specifics of the opening in Ithaca, but I can speak to Ithaca in general. The only thing it has in common with Syracuse is a TV market. The Syracuse economy was based on industry and is suffering as a result. Ithaca's a college town that never had an industrial base to speak of. Lots of good food, lots of culture, and no lake-effect snow, either; it's too far from the shore of Lake Ontario to get belted by the lake effect. (Which is not to say that it doesn't snow there; it certainly does.)
 
Scott Fybush said:
I can't speak to the specifics of the opening in Ithaca, but I can speak to Ithaca in general. The only thing it has in common with Syracuse is a TV market. The Syracuse economy was based on industry and is suffering as a result. Ithaca's a college town that never had an industrial base to speak of. Lots of good food, lots of culture, and no lake-effect snow, either; it's too far from the shore of Lake Ontario to get belted by the lake effect. (Which is not to say that it doesn't snow there; it certainly does.)
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To be almost completely off-topic...

During the WTFDA Convention in Rochester this summer... seen on a bumper sticker in the parking lot of the hotel... "Ithaca, 6 square miles surrounded by reality."

The phrase was stolen. It was coined in 1978 by Lee Sherman Dreyfus, (successful) candidate for Governor of Wisconsin. He was referring to Madison, whose residents didn't exactly share his GOP politics.
 
I'm hip. I'm in North Georgia, Athens is just down the road. Like I said, if it's 'home' and you like that weather, let them haul you in to talk about it.
 
Back in the 80's, I had reason to frequently travel to Horseheads for work, and had a friend at Cornell in Ithaca.
Hiked a few gorges, and generally fell in love with the place.
A lot of citified amenities for being in the middle of nowhere.
There's snow a plenty in any given winter, but as others noted it's so far beyond lake snow range that it's not a factor.
But there are hills, and I don't like the idea of snow and hills much.
At least where I am it's flat so the snow doesn't have the additional danger of hills to make it worse.
There seemed to be plenty of snow plowing capacity everywhere I went in the Elmira/Horseheads/Ithaca region,
and I was there during some fierce snows.

Maybe people just get tired of it being six square miles surrounded by reality.

Maybe it can only appeal to academics and those passing through the university.
University towns often have "strong" flavors of one sort or another.
Ithaca sure does. Hanover NH (with Dartmouth College) is another good example.

I'd recommend it as a place to live if someone didn't mind "real" winters, and has no particular attachment
to some other place! The gorges alone are worth it.
 
Tom Wells said:
Back in the 80's, I had reason to frequently travel to Horseheads for work, and had a friend at Cornell in Ithaca. Hiked a few gorges, and generally fell in love with the place.
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If I'm not mistaken, an old bumper sticker read, "Ithaca IS Gorges."
 
Ah, the last time I was there was to take a very sick cat to the veterinary oncology clinic at Cornell, so my memory of the place is rather clouded.

I got word back from the GM they filled the position already, BTW. Argh.
 
I have been to Ithaca many times, but I got to see more of it when my brother and I were on a video shoot there in late 2009. He went to Ithaca College from 1968-1972. He showed me a lot of the roads that I had never been on that he said were "really bad places to be drunk"...
 
dannyscott101 said:
...my brother...showed me a lot of the roads that I had never been on that he said were "really bad places to be drunk"...
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Get the latest version of Google Earth, turn on the 3D-terrain and 3D-buildings, and then drop the little man in the middle of the creek that runs next to Cornell. You'll get a realistic idea of how "gorges" that Ithaca really is - from a different perspective. =-)
 
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