David Hill

The story is familiar in the Carolina Piedmont: A town grows up around a mill that makes textiles, cigarettes or furniture. The community thrives, people have jobs, they invest in the place and do business with one another; they raise families. It’s…

INSTALLING INTERNET OF THINGS — Doctoral candidate Alfredo Rodriguez, foreground, and Qingxuan Sun, a visiting Ph.D., install an Internet of Things-based outdoor air quality monitor in summer 2019 at Cornell University. What if a farmer could…

FRESHLY PICKED — Chmielewski’s Produce employees Angelo Storms, Haley Brown and Meghan McCormick, put bushels of freshly picked, locally grown sweet corn on display at the farm stand on Ridge Mills Road, across the street from Ridge Mills Elementary…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill Sick people and students might be helping Binghamton and Johnson City adapt to a new economy. Binghamton Mayor Rich David and Johnson City Mayor Greg Deemie were the speakers Thursday at the monthly SUNY BEST…

dwhill@gannett.com | @NY_newsguy_Hill HOMER — The future of vegetable farming in upstate New York might be under plastic. Behind a century-old yellow farmhouse on Route 11, an electric water pump bubbles away beneath translucent plastic sheeting on…

ijnews@gannett.com The draft document is the first full rewrite of the city's statement for its future in 44 years. The plan examines how to make housing -- buying and renting -- more affordable. Pedestrian friendly streets are part of the…

dhill@ithacajournal.com | @Ijdavidhill Decibel meters need to be bought and police trained.Limits also set on vehicles, voices and amplification.Revisions also made to RU zoning for Cornell Heights Ithaca police will have a new tool for settling…