ITHACA, N.Y. — The U.S. Coast Guard’s Ithaca Auxiliary Flotilla 2-2 is urging boaters and swimmers to take extra precautions as the summer winds down. Drowning deaths have reached “an alarming high” in the Great Lakes and surrounding states in 2019, according to the U.S. Coast Guard Ninth District. So far, the agency has reported 70 deaths […]