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Downtown AppleFest To Make October Return Will mark 39th iteration of an Ithaca tradition By MIA GLASS Sun Staff Writer
Just once a year in the depths of fall, Cornell students can be spotted carrying jugs of apple cider and bags of apples to their dorms instead of backpacks filled with books. The Apple Harvest Festival — popularly known as AppleFest — is one of Ithaca’s most popular annual traditions for students and town residents alike, and is returning to the city after a modified “Apple Festive” in 2020. The festival is organized by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, a nonprofit that aims to develop and promote Ithaca. This year, AppleFest will celebrate its 39th year on Oct. 1 to 3. COVID brought changes to AppleFest last year, when the festival downsized to a
six-day socially distanced farmers market that included an Apple and Cider Trail. Although the usual AppleFest will take place this year, Scott Rougeau, DIA special events director, said that COVID precautions will remain to ensure that the event is safe for the community. “There will be less vendors and more space between the vendors,” Rougeau said. “We’re going to be encouraging masks for everybody, obviously encouraging vaccinations beforehand, and hoping people social distance when they can.” Many stands will be taking their own precautions as well. Bakers Acres, a local vendor that sells apples, apple butter and cider, will not allow customers to self-serve like they did in previous years. Patrons will See APPLE page 3
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Feeling festive | Following a modified festival last year, this year’s annual AppleFest will return to the format familiar to many Ithaca apple enthusiasts. Above, AppleFest in 2019.
Student Agencies Building Opens Prof. Bramble, Pioneering New luxury apartment complex opens at full capacity By FAITH FISHER Sun Staff Writer
A six-story blue glasspaned Student Agencies building marks the new facade of Collegetown after more than a year of construction. Straddling the corner of College Avenue and Oak Avenue, the madeover building is home to more than 50 apartments and a future location of Ithaca Beer Co. The student apartment complex, constructed and managed by Student Agencies, is 100 percent occupied for this academic year. Charlie Lee ’22, Student Agencies president, and Brooke
Shacoy ’22, general manager of that our input helps select pieces Student Agencies Real Estate, that students actually want in say they have received over- their rooms.” The building also prides whelmingly positive feedback on the project from their residents. itself on its emphasis on tenant According to Lee and relations — the building uses Shacoy, students were involved a property management softin many of ware that allows the decisions tenants to file for the build- “Student Agencies is one m a i n t e n a n c e requests at any ing, from the of the more absurd point during type of fitness developments.” the day from equipment in their phone. the gym to the Ben Inbar ’21 MEng ’22 “I think type of furwe’re a lot more niture in the units. Student Agencies is the receptive than some of the other oldest independent student-run buildings around campus,” Lee company nationwide and is said. “There have been some the second largest employer of issues with property managers students in the area — after not doing things for long periCornell itself. ods of time, just ignoring ten“I’m not a designer, but I ants. I have a landlord, I live kind of know what students are in Collegetown and know what looking for,” Lee said. “I hope it’s like, so we’re trying to give our tenants the best experience possible.” The apartment complex also has a 2,000 square foot patio, where the wooden picnic tables of Collegetown Bagels used to sit. Ithaca Beer Co. will set up a second location in the ground level of this space. Even though Student Agencies has received positive
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Collegetown | The new Student Agencies building sits at Collegetown’s entry.
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Mathematician, Dies at 90 By ELI PALLRAND
as a kid being fun and mischievous, and so he allowed some of that with us,” the younger James H. Bramble, the James said. “He didn’t try to Cornell professor of mathe- quash that curiosity out of us, matics who he fostered it. pioneered And I think new methods that played in finite elea big role in ment mathproducing ematics and a dynamic partial differfamily that ential equahad a lot tions, died of different on July 20 interests.” at his home “ H e in Austin, would never Texas. He really give was 90. too much Born in advice, Annapolis, but he was Maryland, there when PROF. BRAMBLE on Dec. 1, we needed 1930, Bramble was the son him,” James continued. “I of Charles C. Bramble, a was lucky enough to become mathematician and the very close friends with him first director of research at later in life.” Dahlgren Naval Proving In 1953, Bramble received a Ground. Eventually, James bachelor’s degree from Brown H. Bramble would follow in University, followed by a his fathers steps as an innova- Ph.D. from the University of tive mathematician himself. Maryland in 1958. He then James Bramble, the profes- ventured outside academia sor’s son, described his father to work for General Electric as “thoughtful like a mathe- and the Naval Ordnance matician,” but still caring — a Laboratory. dedicated family man. “He had a lot of experience See OBITUARY page 3 Sun Staff Writer