Ithaca Times-August 24, 2022

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Tenants Union And Pols Rally To Stop Eviction

Habitat For Humanity Attorney Says People Close To Owner Were Contacted And Passed Info Along

By Matt Dougherty

On August 19, the Ithaca Tenants Union (ITU) held an eviction blockade and press conference from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at 417 South Aurora Street. e event was organized to stop Kathy Majors, an immigrant from Laos who has lived in her home on the slopes of South Hill for nearly forty years, from being evicted by Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland County. e eviction was scheduled to be conducted by the Tompkins County Sheri ’s O ce on August 19 at 10 a.m., however it still hasn’t

taken place by the time this story went to press.

According to Mayoral Candidate and ITU member Katie Sims, “ ere is an order to show cause led and it is going to be reviewed by the court on Monday. However, in the meantime the eviction warrant is still valid so it can be executed any time a er Monday.”

During the press conference, ITU member Genevive Rand explained that “Habitat for Humanity bought Kathy’s home of nearly forty years on a tax foreclosure a er she and her family fell behind on taxes during the pandemic.” Rand

continued by saying that the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA) auctioned o Kathy’s home to Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland County for $6,662 and subsequently hired attorney Michael Perehinec, to seek an eviction warrant to remove her family from the property.

“It’s a totally irresponsible thing to do,” said Rand.

Habitat for Humanity prides itself on helping families build strength, stability and self-reliance by assisting them in their journey to access decent a ordable housing. eir website describes the organization's vision as “a world where everyone has a decent place to live.” e ITU says that , by purchasing Kathy’s home from the IURA for just under $7,000 so it can be renovated and given to a new family, Habitat for Humanity is actively undermining its previously stated values.

Kathy lives in the home with her husband James Lukasavage, who works as a long-haul truck driver, their teenage son, and an elderly tenant identi ed only as Steve. e home was foreclosed upon by Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca in June 2021 and sold to Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland County in August of the same year, but Kathy—who is unable to read her second language of English— says that nobody has tried to directly communicate with her in an accessible way.

According to Kathy, “Every year I’d go to pay my taxes just ne, but when COVID-19 hit everything shut down.” She said that for years she would walk down the street to pay her taxes in person at Ithaca City Hall, but when pandemic era regulations resulted in City Hall moving its operations online she was unable to read the sign on the locked door notifying residents that they would be required to pay their taxes online. As a result, the property has accumulated over $10,000

“Ithaca Neighborhoods” by Marshall Hopkins © Ithaca Times, (Special section cover photo: Josh Baldo)

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At the rally, Alderperson Jorge DeFendini said, “this situation was brought up because during a global pandemic, our government failed to make clear to people,” such as homeowner Kathy Major pictured at left, “how it would continue to function in languages other than English.” (Photo: Ithaca Tenants Union)

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By Josh Baldo

Coffee Battles Still Percolating

Both Starbucks and Gimme!

Coffee Face NLRB Complaints

Charges Of Union

Busting And Unfair Vote Counting Served Up By Ithaca’s Baristas

By Matt Dougherty

Starbucks workers in Ithaca, New York, successfully unionized all three Starbucks locations in April 2022, as part of Starbucks Workers United’s (SBWU) nationwide unionization effort. Since then, Starbucks has closed its pro table Collegetown location and workers at all three locations have accused the company of union busting, leading to complaints being led with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Meanwhile, one of the local competitors to Starbucks, Gimme! Co ee, has recently completed the process of dissolving their worker union in favor of transitioning to a worker cooperative, also leading to complaints being led with the NLRB.

e SBWU worker committee led an Unfair Labor Practice charge June 4 with the NLRB. e SBWU alleged that Starbucks closed its location on College Avenue in Collegetown in retaliation to union activity that is protected by federal labor law and to stop workers elsewhere from organizing.

ere are currently ve unfair labor practice charges being investigated according to Kayla Blado, director and press secretary at the O ce of Congressional and Public A airs for the NLRB.

e charges accuse Starbucks of violating multiple sections of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) by attempting to undermine union activity.

Speci cally, SBWU has accused Starbucks of violating Sections 8(a)(1) and 8(a)(3) of the LMRA by discharging, laying o , disciplining, and refusing to hire job applicants because they were prounion. ey also allege that the company violated Section 8(a)(5) of the LMRA and refused to collectively bargain with employee representatives before making the decision to close its Collegetown location.

e NLRB website explains that Section 8(a)(3) of the LMRA makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer, "by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment, to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization." According to the NLRB, “an employer that violates Section 8(a)(3) also derivatively violates Section 8(a)(1).”

Section 8(a)(1) of the LMRA makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with workers' right to self-organization. According to the NLRB website, this section makes it illegal to “ reaten employees with adverse consequences, such as closing the workplace, loss of bene ts, or more onerous working conditions, if they support a union, engage in union activity, or select a union to represent them.”

Starbucks Corporate says that the closure of their Collegetown location was a result of health and safety issues with the store and did not

have anything to do with recent union activity. Representatives from the company say the closure of the Collegetown location was caused by an over owing grease trap that management ignored for months.

Workers agree that the grease trap was an issue and that the store needed to be temporarily closed to clean it up. However, instead of cleaning it up, the company is choosing to permanently close the location, e ectively laying o the employees that recently voted to unionize.

“ e grease trap has been a problem at our store since I started in 2017 and our manager has said that we need to stay open, stay serving customers, and clean up the grease,” Starbucks worker Beck Maclean said during a recent event in support of SBWU.

“We walked out on strike over [the grease trap], and now that it’s become a hazardous problem. ey’re trying to shut our store down instead of xing it, like they had years to do,” Starbucks worker Benjamin South said.

Starbucks also said that pandemic era restrictions resulted in decreased foot tra c that drove down the store's revenue, making it harder to turn a pro t. However, the location is one of the prime retail spots in the City and surrounding businesses have continued to remain open, so it seems unlikely that the location was struggling to make a pro t.

In addition, the Collegetown Starbucks has been operating since 2005 and the company only raised their concerns over safety and pro tability at the location a er the store unionized.

According to SBWU, this is a clear attempt by Starbucks to scare workers across the country away from unionizing by retaliating against its own employees.

Gimme! Coffee Baristas formed a union under the Workers United Union prior to the business becoming a co-op. (Photo: Ari Dubow/Cornell Sun)

Members of the SBWU and their supporters have been a frequent Ithaca presence since the closing of the Collegetown store. (Photo: File)

Ithaca’s Ariel Gold Finds Balance Through Reconciliation

By Mark Levine

Mention the name Ariel Gold and you’ll likely provoke an extreme response. Some see her as a hero, daring to stand up for those she believes are oppressed, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes others feel or how unpopular it makes her in some communities. Others see her as a firebrand, rudely pushing her agenda, even if it, unintentionally or not, contributes to other brands of intolerance and discrimination. But if you step outside of the political sphere a different, a more nuanced person comes into focus: someone who at this point in her life has been able to achieve the kind of personal balance that many of us seek; someone whose Twitter feed now includes her recipe for a cornmeal plum scone as well as her recipe for Middle East peace.

Earlier this month, the Ithaca native took the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA (FOR-USA). Gold isn’t the first Ithacan to play a significant role in FOR-USA. Dorothy Cotton—Civil rights icon, Cornell fixture, and winner of the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award—and Jim Murphy— leader in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement—both of Ithaca, were key members of the organization.

The first Jewish executive director to assume leadership of the nation’s oldest interfaith peace and justice organization—FOR-USA was founded in 1915— Gold spent the prior seven years as national co-director of Code Pink Women for Peace, most notably advocating for the controversial boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts against the Israeli government. Some of her advocacy was seen as belligerent, such as her well documented confrontation with the actor Ashton Kutcher in which she publicly urged him to use his position with Airbnb to stop it from operating in Middle Eastern settlements.

Gold was the product of a uniquely Ithacan mixed marriage: her father went to Cornell and her mother went to Ithaca College. While she lived in other places after her parents divorced, her father remained in Ithaca and Gold returned, eventually graduating from Cornell’s School of Human Ecology and subsequently choosing to remain and raise her family here. It was her parents’

involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement and then her closeness to the Grady family of Ithaca, heroes in the Catholic Worker movement, that inspired Gold’s activism. The Grady’s melding of spirituality and social justice led to Gold’s searching for and then finding similar social justice elements in her own Jewish faith.

Like many who are called to activism and parenthood, Gold has had to strike a balance between obligations to her family and her causes. Her mother was a role model in this, and in many other things. “I was raised into activism,” Gold remembers. “My mother would bring me with her to protests and events on the weekend, because I had school during the week. I tried to raise my family the same way. My children are 20 months apart and I remember bringing them in a double stroller to New York City for a march against the Iraq War and finding the ‘family unit’ of the march, which is safest place. As they started getting older I had to make a choice: soccer practice versus protest. We went to soccer. As they got older I could balance it a bit more, but that’s because Ithaca provided us with a support system. I knew

my children could catch a ride from someone we knew or walk home with friends.”

That Ithaca support system included her friends from the Catholic Worker movement as well as her fellow congregants from Congregation Tikkun v’Or, Ithaca’s Reform Temple. Gold was an active member of the congregation since before her social activism took on such a high profile.

“It wasn’t until my children were in their early teens that I really started getting involved more fully. Even then it was difficult. There were times they’d say things like, ‘it’s such a pain in the neck that you got arrested and I had to make my own dinner.’ And even now there’s a need to find a balance. I remember when in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter movement there was a point when my daughter was like, ‘Can you not get involved in this event, because I need to be myself, and if you’re there, you take over.’ And I agreed.”

Gold is also trying to bring balance to the types of issues she tackles, for instance, international versus domestic.

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The Girl Scouts have announced that Raspberry Rally™ cookies will be joining their lineup for 2023. While the new cookies will only be available online, this variation on Thin Mints® could well be battling the extraordinary Samoas® as the best Girl Scout cookie.

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Years ago people worried a mall in Lansing would kill downtown Ithaca. For all its ups and downs the Commons and Downtown Ithaca remain vibrant and relevant while malls everywhere are struggling to stay viable and looking to reinvent themselves.

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Historic Ithaca is holding its annual clean-up of the historic Ithaca City Cemetery on Saturday, August 27. The cemetery was established in around 1790 and the almost 8,000 graves cover more than 16 acres. You can honor our former neighbors by reaching out to https://www.historicithaca.org/ friendso thacacitycemetery.

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It seems like there are people who wouldn’t think of just dropping their trash on our streets but think it’s okay to leave their garbage all over our parking garages. They may be cold and uninviting, but don’t forget those facilities are where lots of visitors get their rst impression of Ithaca.

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Ariel Gold tending the tomatoes in her Ithaca garden. (Photo: Provided)

It Don’t Rain in Indianapolis

By Charley Githler

The state of the world being what it is, I’ve taken to reading old newspapers instead of scrolling through the parade of disasters in my news feed. It still feels like reading the news, but I know how the stories end.

Last Friday, I was working my way through the Ithaca Journal from Wednesday evening, March 5, 1941. It was a happier, more hopeful time. e only things they had to worry about were Nazis, the Imperial Japanese Army, and the enduring e ects of a global depression.

I was intrigued to note that the Dionne Quintuplets used a product with the ungraceful name “Musterole” for chest colds. Also, that the Cornell ROTC program was inviting local military and patriotic orders to the annual military ball at Barton Hall, which was going to be called the “Blitzball”. at actually struck me as being in questionable taste, given what was going on in Europe at the time.

en, on page three, I saw a headline that stopped me dead in my tracks: Ithaca to Have Orange Groves, Palm Trees – In 235 Years

It was a short article, and bears quoting almost in its entirety:

e US Weather Bureau revealed an astonishing northward migration of warm climate had been uncovered by checking crop and weather records for the past 80 years.

According to J.B. Kincer, chief of the bureau’s climatology division in Washington. e “growing season”—the time between the last spring frost and the rst fall frost—has increased by from two to three weeks in the past 80 years.

At this point, I googled Mr. Kincer. It turns out Joseph Burton Kincer was a legit world-class climatologist. He’d been drawing attention to worldwide warming trends since 1933 and laid the responsibility for the Dust Bowl at humanity’s feet. He was pretty well-known and respected in his day.

e article went on:

e “growing season” of 1860 has moved 225 miles north since then. It is now as long in the vicinity of Indianapolis, Ind., as it was in 1857 around Nashville, Tenn.

If this migration continues at the same rate, Ithaca, in a short time—a mere 80 years—will have the same climate as Indianapolis has now, it was pointed out.

The Inflation Reduction Act Is Just The First Step

By Sheila Ann Dean

What’s with the people holding signs about climate and Chase Bank o the east end Commons every Saturday morning? We are protesting at the Ithaca branch of Chase Bank because it lends more money to fossil fuel companies than any other bank in the world; more than $382 billion dollars since the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treatment on climate change was adopted in 2015.

e other top funders of coal, oil, and gas are also banks in the United States: Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, but Chase is the only one with a storefront in Ithaca. So to oppose its role, Ithaca climate activists with Extinction Rebellion started a weekly vigil in January of this year.

I found them on Earth Day, when I was su ering from climate despair, with worries for my son, nieces, and nephews, and their children; and with concern for all those on our planet who have been suffering climate disasters for years, yet have done little, if anything, to contribute to them. Admiring the Ithaca group’s spirit and commitment, I’ve returned each Saturday since to join them.

Ithaca is replete with groups focusing on climate issues that have been instrumental in encouraging the City to be the rst to declare a goal of net-zero carbon emissions. is magni cent work toward

electri cation has begun. We are also fortunate to have a County legislature and Boards of surrounding towns with some awareness of climate issues.

Is this e ort still important even a er passage of the In ation Reduction Act? Yes, it is. While we happily have this legislatively determined rst step launching, the act is loaded with concessions to the oil and gas industry. ese inclusions are a bitter pill to swallow when scientists and the International Energy Agency have clearly stated that to avoid future climate disaster we must have no new oil and gas development.

Back to Chase Bank in Ithaca. While we have some legislation now, we still have dirty industries blithely burning away oil, gas, and coal and the new act does not directly or immediately a ect emissions. If nancial institutions such as Chase stop lending these companies money, they will more certainly falter as renewables thrive. Activists will continue to help make sure this happens.

What can you do here in Tompkins County? Certainly vote, but also join us every Saturday at 11 a.m. in front of Chase Bank. Snip up Chases’ credit card, if you have one, by year’s end unless they take action. Or nd another approach or group to work with. Make changes, however small, in your own life. Our personal struggles with climate despair will endure as the brightness of the In ation Reduction Act fades, but taking actions somehow helps.

Every Saturday morning Ithaca members of Extinction Rebellion are outside Chase Bank protesting its lending to fossil fuel companies. (Photo: Provided)

S-VE Trio Contributes To Fine Line’s GIAC Tournament Win

By Steve Lawrence

I’ve had the pleasure to watch Je Foote evolve from an awkward and marginal high school basketball player at SpencerVan Etten to a dominant Division 1 center that led Cornell to the Sweet 16 and go on to play professionally in Europe (in addition to a couple of 10-day NBA stints). I’ve o en reminded him that since I always paid my S-VE school taxes on time, he had me to thank for his success. Several years later, upon being inducted into the S-VE Athletic Hall of Fame, Je —being the good sport that he is—stood at the podium and said, “I'd like to thank my parents for always believing in me, my coaches for putting in the extra work to help me improve, and Steve Lawrence for paying his school taxes.” at drew a mixture of chuckles and groans, as those in attendance knew how shameless I had been in taking partial credit for Je 's success.

Last weekend, my tax dollars made another contribution to local basketball, as three S-VE guys made big contributions to Fine Line's winning e ort in GIAC's Rashad Richardson Memorial Tournament. As a 5-seed, they battled their way through the early rounds—at times playing without a full roster—into the championship game, where they pulled out a 49-48 thriller over UPI to hoist the trophy.

A er playing together since their early days in the SVEYA (Youth League) Jayden Grube, Marcus Brock, and Tyler Dostler teamed up one last time before heading o in three di erent directions next week. Grube is on his way to SUNY Geneseo, Brock is o to Oneonta, and Dostler will enroll at TC3.

I watched these three hoopsters grow up, as they are my daughter's classmates, and I have interviewed Grube's parents many times, as Brian and Jackie were both standout athletes at S-VE, and Brian went on to serve as the Athletic Director for a number of years. His sisters, Paige and Mackenzie Grube, both made their college basketball teams (Mackenzie's career at Brockport was cut short by an ACL tear, and Paige is currently on the roster at Nazareth.)

I asked Jayden if he, Brock, and Dostler would play hoops in college, and he said, “I plan to try out for the team at Geneseo, Tyler hopes to play, and we're trying to talk Marcus into it.” When asked if the team came through a tough bracket,

Grube said, “Yeah, we got to play New eld in the semis, and as you know, some of those guys were on the state championship team. at was a sweet victory a er losing to them during the high school season.”

Several Ithaca High players were on the team as well (Will Holmes, Justin Yearwood, Jonathan Ostom, and Aarron Macolini) and Grube pointed out that the fact that some of them played in the tournament previously was a plus. I asked Jayden if he thinks the trio will ever play together again, and he replied, “It could happen. Our school hosts a 3-on-3 tournament every year, and we have played in a couple of those. I hope we do.”

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I mentioned earlier that Je Foote played pro ball in Europe, and another Big Red alum just followed in the big man's footsteps. A er spending the summer as part of the Detroit Pistons Summer League team. Jimmy Boeheim (Cornell class of '21) will begin his professional basketball career with ASK Karditsas B.C. in the Greece A1 league.

Boeheim had a solid career at Cornell before transferring to Syracuse to play for his father, Jim, as a graduate student. He showed he could play with the big boys, starting all 33 games and averaged 13.7 points and 6.2 rebounds per contest. It was a lot of fun watching him play at Cornell, and it is safe to say that his parents—Jim and Julie—were happy to have him join his brother, Buddy, at Syracuse. When Jimmy was playing for Cornell his parents would o en dash out of the Carrier Dome a er an Orange game, cruise down Route 81, and arrive at Newman Arena in time to watch the Big Red. At the end of the day, a Hall of Fame coach is, rst and foremost, a dad.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Protesting Women’s (In)Equality Day

Every year on August 26, the League of Women Voters of Tompkins County celebrates the accomplishments women have made and commemorate the 19th Amendment. But this year, we’re not celebrating Women’s Equality Day, as women today have fewer rights than we’ve had in decades. It’s been more than 100 years since women won the right to vote, and we are far from equal in our democracy.

is year we are joining the National League of Women Voters and many other national organizations for Women’s (In) equality Day in demanding our government not only represent us but include us as equals. is includes passing voting rights legislation, adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, and restoring reproductive freedom to all who can become pregnant.

Women hold the power to create a more perfect democracy, join us! We will be present on the Ithaca Commons from 10 am until 5 pm on August 26, talking about voting rights, equal rights, and reproductive rights for all.

League of Women Voters of Tompkins County

Advocacy Group Expresses Solidarity With Rushdie

The board of Ithaca City of Asylum, a local organization that has been giving shelter to endangered writers for twenty years, joins with many authors and human rights advocates worldwide in condemning the brutal attack on novelist Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York, on August 12th.

Targeted by Islamic extremists for many years a er publication of his novel,

e Satanic Verses, Rushdie has frequently spoken out for the need to protect the right of free expression for all artists. He is a past president of PEN, the international writers’ advocacy organization, and has publicly organized campaigns to protect poets, essayists, novelists and journalists everywhere. For us at Ithaca City of Asylum, he has been an inspiration for our e orts to give shelter to writers in danger. His is a courageous voice for freedom, and such vital voices must never be silenced. We would like to express our solidarity with PEN in its e orts to give shelter and support to endangered writers, and with the other North American Cities of Aslyum in Pittsburgh and Detroit. e director of the Pittsburgh organization, Henry Reese, was the moderator of Rushdie’s talk at Chautauqua and was also injured in the attack. To Salman Rushdie and Henry Reese we o er our heartfelt support and wishes for a complete recovery.

Gail Holst-Warha , Ithaca City of Asylum

24 Across For Tompkins Learning Partners

In Ithaca we are fortunate enough that we are able to enjoy our particular interests while also doing good. Are you an avid swimmer? Participate in “Women Swimmin’” while bene ting Hospicare. Are you a foodie? Sit down with “Taste of the Nation” to help end childhood hunger in America. Do you feel passionate about the Special Olympics? Take the “Polar Plunge.”

And, drum roll please, if you care about adult literacy in Tompkins County and have a passion, or even a passing interest, for crossword puzzles, sign up for the “10th Annual Finger Lakes Crossword Competition,” taking place on September 24th in support of the work of Tompkins Learning Partners (TLP). Visit our website at CrosswordCompetition.com to register for this completely virtual competition and to read about some of the success stories that TLP has helped to facilitate in our community.

Gary Weissbrot, Ithaca Chairperson, Finger Lakes Crossword Competition TLP Board Member

The Fine Line team were winners of this year’s GIAC Rashad Richardson Memorial 3 on 3 Tournament. (Photo: Simon Martin)

IC, CORNELL FOOTBALL EMBARK ON DIFFERING 2022 CAMPAIGNS

By Andrew Sullivan

If you put a mirror in front of the 2021 Ithaca College football team, you’d see the inverse re ection of itself with the 2021 Cornell University football team. e former compiled a record of 8-2, nishing in second place in the Liberty league and 21st in Division III overall. e latter nished 2-8 last year and second-to-last in the Ivy League. With the start of the regular season less than a month away for both squads, the Bombers and Big Red enter 2022 with different mindsets and expectations.

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A er a top-25 nish in the 2021 D3football.com poll, the Ithaca College Bombers are expected to be another top Division III contender in 2022 with their preseason ranking of 17th.

e Bombers compiled a record of 8-2 last season, nearly coming from behind to defeat then-undefeated SUNY Cortland— who ranks 16th in the 2022 preseason poll— in the 62nd Cortaca Jug Game in the team’s nal contest. is year’s rivalry match will take place at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 12. e biggest change to Ithaca’s roster is at the head coach position. e team will be led by Michael Toerper in 2022 a er former head coach Dan Swanstrom announced in January that he accepted the o ensive coordinator position at the University of Pennsylvania. Teorper, who was Swanstrom’s defensive coordinator from 2017 to 2019, returns to South Hill a er spending the past two seasons as the safeties coach at Division I level Holy Cross.

“I think the most challenging aspect for me is being able to manage my time

on a day-to-day basis between the administrative tasks that a head coach has to operate with, as well as having a pulse on every piece of the team,” Teorper said. “It's really time management, and being able to really do a nice job of investing in that time wisely, but always maintaining an understanding that it's about the players, they will always come first.”

He expects having to manage the team’s prosperous outlook for the upcoming season to be di cult as well.

“I think for us, one of the biggest challenges with a team that has such high expectations is maintaining the week-to-week focus on what we have to do that week to succeed on Saturday,” he said. “Not getting ahead of ourselves, not looking down the road, and really focusing on today's practice, today's meeting, and this week’s preparation in order to take care of business one week at a time.”

As Ithaca’s defensive coordinator, Toerper coached sti ing defenses during his three-year stint. e Bombers’ defense held opposing o enses to 15.3 and 12.8 points

per game in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He will inherit an already stout defensive unit in his rst season. Ithaca’s defensive front was one of the top units in Division III in 2021. e Bombers allowed an average of 11.9 points per game, which ranked ninth in the nation. ey also ranked ninth in red zone defense, holding opposing offenses scoreless 55.6 percent of the time. e 2021 defense was formidable on 3rd down plays with a conversion percentage of 29.6 percent (25th lowest). Ithaca also tied for 22nd in the country in team sacks with 29.

The biggest challenge for the Bombers this season may be managing expectations. (Photo: Ithaca College Athletics)

Many of the defensive unit’s top players are returning for the 2022 campaign, but not all of them. Linebacker Isaac Hadac transferred to the University of Albany a er recording the fourth-most tackles (44) for the Bombers in 2021. Hadac also tied for the team lead in sacks (3.5) last season with defensive lineman Ed Longest, who graduated last spring, and led Ithaca in tackles for loss with 9.5 (Longest was second with seven). Defensive lineman Antonio Valle also graduated in 2022 and was one of the team’s top sack-getters with three in 2021.

Among the returners, linebacker Miles Haynes and defensive back Michael Roumes will toe the turf again a er they led the Bombers in tackles with 50 apiece. Roumes ranked in the top 50 in the nation in passes defended per game (1.2, tied for 44th).

Defensive backs Anthony Robinson and Ben Stola are also returning for their senior years. Robinson intercepted three passes, and led the team in passes broken up (eight) and solo tackles (29, 39 in total). Stola recorded 49 total tackles and broke up seven passes, and forced a team-high three fumbles in 2021.

Defensive backs Derek Slywka (team high four picks) and Akap Takor (three picks, ve passes broken up, 39 total tackles) are also returning this season.

On the o ensive side of the line of scrimmage, quarterback AJ Wing eld returns for his senior year a er posting a solid season in 2021. Wing eld threw for 16 touchdown passes (20 touchdowns in total) and 2,383 yard passing, with only eight interceptions. His 67.8 completion percentage ranked 14th among Division III quarterbacks.

Wing eld won’t have his top receiver from last season in Andrew Vito, who graduated. Vito caught four touchdowns and chalked up 704 yards receiving and averaged 70.4 yards receiving per game, both of which led the Bomber o ense. Howev-

er, Michael Anderson, who tallied 571 receiving yards and caught a team-high six touchdown passes, will be back for his senior season.

Ithaca’s leading rusher in 2021, Jalen Hines, will compete as a junior this coming season. Hines churned out 567 yards and found the end zone six times on the ground last season.

“Really just keeping that…one-play-ata-time mentality focus, and also just be a great teacher of situational football,” Toerper said of his vision for the team in 2022. “I think that's something that we're going to continue to harp on here.”

e Bombers open the 2022 season on the road at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA on Saturday Sept. 3.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

According to Head Coach David Archer, last season is “ancient history.” Last year’s roster featured 50 seniors, most of

whom have moved on and graduated while some are returning for their h year of eligibility.

“We had 50 seniors on the team last year between a super senior class with the COVID situation and our regular seniors,” Archer said. “We had a hundred or so players on the team last year. And most of all of them who've gone and graduated, some are coming back for h year. But because of that the team feels brand new. It feels like, like an expansion…where we have a lot of guys who sat behind older kids and didn't play…. It feels like a new beginning, and we're really just focused on that.”

One of the biggest losses to the roster was cornerback Michael Irons. During his senior year, Irons ranked seventh among Ivy League defenders in passes defended, accumulating the fourth-most passes broken up with nine.

ere will also be a change at the quarterback position in 2022 as senior Richie Kenney graduated, and the team will have several options to choose from with seven quarterbacks listed on the roster. ere are sophomores Jameson Wang, Jimmy Taylor, and Chad Martini; juniors Dylan Hale and Luke Duby; and seniors Jason Faulkenberry and Ben Mays.

Among those seven, Wang and Mays have seen the most playing time. In seven games in 2021, Wang completed 65 percent of his passes, throwing for 304 yards, four touchdowns, and four picks. In six games, Mays completed 57.75 percent of his attempts for 561 yards, three scores, and three interceptions. Wang nished with a higher rating than Mays (141.84 to 129.61).

Wang would certainly be the more dynamic option for Cornell at the position. Last season he averaged 5.5 yards per carry, which was not only the highest among all Ivy League quarterbacks, but also the seventh highest among all rushers. His average

of 49.9 rushing yards per game ranked 10th in the league.

Archer did not con rm whether or not Wang would be the team’s starter for the 2022, but assured that he would see signicant playing time.

“Wang is de nitely going to play,” he said. “Whether he's the starting quarterback or not, he'll certainly be on the eld.” at being said, standouts such as wide receiver omas Glover and linebacker Jake Stebbins will return for their senior seasons. Glover nished second among Ivy League receivers in yards per game (76.7) and receiving yards in total (767) in 2021. He also ranked eighth among all players in all-purpose yards with 778.

Stebbins tied Dartmouth’s Jalen Mackie for rst in the league in tackles per game, averaging nearly 10 (9.6). Stebbins recorded the most solo tackles (51) and total tackles (51), and the seventh most tackles for loss (10). His three sacks ranked fourth most.

“I think de nitely the strength [of this team] is going to be Glover,” Archer said. “I think he's a really tremendous playmaker, and we're gonna have to give him the football as o en as we can. I think Stebbins on defense at linebacker leads a really good linebacking corps. And then I think there's a lot of potential and a lot of young positions I'll know more about as we get practice started.”

One player Archer said he foresees taking major strides this season is sophomore running back Eddie Tillman. Tillman tallied 142 yards on 17 carries in ve games in 2021, averaging 8.4 yards per carry.

“He started to play more and more; he was a true freshman last year,” Archer said. “He got more and more carries as the season went on. And during the spring he has emerged as a really top threat at running back.”

With the graduation of their top receiver IC may need to rely more on the ground game.

(Photo: Ithaca College Athletics)

Big Red is practicing hard to put a disappointing 2021 behind them. (Photo: Eldon Lindsay / Cornell Athletics)

Cornell’s young roster is looking to bring fresh intensity to the 2022 season.

(Photo: Eldon Lindsay / Cornell Athletics)

POTENTIAL MISCOMMUNICATIONS

in outstanding taxes to Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca.

On August 17, representatives for Kathy led an “order to show cause”, identifying that she was never served proper paperwork regarding the foreclosure or eviction. However, attorney Michael Perehinec, who represents Habitat for Humanity in this case, says that Kathy and her family have been reached out to several times throughout the process.

According to Perehinec, “any individual who had a connection with [Kathy] was informed that a warrant of eviction had been issued by the court.” While not specifying whether these individuals

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In addition, they say that it is a violation of the company's legal duty to bargain.

“ e Bu alo regional o ce is currently investigating these charges. If they nd merit to the charges, the regional director will issue a complaint, unless the parties settle. If a complaint is issued, there will be a hearing with an administrative law judge,” Blado said.

e NLRB receives about 20,000 to 30,000 charges per year from employees, unions and employers covering a range of unfair labor practices described in Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act. According to the NLRB website, “a decision is made about the merits of a charge within seven to 14 weeks, although certain cases can take much longer.” During this period, the majority of charges are settled by the parties, withdrawn by the charging party, or dismissed by the regional director.

While Starbucks workers are voting to unionize to ensure better treatment, the other chain of co ee shops in town, Gimme! Co ee, voted to dissolve their workers union in March 2021 to start the process of

SURROUNDED BY REALITY

included her husband, son, or tenant, or in what language these communications were conducted, Perehinec said that subsequent updates from these individuals con rmed that “they spoke with [Kathy] and that they had informed [her] that a warrant of eviction had been issued and that this was an extremely serious issue.” He says that Kathy “had known that this potentially could happen when she received the tenday notice back in November 2021.”

Evidence suggests that previous attempts have been made to make Kathy aware of the severity of the situation, but the direct o cial communication to her was happening in English, which is her second language. Kathy said that no attempt was ever made to reach out to her directly in her native language, presumably Lao, which she can understand much better.

turning the company into a co-op “to ensure better treatment of their worker-owners.”

“Since we started our transition process in 2019, the local Starbucks union e orts did not a ect our decision to transition to an employee-owned cooperative. However, we have hired a number of Starbucks baristas that had their schedules cut by Starbucks corporate,” Katie Smith, president of the Board of Directors for Gimme! Co ee, said.

e now defunct Gimme! Co ee Baristas Union was one of the rst barista unions in the nation, but the company says that its operations became complicated by a combination of COVID-19 restrictions and interpersonal con ict.

However, Workers United—the parent union of the Gimme! Co ee Baristas Union—has brought forward an appeal regarding the votes that were counted in the March 2021 election. e appeal is currently being reviewed by the Washington O ce of the NLRB.

e outcome of the appeal remains uncertain, but supporters of Gimme! Coffee's transition to a co-op say the move represents a willingness to recognize the importance of organized labor—something that can’t be said about their bigname competitor in town.

According to my understanding of data analysis, that means that Kincer’s prophecy was 100% correct in all its details.

Alderperson Jorge DeFendini said, “this situation was brought up because during a global pandemic, our government failed to make clear to people how it would continue to function in languages other than English.”

e Ithaca Tenants Union is demanding that Habitat for Humanity stop attempting to evict Kathy and her family from their home. According to Rand, they want Habitat for Humanity, a national nonpro t organization with millions of dollars in real estate, to sign the deed for the property back to the family who has lived here for nearly forty years.

“ is would not be a great loss for them and it would give them the opportunity to be the good guy by giving Kathy and her family the opportunity to live out their lives in the home that they’ve spent decades in.” said Rand.

ARIEL GOLD

She knows there’s a kernel of truth to the apocryphal tale of social activists walking past local people who are hungry on their way to a protest against hunger overseas. “That’s one of the things that makes me feel quite good about moving from Code Pink to Fellowship of Reconciliation. Fellowship of Reconciliation has committed itself recently to doing more domestic work. Middle East work is dear to my heart, but given the state of our country right now, I think it’s really vital for us in terms of our influencing the entire world, to clean up the mess we have at home. And it’s a mess and a half right now.”

As someone who has risen to prominence fighting against the system, Gold has come to appreciate the need for balance between working for change both inside and outside the system. “I think both are really important and I think they complement each other. There are times when one approach is more helpful and times when the other approach is more helpful. But I think people have to know what works for them. I’m so much

According to Tompkins County Legislator Veronica Pillar, this attempted eviction contradicts the values of diversity and inclusivity that the City of Ithaca says it prides itself on. Pillar said that “all of our values and stated interests point towards keeping Kathy and her family in this home as long as they would want to stay here.”

Habitat for Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland County has responded to this incident saying, “Habitat is working with many local agencies to assist the family with relocating. ough we are not able to speci cally comment on the situation due to privacy considerations, we are working toward a mutually agreeable solution that will enable us to move forward with improving housing a ordability in Tompkins & Cortland Counties.”

of an idealist that outside the system is a good fit for me.”

Finally, and perhaps most difficult emotionally, has been Gold’s efforts to find balance in her Jewish identity and the role the actions of the Israeli government factors into that identity. “I have to begin by saying these are my people. My father’s family came here from Poland in 1910, moved up to Utica, and started one of the first Zionist Chapters to raise money for the establishment of a Jewish state. When I first went to Israel with a peace delegation I wanted to leave the delegation and just be with my people; I’d never felt so at home in my life. But then I saw what was happening and I was devastated. I spent many hours crying and talking with my rabbi about my feelings and the situation. There were times I was very angry. It was like a period of grief for me. There have been difficult times for my extended family. But we’ve gotten to a much better place. I have learned to soften myself and to find the commonalities that allow us to see where each other are, rather than conflict with each other; to see where we have the same goals. I guess it all goes back to the idea of reconciliation.”

Holy shrimp. at article was written 81 years ago. I had to see if Mr. Kincer’s predictions had come true. I looked up the weather for Indianapolis for August 19, 1941. e high that day was 83 and the low was 56. Here’s where it gets freaky— those were the exact high and low temperatures for Ithaca last Friday, August 19.

What does this mean for us? I don’t really know much about Indianapolis, except that they call themselves “Hoosiers,” which is just weird, because nobody seems to know what a hoosier actually is. A little checking revealed that the two people I’ve heard of that were born in the 1940s in Indianapolis are David Letterman and Dan Quayle. ey kind of cancel

each other out, so I really don’t know much more than when I started out. e last paragraph raised a chilling vision:

If nothing happens to halt the trend it will take only about 235 years for Ithaca to get the same climate as St. Augustine, Fla. Palm trees will take the place of maples, elms and poplars; our mills will give way to cotton gins and fan businesses will boom.

Here’s where our climatologist came up a little short. In his defense, it would

have been hard for anyone to foresee how human activity might have accelerated the warming process. e most recent predictions are that Ithaca will be suitable for orange groves and palm trees in time for the growing season in 2026, smack dab in the middle of President Cheney’s rst term and considerably sooner than Kincer thought. I’m having a backyard lanai porch installed so I can just reach over from my chaise lounge and pluck a fresh orange while reading old news all year long.

Ithaca’s Neighborhoods Have Subtly Distinctive Personalities

By Bryan VanCampen

Ithaca, which is unique in so many ways, is a collection of neighborhoods like so many other cities. And like everywhere else, Ithaca’s neighborhoods have distinct characters. e di erence is that the distinctions here can be quite subtle, making it di cult for newcomers to see what separates one neighborhood from another. An experienced Ithacan can look at a photo, like those that illustrate this article, and immediately tell you what neighborhood is pictured. is is a quick primer to help you learn what separates, say, Fall Creek from Belle Sherman.

Downtown

When Ithacans talk about the “urban/ city” aspect of Tompkins County life, they

are really talking about e Ithaca Commons and the surrounding blocks. Opened in 1975 at a then-extraordinary cost of $1.13 million, the original Commons was spearheaded by Mayor Ed Conley to bring people back to Ithaca’s downtown. In 1981, several vacant lots were converted into Center Ithaca; in 2005, Seneca Place, which includes the Hilton Garden Inn, opened on Seneca Street adjacent to the Commons. Gateway Commons, another luxury apartment building, opened in 2007.

e old Commons was given a faceli in 2013 and the reconstruction was supposed to take 18 months at a cost of

A Collection Of Vibrant Villages

The Inlet Island section of the Northside is scheduled to see considerable redevelopment. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

$9.5 million. Several problems made the renovation go far over budget and schedule, finally re-opening in August 2015 at a total cost of $15 million. The newer Ithaca Commons boasts more open space, lots of benches and places to sit, playground areas and a bandshell on the corner of Seneca and Tioga Streets. Harolds Square, another large residential complex, is named for its former building, Harold’s Army Navy store. (Take note: Harolds Square, like Wegmans, does not have an apostrophe.) The Commons is lined with specialty shops, restaurants and the five-screen art house theater Cinemapolis, located one block over on E. Green Street which is accessible via Home Dairy Alley.

There are no large grocery stores or big box stores in the area, so downtown residents will have to shop elsewhere for the essentials. Since Woolworth’s closed its doors in the 1990s, the building has been occupied by the Tompkins County Public Library. GreenStar Oasis Cooperative Market in the Dewitt Mall, across the street from Dewitt Park, is open for business, and the Hotel Ithaca, formerly the Holiday Inn, is in the 200 block of S. Cayuga Street. The Marriott Hotel can be found on the east end of The Commons on S. Aurora Street.

e 300 block of E. State Street has several shops to the north as well as Canopy, a three-star hotel. To the south is the apartment and retail building City Centre, home to Collegetown Bagels’ (CTB) downtown branch and Ithaca Ale House.

The State Theatre on W. State Street presents concerts and specialty events and down, what locals call the West State Street corridor, at 417 W. State St., The Kitchen Theatre offers an annual slate of provocative plays, specializing in newer works. Across the street from the Kitchen, the State Diner, post-COVID, is open for breakfast and lunch.

East Hill

East Hill is bound on the north by Fall Creek Gorge, on the east by Stewart Avenue, lower Eddy and South Quarry Streets, Six Mile Creek on the south and by Aurora and Linn Streets on the west. For Cornell University students, this is the area, along with Collegetown, where most move when they leave campus. While there are plenty of residential properties, including new housing on Walnut Street, most of the houses on Stewart and Quarry Streets have been converted into apartment complexes like those found on Veteran’s Place, or divided into apartment units.

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Fall Creek

Running from the north side of downtown up to Ithaca High School, Boynton Middle School and Stewart Park between N. Cayuga and Linn Streets, the Fall Creek neighborhood, with its bucolic, tree-lined streets, has a well-deserved reputation among families as a great place to raise children.

Clustered around Fall Creek Elementary School, the neighborhood is defined largely by the families who have chosen to live there. With NorthStar House grill and Fall Creek Studios at the end of N. Tioga Street and Ithaca Falls just one block east, Fall Creek, home to the Porchfest music festival, has its share of town culture and natural beauty. If you move to Fall Creek be prepared to stock up on candy for Halloween. The neighborhood is a mecca for trick or treaters from all over Tompkins County.

South Hill

Considered the mirror neighborhood for Ithaca College of what East Hill is for Cornellians, Route 96 heading south to Ithaca College and beyond now has sidewalks for pedestrians. Most of the streets surrounding IC on the hill, particularly Hudson, Prospect, Pleasant, Pennsylvania and Kendall, are either apartment buildings or houses rented by students. And as with East Hill, noisy house parties are the rule, not the exception, particularly during Cortaca Jug or any heavy sports weekend. South Hill has no “student strip” comparable to Collegetown with its bars, restaurants and stores; on the weekends, you see hordes of students walking down the hill to go drinking and then Uber back to campus after last call.

On the west side of S. Aurora Street (Route 96B), you will find fewer students and more permanent residents, many of them 30-something professionals who like to be able to walk downtown to work and socialize. The streets between the spur of South Cayuga that ends at the old Emerson Power Transmission campus are often owner-occupied.

Southside

Largely made of residences and apartment complexes, the Southside nexus seems to be the Southside Community Center on S. Plain Street, long a community and recreational hub for local youth, that also offers all kinds of workshops in everything from music to video production.

Southside’s location also makes it convenient to the downtown area, as

East Hill is distinctive for its steep streets with incredible views leading between Downtown and Collegetown. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

South Hill is to IC as Collegetown is to CU…without the high rises so far. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

Fall Creek is where you’ll find people playing music on their porches and children from everywhere in the County trick or treating. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

The Southside Community Center is the heart and soul of the Southside neighborhood (Photo: Josh Baldo)

well as businesses to the south such as Wegmans, Walmart, a recently reopened KFC, Buttermilk Falls State Park, and Treman State Park.

West Hill

West Hill encompasses a hilly sprawl of older homes close to the city near the Alternative Community School, more suburban-style housing as you move up Route 96 or Route 79, eventually reaching garden apartment developments as you near Cayuga Medical Center. Further up on Route 79, outside the city limits but worthy of note, on the appropriately named Rachel Carson Way, is Ecovillage at Ithaca, an award-winning complex that offers housing, community and instructional workshops that create solutions aligned with the long-term health of Ithaca and the Earth. West Hill is almost completely residential and, should you there, you’ll probably need a car or public transportation in order to do your shopping.

Northside and the West End

The one-way corridors of Route 13 (Fulton and Meadow Streets) now divide these neighborhoods, but historically, they once included the working waterfront around the Cayuga Inlet and the residential neighborhoods for the people who worked there. “Northside” is generally the neighborhood south and west of Cascadilla Creek down to Washington Park and Route 13. (The small area between Southside and Washington Park is now regarded as part of the “downtown corridor” along State Street between downtown proper and the West End.)

The West End was once called “The Rhine” and “The Silent City” and was home to numerous squatters and homeless people. This is documented in Grace Miller White’s 1909 novel “Tess of the Storm Country.” The city government has been encouraging development of the inlet as a residential and destination neighborhood. The inlet is home to two much loved dining spots: Kelly’s Dockside and The Boat Yard. There is also a large fitness club, a convenience grocery store and other businesses on the Inlet Island.

Collegetown

The Ithaca Times most recently published a neighborhood guide back in 2015 and the Collegetown district has seen the most demolition and construction in the past seven years.

The Rulloff’s/CTB building that was once on the corner of College Avenue and Oak Avenue was torn down. Rul-

loff’s has not relocated, but CTB built a new store across the street and is open today. The new building in the Rulloff’s/CTB spot is now occupied by Ithaca Beers. Starbucks recently closed amid accusations of union busting. New apartment high-rises have been built on the 200 block of Dryden Road, the 300 block of College Avenue, and more student apartment buildings have recently been added in the 100 block of College Avenue. The much missed bar, The Nines, closed its doors in 2019 and its building sits empty, next to the firehouse. The Ithaca Fire Department is planning a new “green” firehouse up Dryden Road. So the Firehouse and The Nines building wil soon be replaced by, as you may have guessed, even more high rises. Buildings on Catherine and Cook Streets have been razed, and two student apartment buildings dubbed “Catherine Commons,” are currently under construction. As of now, there are no public laundromats in Collegetown.

Around the corner, o E. Martin Luther King Street on Valentine Place, you’ll nd a number of new student apartment complexes that stretch down E State Street. Down on Stewart Avenue, the former ABC Café is now occupied by Luna, a Mexican-themed bar and Ithaca Ghost Kitchen. e venerated Chapter House bar burned down in 2015 and has been replaced by more apartment housing. e Carriage House across the street is also closed and vacant at press time.

Cayuga (a.k.a. Cornell) Heights

This section of town is an odd combination of palatial estates, nice large older homes, Greek houses (one at 306 Highland Ave. has been converted into apartments) and student rentals. The blocks to the north of Thurston Avenue, like Highland, Upland, Hanshaw and Cayuga Heights Roads are upscale residential; the frat houses and sororities fade away by the time you reach The Parkway.

Belle Sherman

As the blocks above College Avenue give way to the blocks surrounding Belle Sherman Elementary School, aside from Fairview Square the newer apartment complexes accessible from Mitchell Street, Veteran’s Place and Dryden Road, you’re largely back in a year-round residence neighborhood. Belle Sherman Elementary bolsters its excellent reputation as an educational institute with a rich history hosting PTA and Boy Scout activities. Most of the single-family houses in the area between Mount Olivet Cemetery and Ithaca’s eastern boundary were built in the two decades after World War II.

West Hill’s homes have a more modern and suburban feel than those in some of the other neighborhoods. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

Cayuga Heights is home to some truly grand homes on large wooded, often hilly lots, lining curving tree lined roads. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

The Collegetown skyline has changed dramatically in just the past five years, and the changes keep coming. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

The bucolic private homes of Belle Sherman give the neighborhood a far more relaxed feeling than neighboring Collegetown. (Photo: Josh Baldo)

Ten Things Every Ithacan Knows

By Charley Githler

There’s no shame in being a newcomer, and in fact with a fair number of temporary residents, and people who’ve come here and never le , you’ll nd that Ithaca is a pretty welcoming place. On the other hand, there’s also no harm in knowing some of the local cultural references as you get established.

e following are ten things—lore, stories, points of pride and chagrin—every Ithacan knows about our city.

1. We’re Blue

Described as an “enclave of progressivism” and a “blue oasis in a desert of red,” Ithaca has been named among the “best cities for liberals” by the website Livability. We haven’t had a Republican mayor since the early 1980s. Democratic candidates have won the support of over 70% of Tompkins County voters for the last four presidential elections. We had the nation’s rst Socialist mayor, Ben Nichols, from 1989 to 1995. Let’s just say that it’s a safe space to identify as an avowed liberal. We’ve become so predictable that neither parties’ candidates in general elections come here to campaign any more.

It wasn’t always so. For most of Ithaca’s history, it was reliably Republican. FDR got creamed in Tompkins County all four times, and with the exception of Lyndon

Johnson in 1964, the county went for the Republican candidate in every presidential election until 1984. e change came in the 1970s, when Cornell and Ithaca College were expanding, and upstate New York began to lose a lot of its manufacturing jobs. Ithaca’s biggest industry by then was clearly higher education, and there was a shi in the political demographics of the city. ere are occasional sightings of Ithaca Republicans these days, but you have to be quick.

2. RBG lived here

As a renowned liberal sanctuary, Ithacans are proud of the fact that former Associate Supreme Court Justice and American cultural icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg lived in Ithaca while attending Cornell (undergraduate Class of 1954). We all remember Notorious RBG as an anchor in the currently-beleaguered liberal wing of the nation’s highest court. A member of Alpha Epsilon Phi, she cited the classes she took from Professor Vladimir Nabokov as an in uence on her writing. She met her husband at Cornell. e university now has a brand-new freshman dorm on North Campus named a er her. Also, I’m reliably informed that you can purchase CornellRBG merch at the Cornell store.

Her connection to the region is complicated, though, by the fact that she authored the majority opinion in the 2005 case Sherill v Oneida Indian Nation. She is not necessarily a favorite of a lot of the Native American community, and particularly the Cayuga Nation, who were living where Ithaca is now prior to European settlement. That case effectively shut down the decades-long legal odyssey of the Cayuga to get restitution for 65 thousand acres of land that had been illegally taken by New York State, on the basis that too much time had elapsed by the time they were able to assert their claim. No disrespect to her, and Lord knows we miss her on the Court these days, but I quietly replaced my RBG bobblehead with one of the Dalai Lama (see below).

3. We had our own currency ey were called “Ithaca Hours,” and the system was started back in 1991 by community organizer Paul Glover. ough no longer in circulation, it was one of the longest-running local currency systems in American history and was famous in its day. e idea was to encourage the patronage of local businesses and prevent money from leaving the local economy. e value of each Ithaca Hour

was based on the living wage, which at the time was deemed to be $10 an hour. In true homegrown fashion, the bills were originally printed on local handmade paper and later transferred to a combination of cotton and hemp.

It was wonderfully Ithacan, in that it was local, felt virtuous, and was outside the larger ‘system’, and it only died a slow and steady death over a surprisingly long period. One reason Ithaca Hours petered out is that Paul Glover moved away, and he was the networker and proselytizer whose energy kept things moving. Also, the early ‘90s was just about when people started to shi away from cash toward electronic transactions, and locally-printed paper Hours were bound to su er. Finally, businesses that accepted Hours as payment got far more than they could use themselves, and so the number of businesses willing to take them dwindled, eventually, to zero. We’re not afraid to embrace doomed, noble causes.

4. Everyone has a favorite waterfall

Ithaca has a motto which, unless you literally just stepped o the bus, you must have seen by now: “Ithaca is Gorges.” e logo and motto were created in the 1970s by Howard Cogan (Cornell ‘50, MPS ‘80), who owned an advertising business in town. He donated them to the city and we’ve embraced it ever since, and with good reason. Ithaca is blessed with an astounding number of waterfalls and gorges. Walkable and within city limits, you can y sh at the foot of Ithaca Falls, head from downtown to Collegetown in Cascadilla Gorge, or have a picnic in Six Mile Creek Gorge. Within Ithaca’s close orbit is Taughannock Falls, which is taller than Niagara Falls, and swimming holes with lifeguards at the base of Buttermilk Falls and another one at the base of En eld Falls in Robert Treman Park. Heck, there are 12 separate waterfalls in Robert Treman Park alone. It’s the sort of thing that even jaded, lifelong residents don’t take for granted, and the only way to have a favorite is to check them all out.

5. We had an Octopus

It’s a quaint phenomenon to anyone coming from a big city to see Ithaca drivers muttering bitterly at a six minute tra c jam in the city’s West End. It’s a bottle-

Former SUNY Cortland football captain Tom Decker (left) and former Ithaca College football captain Richard Carmean ‘60, co-founders of the Cortaca Jug tradition, hold the original jug. (Photo: Justin Lutes)

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neck, especially at rush hours, but it used to be WAY worse. ree busy state roads— Routes 79, 89, and 96—converge in an area on the west side of the Cayuga Inlet. ree main city streets—State/MLK, Seneca, and Bu alo—bring tra c from downtown on the east side. Before the 1990s, they were all, with an extra road thrown in for good measure, funneled through a narrow intersection and a single bridge. It was not uncommon during busy times for it to take a half hour to get through. e whole tangled mess was called “the Octopus,” a name that still haunts the nightmares of long-time residents.

e area has been recon gured countless times over the years, but now there are three bridges across the Inlet and, sluggish though it sometimes is, there’s been no need to conjure up images of tentacled sea creatures in describing the area for some time.

6. e Commons

Ithaca did not invent the downtown pedestrian mall—they might have had them in ancient Greece—but the Ithaca Commons is the central attraction of downtown. Completed in 1975, it’s a popular tourist destination, with upscale restau-

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rants, galleries, public art, and little shops. Certainly a place to take your guests if they’ve never been to Ithaca.

It’s shaped like a T, comprised of a two-block segment of State/MLK Street between Cayuga and Aurora Streets, and a smaller one-block segment, “Bank Alley,” extending north up Tioga Street to Seneca Street, that is home to several banks, the Visitors’ Bureau, and the Tompkins County History Center. Architecturally, let’s call it half 19th-century buildings and half modern construction.

e Commons has seen its ups and downs over the years, but seems to be thriving these days, in part because of the recent spate of development projects in the area. When weather permits, it hosts outdoor concerts and various festivals. It’s also the go-to venue for political protests and rallies. In other words, it re ects Ithaca’s culture and is a good place to start if you want to get a feel for the city.

7.

e Cortaca Jug

e Cortaca Jug is the trophy given to the winner of the annual football game played between the Red Dragons of SUNY Cortland and the Bombers of Ithaca College. It’s one of the most prominent games in NCAA Division III football, and it’s become an increasingly intense rivalry between the schools. For the uninitiated,

the schools, and their respective cities, are 20 miles apart. e record since there’s been a trophy, as of last year, is Ithaca 37 wins, Cortland 25 wins. ere have been half-hearted attempts to expand the rivalry to the two cities themselves, but Cortland is so thoroughly outclassed by Ithaca in every regard that it hasn’t really gotten anywhere.

is year’s contest is scheduled for November 12th in Yankee Stadium, which is approximately 230 miles from either city.

8. We were Hollywood before Hollywood

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Exploring Ithaca’s spectacular landscape with her trusty pal, Tasha, gives Loretta great scenery and even better company. Whether she’s hiking to the heart of the gorge or just taking in the falls, she always enjoys the natural beauty of the area.

Living on the 105-acre campus of Kendal at Ithaca not only keeps Loretta connected to the places and companions she loves, but the care she may need someday. And, from here, the story just keeps getting better.

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tion studio that shot movies in settings all over Ithaca, the Cornell campus, and Cayuga Lake. eodore and Leopold Wharton set up the Wharton Studio by the lake in what is today Stewart Park and made serials and feature lms for American Pathe and William Randolph Hearst’s International Film Service. Movie stars such as Lionel Barrymore, Pearl White, eda Bara, and Francis X. Bushman could be spotted around town (some lived here for extended periods), and elaborate stunts were shot on location in and around the city. Citizens with the leisure to do so could be extras. It was all very exciting, and Ithaca was justly considered during that time to be a focal point of the movie industry. At the same time, though, more and more of the movie industry was moving to southern California and Hollywood where they could shoot year-round. (Notice that we haven’t mentioned Ithaca winters in this piece.) at, coupled with some nancial di culties induced the Wharton brothers to decamp to sunnier and possibly more lucrative locations, and our moment of celluloid glory was over.

9. Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae

e story is that on Sunday, April 3, 1892, the Reverend John M. Scott, a er ministering to his ock at the old Unitarian Church on East Bu alo Street, took his customary stroll to the Platt & Colt Pharmacy on East State Street (where the Commons is now) in search of refreshment. Platt & Colt advertised the sale of “drugs, paints, oils, etc”, and one assumes that refreshment would fall in the broad category of “etc”. e shop’s owner (and Unitarian church treasurer), Chester C. Platt, asked his fountain clerk, one DeForest Christiance, for two bowls of ice cream. Instead of serving the reverend plain vanilla though, and here’s where the moment of divine inspiration occurred, Platt took the bowls and topped each with cherry syrup and a candied cherry. Boom. e “Cherry Sunday” was born based, evidently, on the fact that it was concocted on a Sunday.

There are a half dozen other cities, most notably Two Rivers, Wisconsin, that also claim to be the birthplace of the Sundae, but there is ample primary source evidence, in the careful custody of Ithaca’s archivist Donna Eschenbrenner, that irrefutably documents

and supports our status as the first. Invent your own frozen dairy treat, Two Rivers.

10. e Dalai Lama loves Ithaca Yes, he’s visited, and the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca has been the North American seat of the personal monastery of His Holiness since 1992. is past spring, ground was broken for the construction of a 9000-square-foot library and learning center on a 28-acre parcel just outside the city on South Hill. In addition to works

by the current Dalai Lama, the facility will hold the collected works of all the previous Dalai Lamas as well as a rare copy of the Kangyur and Tengyur (the works of Indian and Tibetan Buddhist masters), hand printed with wood blocks in Tibet. It’s a pretty big deal, and will continue to make Ithaca a destination for the global Buddhist community, though it doesn’t necessarily translate to a Buddhist vibe in the general public, particularly among muttering drivers on the site of the old Octopus.

When it was introduced the Ithaca Quarter Hour was worth about $2.50. It could be worth a lot more today if you find the right collector. (Photo: File)

Beautification Brigade Keeps Ithaca Gorgeous

By Laura Ilioaei

If you’re walking around Downtown Ithaca on a spring or summer morning, you’re apt to see a distinctively painted van or truck near one of the City’s many public planting sites. e artwork proclaims the vehicles as belonging to the “Beauti cation Brigade,” the volunteers who plant and maintain many of the oral displays around town.

Contrary to popular misconception, the Brigade doesn’t work for the city. ey actually work through Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Tompkins County and the Tompkins County Community Beauti cation Program, which was started as a collaboration in 2002 between landscaper Chrys Gardener and Monika Roth, secretary of the Farmers Market Coalition. ough the Brigade has been asked if they could do plantings or other forms of gardening for homes and businesses, they always decline. eir sole focus is on public plantings in and around Ithaca and Tompkins County. Primary sites include e Ithaca Commons, Purity Point, East State Street Triangles, the downtown library and Van Horn Park. ey primarily plant owers such as tulips, lilies and da odils, along with other ornamental grasses. e type of greenery varies per season. However, they do plant kale on

e Commons. is kale is edible and is harvested throughout the season. e harvest is donated to Loaves & Fishes, an organization at St. John’s Episcopal Church that serves free meals ve days a week.

e Brigade sources their plants locally, primarily from Early Bird Farm (1100 Elmira Road) in New eld, but also from other area nurseries. anks to their relationship with Cornell University, they’re able to rent greenhouse space at the greenhouse complex at the Guterman Bioclimatic Lab on the Cornell campus. Cornell students maintain the plants grown in the greenhouse year round.

Tropical plants like canna bulbs and calla lilies are potted at the greenhouse. Florals like marigolds, asclepias, balsams, petunias, zinnias, and coleuses are seeded annually. Coleus shrubs and sweet potato vines have root cuttings, a method of plant propagation where the portion of the root is cut from a parent plant (o en called a “mother plant”). It is then placed in a growing medium and le to grow its own system of roots and stems. is process results in the creation of an entirely new separate plant that is o en considered a “clone” of the parent plant with the same genetic qualities.

e Brigade waters the plants using multiple methods. On e Ithaca Commons the plantings are watered from city hydrants located in the planting beds. e East State Street Triangles are also all equipped with water hydrants providing city water. e Beauti cation Program has installed drip irrigation at these sites, providing more e cient and less wasteful watering of the garden to support e orts in environmental sustainability. Some of the sites are equipped with water tanks, and water can be delivered to them so that it can be used for later watering.

Due to a drought that occurred in 2016, several planting sites have had more drought-resistant plants introduced to their mix, such as hardy perennials that can thrive for years in various conditions without dying out..

e Brigade’s e orts do not go unnoticed by the city.

“Pretty much every time we’re out, somebody stops by and says ‘Oh that looks great,’” notes Community Beautification Coordinator Janine Willis . “I really think the positive effects can be seen around town. Even if you don’t really know what’s making things look good, the fact that they do look good really makes an impact. And our volunteers are also giving out information about plants and how to take care of them, and giving people a chance to be out in nature, which is beneficial both physically and mentally.”

e eye-catching Beauti cation Brigade van was painted by Kellie Cox, a botanical muralist and artist who has also installed murals in Ithaca, such as the Black-Eyed Susans mural on the Seneca Street garage. e Brigade’s equally distinctive truck was painted by Heather Williams, a volunteer who is a visual and tattoo artist.

People can volunteer for the Brigade from April through November. Clubs, service groups, schools, fraternities and sororities are all welcome to volunteer, as demand for volunteering is high during May and June for planting, and again in October and November for clean-up. Volunteers will be asked to consent to a criminal background screening for the CCE, as a means of ensuring the safety and security of other volunteers as well as the community.

If you’d like to volunteer and/or be added to their email list, email the Beauti cation Brigade at beauti cation@cornell. edu. e Brigade can be followed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ Beauti cation-Brigade-172707262768227/.

You can also nd them on Instagram @beauti cation_brigade.

The Brigade’s sole focus is on public plantings in and around Ithaca and Tompkins County. (Photo: Ash Bailot)

The demand for Brigade volunteers peaks during the spring planting and fall clean-up seasons. (Photo: Ash Bailot)

The Brigade’s truck was painted by Heather Williams, a volunteer who is a visual and tattoo artist. (Photo: Ash Bailot)

Volunteer Opportunities Being Of Service In Ithaca

By Matt Dougherty

Ithaca’s reputation as a hot bed of activism isn’t just based on our high degree of political involvement. is is a community that takes pride in being of service locally. No matter what you are interested in, there is no shortage of local volunteer opportunities. Here is a quick look at some of the most respected.

SPCA of Tompkins County

e Tompkins County SPCA is a muchadmired no kill animal shelter that has been in operation since 1902. e current main shelter is located at 1640 Hanshaw Road. e SPCA sta , along with more than 250 annual volunteers rehabilitate, train, and nd new homes for close to 2,000 animals every year. In order to become a volunteer you will be required to complete an application, which you can nd at www.spcaonline.com/volunteer. You will be asked to commit to spending a minimum of two to three hours of your time per week volunteering. According to the SPCA website, “ ere is some exibility in scheduling, but a commitment of eight to 12 hours per month, for six months is appreciated.”

Loaves & Fishes

Another beloved organization to volunteer for is Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County. Loaves and Fishes is a Christian ministry founded in 1983 that provides “free meals, hospitality, companionship and advocacy for those in need” every week from Monday through Friday. According to their website, lunch is served on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., while dinner is served on Tuesdays and ursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Loaves & Fishes is located at 210 N. Cayuga Street, and can be reached by phone at (607) 272-5457. If you are interested in volunteering for Loaves and Fishes please send an email to info@loaves.org.

Hospicare Volunteer

If you’re passionate about caring for those facing the end of life, you can volunteer with Hospicare & Palliative Care Services, which is located at 172 East King Road. Patient support volunteers will be asked to commit to spending two to four hours a week doing anything from running errands for a patient to providing grief support to their families. Administrative support volunteers will assist operations in the o ce by answering phones, assisting with mailings, and assembling information packets. Community support volunteers assist with peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives, or support e orts by serving

on planning committees or assisting with the safe passage of swimmers during the very popular Women Swimmin’ fundraising event. For information on volunteering email info@ hospicare.org or call (607) 272-0212.

Cayuga Medical Center

Like all hospitals, Cayuga Medical Center has numerous volunteer opportunities. As a volunteer for Cayuga Medical you could be asked to answer telephones at the reception desk, assist nurses with non-medical matters, or even stock shelves in the gi shop. To become a volunteer you must complete and submit the volunteer application and be at least 18 years old. e application is available at https://www.cayugamed.org/about-us/cayugamedical-center-auxiliary/. In addition, you will need proof from your doctor that you have had a physical examination within the past twelve months and con rmations that your vaccinations are up to date.

Suicide Prevention & Crisis Services

ose looking to support the community’s mental health might be interested in volunteering as a Crisis Counselor with Ithaca’s Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service. e Crisisline answers calls from the 607 area code to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, as well as direct calls to the organizations local hotline from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m., 365 days a year. Comprehensive training is o ered to volunteers throughout the year—and volunteers are asked to “commit to a year of service on the Crisisline following the training.” If you are interested in volunteering with Ithaca’s Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, you must be at least 20 years old and have the “ability to listen with compassion and open-mindedness.” For more information call (607) 272-1505 or send an email to o ce@ithacacrisis.org.

United Way of Tompkins County

Well-known service organizations in Ithaca o en have more volunteers than they can actually use. ere are dozens of other organizations with lower pro les that are looking for help. If you are unsure about where to volunteer, or are looking for some of these organizations that are in need of help, the United Way of Tompkins County can match volunteers with more than 50 local nonpro ts that are dedicated to addressing community needs. You can register as a volunteer and get help nding the opportunity that ts you best at https://www. uwtc.org/volunteer-sign.

Ithaca Has Festivals For All Seasons

By Laura Ilioaei

To really enjoy all that Ithaca has to o er, you have to embrace every season. Among the many festivals held here in Ithaca, there are four major annual festivals that are strategically placed in the middle of every season, capturing the essence of each one. Here is some information and recommendations of what to enjoy from each of these special festivals. Whip out your calendars because it’s time to circle some dates. (Use a pencil for those circles, however, since in the age of COVID-19 schedules can be mutable.)

Autumn: Apple Harvest Festival

e name is self-explanatory: Apple Harvest Festival (https://www.downtownithaca.com/apple-harvest-festival/ ) is a large street fair centered around all things apples. It’s also the most crowded seasonal festival. is year’s Apple Harvest Festival will take place from Friday, September 30 to Sunday, October 2, which conveniently overlaps with New York Cider Week. Seize the opportunity to sample and purchase alcoholic ciders. But if you abstain there’s virgin apple cider and you can still get your ll of hot or cold cups of the stu . Numerous stands sell apples but head to the tent where Cornell University students have samples of several varieties. Try all of them. Because you’re a patron of higher education and not an apple vulture attempting to freeload on all the free apple samples, buy some of your favorites. Leave

the freeloading to the college freshmen who are still learning how to budget properly.

Don’t forget about the apple-based baked goods. Usually, there’s a tent where Amish sellers are bagging fresh apple cider doughnuts straight from an oven. Unfortunately, in 2021, when Apple Fest returned post-pandemic, they weren’t selling these amazing doughnuts. But assuming they’re coming back this year, don’t be discouraged by any long winding lines. eir doughnuts are worth the wait. Be patient.

If you hate apples, or maybe you’re just allergic, there’s non-apple-based stu available too. Certain vendors will sell local produce other than apples, like Concord grapes. ere are also food trucks selling eats ranging from potato pancakes, to lemonade, to jumbo deep fried onions.

ere are also small businesses selling art, cookware, accessories, bee products, and hot sauce. Show these small businesses some love.

Winter: Winter Lights Festival

Ithaca gets super frigid shortly a er Apple Harvest Festival, but this winter festival period is worth going out for. is year’s Winter Lights Festival (https://www. downtownithaca.com/winterlights-2/) will take place from Friday, December 2, to Saturday, December 10. Layer up like you’re the Michelin Man, stu your

pockets and boots with hand warmers and quickly shu e over to e Commons. e bright interactive light sculptures are the main attraction to this festival.

Don’t miss the Winter Lights Silent Disco December 3-4, 10 and 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. You will be able to dance among the holiday lights while music gets directly delivered to your ears through Bluetooth headphones, and you will have the option to switch between three tracks. If dancing doesn’t warm you up, there will also be hot cocoa served at the event.

ough the date of the Chowder CookO is TBD, it also occurs around this time. Various eateries compete for the best chowder recipe; vendors also come during this time as well. So, if you want to be able to buy artisanal alcohol, honey, or other home products between chowder samples, this is a great time to cover all your bases. If you can’t make it to the Cook-O , many of these locations will still serve their chowder in their eatery the week of the Cook-O .

Spring: Chili Cook-Off

e date for the 2023 Chili Cook-O has yet to be announced but it usually occurs at the end of March. Similar to the Chowder Cook-O , eateries in Ithaca compete once again for the best chili recipe. Come with an appetite and heightened epicuriousity. row away all preconceived notions of what you think should be chili because the contestants will. Expect vegan chili, and chili that swaps ground beef for turkey, chicken, pork. Expect spices and avors you would not normally associate with chili. Standing out means taking culinary risks.

Leave your credit card at home. ere will be a tent near the Bernie Milton Pavilion selling tickets that you redeem for chili samples. $40 gets you VIP status, but it’s only really a fancy lanyard and about 20 tickets. You’re better o just parting with about $20 or $30 for 20 or 30 tickets respectively, coming a little earlier to avoid the long lines, and having the ability to sample all the chili options.

Vendors also come to the Chili CookO , and there will o en be di erent vendors than the ones you would see at the other seasonal festivals. If you want to nd a vendor selling artisanal hot sauce, this is the festival you’ll likely spot one.

Summer: Ithaca Festival

Because most college students are out of Ithaca during this festival, at its core, Ithaca Festival is closest to Ithaca’s spirit. is is where you will really see your new neighbors out and about in all their glory. is festival usually takes place during the rst week of June and o en has a knack for catching at least one rainy day. But hey, it’s Ithaca: pack a poncho or carry an umbrella. Rain or shine, at 6 p.m. of the rst festival day, catch the Ithaca Parade on Cayuga Street, where it starts near Lincoln Street and travels toward e Commons, ending on Bu alo Street.

e Bernie Milton Pavilion is full of lively performances during this festival. A variety of musicians perform and this year, there was even a Silent Disco. ere are also other performers scattered around e Commons. You can see everything from belly dancing to puppetry. When the day of the festival gets closer, the Ithaca Festival website (https://ithacafestival.org/) will post performance schedules.

e vendors during Ithaca Festival lean more towards artistic products. ere’s a cra fair where over 100 local and regional artisans sell their creations. Expect to nd pottery, jewelry, metalwork, dolls, toys, artwork, clothing, and other items. Of course there are also local food vendors and artisanal food makers.

The Seabring Inn of Newfield is a past winner for best meat chili. (Photo: Darlene Wilber)

Sparky the Unicorn is a Winter Lights Festival highlight. (Photo: Provided)

Ithaca Festival is the most Ithacan of all the seasonal festivals. Don’t miss the parade. (Photo: File)

Community Listings

Finger Lakes ReUse, Triphammer Laundromat, Triphammer Wines & Spirits and much more.

Supermarkets

Greenstar Cooperative Market 770 Cascadilla St. Ithaca, NY (607) 273-9392

https://greenstar.coop/ This market is open daily, 8 a.m. to 9p.m. and features organic produce and homeopathic products and a cheap yearly membership. This is not your grandfather’s co-op.

Greenstar DeWitt Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8213

Monday – Friday 8 am – 9 pm Saturday & Sunday 9 am – 8 pm

Greenstar Collegetown 307 College Ave (607) 882-2667

Mon – Fri: 8 am – 9 pm Sat & Sun: 9 am – 9 pm

Ithaca Halal Meat and Grocery 110 W. Green St., Ithaca, NY (607) 319-9110

Offering halal foods on the border of Press Bay Alley.

Open 8:00AM - 10:00PM

Ithaca Mini Mart 124 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca 607-319-0823

Open daily 9AM-9PM

Ren’s Mart Asian Groceries 701 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca, NY (607) 319-5073

Trader Joe’s 744 S. Meadow St., Ithaca, NY 607-272-1420

Open 8AM-9PM. *Wed and Sun: the first hour of operation is service for senior customers (age 60 and over) and customers with disabilities who may need extra assistance

Wineries

Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-6115 www.cinemapolis.org Independent downtown theater features art and indie movies, showcases local filmmakers and hosts film festivals.

Cornell Cinema (Has Online Option)

104 Willard Straight Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3522 www.cinema.cornell.edu Screening over 300 films a year, seven nights a week, Cornell Cinema runs the gamut with classic Hollywood cinema, international movies, cult classics, documentaries and experimental films as well as Ithaca premieres. See website for details.

Regal Cinemas @ Ithaca Mall 40 Catherwood Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (844) 462-7342

Ithaca’s mainstream movie mecca, offering the latest blockbusters as well as some special events.

Galleries

CAP ArtSpace

A program of the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, The ArtSpace gallery is located in the Tompkins Center for History and Culture at 110 N. Tioga Street. Monthly live and virtual exhibits. www.ArtsPartner.org

Community School of Music & Arts

While we’ve tried our best, the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent labor and supply shortages have played havoc with the dates, days, and hours of places and events. Our advice is to look here first, then double check online, and then triple check by telephoning if possible, since websites aren’t keeping pace with today’s ever changing details.

AREA ATTRACTIONS

Visitor information

Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau

Downtown Visitor Center: 110 North Tioga Street, Open Thur-Sat, 10AM-5PM (607) 272-1313; (800) 284-8422 (toll-free) www.visitithaca.com

Downtown Ithaca Alliance 171 East State St. Center Ithaca Ithaca, NY 14t850 (607) 277-8679 Downtownithaca.com

The Downtown Ithaca Business Improvement District is a New York state-chartered not-forprofit organization charged with the revitalization, development, promotion and management of downtown Ithaca.

The Ithaca Times 109 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7000 Ithaca.com

Shopping

DeWitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St.

Ithaca, NY 607-273-6464

In this historic converted school building, you’ll find great places to eat: world-famous Moosewood Restaurant, Café DeWitt serving breakfast and lunch, La Bodega’ Spanish sandwiches, Cayuga Lake Creamery’s ice cream, the GreenStar Oasis natural foods market, and Wide Awake Bakery’s breads and pastries. You’ll also find shops including Cat’s Pajamas, Buffalo Street Books, Cayuga Coins, Fibers, Ithaca GuitarWorks, IthacaMade, Pastimes Antiques & Treasures, and Sunshine Creative Rocks & Minerals.

East Hill Plaza 327 Pine Tree Road Ithaca, NY 607-257-1725

An outdoor complex that includes Burger King, Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Antiques, Judd Falls Laundromat, Judd Falls Wine & Spirits, Ling Ling Garden Restaurant, Wings Over Ithaca, M&T Bank, Tompkins Community Bank, P&C Fresh Supermarket, The University Inn Best Western, and some Cornell University offices.

Ithaca Commons Ithaca, NY

The epicenter of Ithaca—located between Aurora and Cayuga Streets, and East and West State Streets—includes restaurants, clothing stores, art galleries, book stores, record stores, gift stores, and too many more choices to mention.

It’s Ithaca’s reinterpretation of a community’s Main Street combined with a Village Green. You’ll find playgrounds and musicians, pedestrians and activists, and tourists and townies.

Ithaca Farmers’ Market

Steamboat Landing off Third Street Ithaca, NY 14851 (607) 273-7109

Ithaca’s can’t-miss Farmers’ Market operates on Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at three locations in Ithaca. The Saturday market hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Sunday market hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and runs from spring through fall.

During parts of fall and winter, the market reduces its hours to just Saturdays 10:30-2 at Triphammer Marketplace. Plus be sure to check out the Wednesday market in East Hill Plaza, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m and Tuesday at DeWitt Park 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. See Ithacamarket.com for hours and vendor information.

The Shops at Ithaca Mall 40 Catherwood Road off North Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 607-257-5337

www.theShopsatIthacaMall.com

This is home to “big-box” national retailers such as Target, Best Buy, Michael’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Around the back you’ll find Regal Cinemas. Inside the mall there’s a frequently changing cast of retail shops and special events, as is common with most malls these days. This has also been one of the best places in town to get tested for COVID or vaccinated.

The Triphammer Marketplace 2255 North Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY 607-273-6851

www.triphammermarketplace.com

The variety of retail, dining and service offerings at the Triphammer Marketplace include Kinney Pharmacy, Ithaca Bakery, Ithaca Coffee Company, Gene’s Barber Shop,

Nirvana Foods Bazaar 528 West Seneca Street, Ithaca, (607) 277-3300 Indian and South Asian Food & Grocery

P&C Fresh 315 Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca, NY (607) 272-5836

Open 6am - 10pm

This is a large full-service, up-market store that is within walking distance of Cornell graduate housing.

Tops Friendly Market 2300 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY (607) 257-4952

6AM to Midnight You’ll find a wide selection of ethnic ingredients, sushi and an excellent bakery that meets the cooking needs of our diverse and cuisine-conscious community.

Wegmans 500 South Meadow St., Ithaca, NY (607) 277-5800

Keep your head on a swivel because this place is packed with shoppers and even tourists. That’s for good reason: there’s a staggering array of baked goods, fresh produce, deli items, meats and seafood in Ithaca’s largest market. And if you need a break from the aisles, there’s also a café, sushi bar and several buffet tables offering a variety of choices. Open 6 a.m. to 12 a.m.

Win Li Supermarket 374 Elmira Road, Ithaca, NY (607) 277-6790

This is the largest Asian market in the Ithaca area. They have fresh meats, fish and produce as well as a wide variety of processed foods and specialty items.

Ithaca Tofu Food Mart 23 Cinema Dr Ste F Ithaca, Open 10 am – 6 pm East Asian market located near the Triphammer Mall

Check ahead of time for hours

Cayuga Wine Trail See cayugawinetrail.com for a listing of the 16 wineries on both sides of Cayuga Lake. The region is most well-known for its Rieslings and Cabernet Francs. Recently some wineries have begun to focus on Pinot Noir and Lemberger, both cool, temperate weather vinifera grapes. Keep an eye out for Saperavi, which some are suggesting will be the next big Fingerlakes varietal.

Ports of New York 815 Taber Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 220-6317 www.portsofnewyork.com/ Regular Hours: TuesdaySaturday, 12 noon - 6 pm Located along the Cayuga Inlet in the Northside neighborhood. A scion of Maison La Bouche of France and a producer of Meleau Specialty Wines, includes ports and other fortified wines.

Six Mile Creek Vineyard 1551 Slaterville Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-9463 or tollfree (800) 260-0612 www.sixmilecreek.com

Ithaca’s own winery features an especially lovely setting to enjoy memorable wines styled to a variety of preferences. A new line of distilled specialties, including Vodka, Limoncella and Grappa add to the tasting experience. It’s also a lovely setting that, if you squint, can make you feel like you’re in France.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cinemas

Cinemapolis ( Has Online Option) 120 E. Green St.

330 East State St.,Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-1474 www.csma-ithaca.org

Aside from the “Music” side of this community school, CSMA houses excellent art by many local artists in its many galleries and hallways. With an emphasis on collaborative ventures with lesserknown artist groups, the galleries feature experimental, daring and aesthetically pleasing work.

Corners Gallery 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-5756

Visit: Tues/Wed By Appt Th/F/Sat 12-4pm.

Located just minutes from Cornell University, the Corners Gallery specializes in Ithaca art by Ithaca artists. Here you’ll find paintings, prints and photographs depicting scenes of Ithaca, Cornell, and the Finger Lakes by local, regional and national artists. Women owned and operated.

Handwork

Open 11AM-5PM 102 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca, NY https://www.handwork.coop/ (607) 273-9400

This unique cooperative in downtown Ithaca features crafts and fine art made by craftspeople and artists from all around the country. Members are required to work in the store several days a month and “sales clerks” are actually working craftspeople, so don’t hesitate to ask them about the work.

The Ink Shop Printmaking Center 330 East State St., 2nd Floor, Ithaca, NY (607) 277-3884 www.ink-shop.org Visit by appointment only at this time.

Ithaca College: Handwerker Gallery Opens Sept. 2 1170 Gannett Center 953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY (607) 274-3018

Set all your preconceived notions of co-ops aside. Greenstar’s flagship location on Cascadilla Street rivals any high end mainstream grocer. (Photo: Casey Martin)

Art lovers can rejoice. The acclaimed Handwerker Gallery has reopened after its COVID-19 restrictions. It will be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6.p.m; Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. .

Neighbors

A small art gallery founded in 2017 in a converted garage in Ithaca. Opening hours vary from week to week, check out their webpage for details or email to schedule an appointment. 526 Elm Street Ithaca NY 14850 https://www.neighborsgallery.com

North Star Art Gallery

743 Snyder Hill Rd, Ithaca, NY (607)323-7684 www.northstarartgallery.com

In addition to fine arts, the North Star Gallery also offers visitors a chance to stay at their Airbnb next door. Open 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

State of the Art

120 W. State St. #2, Ithaca, NY (607) 277-1626 www.soag.org

Thu&Fri 12:00pm - 6:00pm; Sat&Sun 12:00pm - 5:00pm

This members’ only gallery features rotating exhibitions on a roughly monthly basis. The space is lovely and intimate; works are carefully hung in between the two separate exhibition spaces. Expect highquality work from artists both regional, national and international.

Museums

Cornell University Lab of Ornithology

159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca (607) 254-2473 www.birds.cornell.edu

The CUMV Ornithology Collection currently consists of approximately 38,300 round skins, 700 flat skins, 1,000 spread wings, 5,500 skeletons, 1,400 fluid-preserved specimens, 3,200 egg sets, 590 nests, and 1,000 uncatalogued mounts. The Visitor Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the trails are open from dawn to dusk. No dogs or bicycles, please.

Tompkins Center for History and Culture 110 N. Tioga St., on the Commons, Ithaca (607) 273-8284 ext. 228 https://www.tompkins-center.net/ With extensive and informative exhibits on aspects of Ithaca’s colorful history—everything from Ithaca’s boating history, to its most wild women—there’s much to be learned here. The History Center is requesting all visitors pre-schedule

their visits at their web site and to review Health & Safety protocols before visiting the Exhibit Hall.

Johnson Museum of Art 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY (607) 255-6464 www.museum.cornell.edu

An internationally-renowned institution—and housed in a stunning building, designed by iconic architect I.M. Pei—the Johnson Museum is one of Cornell’s shining stars. Free and open to the public, exhibits range from avant-garde video art to iconic Impressionist works.

Museum of the Earth 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6623 www.museumoftheearth.org

This natural history museum hosts a collection of about 2-3 million specimens. Family friendly and bustling with energy. Open SatMon with advanced tickets required for visitors available on website.

Sciencenter 601 1st St., Ithaca (607) 272-0600 www.sciencenter.org

This kid friendly non-profit educational organization will appeal to the kid in every adult, too. This is a place where fun and science come together. Expect a large amount of interaction to go with your serving size of learning.

Theaters

The Actors’ Workshop of Ithaca (Still Closed Due to COVID-19— check the website for updates) 105 Harvard Place, Ithaca (607) 339-9999 www.actorsworkshop.biz

Performances are at a variety of venues around the area. The choice of plays does not hesitate to grapple with social issues. This is essentially an acting school that regularly stages productions.

The Cherry Artspace 102 Cherry St., Ithaca (607) 241-0703 thecherry.org

A not-for-profit arts facilitator and presenting organization supporting a wide range of artists and arts organizations, in a variety of disciplines. The Artspace is a flexible, multidisciplinary arts and performance venue located on the banks of the Cayuga Inlet in Ithaca’s West End.

Civic Ensemble www.civicensemble.org 607-241-0195

The Civic Ensemble season will include new plays about issues relevant to our community,

and open dialogue about the questions they raise.

Hangar Theatre

801 Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca Phone: (607) 273-2787 www.hangartheatre.org

The Hangar Theatre puts on a plethora of different productions during their season, both indoors and outdoors, including musicals, comedies, dramas, classics and regional premieres.

Ithaca College Theatre (It’s anticipated that the Theatre will be open in September 2022, but these days nothing is certain. Check the IC website or call) 953 Danby Road, Ithaca (607) 274-3345

Ithaca College brings to the stage stories from the 17th century right up into the 21st, reaffirming live theatre’s power to delight and inspire, provoke and activate.

Kitchen Theatre

(Vaccination/negative test required) 417 W. Martin Luther King St./W. State St., Ithaca (607) 272-0403 (admin office) https://www.kitchentheatre.org/ With stage classics, regional and world premieres, family fare and one-person shows, “great conversations happen in the Kitchen.”

State Theatre of Ithaca 107 West State Street, Ithaca, (607) 277-8283 www.stateofithaca.org

Schwartz Center of Performing Arts 430 College Ave., Ithaca 607-254-2700 https://pma.cornell.edu/

Local Music Organizations

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra 110 N. Tioga Street, Suite 302, Ithaca A professional 35 member orchestra which performs a regular orchestral concert season, as well as a Sunday afternoon chamber music series, an annual Holiday Concert: Caroling by Candlelight and youth concerts. ccoithaca.org

Cayuga Vocal Ensemble P.O. Box 95, Ithaca, NY 14851

The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, is directed by Dr Sean Linfors (appointed in the spring of 2020). The Ensemble has been performing broad selections of choral music since 1976 to Ithaca audiences and around Tompkins County. Each season, the Ensemble usually presents three or four major concerts in Ithaca, often with guest musicians. cayuga-vocal.org

Chamber Music at New Park

New Park Ithaca 1500 Taughannock Boulevard Annual chamber music festival presenting world-class performers in a relaxed and natural venue on Taughannock Blvd in Ithaca. www. chambermusicatnewpark.com

Cornell Savoyards

Producing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas since 1953. They delight in exposing modern audiences to the wonderful wit and music of G&S. They also produce light opera, Broadway musicals, revues and sing-a-longs. https://www. facebook.com/CornellSavoyards

Cornell University Concert Series 101 Lincoln Hall, Cornell

The Cornell Concert Series has been hosting musicians and ensembles of international stature since 1903. Originally featuring Western classical artists, the series presented Ravi Shankar in 1987 and has since grown to encompass a broader spectrum of the world’s great art musics. www.cornellconcertseries.com

Dryden Area Intergenerational Band & Chorus

The DAIBC provides a noncompetitive, fun, free summer music ensemble experience to anyone of any age or musical ability. www.daibc.org

Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble

A chamber music ensemble, with a regular season of chamber concerts, solo and lecture-recitals performing in Ithaca and Lodi. www. fingerlakeschamberensemble.com

Ithaca Community Chorus (hosts four groups): www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org

Ithaca Community Chorus & Chamber Singers (ICC&CS)

Founded in 1976, the Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers includes over 100 and Tompkins County residents.

The Chorus membership finds commonality in the dedication to learning and performing history’s best choral offerings.

The Chamber Singers is a select sub-group of the Chorus.

VOICES Multicultural Chorus Founded in 2002, VOICES expands Ithaca Community Choruses’s outreach to the Ithaca community and by creating a multicultural group of singers interested in learning, sharing, and singing songs from diverse ethnic choral traditions.

Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus

Founded in the spring of 2009, the Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus expands Ithaca Community Choruses’ outreach to the Ithaca community by embracing all men who wish to perform music set for the male voice.

SummerSing

Summer Sing is a summer choral project of Ithaca Community Choruses. Everyone is welcome. You do not have to know how to read music and there are no auditions.

Ithaca Community Orchestra PO Box 6787, Ithaca NY 14851

The Ithaca Community Orchestra (ICO) supports community musical education through the rehearsal and performance of the classical orchestral repertoire, as well as music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. www.ithacacommunityorchestra.org

Ithaca Concert Band

Ithaca’s official community band for more than 40 years, celebrating music-making for all ages. ICB offers free concerts throughout the year, including an outdoor summer concert series. ithacaconcertband.org

Ithaca Underground

A not-for-profit whose goal is to nurture a sustainable, all ages (and especially youth) supportive environment where music and art outside of the mainstream is encouraged and able to flourish. Presents events featuring national touring, regional, and local bands and performers on a year-round basis, averaging 40+ shows a year. www.ithacaunderground.com

Music’s Recreation Music’s Recreation is devoted to exploring new concert formats that integrate professional performance of a wide range of music with intriguing and educational commentary in a very informal atmosphere.

https://www.musicsrecreation.org/

NYS Baroque 333 The Parkway, Ithaca 607-301-0604

Performs music of the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical periods on period instruments. nysbaroque.com

Opera Ithaca Opera Ithaca brings professional opera to Ithaca, New York and the surrounding Finger Lakes and Southern Tier region. operaithaca.org

State Theatre of Ithaca

The historic and restored State Theater is a venue for national,

international and community performances and programming.

www.stateo thaca.com

Triphammer Arts 607-257-2043 2622 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca Triphammer Arts consistently brings together dancers and musicians from the area to resent high quality, audience-friendly music and dance productions both outdoors and indoors.

www.operacowpokes.com

Festivals

Apple Harvest Festival

Apple Harvest Festival is a large street fair centered around all things apples. It’s also Ithaca’s most crowded seasonal festival. is year’s 40th Apple Fest will take place from Friday, Sept. 30 to Sunday, Oct. 2, which coincidentally overlaps with New York Cider Week.

https://www.downtownithaca. com/apple-harvest-festival/ Greater Ithaca Art Trail

A program of the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, the Trail gives people the opportunity to visit studios by appointment, on October special event weekends, and on monthly First Saturdays, along with plenty of virtual events. www.ArtTrail.com

Spring Writes Literary Festival

A program of the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, the Festival features over 40 readings, panels, workshops and performances in May featuring over 100 local writers. www.SpringWrites.org

Friends of the Library Book Sale 509 Esty Street, Ithaca booksale.org

Each year, the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library holds two book sales, one in the spring and another in the fall, to bene t organizations working for literacy in Tompkins County. e number of items available for each sale usually exceeds 250,000. Books, audio books, CDs, DVDs, records, puzzles, and games are items found at the Book Sales.

Children’s Corner is especially well-stocked and Collector’s Corner is a separate area housing many unique items of special interest which are priced individually.

Ithaca Festival

Late May- Early June Downtown Ithaca and the Commons is over-40 year running festival of music and art is somewhat of an Ithaca tradition. With more live music than you can shake a stick at — both on e Commons and at Stewart Park — this weekend-long festival celebrates the richness of Ithaca’s social and artistic culture, with its highlight being the endlessly bizarre and joyous parade the rst ursday evening of the festival.

Juneteenth Celebration

Southside Community Center 305 Plain Street, Ithaca, (607) 273-4190

An annual celebration of this national event symbolizing the end of slavery — a daylong event involving music performances, a street fair, food and cra s vendors, and more.

Downtown Summer Concert Series

Late June through mid-September e Commons, Ithaca, NY

Listen to free live music every ursday evening on the Commons. Local musicians perform all di erent styles, from classical to folk to rock to jazz.

GrassRoots Festival

150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg, NY (607) 387-5098

www.grassrootsfest.org

e Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance started as a concert to bene t local AIDS support organization AIDS work at the State eater in Ithaca.

GrassRoots is held the second last weekend in July. It is held at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds in Trumansburg New York, located about 10 miles north of Ithaca NY on Rt. 96 on the west side of Cayuga Lake in the very scenic Finger Lakes region of central New York.

Ithaca Artist Market

Each year, the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County organizes and facilitates a summer and winter juried show and sale of work by local artists. Artists exhibit paintings, drawings, photographs, collage, prints and sculpture. e Ithaca Artists’ Market has become a summer xture a er 20 years.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration January 2023

In partnership with the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) and many other community organizations, e MLK Day of Celebration takes place at GIAC on Martin Luther King Day every January. Workshops,

children’s activities, music and a free community luncheon all sta ed by volunteers makes this a day on, not a day o .

Book/Record Stores

Alphabet Soup

171 e Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-6885

Angry Mom Records

115 East State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 319-4953

Autumn Leaves Bookstore 115 e Commons, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8239

Barnes and Noble 614 South Meadow St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6784

Bu alo Street Books

215 N. Cayuga Street (Dewitt Mall), Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8246 www.bu alostreetbooks.com

Comics for Collectors 124 W. State St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 272-3007

Odyssey Bookstore 115 W. Green St., Lower, Ithaca 607-269-5800

Open Tue-Sat 10-6; Sun 10-5

SPORTS AND RECREATION

Golf Courses

RaNic Golf Club 189 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850-2601

(607) 257-0010

www.countryclubo thaca.com

e 18-hole, par-72 course at the Country Club of Ithaca facility features 6,595 yards of golf from the longest tees. Designed by Geo rey S. Cornish, ASGCA, the Ithaca golf course opened in 1900.

Newman Golf Course 10 Pier Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-6262

e nine-hole “Newman’’ course at the Newman Municipal Golf Course features 3,055 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 36 . e course rating is 35.2 and it has a slope rating of 113.

Newman golf course opened in 1935. ere are men’s and women’s tees, and it has an 18-hole rating of 70.3. Reservations are required on weekends and holidays.

Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 254-6531

e Cornell University golf course was designed by the famous Robert Trent Jones and proves to be a challenging test of golf for all levels of golfers. e course is located at the edge of the Cornell University campus o Warren Road. e facility has all the amenities needed to improve your game from tee to green - practice greens, chipping area, practice sand trap and 300yard driving range will all help you ne tune your game. Unfortunately it is only open to the Cornell Community and guests, who must be accompanied by their Cornell host at time of play. In other words, if you’re not Cornell-related and you want to play this historic course, make friends with a Cornell du er.

Pools

Alex Haley Pool (GIAC) 408 N. Albany St., Ithaca, (607) 272-3622 or (607) 277-6169

Cass Park Pool 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca (607) 273-1090

Island Health & Fitness 310 Taughannock Blvd. Ithaca (607) 277-3861

Lap and warm water pools

Ithaca Swimming Club Inc. 124 Uptown Road, Ithaca, (607) 266-9574

YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County 50 Graham Rd. W, Ithaca 607-257-0101

Cornell - Teagle Building 607-255-1318

Ithaca College Outdoor Pool & Kelsey Partridge Bird Natatorium (607) 274-1880.

Bowling

Cornell - Helen Newman Bowling Lanes Cradit Farm Dr., Ithaca, (607) 255-4200

Atlas Eat-Drink-Bowl 61 W Main St Trumansburg, NY (607) 387-3191

Skating

Ithaca Skate Park Meadow Street and Wood Street Ithaca, NY 14850

Cass Park Rink 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca (607) 273-1090

Cass Rink o ers public ice skating (October through

March) and roller-skate nights (June through October)

e Rink at Community Recreation Center

1767 East Shore Drive, Ithaca 607-277-7465

Parks

Allan H. Treman State Marine Park

Just north of Cass Park, o Route 89, Ithaca (607) 273-3440, (607) 272-1460 (marina o ce, summer)

Allan H. Treman State Park is one of the largest inland marinas in New York State. It boasts 370 seasonal, 30 transient and 30 dry boat slips. e park has picnic areas and playing elds and provides access to the Barge Canal and Seneca Lake. It is a marina only, there is no camping available and it is not the same as Robert H. Treman State Park.

Allen Treman Park is located on Route 89, north of Ithaca, on the western shore and southern end of Cayuga Lake. (Limited Capacity)

Auburn St. Park e park is actively used all year by residents of the neighborhood. Supervision is recommended as this park is surrounded by streets and cars.

Baker Park is park is a neighborhood passive park located in the triangle formed where Elmira Road, South Plain Street and Park Street meet. Baker Park has several large shade trees, an open lawn area, and benches.

Brindley Park

Brindley Park is the only remaining piece of the former Inlet Neighborhood Community Center which was built in the 1930’s in response to the social and recreational needs of Inlet neighborhood residents at the junction of Bu alo and Brindley Streets for use as a park.

Bryant Park

Development of East Hill began in earnest in 1908. e land was developed by the Bryant Land company in collaboration with attorney / developer Jared T. Newman, who was then Mayor of Ithaca. 45 Acres of the old Bryant Farm were subdivided into 161 building lots. ree open spaces were incorporated into the subdivision: Bryant Park, Maplewood Park and Campbell Park, of which only Bryant park and Maplewood Park survived. Today Bryant Park is located in the triangle formed by Bryant Avenue, Irving Place and Ithaca Road

Buttermilk Falls State Park 112 Buttermilk Falls Road, Ithaca (607) 273-2440, (607) 2735761 (summer), (800) 4562267 (reservations)

Buttermilk Falls State Park takes its name from the foaming cascade formed by Buttermilk Creek as it ows down the steep valley side toward Cayuga Lake. e upper park has a small lake, hiking trails through woodlands and along the gorge and rim, picnic areas and playing elds. e lower park has a campground, pool and playing elds, beyond which is Larch Meadows. Larch Meadows is a moist, shady glen and wetland area through which a nature trail winds. Park activities, including tours through Buttermilk gorge, are o ered weekly from July 4th through Labor Day. Park open all year. Camping season from midMay to mid-October. Swimming area opens on June 20th All trails

close November 10. Deer hunting, bow only, is permitted in season.

Located on Route 13, south of Ithaca. Don’t content yourself with a parking lot view of the lower falls. Combining the gorge trail with the lake trail in the upper parks makes for a great loop hike.

Cass Park

701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca, (607) 273-1090

Cass Park is a regionally active park used heavily by residents from all parts of Tompkins County. In addition to the ice rink, and swimming pool, there are four tennis courts, 20 athletic elds, four of them lighted, playground equipment, an exercise trail, and a large picnic pavilion.

Columbia Street Park

Columbia Street Park is located between Columbia Street and Hillview Place, across the street from Hillview Park. is park is heavily vegetated and contains a stairway which connects to Hillview Park.

Conway Park

Conway Park shows up as public land as early as 1835. e park was known for decades as Lafayette Park, being renamed Conway Park in 1920 to honor former City of Ithaca Alderman Michael Conway, who died in action in France with the American Expeditionary Forces. Today Conway Park is an active neighborhood park located at the triangle of Cascadilla Street, Madison Street and ird Street.

It has a half basketball court with three hoops, a play structure, and a large lawn area used for informal play. e play structure was built, using Community Development Block Grant moneys, by residents of the surrounding neighborhood in the spring of 1997.

Cornell Botanic Gardens 124 Comstock Knoll Drive, Ithaca (607) 255-2400

As the arboretum, botanical garden, and natural areas of Cornell University, Cornell Botanic Gardens has a lot to o er – 40 natural areas spanning nearly 4300 acres of rich and diverse habitats. Collections include maples, oaks, crabapples, conifers, dogwoods, urban trees, and other species in a 150-acre pastoral setting. Specialty gardens in the arboretum include the Zucker Flowering Shrub Collection and the Treman Woodland walk. e 25-acre botanical garden features 14 specialty gardens.

DeWitt Park

De Witt Park, the oldest park in the City of Ithaca, is at the corner of Bu alo and Cayuga streets. Before it became known as De Witt Park, it was called Public Square Park. e park contains several war monuments, including monuments honoring local residents who served in e Civil War, WWI, WWII, e Korean War and the Vietnam War. Each year on Veteran’s Day, De Witt park is home to ceremonies honoring these local heroes.

Hillview Park

Hillview Park is located on the corner of Turner Place, Columbia Street, South Aurora Street and Hillview Place. is park is heavily vegetated, with many large trees, and contains two small play elds with a backstop Ithaca Falls Natural Area Ithaca has many beautiful gorges and waterfalls. One of the most famous is Ithaca Falls, which is 150 feet high and 175 feet wide. ese stunning falls are visible

from Lake Street, a short walk from downtown or Cornell. is is probably the most easily accessible of Ithaca’s waterfalls.

McDaniels Park McDaniels Park was donated to the City of Ithaca by Cornell University Professor Laurence McDaniels. He lived next to the land that is known today as McDaniels Park. He donated a portion of his land to the City for use as a park a few years before his death. is Park is a neighborhood passive park. e entrance is located at the intersection of Hook Place and Warren Road. e park is heavily vegetated with trees and shrubs. It contains benches, a picnic table and a grill.

Robert H. Treman State Park 105 En eld Falls Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-3440, (800) 4562267 (reservations)

Robert H. Treman State Park is an area of wild beauty, with the rugged gorge called En eld Glen as its scenic highlight. Winding trails follow the gorge past 12 waterfalls, including the 115-foot Lucifer Falls, where visitors can see a mile-anda-half down the wooded gorge as it winds its way to the lower park. Campers can choose from tent or RV sites or cabins. Enjoy nine miles of hiking trails, or swim in a stream-fed pool beneath a waterfall. Swimming is allowed in lifeguarded area only. Open year round. Camping season runs from mid-May to November 30. All gorge trails close November 10. Bow hunting for deer is permitted in season. Located on Route 13, 5 miles south of Ithaca, on Route 327.

Stewart Park

Stewart Park Road, Ithaca Stewart Park is a lakefront park featuring spacious lawns, tennis courts, a non-motorized boat launch, a historic carousel, a splash pad and a state-of-the-art accessible playground. e park is a popular destination for picnics, shing, birding, and enjoying the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. Kayaks and paddle boards are available for rent during the summer, and three pavilions may be rented through the Ithaca Youth Bureau.

Strawberry Fields e history of Strawberry Fields is connected to the Belle Sherman Elementary school o Mitchell Street in Ithaca. Previously, the land was owned by the City of Ithaca School District. In 1940 and in 1960, apartment complexes had been proposed for this land. On July 21, 1970, a 9.9 acre parcel was sold to the City for park use.

Taughannock Falls State Park 1740 Taughannock Road Trumansburg, NY 14886 (607) 387-6739, (800) 4562267 (reservations)

Taughannock Falls State Park’s namesake waterfall is one of the outstanding natural attractions of the Northeast. Taughannock Falls plunges 215 feet past rocky cli s that tower nearly 400 feet above the gorge. Gorge and rim trails o er spectacular views from above the falls and from below at the end of the gorge trail. Campsites and cabins overlook Cayuga Lake, with marina, boat launch and beach nearby. Boat Launch Site not suitable for any type of sailboat. e park also o ers organized activities including tours through the Taughannock Gorge and summer concerts along the lakefront. Open year round. Camping season runs from April 24th to mid-October.

e rim trail closes in winter; the gorge trail remains open.

ompson Park

ompson Park is a small, triangular-shaped neighborhood park on North Cayuga Street. It is primarily used for passive park uses, although it has been known as an outdoor volleyball site.

Titus Flats/Ithaca Skate Park

Titus Flats is located on South Meadow Street and Wood Street. It is a neighborhood active park with a full basketball court, a handball court, four so ball elds, and a playground that was the result of a community build e ort, funded by a Community Development Block Grant in 1994. Ithaca Skate Park is the rst public concrete skatepark in CNY.

Titus Triangle Park Titus Triangle is a small neighborhood passive park located in the triangle formed by Fair Street, South Street and Six Mile Creek.

Washington Park e City blocks surrounding the park were laid out in 1832 by Simeon De Witt and his son Varick De Witt. By the end of the century homes were built on all the streets around the park. (For more information see De Witt Park) e park has been under municipal authority since 1847. It is located in a square created by Washington Street, Court Street, Park Street and Bu alo Street.

GOVERNMENT & LOCAL INSTITUTIONS

Municipal Government City of Ithaca 108 Green Street (607) 274-6570 www.cityo thaca.org

Town of Ithaca 215 N. Tioga Street (607) 273-1721 (Town Hall); (607) 273-1656 (Public Works Facility) www.town.ithaca.ny.us/ Located on beautiful Cayuga Lake, the Town of Ithaca is home to about 20,000 residents and is home to Cornell University and Ithaca College.

Village of Cayuga Heights 836 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca (607) 257-1238 www.cayuga-heights.ny.us/ A largely residential suburb located next to the Cornell campus within the town of Ithaca. It has one shopping area called Community Corners and ready access to shopping in the adjacent village of Lansing.

Tompkins County Clerk 320 N. Tioga Street, Main Courthouse (607) 274-5431 www.tompkinscounty.gov

Tompkins County Legislature 121 E Court St (607) 274-5434 www.tompkinscountyny. gov/legislature

Tompkins County Health Dept. 55 Brown Road Ithaca, NY (607) 274-6600 www.tompkinscounty.gov

Tompkins County Environmental Health Division (607) 274-6688

Higher

Education

Cornell University General Information: (607) 254-4636 www.cornell.edu

Ithaca College General Information: (607) 274-3011 www.ithaca.edu

Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) 170 North St. Dryden, NY (607) 844-8211 www.tc3.edu

SUNY Empire State College M&T Bank O ce Building, 118 N Tioga St Suite 502, Ithaca (607) 319-2137

Education

Ithaca City School District 400 Lake Street Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-2101 www.icsd.k12.ny.us Grades K-12 are served in 12 school buildings, and the district has a total enrollment of approximately 5,500 students. e schools include: Ithaca High School (grades 9-12); Lehman Alternative Community School (grades 6-12); Boynton Middle School and DeWitt Middle School (grades 6-8); Belle Sherman Elementary School, Beverly J. Martin

Elementary School, Caroline Elementary School, Cayuga Heights Elementary School, En eld Elementary School, Fall Creek Elementary School, Northeast Elementary School and South Hill Elementary School (grades K-5, some with pre-K programs).

New Roots Charter School 116 North Cayuga Street P.O. Box 936 Ithaca NY 14851 (607) 882-9220 www.newrootsschool.org

A high school (grades 9-12) charter school, tied to the Ithaca City School District, New Roots is open to all students in Tompkins County. Curriculum is focused on sustainability and entrepreneurship. Students will earn a Regents diploma.

Cascadilla School 116 Summit Avenue Ithaca, NY 14850-4734 (607) 272-3110 www.cascadillaschool.org

Cascadilla School is a preparatory school in Ithaca. It was founded in 1876 as a boys’ preparatory school for Cornell University. Serves as a high school, grades 9 through post graduate.

Parking

Parking in Downtown Ithaca is easy because you have a number of options. You can park on the street or in garages for your convenience. Parking is FREE on weekends, and special holidays on the street. In the Garages, parking is FREE on weekends.

On-Street Parking e City of Ithaca has installed pay stations downtown in order to provide multiple payment options. ese have replaced traditional coin meters. Parking pay stations accept cash, coin and debit/ATM or credit cards.

How Parking Kiosks Work: ese pay stations use license plate recognition technology to track your parking, so you will need to know your license plate when you go to pay at the machine. Pay stations are currently located

on almost every street block. For your convenience, you can also receive noti cation by text or phone call when your time is running out. Follow the prompts on the screen to enter your phone number. You can also pay for parking on your smartphone by setting up a Park Mobile* account either on your phone through the app store (Apple and Android) or online at a computer.

Street Parking Rates: At metered spaces, the hourly rate is $1.50/hour with a minimum 1 hour purchase when paying with ATM/credit card. You can purchase smaller time increments using cash or coin only.

*Park Mobile parking transactions are subject to a convenience fee ($0.30-0.35 per transaction depending on Park Mobile subscription rate)

Parking in Garages e parking garages charge $1.00 an hour to park between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. Parking attendants are a rarity these days so be prepared to use the automated payment systems. You can pre-purchase hourly tokens/ tickets for garage parking at $0.65/ hr through the City Chamberlain’s o ce inside City Hall.

Cayuga Street Parking Garage 235 S. Cayuga St. Ithaca, NY 14850-5509 (607) 256-7275

Long-term parking is o ered by the Cayuga Street Garage located between Green and Clinton streets in downtown Ithaca.

Dryden Road Parking Garage Dryden Road Ithaca, NY 14850

Seneca Street Garage East Seneca Street Ithaca, NY 14850

Green Street Garage (Currently closed for redevelopment, though it is slated to reopen in August or September.) Green Street Ithaca, NY 14850

Waste Removal Services

e City of Ithaca provides a trash collection service for residents within the City limits, and trash is collected once a week. To determine the day of collection for your address, please call the Streets and Facilities Division o ce at 272-1718. O ce hours are Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Residents need to place trash at the curb the night before the scheduled collection day as the crews start their day at 4 a.m. Criteria for placement of trash is as follows: Trash cans or plastic bags may be used. ere are no speci c rules governing the type of can or bag that may be used.

Trash Tags

Trash collection is paid for through the purchase of trash tags. Residents can purchase tags at City Hall or at any of the local grocery stores.

Full Tags are for up to 35 pounds of trash. One tag is $4.50 while a sheet is $27.00. Whole tag strips are to be used; tags torn in half will not be accepted. One tag is needed for each can or each bag of trash that is placed at the curb. If more than one bag of trash is put in a can, be sure that the total weight of all the bags does not exceed the weight on the tag. e tag must be placed around the neck of the bag or on the bag itself. If trash cans are used, be sure to place the tag on the handle

of the can so that it can be readily seen by the collectors. The weight of a can containing multiple bags/ tags cannot exceed 70 pounds.

Recycling Recycling is collected in the City of Ithaca every other week. More information about recycling can be obtained by calling the Tompkins County Department of Recycling and Materials Management at w(607) 273-6632. There is no fee or tag needed for this service, and Recycling bins may be purchased at 122 Commercial Avenue, Ithaca, NY. The Department of Recycling and Materials Management site is www.recycletompkins.org

Yard Waste

Note: Leaves and grass clippings are not to be raked into the street. Yard waste is collected in the City of Ithaca on a regular basis from April 1through late fall. Once snow falls, crews work on snow removal and yard waste collection is suspended. Yard waste tags are $9 for a sheet of 6 and can be purchased at Agway, GreenStar,, P&C Fresh, Cornell Campus Store, Dandy Mini-Mart (on W. Buffalo St.), Tops, and Wegmans. Yard waste is collected every other week on the opposite recycling weeks.

Yard waste may also be taken free of charge to the Tompkins County Recycling and Solid Waste Center at 160 Commercial Ave., Ithaca.

Criteria for placement of yard waste is: Only natural materials are considered yard waste (grass, leaves, branches, brush and the like). Yard waste must be placed in garbage cans (with the lids off) or in untied plastic bags. All brush must be tied in bundles. No brush or branches can be longer than four feet in length, and no branch can be larger than two inches in diameter. No bundle or container should exceed 50 pounds.

Voting

Vote by mail subject to change in response to state regulations.

Tompkins County Board of Elections 128 East Buffalo Street Ithaca, New York 14850 (607) 274-5522 www.tompkinscountyny.gov/boe

Voting in the City of Ithaca takes place in five different wards, with several polling places in each ward. Polling places are based on Election Districts. The election district is not the same as your County Legislative District number, but is printed on the voter registration acknowledgement card. Call the Board of Elections office for more information.

City of Ithaca polling places:

FIRST WARD

District 1 & 2 – Lehman Alternative School, 111 Chestnut St. District 3 – Titus Towers II, 798 S. Plain Street

District 4 & 5 – South Hill School, 520 Hudson Street

SECOND WARD

District 1 & 3 – GIAC, 300 W. Court Street District 2 – Titus Towers II, 798 S. Plain St.

District 4 – Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street

THIRD WARD District 1, 2 and 3 – Belle

Sherman Annex, Cornell Street

FOURTH WARD District 1 – St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave.

FIFTH WARD District 1, 2 – Tabernacle

Baptist Church District 3 – Alice Cook House, Stewart and University Avenue corner Town of Ithaca polling places District 1

Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road District 2

Tompkins County Public Works, 170 Bostwick Road District 3, 12

College Circle Community Center, 1033 Danby Rd. District 4, 11

Ellis Hollow Apartments, 1028 Ellis Hollow Rd., East entrance District 5, 6

BOCES, 555 Warren Road District 7

Kendal at Ithaca, 2230 N. Triphammer Rd. District 8, 9

First Congregational Church, 309 Highland Rd. District 10

Linderman Creek II Community Bldg., 201 Cypress Court

Libraries

Cornell University Libraries Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-4144 libpublicservices@cornell.edu www.library.cornell.edu

The libraries offer guest borrowing privileges. Contact the Library Public Services Office, 116 Olin Library, (607) 255-5069 for information on requirements and fees. Hours: see www.library.cornell.edu for individual library hours.

Durland Alternatives Library 130 Anabel Taylor Hall

Cornell University (607) 252-6946 www.alternativeslibrary.org

Founded in1974, the library collection has focused on alternatives. The first books were about alternative communities & lifestyles in the 70’s. The collection has since grown to include a variety of topics, all with themes of social justice, ecology, and transformative action.

Ithaca College Library 1201 Gannett Center Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-3182

Hours vary by season, people should check the library’s Web site — www.ithaca.edu/library — for hours. The library is open to the public for browsing, but only students and college staff may check out materials or access the databases.

Tompkins County Public Library 101 E. Green St. Ithaca, NY 14850-5613 (607) 272-4557

tcpl.org

Library hours are MondayThursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday 9a.m.-6p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. It is closed on Sundays.

Curbside Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Library loans can be arranged through the library’s online loan system. Fun fact: The library is a brilliant renovation of what was once a Woolworth’s Store.

Post Offices

Main Branch

U.S. Post Office, 757 Warren Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850-9998 (607) 375-6003

Downtown U.S. Post Office, 213 N. Tioga St., Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 275-8777

Cornell University U.S. Post Office, 135 Ho Plaza, Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3907

Ithaca College U.S. Post Office, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 274-3367

Transportation

Ithaca CarShare

https://www.ithacacarshare.org

A local non-profit that provides vehicles for member’s use. The fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles consists primarily of hybrid compact cars but there are at least two minivans, a hatchback, and a pickup truck available. The vehicles are located in spots all over the city and are accessible to members using their personal key cards.

Ithaca Tompkins International Airport

Terminal Address: 1 Culligan Drive Mailing Address: 72 Brown Road Ithaca, NY 14850-1248 (607) 257-0456 www.flyithaca.com

Ithaca Tompkins International Airport (ITH) is owned and operated by Tompkins County. Airline services available at the airport:

Delta Air Lines

Direct service from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to Detroit. Delta Reservations: (800) 221-1212

American Airlines Service from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to its hub in Philadelphia was suspended as part of American’s cutbacks in Summer 2022. Efforts are underway to bring the carrier back.

American Airlines Reservations: 1-800-433-7300

Local Customer Service: (607) 257-0808

United Airlines

Flying from Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport. United Reservations: (800) 864-8331 Arrivals & Departures: (800) 824-6200

TCAT – Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Inc. 737 Willow Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7433 www.tcatbus.com

The fare is based on where you board, not your destination or how far you travel. Single-ride trips originating in rural areas (Zone 2) cost more than trips originating in the Greater Ithaca area (Zone 1). Those fares are $2.50. Single-ride fares that originate in the Greater Ithaca Area (Zone 1) are $1.50, whether traveling in either zone.

Ithaca Dispatch Inc. 615 5 Mile Dr., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 277-7777, (607) 277-CABS, 277-TAXI toll-free at (888) 321-1149.

Collegetown Cab 630 Elmira Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 588-8888

HEALTHCARE

Hospital

Cayuga Medical Center 101 Dates Dr., Ithaca (607) 274-4011 www.cayugamed.org

Cayuga Medical Center houses 204 beds, employs over 1,200 health-care professionals, and

has a medical staff of more than 200 affiliated physicians.

Clinic

Convenient Care (Cayuga Medical Center Branch) (Services Temporarily Suspended) 10 Arrowwood Dr. (off Warren Rd.), Ithaca (607) 274-4150

Cortland Medical Center 134 Homer Ave. Cortland, NY (607) 756-3500

WellNow Urgent Care 740 South Meadow Street, Ithaca (607) 319-4563

Guthrie Medical Group 1780 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca (607) 257-5858

Guthrie City Harbor 720 Willow Avenue (607) 219-4600

Ithaca Health Alliance 521 West Seneca Street, Ithaca (607) 330-1253

The Ithaca Health Alliance is a nonprofit community health organization which helps members pool their resources in order to create community health care.

Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (C.A.R.S.) 334 W. State. St, Ithaca 607-273-5500 https://www.carsny.org/ Planned Parenthood 620 W. Seneca Street Ithaca, NY (607) 273-1513

Aging

TC Office for the Aging 214 W. MLK Jr./State St Open Mon-Fri 8:30 am –4:30 pm (607) 274-5482 tompkinscountyny.gov/cofa

Bridges/Cornell Heights 407 Wyckoff Ave, Ithaca (607) 257-5777

Family-style rental housing with coordinated aide service.

Brookdale Senior Living 103 Bundy Road Ithaca, NY (607) 645-7433

A reidential senior community offering assisted living and memory care services.

Kendal at Ithaca 2230 N. Triphammer Road Ithaca, NY (607) 266-5300

A continuing care retirement community situated on 106 acres in the heart of the Finger Lakes District.

Longview, an Ithacare Community 1 Bella Vista Drive Ithaca, NY (607) 375-6300

A residential senior community offering both independent apartments and assisted living located in the Finger Lakes region, high on South Hill overlooking Cayuga Lake.

Foodnet Meals on Wheels 2422 N. Triphammer road, Ithaca (607) 266-9553

LifeLong 119 West Court Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-1511

Love Living At Home www.lovelivingathome.org (607) 319-0162

Crisis Supportive services

Advocacy Center HOTLINE: 607-277-5000 www.actompkins.org

The Advocacy Center is dedicated to providing support, advocacy and education for survivors, friends, and families of domestic violence, and sexual assault in Tompkins County. Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service 124 E. Court Street Ithaca, ithacacrisis.org 24 Hour Crisisline: (607) 272-1616 Other Services: (607) 272-1505 Missinon to promote constructive responses to crisis and trauma, and to prevent violence to self and others through direct support and community education.

Human Services Coalition 171 E. State/MLK Jr. Street, Ithaca (607) 273-8686

The mission of the Human Services Coalition is to enhance the delivery of health and human services in the Tompkins County area.

Mutual Aid Tompkins mutualaidtompkins.com communityaidtompkins@ gmail.com (607) 288-3252

Neighbors concerned about our communities and helping to make sure those most vulnerable and affected by COVID-19 get the help they need.

No Mas Lagrimas/ No More Tears (607) 339-8344 facebook.com/ NoMoreTearsNoMasAlgrimas/ nmlagrimas.wordpress.com

Supporting individuals and families of all backgrounds, cultures, and identities affected by economic and social barriers in meeting their basic needs and in empowering themselves to achieve their aspirations.

Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County 210 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca https://loaves.org/ Free Meals-to-Go. Fresh meals will be packaged to-go and served outside in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

MWF- 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, T/TH- 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

ORGANIZATIONS AND CLUBS

American Legion 1231 Danby Road, Ithaca (607) 272-1129

American Red Cross 618 West State St., Ithaca (607) 273-6684

Big Brothers Big Sisters 1 James L Gibbs Drive, Ithaca (607) 273-8364

Cayuga Bird Club c/o Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca (800) 843-2473

Cayuga Trails Club P.O. Box 754, Ithaca, NY 14851-0754

Family & Children’s Service of Ithaca 127 W. State St., Ithaca (607) 273-7494

Finger Lakes Independence Center 215 Fifth St., Ithaca (607) 272-2433

Finger Lakes Land Trust 202 East Court Street, Ithaca (607) 275-9487

GIAC (Greater Ithaca Activities Center) 301 West Court St., Ithaca (607) 272-3622

A center for all ages, particularly youth and teens. It serves the immediate neighborhood and the greater Ithaca area by providing multicultural, educational, and recreational programs focused on social and individual development.

Ithaca Community Recovery Inc. 518 W.Seneca St., Ithaca (607) 216-8754

https://www. ithacacommunityrecovery.org/ Ithaca Adult Hockey https://www.ithacaadulthockey.com

Ithaca Roller Derby http://www.ithacarollerderby.com Ithaca Womens Softball facebook.com/groups/58172200554/

The Ithaca League of Women Rollers compete in fullcontact, flat-track roller derby. Actually, compete is putting in mildly. (Photo: Ed Dittenhoefer)

MASSARO’S “DESTROYER”

IS COMPELLING

By Arthur Whitman

Opened last year along the culturally vibrant stretch of West State Street adjacent the Commons, e Rest has emerged as Ithaca’s most exciting new gallery. e brainchild of talented photographer Ben Bookout, the modest but nicely apportioned and thoughtfully furnished space hosts classes and concerts as well as regular exhibitions. It is home to one of the liveliest “ rst Friday” Gallery Night receptions going. It’s hard not to feel the energy going around.

Of course, ambitious art still has to stand on its own. For August, e Rest is hosting one of its strongest exhibits yet. Featuring a generous selection of abstract expressionist canvases by local newcomer Geena Massaro, “Destroyer” is an uncommonly mature o ering from such a young artist. One looks forward to seeing more of her work.

Massaro’s paintings exhibit an obvious debt to the mid-century work of Cy Twombly in their use of scratched and scrawled textures, thick clots of impasto, and oral allusions. It’s a dangerous in uence but her work here mostly avoids pastiche and mannerism.

It is extraordinary how much rich color Massaro embeds in these predominantly gray toned paintings. is important to stress, as local viewers misunderstand the expressive use of color in “serious” painting. You have to spend time with these pieces as physical objects. You have to get away from your screen, visit the gallery, spend time, move around, adjust your attention, and revisit certain works a er spending time in the company of others. ese are not dull or even austere works—rather they are joyously complex, more “colorful” than any rainbow hued Ithaca crowd pleaser.

Hung to the right of the gallery’s back wall, “Destroyer” is a remarkable painting. A square-shaped canvas with a relatively subtle use of impasto, it pulls striking emotional dra-

ma out of its color-space. Dense, asphalt-like black threatens to engulf the underlying eld of white, rose, and fragments of pale blue.

“Untitled (Yellow and Blue)” does similar work, half-burying rich chroma in a seemingly neutral ground—here a thick dusting of snowy white. e dark, partially blackened clots of paint that stand out from this ground may appear, on rst glance, to evoke a dead world of winter. Closer investigation reveals, fugitive glances of color and life: pale turquoise and ochre, terracotta among them.

A triptych, “Untitled (Trespasses)” is another standout. Again, not overdoing it with the paint texture, the drama unfolds across three adjacent but subtly distinguished canvases. A fog of warm gray enclouds more assertive notes of pale mustard and deep red. e wide format and relatively large scale of the piece serve to enfold and immerse the viewer—accenting the landscape feeling at play in all of these works.

ese are museum-level paintings and it is a joy to seem them here.

Massaro’s is a remarkably assured and compelling show, one that eminently rewards careful attention and repeated viewings. In a cultural community that rewards a sentimental view of the creative artist and forced conceptions of “relevance,” the work here comes through with thick but nuanced forcefulness.

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Founded by Samuel Buggeln, who serves as its artistic director, e Cherry Arts has been an important local venue for ambitious theatre and performance since 2015. Since this spring, it has held art shows in the newly opened Cherry Gallery—located in the Arthaus apartment building down the street.

For their late summer show “Essence,” e Cherry has recruited two artists with Ithaca connections. Yen Ospina is a popular local illustrator and muralist, while Mike Sullivan is a theatre designer and performance artist as well as a former Ithaca College student. e combination of these two in e Cherry’s new adaptable space—recently also used for dance performances—brings something new to Ithaca’s gallery scene.

e installation is distinctive. Displayed on irregularly con gured movable wooden walls, wall-mounted pieces by both artists complement an elaborate suspended installation by Sullivan—“framed,” as it were, by a stretch of large windows providing a striking view of the inlet. e work of each artist is mixed rather than kept separate.

Ospina, who describes herself in the gallery bio as “a proud Latinx queer artist“ is one Ithaca’s most compelling digital graphic artists. Combining hand drawing, scanned fabric textures, and subtle on-screen manipulations, she conjures a distinctive personal mythology.

Arts & Entertainment

“Untitled (Yellow and Blue)” by Geena Massaro (Photo: Provided)

“State Fair” Achieves Perfection At The REV

By Barbara Adams

Sometimes all the elements come together to create theatrical perfection –– and that’s what happens, most wonderfully, in e REV’s current production of the classic musical, “State Fair.”

You couldn’t ask for a more traditional, down-home example of the genre. Based on a 1932 novel, the rst lm starred Will Rodgers; the second, in 1945, added music, scored by the gi ed duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Two more movies followed before the tuneful “State Fair” reached the stage in 1969. e show’s numerous revivals since suggest that this homey tale of a family attending the Iowa State Fair in 1946 is persistently appealing.

And why not? –– it’s full of family and community values (connectedness, respect, mutual support); high-spirited competition (whether for the prize boar or the tastiest mincemeat); and of course, genuine romance (not only for the young but the happily married middle-aged). It’s a sweet, insular world where the greatest evil is being cheated by the fair’s ring-toss hustler.

What makes this all deliciously believable is Brett Smock’s imaginative and smooth direction of a splendid cast. From the principals to the chorus, the singing, dancing, and above all authentic acting simply entrance us. Anne Wechsler’s engaging

Margy Frake seeks something more than her farm beau Harry (Tommy Gedrich) can o er; she discovers what in the attentions of J Savage’s Pat Gilbert, a disgruntled reporter assigned to cover the fair. (Don’t overlook his fabulous footwork.)

Margy’s earnest brother Wayne (Jackson Goad) falls for the older showgirl Emily (a dynamic Kim Sava), a thrilling romance that zzes up and out. eir parents –– charmingly played by Martin Sola and Crissy Guerrero –– are salt-of-theearth partners. Dripping with personality, they’re also energetic, mischievous, and frequently canoodling.

On opening night, from the rst notes of the overture (under Alexander Tom’s musical direction), the audience was abuzz, some bouncing in their seats. e setting alone was exciting: a huge State Fair sign, lights strung everywhere, a swirling roller coaster track, even a Ferris wheel. And the Midway, dairy pavilion, and Frake household were tucked in there too. Je rey D. Kmiec’s dazzling set was splendidly lit by Jamie Roderick, whose designs and colors shi ed across a range of emotions.

e scene was completed by Ti any Howard’s excellent costumes, rich with textures and muted shades for the rural folk, then swinging to smooth and elegant

Jackson Goad as Wayne Frake and Kyle Yampiro as Hoop-La Barker in The REV Theatre Company’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “State Fair.” (Photo: Ron Heerkens, Jr., Goat Factory Media Entertainment, LLC)

Nothing But The Tooth

By Bryan VanCampen

The money people always worry whether characters are “likeable.”

Most script re-writes come from an executive memo to “make the lead character more likeable.” I love the actor Aubrey Plaza because she doesn’t give a tin weasel whether her characters are likeable. Plaza knows Hitchcock’s Dictum: you’ll love a person if they’re good at their job.

In writer- director John Patton Ford’s “Emily the Criminal” (Roadhouse Attractions-Vertical Entertainment-Low Spark Films-Fear Not Productions-Evil Hag Productions, 2022, 94 mins.), Emily (Plaza) is barely making a dent in her student loan debt, working as a delivery driver for a catering company. All she wants is a job doing graphic design—Emily is a talented artist— but she got a DUI and did some prison time, and because of background checks and humiliating, demoralizing, soul-sucking job interviews, Emily can’t catch a break.

Emily is extremely angry.

She gets a tip on a gig from a co-worker, and she nds herself using stolen credit cards to buy electronics that are sold under the table and bam! $200. As her boss ( eo Rossi from Net ix’s “Luke Cage”) tells her, there’s more money to made, but the jobs are de nitely high-risk. Much like Ben Younger’s “Boiler Room” (2000), “Emily the Criminal” feels realistic and well-researched, and the whole thing is driven by Aubrey Plaza’s fearless work in the title role, bloodied but unbowed and—a rarity in American crime lms—utterly unrepentant.

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It was slow going at the day job, so I spent most of my time re-reading Stephen King’s 1975 vampire novel “Salem’s Lot,”

a fusion of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and ornton Wilder’s “Our Town” (with a splash of “Peyton Place”). So maybe it wasn’t an accident that I came home that night and watched Jamie Foxx as a blue-collar vampire hunter in director J.J. Perry’s “Day Shi ” (Net ix-87Eleven Entertainment-Impossible Dream Entertainment, 2022, 114 min.).

King’s novel hews to vampire tradition, but “Day Shi ” changes things up, to the point where sometimes the bloodsuckers can be seen in mirrors, and sometimes not; the title tells us that Foxx stalks his prey in broad Los Angeles daylight. (Foxx has one week to come up with ten grand to pay for his daughter’s tuition and a set of braces, or his ex-wife plans to take the kid and move away.) Turns out that vampire hunters are a union gig, where the agents collect vampire teeth in exchange for money. Foxx’s character got drummed out of the union, and to get back in, he has to take a by-the-book cubicle accountant (Dave Franco) into the eld to make sure Foxx follows proper procedure.

I had fun watching “Day Shi ”, even though I knew exactly where it was going— the maverick paired with the rookie—so when it veered le , as it were, I was right there veering le . en again, this ain’t my rst rodeo. “Day Shi ” won’t win any prizes, but it’s more fun to watch than “Morbius”, a vampire movie that sucks on every level.

RIP Anne Heche (“ e Adventures of Huck Finn”, “I’ll Do Anything”, “Walking and Talking”, “Donnie Brasco”, “Volcano”, “Wag the Dog”, “Six Days, Seven Nights”, “Psycho”)

“Emily the Criminal” is playing at Cinemapolis, 120 East Green Street, (607) 2776115; for showtimes go to https://cinemapolis.org/#/page/now-showing. “Day Shi ” is streaming on Net ix, www.net ix.com.

Aubrey Plaza snarls her way into your heart in “Emily The Criminal.” (Photo: Provided)

Agava Offers Light-Hearted Eclectic Mix

By Henry Stark

Agava, located in a former train station on Pine Tree Road on East Hill, specializes in Southwestern fare but o ers an eclectic mix. A Happy Hour bar menu is o ered at 3 p.m., an hour before the full menu is available.

Brussels sprouts ($10) are available on that menu and are also available as an item to share on the main menu. When I ordered it, I thought it might be enough for two people. However, it could easily please twice that number. e sprouts came halved, al dente and crunchy, with shredded cabbage strewn across the top, all amid a pleasant agave chili syrup.

I’ve also had empanadas ($4 each, 2 for $7) from the bar menu. Two types were o ered: vegetarian and beef. I selected the vegetarian which was predominantly lled with small black beans and corn and they, too, served as a welcome appetizer.

Once I ordered Korean style ribs (7 for $23), intrigued that a Korean style entrée was being o ered in a restaurant that identi es itself as serving Southwestern U.S. fare. I was glad I did. ey were short, meaty, and sweet, as if a honey glaze had been applied. I enjoyed them.

e cauli ower steak ($18) was excellent. A generous slab of cauli ower, roasted in an open wood-burning oven, lay across a white bean puree topped with arugula and some sliced carrots. Everything was perfectly cooked. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the roasted chicken breast ($24). It wasn’t a breast, rather, a very small leg that reminded me more of a guinea hen than a normal size chicken. It would have been less dry had it been roasted for less time. It did come with three nicely grilled asparagus spears and whipped potatoes. ere are four atbreads ($14-$17) on the menu. “Hot Buzz” featured chicken and blue cheese as the principal toppings. From the name, I expected it to be spicy. However, it wasn’t. Another visit, another atbread. “Green Machine” featured spinach, smoked ricotta and mushrooms. It reminded me of spanakopita. I don’t think

I’ve ever had better atbreads in the Ithaca area than at Agava.

I skipped the bean burger to order the Agava Burger ($16). It came cooked just the way I ordered it, along with toppings of caramelized onions, roasted tomatoes, cheddar cheese and some greens. I really enjoyed it.

An adult who wasn’t very hungry accompanied me on one visit. She had no trouble ordering a small quesadilla from the “Just for Kids” section of the menu. It was cooked perfectly.

e beverage menu is varied and extensive: there are three dozen dra , cra , and bottled beers, a half dozen margaritas and a dozen interesting cocktails. e dozens of wines cover all the major grape varieties and are a good mix of international and domestic o erings.

e ambience of Agava could be a concern for some. e wood oors and walls reverberate the internal noise. Add to that the ubiquitous background music and it can get quite noisy. On a warm humid day, the air conditioning system tends to get overwhelmed.

e wait sta is young, professional, and eager to please.

Dinner at Agava is a light-hearted enjoyable experience, and the eclectic mix of food is almost always well prepared.

TID BIT: ere’s o -street parking in front of the restaurant and more parking in the back of the building with a separate entrance.

Agava is located at 381 Pine Tree Road, (607) 319-4366. You can make reservations or order online at www.agavaonline.com. It is open Tuesday through ursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Happy Hour is from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is closed Sunday and Monday.

Agava may offer the best flatbreads in the Ithaca area. (Photo: Provided)

for Emily’s Fosse-like dance numbers. e huge cast created a sense of the crush at the fairgrounds, topped by a marvelous group whiplash on the roller coaster. All in all, a visual feast.

Top that with some spirited and smooth dancing, choreographed by Marc Kimelman, each piece creatively di erent, culminating in the rousing nal group number. Add the sweet ballads and heartfelt couplings, and it’s no surprise that the audience at this memorable “State Fair” was blissed out.

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A workshop production of a new musical, “Trans Am,” directed by Fred Berman. For one weekend only, in the outside tent,

audiences were treated to Lisa Stephen Friday’s autobiographical tale of the challenges of transitioning from male to female. e four-woman band (led by musical director and guitarist Ada Westfall) provided the original music of Lisa’s earlier New York band, Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday, punctuating her narration.

Lisa Friday’s “Trans Am” is a courageous new show, a bit uneven but decidedly arresting.

Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

“State Fair,” directed by Brett Smock and choreographed by Marc Kimelman. Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by Tom Briggs and Louis Mattioli. At e REV (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), Emerson Park, Auburn. Monday - Saturday through September 6. Tickets at https://therevtheatre.com/tickets/ ticketing-options / or (315) 255-1785.

For her new work here, she appears to be moving away from the Art Nouveauinspired stylizations that have characterized her past few years. Digging further into her signature surreal and folkloric imagery, she explores a knottier, “medievalizing” style that is delightful to view.

In Ospina’s universe, androgynous lovers bearing sun and crescent moon masks court amidst fairy tale settings. Mythic beasts cavort. Dapper gentlemen and stylish ladies sport gold sh bowls where their heads ought to be. Animate drawn patterns build into elaborate frames and stage sets. All this may sound overly precious in words but Ospina’s graphic imagination makes it come true.

Although lack of local familiarity may play a role here, I found Sullivan’s work to be awkwardly chosen and presented.

His most striking work here is series of functional but o en improbable-looking masks. Using cloth, wire, papier mache, found jewelry—as well as more exotic materials such as shattered mirrors and even wasps’ nests—he creates objects that hold their own as gallery art while suggesting a variety of performance possibilities.

An installation of hung fabric and masks, suspended from the ceiling of the gallery, is the show’s centerpiece. e piece recalls the unabashed theatricality of the Surrealists. It combines a heavy draped fabric, ornate and golden; a central frame form in the shape of a heart, bejeweled and decorated in wire curls; an empty picture frame; and masks alternatively rococo and raw. It is a spectacle.

Several framed photographs showing the artist wearing his own outlandish

creations makes up the most notable weak point of “Essence.” Not formally interesting enough as images in their own right, they serve as documentation—as stand-ins for what the artist and gallery are apparently unable to give us. ey aren’t bad to see but they don’t hold up their space on the walls.

One ought to be patient with the Cherry Gallery, which is clearly ambitious and clearly still guring matters out. Given Sullivan’s performance background and e Cherry’s own institutional focus, it would have made this show stronger had performance been incorporated into its curation. Ideally, Sullivan and/or his masks would have been the subject of a live event. Failing that, video—or even a series of more carefully shot and selected photos—might have helped bring his work, so to speak, to life.

Nonetheless, this is an engaging show that hopefully portends interesting things for the new art space. e intersection of the visual and performing arts is an underexplored realm for the local gallery community. If the Cherry can press that dimension, it will have something more than just another place for local visual artists to show their work.

“Geena

Massaro’s Destroyer”

rough August at e Rest, 113 West State Street, www.therestithaca.com; Open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ursday and Friday and by appointment; (607) 3071800, therestgallery@gmail.com.

“Essence”

rough August 31 at e Cherry Gallery, 130 Cherry Street, www.thecherry. org; Open 5 to 8 p.m. Fridays and 3 to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Music

Bars/Bands/Clubs

8/24 Wednesday

New eld Music Series at Mill Park: Freight | 6 p.m. | Mill Park | Free

8/25 Thursday

Richie Stearns | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road

Rose & The Bros & Good Dog & The BBQ- 2022 Summer Concert Series | 6 p.m. | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Center Commons

Sunset Music Series: Immortal Jelly sh| | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd

8/26 Friday

Friday Night Farm Jams: Old World Warblers| 6:30 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider House

8/27 Saturday

Red Oak Music Series: PeoplePeople and Doug & Eamonn Hubert | 12 p.m. | Lime Hollow Nature Center, 3277 Gracie Rd, Cortland

Common Railers | 4 p.m. | Chateau Dusseau, 5292 Erron Hill Road, Locke

Saturday Night Sessions ft. Bad Data | 8 p.m. | Forest City Lodge, 536 W Green Street, Ithaca | $15.00

8/28 Sunday

Live music feat. Rachel Beverly | 11 a.m. | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Road

Music & Mimosas: Unreal Village | Hosmer Winery | 1 p.m.

Sunday Music Series : Travis Knapp| 1 p.m. | Red Newt Cellars, 3675 Tichenor Road | Free

Jesse Collins Quartet - Outdoor Summer Concert Series | Brooktondale Community Center | 1 p.m.

Cider Sunday Concert Series: JP Roadman| 1 p.m. | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Road

The Dart Brothers | 6 p.m. | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | $10.00 - $15.00

Bronwen Exter | 7 p.m. | Argos Warehouse

8/29 Monday

Jesse Collins Quartet | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road

Concerts/Recitals

8/24 Wednesday

Jimmie Allen| 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage

Chevelle | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

8/25 Thursday

Kathleen Edwards | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St 24th annual Pickin’ In The Pasture Bluegrass Festival | | Alexander Farm, 2515 Covert Rd

Great White| 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage Art of Rap ft. Ice-T | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

8/26 Friday

Sawyer Brown | 8 p.m. | Tioga Downs, 2384 West River Rd | $30.00 - $40.00

Emmet Cohen Trio: The Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation Series at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.| Ithaca College

Niko Moon| 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage

TLC | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

8/27 Saturday

Eldridge Park Summer Car Show & Concert ft. Diana & The Crew | 4 p.m.| Elmira

Tesla | 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage

8/28 Sunday

Foreigner | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

8/29 Monday

Chubby Checker| 1:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage Boyz II Men | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

8/30 Tuesday

Herman’s Hermits ft. Peter Noone| 1:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage Big & Rich| 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage

8/31 Wednesday

Victor Wooten | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St

38 Special | 6:00 p.m. | NY State Fair: Chevy Court Stage Nelly | 8:00p.m.| NY State Fair: Chevy Park Stage

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The Cherry, 102 Cherry St | See the singing Lips, the Opera Cat and Wanda the wizard making a magical mess in this interactive puppet show! | $4.00 - $12.00

Hands Four Contra Dance at Community School of Music and Arts | 8 p.m., 9/3 Saturday | Hands

Four Dancers of Ithaca (HFDI) is a member-run organization dedicated to bringing great dance and music to the Ithaca, New York area.

Do You Feel Anger? |Kitchen Theatre | 7:30 p.m., 9/6 Tuesday |

Art

A Gathering: From Baskets to Brownstones by Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon | | Kendal Gallery , 2230 Triphammer Rd. | A mid-career retrospective by Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon that brings together works that stretch across di erent years and di erent media, and between representation and abstraction. A common theme emerges, each work explores the energetic interplay of spontaneity and structure. | Free

Summer Seconds Sale at Handwork Artisan Co-op at Handwork Cooperative | 10 a.m., 8/24 Wednesday, 102 West State Street

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Installation - Ken Feingold (artist) at Johnson Museum of Art at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art | 11 a.m., 8/24 Wednesday | As part of Cornell 2022 Biennial, artist Ken Feingold is exhibiting his installation that features interactive talking heads and AI-generated existential conversations.

New Work: Jane Dennis and Harry Littell | 12 p.m., 8/25 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | New work by Jane Dennis and Harry Littell at SOAG | Free

“ESSENCE” Art Exhibit | 5 p.m., 8/26 Friday | The Cherry Gallery, 130 Cherry St | The Cherry Arts presents Essence, a collaborative art exhibition featuring the elaborate masks, prints, and performative works | Free

Opening for Nicholas Gecan: Love Your Mother | 5 p.m., 8/27 Saturday

| The Gallery at South Hill , 950 Danby Road | Nicholas Gecan’s “Love Your Mother” opening reception at The Gallery at South Hill features a one person exhibit by Gecan dealing with environmental issues. Please go to www.southhillbusinesscampus.com/ gallery-at-shbc for more information.

| Free

Family Art Program with the Johnson Museum | 10 a.m., 8/29 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Art Mondays! | 2 p.m., 8/29 Monday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | ‘Bee’ sure to join us at the Museum this summer to create insect themed arts and crafts! This drop in activity will be happening on Mondays at 2pm in July and August.

Film

2022 Movies in the Park Presented by Guthrie: Spider-Man: No Way Home | 7 p.m., 8/26 Friday | Stewart Park, 1 James L Gibbs Dr | The Tompkins Chamber and Serendipity Catering are collaborating to host Movies in the Park again this year, showing ve free community movies on Friday nights in the summer from the last Friday | Free

Shark Fest: The Meg | 4 p.m., 8/27 Saturday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street.

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The Territory* | When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must ght back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest. | 83 mins NR

Three Thousand Years of Longing* | A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who o ers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. | 108 mins R

A Love Song | At a campground in the rural West, a woman waits alone for an old ame from her past to arrive, uncertain of his intentions while bashful about her own.| 81 mins PG

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies | When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.| 95 mins R

Emily the Criminal | Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.| 95 mins R

Marcel the Shell with Shoes

On | A beloved character gets his big-screen debut in this hilarious and heartwarming story about nding connection in the smallest corners. | 89 mins PG

Nope | Jordan Peele’s latest lm in which the residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. | 135 mins R

Cornell Cinema

All lms are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

The Conversation | 8/24 & 8/28 at 7:00PM; | Gene Hackman stars in this brilliant, early standout from director Francis Ford Coppola. A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered

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Crimes of The Future | 8/25 at 7:00PM & 8/27 at 9:30PM | Body horror maestro Cronenberg returns with an unsettling, brilliant take on a dystopian future in which bodies metamorphose new organs and “surgery is the new sex.”.

Turning Red | 8/26 & 8/27 at 7:00PM | Con dent and quirky Meilin’s world is upended by her transformation into a giant red panda. The transition serves as a lighthearted metaphor for puberty and the changes it presents.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | 8/26 & 8/28 at 9:30PM |

Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse.

Vengeance is Mine | 8/31 & 9/1 at 7:00PM | Filmed in 1984 but never released theatrically, this masterful New England drama about a woman (Brooke Adams) nding her balance in life is nally seeing the light of day in a brand-new 35mm lm print.

Sports

Cornell Women’s Soccer vs Marist College | 1 p.m., 8/28 Sunday | Ithaca, NY, Berman Field |

Special Events

Trumansburg Fair | Starts 8/24 Wednesday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Route 96 |

James Potorti Interpretive Gorge Walks | 10 a.m., 8/26 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join us for our annual James Potorti Museum of the Earth/ State Parks Gorge Walks on Fridays in August.

The BBQ VI Music Festival | 10 a.m., 8/26 Friday | 3150 Agard Rd. | The BBQ is dedicating itself to passing the New York Health Act, in order to provide Medicare to All New York State Residents through a fun, conscious celebration of music, art, food & vitality. Featuring a diverse lineup full of some of New York’s best music, art and cuisine.

The Arc Grand Prix Run / WalkWatkins Glen, NY | 6:30 p.m., 8/27 Saturday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Route 16 | The Arc Grand Prix Run, presented by Chemung Canal Trust Company, at Watkins Glen International is a 3.4 mile footrace on the internationally acclaimed motor racing track in Watkins Glen, New Annual Golf Tournament 2022 | 10 a.m., 9/1 Thursday | RaNic Golf

Club, 189 Pleasant Grove Road | Play, network, and have fun during Ithaca’s premier Golf Tournament at the newly owned and operated RaNic Golf Club! Registration starts at 10 am. | $575.00 Hupstate Circus Festival | 8 a.m., 9/2 Friday | This Labor Day weekend, September 2 through 5, treat your family and friends to the second annual Hupstate Circus Festival in Ithaca, NY.  This multiple-day festival will bring dozens of circus Crown City Mural Fest | 12 p.m., 9/2 Friday | Cortland Corset Building, 75 E. Court St | You are cordially invited to the rst Crown City Mural Fest on September 2nd, 2022!

Books

S.T.E.A.M. Book Club: Lifeboat 12 | 3:45 p.m., 8/24 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Writing Group | 11:30 a.m., 8/26 Friday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, 171 E. State Street, Suite 275, Center Ithaca | Writing group | Free

Kids

Science Together: Sink or Float | 10:30 a.m., 8/25 Thursday | Science-

center, 601 1st Street | Thursday, August 25, 10:30-11 am Together we’ll predict what will sink and what will oat! Science Together activities are designed for ages 0-4.

Makerspace Craft Party: Summer Camp for Grownups! | 5:30 p.m., 8/25 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

KIDDSTUFF: Red Riding Hood | 10 a.m & Noon., 8/26 Friday & 8/27 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd. |

Shark Fest: Family Day | 10 a.m., 8/27 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join us for Shark Fest at the Museum of the Earth! Learn about sharks with a tooth ID game, activites, scavenger hunts, a ra e, and more on Saturday, August 27 from 10am-1pm.

Family Art Program with the Johnson Museum | 10 a.m., 8/29 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Animal Encounters! at Cayuga Nature Center | 12 p.m., 8/27 Saturday | Join us in the courtyard at noon to learn all about the Cayuga Nature Center’s animal ambassadors!

Family Workshop at Tompkins County Public Library: Make an Art Mess! | 10 a.m., 8/29 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101

East Green Street | Prepare to get messy!

Science Together: Kinetic Sand | 10:30 a.m., 8/30 Tuesday | Sciencecenter, 601 1st Street | Tuesday, August 30, 10:30-11 am Let’s explore the exciting properties of kinetic sand! Science Together activities are designed for ages 0-4.

LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 8/30 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Notices

Red Cross Blood Drive | 10 a.m., 8/24 Wednesday | The Shops at Ithaca Mall, 40 Catherwood Rd. | Come give blood in August and get a $10 e-gift card, plus automatically be entered for a chance to win gas for a year (a $6,000 value), or a $250 Gas Card! | Free

Senior Support Group Online | 11 a.m., 8/24 Wednesday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County | Online mental health support group for seniors. | Free

Loaves & Fishes of Tompkins County -Indoor Meal Service | 12 p.m., 8/24 Wednesday | St. John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N. Cayuga St. | Free hot meals are served every weekday. Lunch: Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 12 noon -1:00 pm. Dinner: Tuesday, Thursday from 5:30-6:30 pm. Interested in volunteering? email info@loaves.org, or go to www.loaves. org. All are Welcome! | Free

Trumansburg Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 8/24 Wednesday | Farmers Market, Hector St. | On the corner of Route 227 & 96 … In the heart of Trumansburg

Marijuana Anonymous Meeting | 7 p.m., 8/24 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery (518 W. Seneca St), 518 West Seneca St | For more info: maithacany@gmail.com | Free

Free Community Cruise | 7 p.m., 8/24 Wednesday | Allan H. Treman Marina, 1000 Allan H. Treman Road | Free 1.5 hour cruise with presentations by community members on board. | Free TC Health Dept, tabling | 1 p.m., 8/25 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Nutrition Workshop Series - Salads Galore! | 3 p.m., 8/25 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Candor Farmers Market | 3:30 p.m., 8/25 Thursday | Candor Town Hall Pavilion, 101 Owego Road | Local vendors with produce, crafts, cheese, meat, maple products, baked goods, food truck | Free

Ovid Farmers Market | 3 p.m., 8/26 Friday | Three Bears Complex, Main St. | Every Friday from 3-7. Be sure to purchase fresh, local produce and other local products. Support your local farmers and producers and keep your hard-earned dollars in your local community. | Free

Ithaca Farmers Market Saturdays! at Steamboat Landing | 9 a.m., 8/27 Saturday | Visit the farmers market every Saturday, rain or shine, at the pavilion.

Brooktondale Farmers Market | 10 a.m., 8/27 Saturday | Brooktondale Community Center, 526 Valley Rd | Every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm.

Food Pantry | 12 p.m., 8/27 Saturday | GYM-Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St |

Online Teen Game Group | 4:30 p.m., 8/29 Monday | Mental Health Association in Tompkins County | Online Teen Game Group | Free

Ithaca Farmers Market Outreach Event | 6 p.m., 8/29 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Commercial Fishing in Alaska | 6:30 p.m., 8/29 Monday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Come hear the adventure of New eld teacher Juraj Gavurnik who experienced life and work on an Alaskan shing boat!  Refreshments will be served. | Free Peer Perspectives Discussion Group | 3 p.m., 8/30 Tuesday | Center Ithaca, 171 E. State St., Suite 275 |

In Peer Perspectives, we will look at di erent topics, concepts, and theories relevant to mental health, and discuss our personal perspectives and interpretations. | Free

Downtown Ithaca Revitalization Public Input Session | 5:30 p.m., 8/31 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street

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