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fter 26 years, Jay and Karen Sciarabba have decided it’s time to rest. Their store Trader K’s, a Commons hallmark, is closing its doors this spring after decades in business.

“26 years is a pretty good run,” Jay Sciarabba said. “The construction has made us a lot more tired. Commons construction was tiring, Harolds Square was tiring, Vecino Group is tiring…”

The store got its start about 30 years ago when Karen, who was spending winters in Arizona, fell in love with a secondhand store she visited frequently out there, and she thought the concept would do well in Ithaca too.

“For years she collected clothing from the Salvation Army or garage sales and she’d pick through the best stuff. She’d store it and wait for department stores to go out of business and she’d get their racks and that kind of stuff,” Jay said.

The couple met in 1995 and at the time, Jay’s father owned the Rothschild building on the east end of the Commons. It was 900 square feet and he told Jay and Karen that they could rent it out.

“No family discount,” Jay said. “He said ‘you’re going to learn how to do it and survive.’”

Karen went to a bank for a loan but to no avail, so Jay said they decided to put in the hard work and make it happen themselves.

“Within a year we doubled in size,” he said. “Within two years, we tripled in size. And after 10 years, we grew out of that space and had the opportunity to get into this building.

In one night we moved all of this stuff over, opened on a Sunday, and for 16 years we’ve been here.”

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It turns out Karen was right, the buy/trade/sell model was a perfect fit for Ithaca.

“We grew because it was a destination place, where people could get cash on the spot for clothing,” Jay said. “Plus, we’re picky about our inventory. We make sure it’s clean, and there aren’t multiple items of the same stuff, so there are always different looks out there.”

And Ithaca’s diverse college population adds something special to the store too. Jay said he and Karen had anticipated college students being their biggest customers, but it ended up that the students were actually a big source of clothing.

“We get great clothes from college kids, and some of it is very different because they’re international,” he said.

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and racks of children’s clothing in the back end of Trader K’s, a customer who has heard the news stops to shake his hand. “I wish you well, man.

Congratulations,” he says to Jay. “That’s the hardest part,” Jay said. “We’ve clothed kids who were born and wore baby clothes from here, and now they’re dressing their own kids here. The emotional part was the hard part when making the decision.”

He told another story of a woman who told him she had put herself through a bachelor’s degree with two kids and was grateful to Trader K’s because she never would have been able to afford new clothing.

“Stuff like that is touching to us,” Jay said. “That’s what we’ll miss the most. That connection with the community.”

T a k e ▶ New coach - Ithaca College has named Michael Toerper as the next head coach of the Ithaca College football program. He will officially begin his appointment on March 1. Toerper succeeds Dan Swanstrom, who announced

The Sciarabbas own the building Trader K’s is in, among a handful of others on the Commons, and Jay said they plan to be picky about what goes into the space after Trader K’s vacates.

“In all my locations I want something different. We have enough pizza shops, we have enough head shops,” he said.

“I want to make sure that what we put in here will help the Commons and be something different. It’s going to draw people.”

As for what’s next for the couple, they plan to continue to visit their son weekly at prep school in Connecticut, but will stay local.

“We’ll never leave Ithaca.

Well, in the winters probably,” Jay laughed.

He said they also hope to do some traveling while they’re still young, and added that they’re looking forward to just sitting back and enjoying the fruits of their labor.

“If we want to do nothing, we’ll do nothing,” Jay said. “If we want to do something, we can figure it out.”

Trader K’s is currently liquidating all of its inventory and everything is currently 30% off. Additionally, you can book private parties of 10 or more to spend two hours shopping with friends and family, with larger discounts.

“We just want to thank the community, and we have the best deals we’ll ever have,” Jay said. “We thank everyone, and it’s been a long time, but it is time.”

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from 2017-19. He then departed to become the safeties coach at Division I Holy Cross for the past two seasons and contributed to turning that Crusaders defense into one of the top units in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2021.

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WHAT MOVIE FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD CAN YOU STILL WATCH AND ENJOY AS AN (YOUNG) ADULT?

“The Lorax! It’s still cute and puts you in good mood!”

-Lily B.

The Tesla Chargers in the Trader Joe’s Plaza on Meadow Street

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he Tompkins County Legislature unanimously approved an update to the county’s Green Fleet policy, which Chief Sustainability Officer Terry Carroll said aims to hit the county’s green goal, particularly focused on county vehicles. The update will implement a fleet manager who will take a more holistic view of the county’s fleet and see where there are opportunities for synergy, sharing vehicles and more. There will also be a focus on electrifying vehicles when

“Cheaper By The Dozen” -Connor L.

“Sponge Bob Square Pants…The original, obvi. It’s a classic!”

“Elf. Its just tradition for my family.”

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“We understand not every vehicle is going to be electrified,” Carroll said.

“We acknowledge there’s a lot of uses right now where electric vehicles don’t cut it unfortunately, but we’re hopeful in the next few years that will change.”

The policy also ensures mileage and fuel usage is tracked and reported to the community and County Legislature. Legislator Amanda Champion clarified that the

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ver $7 million in federal funding was awarded for Ithacabased research in clean energy through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects AgencyEnergy (ARPA-E). Sen. Chuck Schumer said that this cutting edge research is integral to the fight against climate change and will boost economic recovery efforts by creating good-paying jobs in Ithaca.

“Ithaca is leading New York and our nation in the fight against climate change.

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efforts to deliver critical clean energy solutions and create good paying jobs right here in Upstate New York,” Schumer said. “From the push to decarbonize 100% of its building to the groundbreaking research being done at Cornell University, many are now recognizing what I have long known, Ithaca is paving the way to a greener and ‘gorges’ future.”

Lynden Archer, the dean of engineering at Cornell University, thanked Schumer for his support.

“The number of Cornell Engineering projects funded through this competitive

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fleet manager will not be a new hire, but will be someone (likely Carroll) designated by the county administrator.

Public Health Director Frank Kruppa and Deputy County Administrator Amie Hendrix were on hand to provide their regularly scheduled COVID-19 response update. Hendrix said hospitalizations have declined, but the county was still in the double digits at the time and another death was reported, so the emergency response team continues to watch the severity of disease. She also noted that the state’s mask mandate from Gov. Kathy Hochul had expired.

Kruppa said that despite the mandate from the state lapsing, the Health Department’s recommendation to mask when indoors remains. He explained that the Health Department had been following CDC guidance for masking since the onset of the pandemic. That guidance states that if you’re in a high transmission area, which is 100 or more cases per 100,000 people over a seven day rolling average, then masks are recommended for indoor settings.

“It’s not a mandate, we’re not enforcing it, but it is absolutely a recommendation,” Kruppa said. “The governor lifting the mandate doesn’t mean there’s no risk.”

He noted that people have been asking when the making recommendation will end, and again pointed to CDC guidance, which calls for “moderate” transmission before ending the mask advisory. Moderate transmission is fewer than 50 cases per 100,000 on a sevenday rolling average.

“As soon as we reach and sustain those levels, we will lift the advisory,” Kruppa said.

Legislator Randy Brown asked about masking at schools, and Kruppa said school districts are still under a mandate from the state to wear masks, and if or when that is lifted will be the governor’s decision.

“Depending on where our case levels are, we would only have a recommendation for school districts, not a mandate,” he said. “But districts can choose to have a mandate.”

Kruppa also noted the county Health Department is rounding out its vaccine efforts, as they’re now readily available in the community.

“Last we checked there were same-week appointments at several pharmacies and many healthcare providers are also providing them,” he said. “Our goal was to take care of the backlog. I think, to date, we have achieved that.”

process demonstrates the high level of innovation we are applying to the global challenge of lowering humanity’s carbon footprint,” said Archer said. “We are grateful to Senator Schumer for his commitment to scientific research and his steadfast support of ARPA-E, which accelerates the technological advances necessary to address our world’s most pressing problems.”

Since its founding in 2009, ARPA-E has provided $2.93 billion in research and development funding, and ARPA-E projects have attracted more than $7.6 billion in private sector followon funding to commercialize clean energy technologies and create sustainable clean energy jobs. Previous ARPA-E awardees have also gone on to achieve breakthroughs in commercializing a

variety of energy solutions, including in the development of transformative solar, geothermal, batteries, biofuels and advanced surface coating technologies.

Cornell University – Field-Focused Load-Leveled Dynamic Wireless Charging System for Electric Vehicles Award: $1,425,000 Cornell University seeks to develop a breakthrough wireless charging system for stationary and dynamic charging of electric vehicles (EVs), with significant improvements compared with state-of-the-art solutions.

Specifically, the project will demonstrate a 50-kW capacitive wireless charging system with 150 kW/m2 power transfer density and 95% efficiency, while meeting fringing-field safety

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hough put on pause for now, the good cause legislation has not been forgotten by the Planning and Economic Development Committee. At the end of last year, the committee decided to hold off on moving forward with the legislation, which would prevent landlords from withholding lease renewals without good cause as defined in the bill, while they waited for an opinion from the attorney general’s office about whether a city had that power or if it would preempt the state’s rental laws. The committee originally thought the opinion would come sometime in December or January, but it hasn’t happened yet.

However, much of the Feb. 16 meeting centered around good cause legislation, beginning with public speakers who attended to speak in its favor.

“I understand the concern about preemption, but if Ithaca is truly to be a progressive city where everyone has equal opportunity, we need robust good cause,” resident Carolyn Headlam said.

Genevieve Rand, a resident and organizer with the Ithaca Tenants Union, said renters need more rights to remain in their homes.

“Right now people can evict anyone [through nonrenewals] for no reason at all,” she said. “It’s often a cover for retaliation or discrimination.

It’s crazy that we’ve been fighting for this for so long when other towns that are not as progressive as Ithaca are passing this. This bill is not radical. It’s a baseline protection that allows people to not be evicted for no given reason.”

The committee then hosted a special presentation with three local experts to discuss good cause legislation — Michaela Azemi, from the Cornell law school practicum and tenant hotline, Keith McCafferty, from Law NY, and Johanna Anderson, director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing

Michaela Azemi from Cornell Law School and Keith MCafferty from Law NY.

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Azemi confirmed Rand’s reasons for non-renewals in Ithaca.

“Many of the calls we’re receiving [at the tenants hotline] are people seeking advice for issues related to displacement, but not evictions,” she said. “Many of these tenants are facing clear retaliation from landlords for asking for repairs. We see landlords removing tenants through non-renewal where the underlying reason is really discrimination.”

She also noted that there’s no case law that specifically addresses good cause legislation, which means opinions on the legality of such a law at this point is just that — an opinion.

McCafferty said that if a tenant’s lease is not renewed due to a request for repairs, the tenant can fight that in court with appropriate documentation and proof.

However, Azemi notes that many tenants cannot afford an attorney, and as the way it’s written now, the burden of proof would be on the tenant, not the landlord.

Committee member Phoebe Brown asked if there have been individuals who have been able to prove that a non-renewal was retaliatory.

“That’s really hard to do,” she said.

McCafferty agreed, and said that if tenants wanted to raise that issue in court they have to be good record keepers.

“That’s difficult to do when

you’re raising a family, going to work, living a life,” he said.

Melody Susco, the director of asset and property management for INHS, said that the 2019 Housing Security & Tenant Stability Act made the current state law more pro-tenant than it had been previously, but that the proposed good cause legislation adds more protections. She also noted that INHS has a good cause eviction clause written into all of its leases.

Chair Laura Lewis said the conversation was proof that the legislation is “not a topic that’s stalled in committee, but one in which we continue to gather information.”

However, there is still no immediate plan to vote or move forward with the legislation yet.

The committee also continued its work on amending the town code to increase the 60-day minimum waiting period to offer and sign a lease renewal and eliminate landlords and tenants’ abilities to waive that waiting period.

The amendment was proposed in December by fourth ward representative Patrick Mehler, spurred by a discussion around the fact that many Collegetown landlords ask for lease renewals just weeks into a student’s tenancy.

Committee member Cynthia Brock has been outspoken in her belief that Mehler’s proposal puts too much pressure on landlords.

Originally, the bill called for a

180-day waiting period, but Mehler agreed to bring it down to 120 in January. However at this meeting, she suggested 90 days instead.

“I have received intense feedback from many who think 120 days puts a tremendous impact on the ability to make a unit available for review to prospective tenants,” she said. “I hope we’d consider a 90-day duration as something that might be equally protective of the tenant.”

Mehler, however, said he still holds firm at 120 days, as he doesn’t think 90 days will give tenants who begin their leases in June enough time.

It’s generally accepted that students who sign June leases won’t actually move in until August, meaning they would have just 30 days until renewal under the 90-day waiting period.

“I think to me 120 gives more reasonable time for the June leases,” he said. “It makes more sense to have protections be a little longer than shorter.”

There was also a discussion about leases that are shorter than a year, as many landlords offer nine- or 10-month leases that correspond with the academic year. Mehler suggested exceptions for any lease fewer than 11 months, so people with nine- or 10-month leases would only be subject to the 60-day waiting period, with no waiver available.

Lewis said this could unintentionally incentivize landlords to move to ninemonth leases instead of 12-month ones.

As the bill got increasingly complicated, committee member Rob Gearhart suggested just choosing a date.

“That would build in a window,” he said.

Ultimately, nothing was decided and the topic will continue to be discussed. The bill will be circulated so others can share their opinions as well.

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Ups Karen Chen, a Cornell student, returns home from the Beijing Olympics as a medalist in the women’s figure skating team event. Whether it’s silver or gold will depend on the decision made in the doping case against Russian skater Kamila Valieva.

Downs There were a few violent incidents reported in Ithaca over the last weekend, including two stabbings and a person shot with an airsoft/pellet gun.

HEARD&SEEN Heard Cornell men’s hockey team will have home ice advantage in its first ECAC playoff series. Start thinking about tickets, folks!

Seen Ever since the new KFC opened last week the line at the drive thru has been all the way out onto Elmira Road.

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Surviving Winter Break

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n response to the city of Ithaca’s neighboring cities, and cities with similar Reimagining Public Safety plan, the industries and cultures.

Ithaca Police Benevolent Association While some crimes did go up over (PBA) has been waging war, and the last year, like DWIs and thefts, disinformation is their there’s good reason to primary ammunition. The believe that they are PBA is attempting to scare linked to pandemicthe public by claiming related desperation. As that reforming our police for the recent shootings department has caused we’ve all heard about here crime to go up, and that in Ithaca, it’s become reimagining public safety increasingly clear that would make us all unsafe. the violence is due to a Not only do these claims couple of individuals who amount to fearmongering, are engaged in a personal they’re also untrue. Just a conflict. While any few months ago, an article increase in violent crime is published in the Ithaca inexcusable, it’s important Alana Byrd Times researched the facts to understand that these behind claims that Ithaca individual incidents do was becoming an unsafe not represent a structural place to live due to an increase in violent change in the violence level of our city. crime. What it found was that not only There’s been a push on the far right has there been no upward trend in violent more generally to make a case that crime in Ithaca, but also that Ithaca increasing funding or manpower for has less violent crime than comparable continued on page 7 cities - cities of relatively similar size,

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elcome to the Ithaca Loves Teachers Festival 2022! Ithaca Loves Teachers is open to all public school teachers, school district employees/staff, teachers union retirees, homeschool teachers, and childcare workers with discounted lodging, dining, and activities. A perennial favorite for participants is the Ithaca Loves Teachers Drinking Game. The rules are below, and the participating venues are any establishment serving alcohol in Tompkins or adjoining counties (all are designated as ‘pupil-free zones’ for the festival). Or at home, or a friend’s home, just not in your car. You will need to show your digital passbook with you at all times to be eligible to receive discounts.

• Anyone brags to you how well they did on Wordle, drink a shot.

This includes Facebook posts.

• If a presenter at a faculty meeting has read every single PowerPoint slide word for word at any point during this school year, enjoy a glass of local wine.

• For every one thousand times you’ve asked a student to pull his or her mask up over their nose, take a single sip of the wine of your choice.

• For every class you’ve had to cover during a prep time in the week before Winter Break, do a shot.

• Do one shot for every new education theory, complete with original and exciting acronyms, that you’ve survived in your career.

• For every angry parent email about how this is all your fault, drink a shot. Actually, drink two shots.

• If your schedule requires you to go four or more hours without a bathroom break, have a small glass of Limoncello.

• Pour two ounces of coffee on a flat surface. Using only school paper towels, mop up as much of it as you can in 60 Ithac a Times

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• Quickly drink a shot right now because you just remembered Regents exams are coming back in June.

• If you’ve ever wanted to openly speculate on the depth of a student’s gene pool or suggest alternatives to school in a parent-teacher conference, drink a vial of truth serum.

• Drink one of those little airplane bottles of the liquor of your choice for every decade or part of a decade between now and the date when your pension vests.

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• If you’ve ever failed to recognize one of your students in a public setting because they’ve been allvirtual or you’ve only ever seen them from the eyes up, have a beer.

• Drink a Seneca Drums Gin martini for every teacher observation you will be subjected to this year.

(You might want to spread the drinks out over multiple days.)

• Have a beer for every time your school has gone virtual since Thanksgiving.

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seconds. Drink an amount of vodka equivalent to the coffee remaining on the flat surface (two ounces).

• Go on your favorite social media outlet. No, wait...do a shot instead.

• Whenever it occurs to you that you are in upstate New York instead of the Caribbean for Winter Break, order and finish a Sex on the Beach.

• If a member of the public has ever showed up at one of your district’s school board meetings to discourage teaching about racism, drink half a mason jar of moonshine.

• If you are still paying off your student loans on a teacher’s salary, start drinking for the day.

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police departments reduces crime. This claim does not bear out. In fact, cities that have increased their police presence – like Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Chicago – have actually seen increases in their homicide rates. At the same time, cities like Raleigh and El Paso, which lowered numbers of officers per capita, saw decreases in their homicide rates.

It’s important to remember that crime is a product of environment, not just police or policing. One more officer on the street doesn’t change the fact that a mother with three hungry children at home must find a way to feed her kids.

One more armed cop on the city’s payroll does add approximately $150,000 to our tax bill, but it doesn’t change or make up for the lack of community resources like better education and recreation centers.

In any city, there are only so many tax dollars to go around. Using those dollars for proven crime-deterring methods and programs like greater access to drug treatment and mental health facilities, summer jobs, increased lighting (which reduced crimes by over a third in a New York City trial), cleaning up vacant lots, and violence interruption programs reduce the “upstream” causes of crime.

To ensure safety, both real and felt, we have to ensure a positive, trusting relationship between every officer and every member of our community, regardless of their background. We have never achieved that in Ithaca – and we

cannot achieve that with our current model of policing. The historical conflict between policing and minoritized communities has created nearly irreparable rifts. It is past time for a new way.

The Reimagining Public Safety plan makes great strides toward repairing our broken system by creating a force of unarmed community safety officers who can interrupt, for example, the cycle of mental health crises leading to arrests and violence. It creates a new system for crisis intervention and wraparound services.

It goes further by creating a community healing plan to begin to repair the deep mistrust our minoritized citizens feel toward the force. And it implements a crucial, culturally responsive training curriculum for law enforcement. There’s also evidence to suggest that investing in community responders now saves money down the line - leading to opportunities for increased funding in community reinvestment.

We need to take an all-of-the-above approach to ensure that Ithaca is a safe city for all community members.

Reimagining Public Safety, coupled with upstream investments in underserved neighborhoods, and bolstered by innovative practices like redesigning the lived environment, will serve our community in ways that simply increasing armed police officers never can. Reactive methods like adding to the IPD’s inflated budget won’t work. Let’s invest in our community proactively.

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In other business

Interim County Administrator Lisa Holmes updated the Legislature that Tompkins County closed on the purchases of properties at 300 and 308 North Tioga St., and has instituted six-month lease agreements for the current tenants of those buildings. The properties were purchased with the intention of constructing a center of government building to house county departments, several of which are currently in leased space. The closing on the Tioga Street properties enables the county to sell a portion of countyowned property on Sears Street to Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services to develop owner-occupied affordable forsale housing. The next step in the sale will be for INHS to go through the City of Ithaca’s subdivision process.

A resolution moved by Legislator Dan Klein urging New York State to support 2-1-1 programs statewide passed unanimously (14-0). Legislators spoke to the value provided to the community by the local 2-1-1 program and the Human

Services Coalition. Chairwoman Shawna Black spoke to the 2-1-1 call line being particularly critical during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A resolution was moved by Legislator Veronica Pillar advocating that New York State pass the Fair Pay for Home Care Act to establish fair wages for home health aides. Pillar spoke to the valuable resource that aides provide and the stress on the system due to the pandemic and more people needing assistance staying at home. The resolution passed 12-2 with legislators Lee Shurtleff and Mike Sigler in opposition.

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Correction Apologies to Colleen Anunu, whom we misgendered in last week’s article “Gimme Coffee aims to make outdoor seating permanent.” Anunu uses they/ them pronouns, and we sincerely apologize to them for this mistake.

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am neither an apologist for Vladimir Putin nor an expert on eastern European political history, but I follow the news and do try to “connect the dots.”

It occurs to me that one reason why the Russian government demands that NATO not expand into Ukraine is that back in February 1991 then U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet President Gorbachev that “not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” Since then, at least 10 European nations have joined NATO, four of them on the Ukrainian border, two immediately bordering Russia, all in an “eastern direction.” Was our word our bond? Gorbachev thought so.

Thirty years later in December 2021, Russia made its “security demand” that Ukraine never be admitted to NATO. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rejected this demand saying, “We make clear that there are core principles that we are committed to uphold and defend – including Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and the right of states to choose their own security arrangements and alliances.” President Biden has said the same.

Hypothetically, what if a nation within 90 miles of Florida were to ask its ally to enhance its “security arrangements” by installing missiles on its soil? Would the US agree to a “core principle” that this nation has sovereign rights to amass such weapons for its defense?

The “hypothetical,” of course, is real. Antony Blinken was six months old during the Cuban missile crisis. He might not remember how close we came to nuclear war over Cuba’s attempt to ally with whom it wanted to ensure its national security. President Biden does not have the same excuse.

The October 1962 missile crisis was addressed diplomatically. The current Ukraine standoff must also be resolved peacefully. Congress members Jayapal and Lee have gone on record saying, “There is no military solution out of this crisis — diplomacy needs to be the focus.”

Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Representative Reed should say as much.

War is not the answer!

-Garry Thomas, Ithaca Catholic Worker

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election in November, Is now a declared candidate to finish the last year of beloved ex-mayor Svante Myrick’s last term. A Democratic primary in June will select Laura or another candidate to run for Mayor in the general election.

With redistricting, Ithaca also joins New York State Senate and Congressional districts that favor Democratic candidates. We anticipate spirited primaries for the Democratic nomination in both districts.

Three candidates (Leslie Danks Burke, Lea Webb, Ammitai Worob are running for the new NY State Senate 53rd district. Seven candidates (Francis Conole, Vanessa Fajans-Turner, Steven Holden, Sarah Klee Hood, Chol Majok, Josh Riley, Sam Roberts) are vying for the new NY22nd Congressional District Democratic nomination.

Throughout March expect to meet a Democrat knocking at your door to ask for signatures to get these folks on the ballot. Many will be members of your local Democratic ward committee doing the hard work that makes our democracy function.

The Ithaca City Democratic Committee welcomes new members. For more information please get in touch with one of the following. Ed Swayze, City Chair edwardswayze@gmail.com, or Ann Sullivan, Third Ward Chair annh. sullivan@gmail.com -Edward Swayze, Ithaca, NY

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t the very least, kids and families need to have a choice about masking outdoors at recess. NY state does not require masks at recess. Tompkins County could immediately change that policy. (https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/ system/files/documents/2021/09/schoolguidance_0.pdf) If families with vulnerable members choose to put a pediatric N95 (which are widely available now) or any other mask on their child, that choice will be supported. But a wide net mandating masks for every child, all day, every day, indoor and outdoors after two years is no longer the best approach. The downsides of masking must be acknowledged.

(Anecdotally, my vaccinated but masked 5 year-old completely broke both bones in his forearm at recess when he misjudged the distance to the ground as he jumped off the play structure.) Even liberal commentators now recognize that the balance has shifted, (https:// www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opinion/ masks-covid-children.html?campaign_ id=9&emc=edit_nn_20220128&instance_ id=51536&nl=the-morning&regi_ id=105286700&segment_ id=80981&te=1&user_id=2bcf99ece5028d 5f80362b26db9d4514) Thank you for this forum.

-Sarah Germonprez, via Ithaca.com

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f there’s anyone who’s both witnessed and played a hand in the transformation of the City of Ithaca in the past two decades, it’s certainly JoAnn Cornish. From the redesign of the Commons and downtown to the controversial decision to bring big box stores to the Southwest end, Cornish has been a key player in nearly all of Ithaca’s major alterations since she started working for the city as an environmental planner in the late 90’s. Of course she is most known for her tenure as Planning Director, a title she is now passing on after 13 years at the helm.

How’s she handling the transition?

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“You know I’m a little bored, I won’t lie,” Cornish admits with a chuckle, though she looks forward to gardening and spending time with grandkids. For the now-former planning director, it’s time for rest and relaxation in Ithaca, something she hasn’t experienced since she was a kid.

Born and raised first in the Northside neighborhood and later on South Hill, Cornish’s relationship with Ithaca started

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When she was in high school, Cornish said she saw firsthand the beginnings of a changing landscape in Ithaca when parts of State Street were first converted to allow for the original construction of the Commons. “That was a major change I saw in Ithaca early on,” she recalled. “You know, just the skyline and density in downtown

history has increased tremendously … it’s just really blossomed over the last 25 years.

For all of the massive construction and redesign that has occurred under Cornish’s watch, she wasn’t always pro-development.

Interestingly enough, what prompted her career with the city was her shock at seeing development on Deer Run, where she used to hike and ride horses as a kid.

“It just sparked something in me and I thought if I’m going to live here I want to be a part of seeing that development, but I want to see it done in a way that we could be proud of,” she said.

Since then Cornish admits her views have changed a bit, particularly after

working under former mayor Alan Cohen to bring Walmart to Ithaca, a move that prompted the arrival of big-box stores that dominate the Southwest end of Ithaca to this day.

“I’ve always been for densification of the city but it was sort of those corporate America stuff that I had a problem until I really began to think about what it would do for the city and what it did for the residents,” she explained. ““When you don’t make a lot of money and you’re struggling financially it’s important to have options, to have choices.

Everybody should be able to afford food and clothing for their kids and themselves and a lot of that wasn’t really available here.

By 2009, Cornish was Planning Director and the redesign of the Commons was high on the agenda. The project, although highly influential in shaping the modern downtown, was met with its share of setbacks that sent the redesign overschedule and over-budget. This, coupled with various rezoning and construction in the downtown over the years led to a lot of controversy, which Cornish felt the effects of first-hand. Still she remains adamant the changes have been for the best.

“I didn’t go on the Commons for quite some time because every time I would step out the door I would have multiple people coming up to me complaining about one thing or the other,” she said. “Yes the core is changing and it’s definitely a different look, but it’s really good because we’re getting a lot of affordable space in the core of downtown which is critical, and we’re bringing people back to the city so they can enjoy all the things of citylife.”

Certainly affordable housing has been a top priority for the city in recent years, particularly driven by now-former mayor Svante Myrick’s intense advocacy and personal experience with the subject. And while recent years have seen the addition of affordable spaces such as Breckenridge Apartments and more recently the Arthaus apartments, the affordability problem still remains high. As the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability’s 2020 housing snapshot detailed, there are still myriad issues plaguing the city such as a lack of for-sale housing development and low vacancy rates among others.

Looking holistically however, Cornish says Ithaca has made massive strides since she was a kid.

“Probably the best changes have been the increase in housing in the downtown

J o A n n C o r n i s h at t h e C i t y C e n t r e o p e n i n g area,” she said. “Growing up here it was mainly single family homes and we had some apartment buildings, but it certainly didn’t dot the landscape like the ones that do today … Now housing all around really in the city has increased.

Walkability was another feature Cornish emphasized when it came to the benefits that came with restructuring the Commons and downtown.

“Within walking distance of the Commons you can go to Ithaca Falls, Cascadilla Gorge or walk to Cornell and those are things that I really do think make Ithaca magical,” she said. “Again to

offer people downtown living … access to natural resources … We’ve done a pretty good job at being able to develop and maintain it.

One of the big projects that Cornish now leaves behind is the redesign of the waterfront, which now features the Guthrie Ithaca City Harbor medical center and will soon be home to many luxury apartments as well.

Cornish said she is glad to see that section of Ithaca finally being developed and is confident the project will continue on strongly after her departure.

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“I remember when they put in Fulton street … and all the single family homes were cut and it really delayed the growth of anything on the waterfront,” she said. “Back then the waterfront was really not looked at as any kind of an opportunity and now of course it’s changing … and that was a long term goal so I think things are going in a good direction.”

On the subject of change, it’s important to note Cornish’s retirement came shortly after Myrick announced he would be stepping down as the city’s mayor.

To lose two prominent members of the city in such quick succession certainly means some uncertainty in the future, but Cornish remains optimistic.

“Nobody’s irreplaceable,” Cornish said.

“You walk out the door and things still happen. Everybody’s working towards the same goal right now and I think we’re going to be okay.

Currently Lisa Nicholas, who was previously the city’s deputy director of planning, is holding the position of acting director of planning and development in Cornish’s place.

There is currently a search under way to find a permanent holder of the position, which Nicholas herself has applied for. In the meantime Cornish is still working in a temporary advisor capacity to help smooth the transition.

“Lisa Nicholas is very good, she’s very smart, “Cornish said. “She and I worked together for around 15 years so I feel as though she’s had great training.”

Nicholas echoed this statement and praised Cornish’s work for the city.

“JoAnn’s really prepared me well for this position and I learned so much just watching her,” she said. “She really has the ability to see the big picture of things but can also really drill down into details.”

Reflecting on her decision to leave, Cornish said there’s no perfect time to go but that she feels Ithaca will continue to stay on the right track.

“What I’m proudest of is being able to leave the city in good hands,” Cornish said.

“I feel very comfortable and I wouldn’t have left if I didn’t because this is my life’s work. I put it off for a while and I knew it was time, but having such a good staff still here, certainty for the department, will help sustain the professionalism and the great work we do.”

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A WELCOME ADDITION

Milkstand offers classic diner food with an Instagramready backdrop

By Henry Star k It was amazing. One week I entered the Byrne Dairy shop on Meadow Street to buy my usual quart of heavy cream and it seemed like overnight the entire interior had been gutted to make room for gleaming white fixtures, attractive pendant lighting and an open interior with room for almost 100 diners. I never thought that such a metamorphosis could occur in what had been display counters offering myriad dairy products and various sundries.

The original refrigerated glass display cases at the south end have been retained and are being used to store and refrigerate beverages.

The minimalist and inviting décor features light, white walls and comfortable brown leatherette booths surrounding a translucent divider.

Surprised as I am to find a full-service restaurant replacing a long-term convenience store, I’m happy to experience the cheery décor and excellent food at Milkstand. It’s a most welcome addition to the community.

The same wonderful Florentine Crepe that’s on the breakfast menu is also offered on the dinner menu with no change in price ($15).

A large homemade crepe is folded over to fit the plate and served with spinach, roasted tomatoes, sauteed onions, mushrooms and topped with mozzarella cheese. And staring up at you are two sunny-side-up fried eggs with the whites perfectly cooked and the yolks just

runny enough to bathe the other ingredients.

There was even a bit of ratatouille on the side.

I found the serving a bit large at breakfast but more manageable at dinnertime. The Savory Crepe ($16), featuring roast chicken, caramelized onions, and brie is also available at breakfast and dinner and also features two sunny-side-up eggs.

The comprehensive breakfast menu offers a wide variety of egg dishes, pancakes, French toast and waffles. A dish that intrigues me is Eggs Benedict ($15) which is available daily and which I had always thought of as a weekend treat.

One of the unusual lunch dishes I ordered was Austin’s Burger ($16). I have no clue who Austin is, but this burger was covered with a honey and red onion compote and had bits of spinach on it. The top half of the bun was smeared with a thin layer of goat cheese. It was fine and made for a change of pace from the normal burgers I’m used to. Speaking of normal burgers, the conventional Milkstand Original Burger ($16) was also pleasant — a cheeseburger with caramelized onions, sauteed mushrooms and lettuce and tomato.

Once, at dinner, I ordered one of the two “specials.” Cioppino ($22), a fish and shellfish stew that originated in San Francisco, included a delicious tomato and olive-based sauce surrounding three shrimp, three mussels and a tender piece of white fish but no clams or calamari. The white fish, which could have been bland, wasn’t when combined with the tasty accompanying sauce.

I was intrigued by another dinner entrée: Fried Chicken & Mac Cheese ($18), a combination I had never tried so at a subsequent dinner I ordered and enjoyed it. The macaroni was tossed with Cheddar and Parmesan cheese and served as a bed for a breaded chicken breast. The menu says “sharp NY cheddar” but I found the dish quite mild.

I usually don’t order breasts as I find them overcooked and dry compared with thighs, however this one was cooked perfectly and juicy. The only issue I had was the blandness of the presentation. The off-white pasta and the brown chicken would have been enhanced with some color. A green salad or vegetable as a side option would have been welcome.

Milkstand is not a place to go if you’re looking for an extensive beer or wine menu.

There are only four beers on offer ($6) and eight wines ($8-$32). Among the whites I would have liked to have seen a Dry Riesling and a Sauvignon Blanc and included in the reds, perhaps a Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and a Merlot. And I didn’t understand why with so few wines on offer 25% were sparkling.

The unidentified “Champagne” at $32 seemed out-of-place.

Tidbit: During these staffing shortage times, it’s always a good idea to check with a restaurant before going. As I write this, Milkstand has a shortage of cooks and has just changed their hours to a 3:30 p.m. closing. They expect this to be temporary and hope to resume dinner service as soon as they find cooks.

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Cornell men’s hockey coach is back on the bench after a health issue

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recall being approached by an editor in 1995 — three years into my Ithaca Times gig — and asked if I had heard that Cornell had hired a new hockey coach. “You might want to make an appointment to meet this guy,” I was told.

I laughed and told my colleague that I had already met Mike Schafer — 13 years ago. In the fall of 1982, Schafer was one of the brash newcomers to the Big Red hockey team, and I — as an employee of Cornell Athletics — saw him five days a week. We got to be friends, and when I had a housewarming party in 1985, I invited Schafer to bring a friend or two. Mid-party, I was surprised to hear what sounded like a tractor coming up my driveway, and I saw Mike’s old boat of an Oldsmobile, packed with six or seven teammates. The overloaded car had bottomed out on my driveway, and the muffler had fallen off. Nearly four decades later, he still wants money for his broken muffler and I want him to pay up for the damage to my driveway.

This year, 37 years and nearly 500 wins later, the silver-haired elder statesman and legit icon had to take a little midseason break from his coaching duties.

While being treated for COVID, Schafer’s doctor’s discovered that he needed a cardiac stent to correct a heart issue, and on Jan. 8, Associate Head Coach Ben Syer

took over on an interim basis. I wondered what it would be like for Schafer to take some time off in the middle of a hockey season for the first time since he first laced up a pair of skates.

Schafer is now back on the bench, and I reached out over the weekend to ask him about his unexpected time off.

I pointed out that I had been following some social media posts that showed an incredible outpouring of support for the longtime coach, and I asked him how that felt. Mike replied, “The cards, calls and all communication has meant a lot. It has helped with all the down time when I am typically so busy. That adjustment and hearing from people has helped mentally.

We are very grateful for all the prayers and well wishes from everyone.”

The Big Red has wrapped up its home schedule (for the regular season) and will head to Quinnipiac on Friday and to Princeton on Saturday. As for the post-season, the three points the Big Red earned by beating Clarkson on Saturday kept Cornell in fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings with 33 points and clinched home-ice advantage for the team’s first playoff series. Go Big Red.

Cornell men’s hockey coach Mike Schafer (Photo: Provided)

A few updates on athletes featured in recent columns... First, the Ithaca High boys’ basketball team got off to a rough start, and head coach Lester McNair told me, “We were in a tough spot, we were 2-5 and that did not look good for our goal of making the sectionals.” Lester added, “Well, the players have showed a lot of heart and resilience in the second half of the season, and we are playing as the #5 seed in the sectionals starting on Wednesday, in Binghamton.” ● ● ●

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claiming the top spot in section IV at 138 pounds, and Daniel Parker had the same goal at 145. Both wrestlers took the mat at the sectional finals last weekend, and both are headed for the state tournament, as Oroudjov pinned his opponent in 1:07 and Parker followed suit in 2:43. Go Little Red. ● ● ●

I wrote last week that the Ithaca College women’s basketball team was riding a 14-game win streak, and I asked head coach Dan Raymond if that was the team’s longest win streak ever. He said, “I’m not sure.” I asked if he would take a 14-game win streak in any season, and he laughed and said, “I sure would.”

Since then, the Bombers won three more, securing their third straight Liberty League title in the process. On Friday, they rolled over Bard, and on Saturday, they took care of business by beating Vassar 80-72. Next up, Ithaca will host the Liberty League tournament. The opening round took place as we went to press, and the semifinals will be held on Saturday. Details at www.ithaca.edu.

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The Ink Shop’s latest show features a variety of work from Julianne Hunter — different techniques, series, and studios

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oised between working print studio and formal gallery space, Ithaca’s Ink Shop Printmaking Center is an ideal setting for what is known as “experimental” art. Like experimental music or film, experimental visual art seeks to continuously renegotiate the artist’s working methods and anticipated outcomes. At its worst, art of this sort can be self-indulgent or sloppy. At its best, it preserves a sense of dynamism and uncertainty in its resolved works.

For their first new show of the year, “Julianne Hunter: Ghost Collective” (Feb. 11-March 24), the Ink Shop offers a compelling, richly inconsistent venture into this territory. Hunter is the Shop’s 2021-22 Kahn Family Fellow. The annual

fellowship honors the late H. Peter Kahn (1921-1997), an expert printmaker, book artist, and Cornell professor. It includes a stipend and studio access and concludes in a one-person show that is often a highlight of their gallery calendar.

A 2017 MFA at SUNY New Paltz, Hunter can fairly be called an “emerging” artist. Trained as a sculptor, she is attentive to the physicality of both the image and its support. Using and combining a variety of graphic techniques on commercial and handmade papers, she creates prints that are often reliefs. Sheets have been variously stretched, torn, cut, reassembled, embossed, and stained. continued on page 14

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It’s an approach with characteristic risks and rewards. A comparison with another Ink Shop artist, somewhat arbitrarily chosen, may be instructive. Jenny Pope, a skillful woodcut printmaker, is known locally for her boldly colored, cartoonlike images of animals and nature. Her technique and style are generally familiar.

They serve her rich narrative inventions.

The risk in Pope’s work is a more-ofthe-sameness, the reward an undeniable charm.

There’s considerable variety in “Ghost”: different techniques, series, and studios

as well as a span of at least five years. (It would be helpful to have dates provided.)

The dotted grids that appear in many of Hunter’s more recent pieces here have an unexpected origin. Inspired by the collective nature of work in the print studio — and its denatured “ghosting” during this pandemic era — she has taken to printing from the rubber floor mats commonly used in such settings. As well as dirtiness, these leave strange embossed surfaces.

Recalling the modular grids and achromatic austerity of 1960s minimalism, “Lutum Multorum” represents a somewhat off-putting extreme. Two skewed mat prints, dirt colored, cover much of a sheet of chilly white handmade paper. The sheet

also sports several linear tears, which interplay with the embossed forms.

It is on regular white printmaking paper that Hunter does her best mat prints. Pieces from her “Isthmus” and “Absorption Spectrum” series, amply represented, incorporate lyrical squiggles and stains of abstract monotype color, offsetting the grungy minimalism from the mats. (Her color monotype work sometimes recalls the figurative expressionism of fellow Ink Shop member Christa Wolf.) The embossments are deep, lending a pronounced sculptural quality.

Now abandoned and decaying, the upstate family home the artist grew up in forms the subject of a series dating back to her MFA period. Featuring grainy

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black-and-white photographs, taken by the artist and printed in silkscreen and photopolymer intaglio, these “Remnants” are suitably haunting. Her technique of printing on glued and sawed assemblages of print studio paper scraps adds unexpected flashes of found color to these otherwise monochrome pieces.

There’s much else here besides. Hung on a waxed thread stretched out near the front of the Shop, “35 Signs You Are Here” continues the theme of family memorial with small sheets of paper in gradations of indigo blue. They were made from a pair of blue jeans belonging to the artist’s late father. Two overscaled, vertical prints done in monotype and relief on Japanese Kitakata paper and left unframed anchor the other side of the gallery. Combining gridded and calligraphic forms, “Commution I” and “II,” both older works, are unabashedly lyrical.

I found much to admire here. This is an art that fascinates especially in fragments, in rich passages that don’t always cohere into larger statements. It may be argued that this is the point, that the sense of incompletion is its own fulfillment.

Perhaps this is so.

Hunter is also a visiting critic and print studio manager in Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

Fortuitously, she is currently in two group exhibitions on campus. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art is showing her work as part of “Cornell Art Faculty 2022” (Feb. 5- May 8). She is also included in the Department of Art book art show “Bound Books Unbound” (Feb. 21- 25). The latter is on display at the Olive Tjaden Gallery, in Tjaden Hall — almost a stone’s throw from the museum.

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“Uncharted” wants to be an Indiana Jones movie so badly, but it’s just slightly more entertaining than “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008), and it never honors its handful of huge action set-pieces. There’s a lot of Peter Parker in Holland’s performance here; Holland is the best Peter Parker yet, but after six Spidey movies, Holland needs to find some new schtick. It doesn’t help that Wahlberg is so completely miscast as Holland’s partner in treasure hunting.

What’s required is a champagne actor like George Clooney or just about anyone else but Mark Wahlberg. The dude’s great when he’s playing a cop, soldier or porn star, but whenever he has to talk about history and facts, he looks like a sharp-dressed man reading cue cards.

To quote Monty Python, Ruben Fleischer’s resume is up and down like the Assyrian Empire. I think his best movie is “Zombieland” (2009), but he actually made an awful crime thriller called “Gangster Squad” (2013) that trotted out every cinematic cliché in the genre going back to “Scarface” (1932) as if they weren’t already exhausted. He doesn’t have the bravado for a popcorn adventure like this. ● ● ●

on Netflix. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Bigbug” (Netflix-Eskwad-Gaumont Film Company, 2022, 111 mins.) feels like a really sexy, funny episode of “The Jetsons.” Set in 2045, “Bigbug” is an antic, stylish black comedy about artificial intelligence run amuck; Jeunet’s film gathers together a houseful of selfish, bourgeoise twits in a futuristic home that proceeds to go technologically haywire.

I love movies like “Bigbug” because every aspect of the film is open to imaginative design. Going back to “Delicatessen” (1992), Jeunet likes a design style that incorporates many styles and eras; the production design, sets, costumes and special effects feel like a 1950s sci-fi comedy, with lots of cartoonish details, neon and cool ideas.

Author Francoise (Isabelle Nanty) has a swanky suburban home with all the bells and whistles, including a domestic service robot — shades of Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” (1973) — played by Claude Perron. Throw in a lascivious suitor, an arrogant exhusband, a daffy neighbor and a cloned dog, and then let the machines and the air conditioning fail.

“Bigbug” expertly blends smart stuff and goofy stuff with a real eye towards how technology will continue to affect and infect the world. Jeunet creates big, outsized worlds that allow his actors to deliver big, outsized performances; special mention must be made of Claude Perron’s house robot, and Alban Lenoir’s physically skilled performance as a sports robot named Greg.

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Black History Month Concert: African Drumming and Dance Ensemble at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m. | Ithaca College

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2/23 Wednesday Midday Music for Organ: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Cayuga St | Free

2/24 Thursday Yarn/Wire: CU Music | 2:45 p.m. | Lincoln Hall B20, 256 Feeney Way | Free

Trombone Day at Ford Hall | 2 p.m.| Ithaca College Elective Recital: Laurie Hall, flute at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 4 p.m.| Ithaca College Senior Recital: Katelyn Miller, cello at Ford Hall | 7 p.m.| Ithaca College A New York Premiere: Pēteris Vasks Cello Concerto No. 2 | 7 p.m. | Maine-Endwell Sr. High School Auditorium, 720 Farm-To-Market Road | $5.00 Junior Recital: Baily Mack, horn 8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd, I.C.

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Junior Recital: Alexandra Stewart, flute a | 1 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd, I.C. Elective Recital: Hannah Doll, soprano at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 2 p.m.| Ithaca College Black History Month Concert: Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers at Ford Hall | 4 p.m.| Ithaca College Elective Recital: Julia Norelli, mezzo-soprano at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 7 p.m.| Ithaca College

Elective Recital: Evie Morse, horn and Aaron Suttle, trombone at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 7 p.m.| Ithaca College Junior Recital: Amit Rosenberg, flute | 8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd, Ithaca College Elective Recital: Zachary Naughright and Brandon Kulzer, double bass at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 9 p.m.| Ithaca College

2/28 Monday Lucy Dacus | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St

3/1 Tuesday Elective Recital: Gavin Tremblay, baritone at Nabenhauer Recital Room | 8:30 p.m.| Ithaca College

3/4 Friday Ladysmith Black Mambazo | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | South African group that warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with their uplifting vocal harmonies and signature dance moves. | $25.00 - $45.00

3/6 Sunday Música Diversa | 4 p.m. | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway | $20.00 - $50.00 Eileen Ivers | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St

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Stage Tom Segura: I’m Coming Everywhere - World Tour at the State Theatre of Ithaca | 7 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | Actor/Comedian/ Writer Tom Segura is one of the biggest names in the comedy business.

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Range, 119 E. State St. | Join your host Tilia Cordata for a candy sweet evening of drag and good times! Full of local performers this show is sure to pack a punch!

Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester at State Theatre | 6 p.m., 3/2 Wednesday | State Threatre, 107 W. State Street | State Theatre of Ithaca is hosting Hasan Minhaj, host and creator of the weekly comedy show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that premiered on Netflix in October 2018. | $39.50 - $94.50 The Wetsuitman at The Cherry Arts | 3/4 Friday | 2015. On the coast of Norway, an architect walks his dog.

What looks like an oil slick by the cliffs turns out to be a wetsuit, a human bone protruding from the leg-hole.

Lansing High School Musical Theater Club - Bye Bye Birdie | 6:30 p.m., 3/9 Wednesday | Lansing Middle School, 6 Ludlowville Rd. | March 9th thru March 12th in the Lansing Middle School Auditorium. Tickets are $5 on March 9th; $10 March 10th thru March 12th. | $10.00

Art Julianne Hunter, Ghost Collective | 5 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | The Ink Shop, 330 E. MLK/State St | The Ink Shop is proud to present Ghost Collective by the 2021-2022 Kahn Family Fellow, Julianne Hunter, running from 2/5/22 until 2/26/22. | Free Awakenings | 12 p.m., 2/24 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, www. soagithaca.org, 120 West State Street | In this season when days are getting longer, when hope and romance are stirring, the State of the Art Gallery presents Awakenings, an exhibit featuring work in a variety of media by eleven artists.

Exhibit by Alice Muhlback | 3 p.m., 2/25 Friday | The Gallery at South Hill, 950 Danby Road | The Gallery at South Hill exhibit by Alice Muhlback. Alice will be joined by her two apprentices Autumn Springston and helen Ann Yunis in the exhibition titled “When Soul Calls”. | Free

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The Two Sights | 7 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | Explores the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland as we listen to locals’ accounts of haunting experiences - phantom horses, ghost voices, and other supernatural phenomena. Filmmaker Joshua Bonnetta will appear in person for a post-screening Q & A. Slalom | 9:30 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from French filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier. Screening again 2/25 Friday at 9:20pm Azor | 7 p.m., 2/25 Friday |Argentina 1980. The “dirty war”; the military junta and the disappearances. Amid this tense atmosphere, a Swiss private banker arrives to replace his partner, who has disappeared overnight.

(2021) Screening again 2/26 Saturday at 9:15pm Encanto | 7 p.m., 2/26 Saturday | The Madrigals are a magical family living in Columbia. Each member has been blessed with a magical power that they use to help their community thrive. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Song for Lin Manuel Miranda. (2021) Screening again 2/27 Sunday at 4:30pm Atlantics | 7 p.m., 3/2 Wednesday | In a suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave for Portugal in search of a better future. The men’s ship has disappeared at sea, but one has recently been spotted, upsetting the lives of the women who were left behind.

(2019) Cinemapolis 120 E. Green St., Ithaca Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America | 2/25 Friday | Interweaving lectures, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations.

Criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché | 2/25 Friday | | Featuring unseen archive material and rare diary entries nar-

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104 Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University | Cornell Cinema screens Disney’s latest animated film Encanto on Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 4:30pm. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Song for Lin Manuel Miranda. (Photo: Provided)

Cornell Men’s Polo vs University of Kentucky | 7 p.m., 2/26 Saturday, Oxley Equestrian Center | Cornell Men’s Lacrosse vs Hobart College | 5 p.m., 3/1 Tuesday, Schoellkopf Field | 24th Annual Chili Cook-Off at Downtown Ithaca | 11:30 a.m., 3/5 Saturday | Live, In-Person Festival Saturday, March 5, 2022, 11:30 am 4:30 pm. The Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-Off returns for the 24th year as an in-person outdoor wintertime festival!

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Books STEAM Book Club: The Orphan Band of Springdale | 3:45 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Tween Book Club | 3 p.m., 2/24 Thursday | Watkins Glen Library, 610 S. Decatur Street | Book Club - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know | 7 p.m., 2/28 Monday | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St | Participation is FREE. You need to obtain your own books. All are welcome!

Adult Book Club | 7 p.m., 2/28 Monday | Watkins Glen Library, 610 S. Decatur Street | Virtual Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 p.m., 3/1 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

rated by Oscar-nominee Ruth Negga, this documentary follows Styrene’s daughter Celeste as she examines her mother’s unopened artistic archive and traverses three continents to better understand Poly the icon and Poly the mother.

Cyrano | 2/25 Friday | In this reimagining of the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle, a man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (Peter Dinklage) dazzles, whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel.

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Special Events Cornell Women’s Basketball vs University of Pennsylvania | 5 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday, Newman Arena at Bartels Hall | Cornell Women’s Polo vs University of Kentucky | 7 p.m., 2/25 Friday, Oxley Equestrian Center | Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various trails in the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 2/26 Saturday | Explore local trails on weekly Saturday hikes starting at 10:00am. Hike length varies from 2.5-4 miles. Click here to see the location of the hikes for each week.

HOW DOES THE DINOSAUR GET TO THE MUSEUM? THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 FROM 10 AM - 4 PM

Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Learn how Museums take fossils from discovery to exhibit. Uncover fossils of the dinosaur Apatosaurus in the field camp; take your found fossil pieces to the Museum lab and clean them up; then assemble the skeleton to go on display. (Photo: Provided)

Cornell Women’s Lacrosse vs Penn State University | 1 p.m., 2/26 Saturday, Schoellkopf Field | : The Ithaca CannaMarket | 1 p.m., 2/26 Saturday | The Cherry Arts, 102 Cherry St | Ithaca is about to get greener this winter with the debut of

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Preschool Story Time | 10:30 a.m., 2/24 Thursday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | Stories, songs, and activities with a different theme each week. All ages are welcome but this program is designed for children ages 3-5 yrs. Registration is limited and is required each week.

Baby/Toddler Time | 10:30 a.m., 3/1 Tuesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | Rhymes, stories, and songs designed for children from birth to age 2 and their caregivers.

Registration is limited and is required each week.

Virtual Live Family Storytime | 11 a.m., 3/1 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | LEGO Club | 4 p.m., 3/2 Wednesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | Come join our LEGO Club and have

some building fun! Each session we’ll have a challenge and a game.

Notices Songwriting with SingTrece at Southside Community Center | 6 p.m., 2/23 Wednesday | Southside Community Center, 305 S. Plain St. | In this seven-week course, international performer and songwriter SingTrece McLaurin will help you find your songs and share them with the world. The seven-week course will cover the basics of lyric songwriting, using poetry, spoken word, and all those loose ideas floating around in your head.

Ithaca Loves Teachers at Various Locations in Tompkins County | 2/23 Wednesday | Various | AN ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF ALL TEACHERS IN FEBRUARY! Hula Hut Polynesian Dance | 7 p.m., 2/24 Thursday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 State Street | Hula dance lessons - in person and virtual options for adults and children.

Chicken and Biscuit Dinner | 4 p.m., 2/25 Friday | Erin Fire Station, 1462 Breesport Road | Adults 13 and over $10.00 Children 3 to 12 $5.00 2 and under free 4pm to 7pm or sold out whichever comes first Dinner includes; Biscuit with Chicken gravy; mashed potatoes; green beans; Winter Ithaca Farmers Market | 10:30 a.m., 2/26 Saturday | Triphammer Plaza, 2255 N Triphammer Road | Local goods don’t hibernate all winter; come visit all your favorite vendors at the Winter Ithaca Farmers Market every Saturday!

Food Pantry | 12 p.m., 2/26 Saturday | GYM-Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St | Cabin Fever | 3 p.m., 2/26 Saturday | Enfield Community Building, 162 Enfield Main Road | An afternoon of outside fun! Cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snow sculptures, snow painting, chili, hot cocoa, and a bonfire.

Sunday Morning Meditation | 10 a.m., 2/27 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road | Sunday morning meditation, free and open to all.

The Landlords Association of Tompkins County | 4 p.m., 2/28 Monday | Virtual, Ithaca | The LATC now holds virtual meetings on the 4th Monday of each month. Events are for members only. Rental property

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Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414 Hector| Take it from former Times editor Nick Reynolds: The Small Kings have truly hit their technical stride in the last few years. Expect some catchy, danceable tunes with an occasional foray into extremely spacey passages that will leave you slack-jawed. (Photo: Facebook)

Ford Hall, Ithaca College | Enjoy the always uplifting and sweet-sounding DCJS to close out Black History Month.

Founded by Baruch Whitehead in 2010, dedicated to performing and preserving the Negro Sprituals and other forms of African American sacred music. (Photo: Facebook)

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Continued employment will be contingent on successfully passing the required examination and being reachable on the LAN Technician eligibility list. Send letter of interest and resume to: OCM BOCES, Recruitment Office, PO Box 4754, Syracuse, NY 13221.

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OCM BOCES Innovative Education REACH Program located at the Crown Road Campus, Liverpool, NY. Successful candidate will provide individual and group counseling to 7th and 8th grade middle school students, as well as provide support for the program team in developing positive, proactive interventions. NYS certification as a School Social Worker required. Register and apply at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information, visit our website at: www.ocmboces. org EOE

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