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ompkins Trust Company is working with small businesses in the area to send in applications for the government’s paycheck protection program (PPP) to help weather the financial effects of the pandemic. The program is open through the end of March, but until March 9, the Small Business Administration will only be accepting applications from businesses with fewer than 20 employees.

“They’re trying to level the playing field,” said Chuck Guarino, who is in charge of facilitating the program at Tompkins Trust Company.

“Ninety-eight percent of small businesses have fewer than 20 employees.”

Outside of this exclusivity period, the PPP is open to any businesses with fewer than 500 employees, including all affiliate offices. This is the second time Tompkins Trust Company has helped facilitate the

program, with the first time coming last spring.

“We were very active in the last round last year,” Guarino said. “We helped over 600 businesses and helped retain around 6,000 jobs. We’re having the same kind of success so far this round. We’ve helped over 350 businesses and growing. It’s a very important program and we know the small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities.”

He added that with so many small businesses in Tompkins County, it’s essential they’re

able to get the assistance they need.

“It protects jobs in our community and helps families who rely on those jobs,” he said. “We’re very proud to be participating, and we encourage everyone to take advantage of the program.”

He specifically urged minority and women-owned businesses to apply, as he said they were underrepresented in the last round.

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INQUIRING

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PHOTOGRAPHER Ithaca College to cut 116 positions, 3 departments, 17 undergrad programs

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thaca College’s newly adopted “Shape of the College” report from the Academic Program Prioritization Implementation Committee (APPIC) will see 116 positions full-time equivalent positions cut, as well as the discontinuation of three departments and 17 undergraduate programs.

Full-time equivalent positions means it will be more than 116 employees, as two part-time employees could equal one fulltime equivalent position.

According to the report, APPIC members aimed to achieve a student to faculty ratio ranging from 11.5:1 to 12:1. Over the past decade, enrollment rates have fallen at the school from 6,654 in fall 2011, to 5,200 in fall 2020.

However, in 2011 there were 545 full-time equivalent faculty

members, compared to 554 in 2020. During that time period, the faculty number peaked at 596 in fall 2016, when there were 6,555 full-time students.

The student:faculty ratio as of fall 2020 is 9.4:1.

To achieve the desired ratio, APPIC recommends cutting 116 faculty positions by fall 2023. That would see seven faculty members eliminated from the business school, 41 from humanities and sciences, 11 from health sciences and human performance, seven from music, 17 from the Park School of Communications, three that are non-specified, six that would be reassigned and 24 others eliminated through attrition.

The undergraduate programs, departments and majors that will be eliminated

have “collectively graduated an average of 38 students per year, 2.7% of all undergraduate degrees granted, over the past three years,” according to the report.

APPIC recommended discontinuing the following: Ithaca College Integrated Curriculum; the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, including the therapeutic recreation and outdoor adventure leadership majors; the Department of Communication Studies, including the communications studies major; the Department of Gerontology, including the aging studies major; 10 selected undergraduate teacher certification programs (K-12 art, 7-12 physics, 7-12 biology, 7-12 chemistry, 7-12 German, 7-12 French, 7-12 Spanish, 7-12 English, 7-12 social studies, 7-12 mathematics); and three undergraduate teacher education majors in School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (health education, health and physical education, physical education).

There are some related

programs to be retained, such as the interdisciplinary culture and communications major, the gerontology institute, the aging studies minor, the undergraduate music education teacher certification major and all graduate teacher certification programs. Teacher certification for students seeking K-12 teaching careers in areas other than music will be offered as a 4+1 program, in which students focus on content through their undergraduate major, minor in education studies, and in the final year earn a master’s degree and are prepared for certification.

There will also be five discontinued graduate programs: performance, conducting, composition, Suzuki pedagogy and string performance, and image text. The report recommends managing faculty contracts to support current students through graduation.

In a statement, Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado and La Jerne Terry continued on page 7

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PLANNING

Large apartment building plans for E State St continue to inch forward

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fter a “step backward” in December and a few small steps forward in January, the proposed apartment building at 401 E. State St. continues to make progress in front of the Planning and Development Board. At the Feb. 24 meeting, the development team from McKinley Development Company was on hand to offer some updates about the access road on the creekside of the building.

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The six-story building is proposed to be 240,000 square feet of residential space with 347 units, and 100,000 square feet of parking space, which will house 318 parking spots.

The 26-foot-wide access road had been a point of contention between the board and developers throughout the process, as the developers have been constrained by fire codes.

Developers ended up presenting a few different op-

Photo: The plans show the two options for the access road behind the proposed building at 401 E. State St. The board decided on study two, following the fire chief’s advice.

tions to the board in addition to the original 26-foot access road. Study one showed, from left to right, the building, a five-foot sidewalk, a 20-foot access road, at least eight feet of planting and an eight-foot creek walk next to Six Mile Creek. Study two showed the building, a five-foot sidewalk, at least three feet of planting, the 20-foot access lane, another five-foot planting strip and the eight-foot creek walk.

Fire Chief Tom Parsons attended the meeting to share his perspective, and said he preferred the second study, as it would give his trucks more room.

“We’re trying to keep the roadway about eight feet or more away from the building itself,” he said. “The part of the building most vulnerable for a large-scale fire is the parking area […] We’re going to need the driving lane to be 20 feet and about eight feet away from the building, which will allow us to still use the aerial truck.”

The angle at which the aerial truck can operate is limited, so being able to be far enough away from the building is critical for fire safety. The board said they were inclined to go with what Parsons continued on page 7

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ELECTION

Anti-racism, social justice at the forefront of Pillar’s politics

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grassroots activist, Dr. Veronica Pillar is hoping to bring her social justice lens to Tompkins County Legislature as she runs for the district 2 seat left open by Anna Kelles, who was elected to the New York State Assembly. The Special Election is scheduled for March 23.

“It’s the lens through which I want to make all my decisions,” Pillar said. “I want to keep everything anti-racist and keep everything centering the needs as I understand them of poor people, of Black and brown people, and of queer and disabled people — people whose voices you don’t always hear loud and clear.”

Pillar has worked extensively with the local Showing Up for Racial Justice chapter, as well as with Mutual Aid Tompkins and other advocacy

groups to offer support to people in the community. Doing this work helped her realize she wanted to create a bridge from community members to local government to better communicate their needs.

“We want to tell existing members of the local government what problems we see going on in the community and what we want to change,” she said. “Partially, a focal point of that is to defund the police. I was a part of that on the ground, so through that I saw more potential for better communication and collaboration between community and government. Activists are not feeling as heard as we could be.”

If she were to take office, Pillar said one of the first things she would want to do is establish good communication

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HEARD&SEEN between herself and constituents.

“I think Anna Kelles did quite a good job of that, and people really appreciated how she looped people into what was going on,” she said. “I want to make sure people on the ground know what decisions are made that will affect them.”

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She said one of her immediate concerns would be making housing more accessible and affordable, particularly for that middle ground of people who do not qualify for public housing but make too little to afford the “affordable” housing that is continued on page 12

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Schill seeks collaborative effort in tackling housing, economic issues

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fter considering running for County Legislature for a few years, Leslie Schill has decided to take the plunge and run for former legislator Anna Kelles’ seat representing District 2 in Fall Creek on the Tompkins County Legislature. The Special Election is scheduled for March 23.

“I’ve been incredibly focused on last year’s [presidential] election and learning a lot more about national politics and candidates in local politics,” she said. “I’ve been thinking about how I can make a difference in my own jurisdiction.”

Schill heads up the planning office at Cornell University and had previously worked for the county as a senior planner for about five years from 2007 to 2012.

“I would say my work focused on sustainability,” she said.

Her primary goals for her first year in the Legislature

would be to support the efforts of the Health Department in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing to provide support for the community.

“I’d make sure we get people vaccinated, get the message out and make sure our community has access,” Schill said.

“Then, I’d take advantage of the high visibility of public health and how critical it is and look at other needs of the community. 2020 and 2021 have been brutal for everyone, but for folks already struggling with mental health issues, how can we expand our services?

And thinking about children’s mental health and physical well-being, how do we support families?”

Schill also mentioned that she would want to address issues like access to internet and housing.

“That’s another priority of mine, to continue to expand affordable housing and expand

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housing stock,” she said.

She noted that the lack of housing in Tompkins County and Ithaca specifically have created “excessive prices.”

“It’s really bringing some families to a breaking point,” she said.

Down the line, Schill said she wants to focus on creating an innovative workplace economy, where the county can partner with Tompkins

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Cortland Community College and larger employers to create a pipeline for youth in trade careers.

“We want to keep our students of today in the community,” she said.

Other causes that are important to her include environmental issues, the fight for racial justice and equity, and continued on page 12

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By H a r l i n Mc Ew e n he Mayor’s proposal to abolish the Ithaca Police Department and create a new agency is both misguided and dangerous.

As a retired Ithaca City Police Chief, former Cayuga Heights Police Chief, and retired Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI in Washington, DC, I am very concerned that this proposal is not a common sense effort to improve law enforcement in the City of Ithaca. It simply caters to some local activists who hate the police and are intent on destroying a good and well functioning police department.

My long law enforcement experience with our local law enforcement officers has been very positive, and shown daily professionalism with only a rare occasion of a misstep.

A recent increase in acts of violence such as shootings and stabbings in the city should make everyone in the city and

county happy that they have a well functioning police department.

It would be extremely dangerous to disrupt this by a social experiment such as proposed.

The few people who have participated in the recent forums have obviously shown their extreme dislike and hate for the police and this should not be allowed to sway the thinking of our current government leaders about how the police handle daily cases of very stressful events.

Some of the local protesters have been shouting very nasty and disturbing language in the face of our officers while the officers have shown great restraint to ignore these nasty and vulgar utterings. I doubt many of our citizens would be able to withstand such terrible actions without losing their temper and that is why our officers should be commended for their continued on page 7

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ebruary 22, 2021: The City of Ithaca and Tompkins County jointly released a draft report on their process to reimagine public safety in the community.

Before that rollout had been shared with the Common Council or IPD, though, an interview of Mayor Svante Myrick appeared in GQ outlining the plan and quoting His Honor as saying it involved “abolishing the city’s police department as currently constructed and replacing it with a reimagined city agency.” The plan proposes replacing the current police force with an agency made up of armed “public safety workers” and unarmed “community solution workers,” which dispatches certain calls to people trained in mental health. The mayor apologized for the timing of the GQ article being made public before the plan was shared with police agencies or the Common Council.

March 5, 2021: In keeping with the theme of reimagining city government and the delivery of public services, the City of Ithaca’s Chief Executive unveiled a sweeping proposal to abolish the Ithaca Fire Department and replace it with a three-tiered response system made up of hose-equipped “flame subjugation technicians,” pamphlet-bearing “combustionawareness workers” and a “tree-feline recovery specialist.” The announcement was made in the form of an extended profile of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick in March’s Style Issue of Esquire. “I appreciate the Mayor communicating in this fashion,” said Fire Chief C. Thomas Parsons. “I get most of my content from Esquire magazine.”

March 9, 2021: The City of Ithaca’s Office of the Mayor announced that the details of the highly-anticipated reconfiguration of the Streets and Facilities Division of the Public Works Department would be revealed in his interview in the March issue of Aquarium Fish International. The Ithaca Common Council still needs to approve the plan, after they’ve read it, but it is rumored to involve replacing the current staff with new positions that include salt and plow-armed “road snow management workers,” “pothole solution consultants” that are empowered

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to fill holes and “roadway debris managers.” There has been no official response from the Public Works Department.

March 10, 2021: In a story entitled “Top Five Ways The Ithaca City Attorney’s Office Is Going To Be Restructured” in Southwest Airlines’ Inflight Magazine, the Common Council and the city attorney’s office were made aware of the details of a comprehensive proposal completely reimagining the administration of municipal legal services. The plan includes abolishing the department and replacing the current staff with separate “pettifoggery workers” and “obfuscation workers.” Meeting attendance would be assigned on a rotating basis. City Attorney Aaron O. Lavine said “son of a bitch.” Members of the Common Council remained unavailable for comment.

March 15, 2021: US Weekly took its scoop (“Jersey Shore’s Angelina Pivarnick Reveals She and Husband Chris Larangeira ‘Never Have Sex’”) off the cover and replaced it with the much hotter story that the City of Ithaca’s Division of Parking is being thoroughly restructured. Public input was solicited through targeted groups to develop the draft plan, which involves the staff having to reapply for reconfigured positions that will include “parking violations storm trooper” and an “alternate parking technician” whose job will be to translate alternate parking rules into Japanese and then back into English prior to publication.

March 16, 2021: Visitors to the website Kickin’ It Teen Style learned today about what are described as “sorely needed revisions to the structure of the Mayor’s Office of the City of Ithaca.” Pending approval by the Common Council of necessary additional appropriations, many of the functions of modern-day mayoring will be handled by the new Division of Interview Scheduling and Ministry of Public Enlightenment. Further details will be forthcoming on a social media platform soon.

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restraint.

There are those who refuse to acknowledge the unfortunate fact that, we will always have some people with criminal intent among us, as well as those people who are facing drug addiction and mental illness that often result in violent activities when they are not in control of themselves. For as long as I can remember, there has been a steady loss of funding to deal with mental illness and drug addiction, something that then becomes a problem for the police, the only 24 hour agencies to answer a call for emergencies arising from these situations.

In Ithaca and Tompkins County, our police officers, municipal, county, and state, handle dozens of such emergencies every day and seldom do they result in any problem.

I agree with a statement of the Mayor “…..The men and women of the Ithaca Police Department have performed their

duties with admirable skill and professionalism, but for too long the answer to every behavioral problem in our City has been to call the police”. He called that practice “impractical” and “cumbersome” and said it exacerbates homelessness, mental illness and addiction.

However, abolishing the city police department is not the answer. Our government leaders and citizens need to recognize the problem is not the police, but the fact that there is inadequate funding for social services personnel that would be available on a 7 day/24 hour basis to address these problems. Instead we have totally relied on the police to handle problems they should not be responsible for and then blame them when something goes wrong.

I commend our local government leaders for being responsive to calls for improvements and we should all get involved and work towards those efforts.

However, it should be recognized that our police are already performing admirably every day with very limited resources.

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Cornish, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, wrote: “Transformative change is difficult and frequently personal, and we understand that the changes to come for our academic programs and the changes that have already happened in our nonacademic programs profoundly affect the lives of our colleagues, friends, students, and alumni.

We have made our decisions with the full weight of this understanding and with the knowledge that we must find a sustainable size and an appropriate equilibrium that ensures the continuation of this institution and its ability to serve our students and our community in perpetuity.”

The statement also clarified that the full implementation of the recommendations is anticipated to take three academic years, and that any student who is currently in a major or minor impacted by the recommendations will be able to complete their degrees.

Mark Baustian, a retired faculty member and part of the Ithaca College Open the Books coalition, said that many faculty feel that things moved too fast.

“There was way too little genuine input

from people who actually work with the students,” he said. “The process by which they claim to have gotten involvement from people was non-transparent […]

There’s a lot of discontentment over the process.”

To his point, the statement from Collado and Cornish did say COVID proved to be a catalyst to speed the process up by a year.

Baustian also added that he doesn’t believe academic program prioritization is the right way to go about fixing problems in higher education.

“It’s a national thing. Some guy wrote a book a while ago, it’s basically a neoliberal attempt to refashion the higher-ed landscape to do a better job of serving the needs of employers,” he said. “Everyone understands there are problems in higher ed. It’s too expensive, the competition for students is ridiculous and a lot of schools are in genuine financial trouble. But we feel that the first approach to solving this problem is not firing people. It should be engaging with faculty and looking at the problem with all the stakeholders involved.”

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thought was best.

“I think that’s fine,” member Mitch Glass said. “A 20-foot access road is a good place to land on instead of the 26-foot access road.”

Parsons said he knows this access road has been a battle, but that he tries to help as much as he can while staying within safety limitations.

“We’re doing whatever we can to work within the confines of the code to help the

developers be successful,” he said.

Despite the amicable solution to the access road that seemed to leave most board members happy, the issue of massing on the site has not gone away.

“I’m not happy with any of these options,” planning board member Elisabete Godden said. “I still think the massing is too dense for this site.”

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YOUR LETTERS In support of IPD

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s you may be aware the city and county has recently released a 19 point draft proposal to “Reimagine Public Safety in Ithaca and Tompkins County.” The implications for the recommended changes will have far-reaching effects on our public safety and property taxes.

The first recommendation on this list, made by the mayor for the City of Ithaca calls for abolishing the existing Ithaca Police Department. Many community members like myself are alarmed by this extreme and drastic proposal. While the nation as a whole has been reeling from disturbing and blatant misuse of power by police departments elsewhere, this has not been the case here in Ithaca. In fact, Ithaca has been at the forefront of providing progressive training techniques to deescalate and resolve situations peacefully.

IPD as a whole is composed of devoted and hard-working men and women. They have been working without a contract for over 10 years. My concern is this appears to be a means to an end – to get rid of the union. Our Ithaca police are highly trained, professional and skilled at what they do. The costs of firing and then rehiring a whole new workforce will be huge, not to mention the legal and logistical problems involved. These financial costs are in addition to the human costs.

It will affect the policemen and women’s lives and their families. For people who put their lives on the line every day to protect our community, this is quite an insult to tell them they are no longer valued.

In most communities, the mayor works with the police as a valued community resource. Here in Ithaca, we have a mayor who is seemingly more concerned with being trendy and creating a proposal that creates divisiveness and bitterness.

Why not work with the police to create any reforms and changes that are needed?

Other recommendations within the draft proposal ( # 5, 6, and 10) call for updated training curriculums, ways to improve community relationships and recruitment strategies. Why not allow these recommendations to work without destroying what we have?

The police have said that they are open to change and willing to work with the community. Why not explore this opportunity? Our local police officers were left out of any meaningful conversation in this process to create a draft proposal for reform A truly collaborative approach, with all parties involved, is always more healing and creates better outcomes than taking an adversarial position.

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-Suzanne Aigen

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Re: Ithaca mayor proposes replacing IPD with Community Solutions and Public Safety Dept.

While I do support reforms to certain aspects of criminal justice, I do not think that defunding the IPD or making other drastic changes will lead to reduction in crime. I actually suspect the opposite -- that this “new form of public safety delivery” with the goal of achieving “more equitable outcomes” may end up accomplishing the opposite of what they intend, except it might actually achieve more equitable _worse_ outcomes. As a lifelong resident of Ithaca, I value the safety of my person and my family, and I appreciate the service that both the Ithaca City Police officers and Tompkins County Sheriff deputies provide. Every time I even start to imagine the dangers that each one of them must face on a regular basis, my appreciation for them grows.

I suspect that the “Reimagining Public Safety Process” and the "Department of Community Solutions" will be less effective at reducing crime, and will ultimately embolden criminals. I do not want higher rates of violent crime in what has historically and objectively remained a very safe community. I encourage readers to research what has happened in other communities that have defunded their Police Departments, rather than defending them, and judiciously altering select standard operating police procedures to reduce the unintended, unnecessary deaths and injuries to both police and all citizens. In general, I do not think large organizations should be judged merely by the actions of just one or several of its members, and this includes Police Departments and their officers. Police officers are human and they have to make quick life or death decisions based on limited information. Sometimes this is really, really, hard especially if you’re in a new situation that you have not been trained for. Will the people working for the “Department of Community Solutions” have any experience in adrenaline rush situations involving weapon wielding violent criminals? If not, then some really bad things might happen, and Mayor Svante Myrick will have a lot of explaining to do.

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The end of IPD? Reimagining police proposal replaces IPD with a brand new department — the Community Solutions and Public Safety Department.

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ig changes have been proposed for the Ithaca Police Department — namely its dissolution.

After the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, protests erupted across the country calling for an end to police brutality, especially against Black people. As a direct result, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued executive order 203, which created a state mandate to “examine and reconcile past experiences of marginalized populations who have experienced disproportionate contact with the public safety system based upon national tragedies and unresolved local issues.”

After months of behind-the-scenes work amid public protests calling for the defunding of police, County Administrator Jason Molino and Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick unveiled their collaborative plan for public 8 T

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safety reform on Feb. 22. They also worked with the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that “produces analyses identifying and reducing the causes of racial disparities in law enforcement.”

So that brings us to now. Molino and Myrick released a 98-page document outlining 19 recommendations — some for the city, some for the county, some for both — for changes to public safety. The one garnering the most attention is, unsurprisingly, the recommendation to replace the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) with the Community Solutions and Public Safety Department, which would be led by a civilian director and would comprise armed and unarmed employees.

On Feb. 24, Myrick and Molino presented the plan to Common Council, where the reception was lukewarm. Two big concerns brought up repeatedly by council mem3–9,

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bers were the budget and what will happen to current IPD officers. As far as whether the current officers would lose their jobs, Myrick said that is not his intention.

“I have the utmost faith in the men and women in our department,” he said. “There would just be new positions in the department and officers would apply for one or another if they still wanted to serve in the new department. We will want to work collectively and collaboratively with the police department to design this new agency.”

He added that when a city has a department “full of officers doing incredible work” but there is still deep dissatisfaction and distrust at the community level and within the department, “what you have is not a personnel problem, it’s a structural problem.”

So the idea is to retain the personnel and dismantle the structure.

“Officers are feeling overworked and overstretched and feel like they’re being asked to do too much,” Myrick said. “Every behavioral problem has become a police problem […] There are all sorts of issues that arise that need community solutions, but they don’t need to necessarily be law enforcement officers. That’s when we realized we need more tools in the tool belt.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

As for the budget concern, Molino and Myrick didn’t have an answer for that yet, but Molino said he believes real change will require real resources.

“We’re going to develop the budget over the course of the next few weeks,” Molino said. “For me, it’s putting resources behind this as a serious notion for municipalities […] If we’re going to take this seriously, we need to put the human resources behind it.

If you want to address some systemic issues, it’s not an unfunded mandate, it’s a will to do it. Yes, it will cost money. We’ve spent over $3 million on COVID response, and that’s in one year. So if we’re talking about changing systems, it’s going to be that type of investment.”

Also at the Common Council meeting was Police Chief Dennis Nayor, who expressed his disappointment in the plan, particularly that he found out through reading an article about it in GQ, rather than from Myrick.

“Officers heard about this from GQ first and feel so dejected and devalued,” he said.

He added that while he had worked collaboratively with the city and county from the beginning, the draft plan was written without him.

“I’ve been fully immersed in the project from the very beginning,” he said. “I went to every meeting, was involved in every discussion, helped mine the data. So we all agree that the police cannot do everything.

We’ve become the catchall, and we all agree we need to find ways to deal with mental health, homelessness and addiction […]

But I wasn’t given a chance to give my recommendations on how to move forward.

This is such a radical plan to change the entire department. Officers are in crisis mode.

They don’t know if their jobs are secure, they don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Nayor suggested taking a graduated approach instead, where smaller changes are made and then evaluated, rather than replacing the department all at once. He also rejected the recommendation to relinquish the SWAT vehicle to the county.

“That vehicle was hard to come by and is an asset to the department,” he said. “I will say, to not have a SWAT vehicle when we need it, the outcome will be a lot different than if we do have it.”

Council members Deb Mohlenhoff and Ducson Nguyen both voiced their support for the project, and said they hope to learn more as the plan continues to be developed.

“I encourage everyone to read the entire report,” Mohlenhoff said. “I think it’s unfortunate the snippets that have been pulled out, I don’t think it represents the full scope of the recommendations. It’s thorough, balanced and innovative. The system is broken, and not the people in the system.”

After meeting with the police chief and Common Council on Feb. 24, Myrick and Molino had to face the public during a forum on Feb. 25. It was here that Myrick publicly apologized for speaking to the press before speaking to the police.

“I want to give my sincere apology for speaking to the reporter before speaking to the police union about the recommendation and realize how it came out […] it was my fault, it was inappropriate,” he said.

“The timing and the tone was inappropriate.”

During the forum, one resident asked Myrick if the Community Solutions and Public Safety Department was just a rebranding of IPD. However, Myrick clarified the recommendation calls for more than just new uniforms and a new name.

“What we want to do is design a new department from the ground up,” he said.

“New job titles with new job descriptions, so we can build a public safety system for the 21st century […] The idea is to start from the ground up and create a new culture.”

One of the recommendations is to repurpose the SWAT vehicle by transferring ownership to the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, a county-wide department that manages 911 dispatch and various types of emergency response.

While Nayor had spoken out against this the previous night, resident David Foote asked why Tompkins County would ever need a SWAT truck at all. Myrick, however, said that with the rise in school shootings since Columbine in 1999 and with multiple college campuses, it’s important the county does have a way to respond to events like that.

A community member, only identified as Ari, said the 19 recommendations were “insulting,” and accused Myrick of continually “excusing their racist behavior,” while stating that the demand remains to fully defund IPD. Myrick defended himself and said that he believes his record speaks for itself, and that under his leadership the social services in the city have continued to grow faster than any other department.

“I care deeply about violence against Black people,” Myrick said. “It’s a constant fear for anyone who grew up Black in this country. I think it’s important that to build a whole new department is not an aesthetic move. It’s not a rebrand and it’s not social services in the same way we think about housing and healthcare […] It is still a public safety service.”

Another resident asked about implementation and what the path forward might look like. Molino said that without commitment from Common Council and County Legislature, it’s hard to know exactly what that looks like yet.

“Implementation from our perspective requires investment,” Molino said. “We have to have that human resource contribution and commitment from our legislative bodies […] I think the key in accomplishing success in the long-term is community involvement.”

A couple residents mentioned the CAHOOTS program that the police department in Eugene, Oregon, uses, and asked if anything like that had been explored.

CAHOOTS is a community-based public safety system designed to provide mental health first response for crises involving mental illness, homelessness and addiction. CAHOOTS staff are not law enforcement officers and do not carry weapons.

Calls to dispatch that are recognized to be non-violent and with a behavioral health component are routed to CAHOOTS for a team to respond.

One of the county’s recommendations includes adding civilian staff to the sheriff ’s office to handle non-emergent calls and other ancillary administrative duties the officers currently do. Additionally, they hope to make a more robust investment in creating a health and human service crisis response team, much like CAHOOTS, Molino said.

Both Molino and Myrick mentioned that they wanted to offer more mental health services to police officers too, to better support officer wellness. One resident asked why that money isn’t going to prioritize mental health in the community instead.

“I think it’s an investment in both,” Molino said. “I don’t think it’s an either/or.

From an employer’s perspective, we want to make sure all employees have the resources they need to do the best work they can.

We’ve also been underinvesting in mental health in the community. So I don’t view it as an either/or.”

One of the less structural or organizational parts of the report is the recommendation to “develop a comprehensive community healing plan to address trauma in the relationship between residents and law enforcement.” One resident asked how that would be possible, especially for Black people and people affected by police violence.

“My experiences with the cops have been horrific,” he said. “How can we expect reconciliation?”

Myrick said the culture of the police needs to be changed, and that’s what he aims to achieve through creating a new department.

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“Healing is an important part of moving forward, and I’m committed to doing it,” he said.

While no police officers were on hand to speak at the public forum, the Police Benevolent Association has since put out a statement, stating “to say that we feel betrayed and that we are angry is an understatement.” The PBA claims the new department will be fully established by the summer of 2023, and that given Nayor’s upcoming retirement this spring, the officers are expecting a void in leadership.

The statement also calls the proposal an “obvious attempt to bust the union of the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association.” It goes on to outline the training and standards held by IPD officers, such as reality-based training, implicit bias, LGBTQ+ awareness, intervention techniques and procedural justice and police legitimacy.

“We are professionals, we hold ourselves to a high standard, as does the community we serve, and we continue to do it day in and day out while being stripped of the resources, staffing and support we need to do our jobs,” the statement said.

The PBA said they are open to some changes, and would welcome a more robust partnership with Tompkins County Mental Health, the Mobile Crisis Team and other mental health professionals who could assist with those types of calls. The statement added that the union would also welcome assistance in recruitment and retention and supported the part of the draft plan that calls for more officer wellness initiatives.

Ultimately, though, the PBA vehemently rejects the plan, and again calls it a case of union busting, “plain and simple.”

It’s important to note that the police department has been operating under a contract that expired a decade ago. After its expiration in 2011, Myrick said the union refused to come to the table to negotiate, and then refused arbitration. The state later mandated the union partake in arbitration, which the parties are currently undergoing. The police contracts have been a spot of tension between the mayor and the union throughout Myrick’s time in office.

During this time, police officers have not received any raises in pay due to the outof-date contract.

To read the report in full and learn more about how each decision was made, visit https://www.cityofithaca.org/CivicAlerts. aspx?AID=632. To read the full statement from the PBA, visit https://www.facebook. com/IthacaPBA/.

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hoosing to embrace a “the cup is half full” perspective, I will say that I am grateful for the opportunity to watch livestreamed high school basketball games. Given I still have a daughter playing high school basketball, I would so much rather be in the gym — as would nearly every fan I know — and I would love to have seen a full season of basketball, and the conference, sectional and state playoffs, but at the end of the day, the kids had the opportunity to play and that makes for a half-full cup. It would be my guess that after months of uncertainty, virtual learning and cancelled sports seasons, the players would agree.

I caught up with coach Lester McNair to discuss the Ithaca High Little Red boys’ season, and he said. “I have known most of them since they were in the GIAC summer league, and I have had the pleasure of coaching them for the last couple of years.”

He added, “We only got 11 games in this year – and it was a challenge – but they have learned a lot, and to their credit, the players worked hard, stayed together and supported one another.”

Describing the twists and turns the team faced, and expressing his belief that learning to adjust to those changes will serve these young men well moving forward, the coach said, “They had to deal with a lot of safety protocols. They wore masks all the time, sanitized often, did contact tracing, temperature checks and every player had an app on his phone to help with those protocols.” He added, “They had to travel in smaller groups, as the varsity and JV could not be on the same bus, and they had to change in the bathrooms, two at a time since the locker rooms were closed down.”

Given basketball teams were notified in late January that there would indeed be a (partial) season in 2021, the lack of conditioning could be expected to be a big factor. In “normal” times, many of the players are coming off a fall sport – football, soccer, cross-country – and their cardio base is already there, or they have been engaged in full-on conditioning without any doubt they would need it. This year, teams were notified in late

January, they took the court for practice on Feb. 1, they got in the gym and started their drills, and they made many adjustments, including building team chemistry in a compressed time frame and attaining some level of comfort while playing while wearing a mask.

McNair said, “Our players have shown that the true heart of a champion is to make the most of your situation, and our biggest takeaway as a team is that you learn to cherish the things you love because you never know when it might be taken away. It really did take a great effort – the schools, the administration, the Health Department the team – and they really learned a lot about how to be there for each other.”

This year’s Little Red team featured six seniors, and McNair said he was very grateful for the perseverance and leadership they showed in the face of so much uncertainty and change. Those six seniors are: Sam Lynch, Nick Cartmill, M’Khuzo Sokoni, Ja-Lyn Griffin, Karije Henderson, Kade Eells. McNair complimented the rest of the roster, saying, “The underclassmen coming up put forth a fantastic, all around total team effort, and they will be the next great group to represent the program.” Those players are: Tyrone Dean Jr., Justin Yearwood, M.J. Thomas, Sai’d Galloway, Kaiden Malpasso and Kariyahn Johnson. ● ● ●

Regarding the livestreaming, it has been interesting to see how different schools have responded to the new necessity. Some have featured some actual production value — complete with graphics, play-by-play announcers and frequent looks at the scoreboard — while others seemed to have set up a stationary camera and walked away from it until after the game. One school went to a graphic during a fourth quarter timeout, and forgot to return to live action until several minutes later, missing some key action. That was frustrating, as it seems it would be possible to find a student with a legitimate interest in putting on a good show, so to speak.

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Minneapolis, the location of the George Floyd incident, has experienced a sustained spike in violent crimes since they defunded their police. Recently, the politicians there have tacitly admitted their folly by desperately trying to recruit a slew of new police officers to the tune of over $6 million. In recent months, around 200 officers (comprising 20% of their police force) there were either furloughed or resigned. Probably their main reason for voluntarily leaving was because they felt demoralized -- too underappreciated and too disrespected by certain vocal activists, many of whom don’t even reside in the very communities that rely the most on police presence. How sad is that? Do we really want crime in Ithaca to increase like it did in other cities that defunded their police? If not, then why are public officials essentially creating so many incentives for criminals to move into Ithaca and then to commit crimes here?

Our IPD chief, Dennis Nayor, just resigned despite being relatively young.

I would not be surprised if part of his decision was based on the reasons I just mentioned. I think it is shameful, dangerous, and naïve to be so unappreciative of the very people -- our men and women in blue -- who effectively form the foundation of safe functioning societies in which the rule of law can prevail. If you don’t agree with certain laws or policies, then elect people who will repeal/alter them, or vote with your feet if you can.

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f Myrick really does disband the IPD, I would not be surprised if at some future point he has blood on his hands. This could easily happen after someone dials 911 and they get a social worker at their door instead of a police officer. Seemingly harmless situations can sometimes escalate into very dangerous ones involving hidden weapons. This could leave social workers vulnerable and defenseless, without proper training, and without protective gear (including muscles, confidence, a bul-

let proof vest, and a Glock). Then someone could get hurt or killed, and then our taxpayer dollars will end up going to lawyers and court settlements, rather than funding an effective police force. Myrick could then go down in flames and be humiliated on a national scale. I just can't believe how reckless and risky it seems to me to disband the IPD and replace it with Myrick's proposed departments! If you are an IPD officer, and Myrick really does disband the IPD, consider not applying to work for the new organization. Maybe go work for Sheriff Osborne instead. You could also move to another city where your services will be more appreciated by those in power. That would be bad for Ithacans, but it would send a powerful message to Myrick.

-Richard Ballantyne, via Ithaca.com

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will never buy into the idea that eliminating a police department will make a community safer. I for one like the thought off having someone I can call that is trained in law enforcement . Does Ithaca want to see crime run rampant?

-Bob Hyde, via Ithaca.com

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he former Planet Fitness at the mall has a new life as Pickleball Mania, a new business venture opened by a woman who wished to be identified as Petunia Pickle.

“That’s how everyone knows me,” she said.

Pickleball Mania opened in December after Petunia recognized the space could fill a need in Ithaca’s pickleball community.

“When the [YMCA] reopened, their hours were just really inconvenient for pickleball,” she said. “Nobody’s going to get up at 6 a.m. for pickleball. So I decided it was time for us to have our own facility.”

She also noted that when the weather is nice, Cass Park offers great pickleball courts to play on. But unpredictable weather and long winters means that’s not always a viable option. Petunia was at the mall to get COVID tested when she saw how empty the place looked, and when she saw the old Planet Fitness space, she was inspired.

“It only took three weeks to get open,” she said. “Ithaca has a number of pickleball players already…so it’s been a pouring in of people and it’s been good.”

Petunia said she’s worked hard over the years to grow pickleball in Ithaca after

Pickleball in the old Planet Fitnes space in the Ithaca Mall (Photo: Casey Martin)

falling in love with it in Florida. She was down south about a decade ago helping a friend who needed assistance after being injured in an accident when she was introduced to the sport.

“Slowly but surely I have been organizing here in Ithaca,” she said. “I teach pickleball at GIAC, at Kendal […] it’s just been chipping away. You get more people and then they know more people. We have more people who play here every day.”

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or all here..please read about Eugene OR Cahoots program and how we should adapt their program of community based policing with NO budget cuts to police here...https:// www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/cahootsreplace-police-mental-health-trnd/index. html No ego like what we see here..just solutions and other places are adapting it to their particular community. This plan needs to be halted as is and they need to adopt a Cahoots version but no defunding.. actually expansion of police and mental health positions…

-Scott Noren, via Ithaca.com

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ang infestation is like alcoholism, when you think you might have a problem it's already too late. I'm from Ithaca and my great grandfather moved here in the 1800's if people can't see an uptick in violent crime and narcotics traffic they don't have their eyes open. Ithaca doesn't have the spine to handle gang activity, hopefully it will grow one.

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One of Petunia’s favorite things about pickleball is that it is a family sport.

“It’s very community oriented,” she said. “I want a place where father and son or mother and daughter can play. I want families to play together.”

She said she also wants to focus on expanding pickleball to the youth community in Ithaca, especially children of color.

“I am committed to getting people of color to play, because right now, I’m it,” she said. “When I was at GIAC there were so many kids who wanted to play, and the good thing about this facility is it’s bus accessible. So I’m really pushing youth.”

Petunia is a certified instructor and offers lessons for anyone who wants to learn to play or work on improving their game.

“You need to learn the game and have a good pickleball IQ,” she said. “It’s not just about bang bang, it’s about strategy. When you look at this game you don’t think it’s about strategy, but no, if you want to be competitive you have to know how to play.

That’s what fuels me.”

The hours are 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 5–9 p.m. Monday–Thursday. She said people can just show up or call ahead and she’ll take schedules. It’s $7 for a drop in session, or $70/month memberships for unlimited play. The 18,000 sq. ft. facility has four standard-sized courts and another smaller one.

Petunia said she looks forward to the community she’s building at Pickleball Mania.

“There are a number of people here who have families, and I tell them, ‘bring your kids!’” Petunia said. “The space is so big that while you’re playing we can find other things for them to do. It doesn’t mean they can’t be with one another. So I want people to feel like they can come in and bring their kids as well.”

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“That would involve shifting income targets for projects that would be built,” she said.

Pillar also said she would want to continue supporting the COVID response and look at the barriers that still exist to residents accessing vaccines and other resources.

“For instance, to the best of my knowledge there is still no way for homebound folks outside of nursing homes to eventually get vaccinated; this needs to change,” she said. “There are also plenty of people, especially in Black communities, understandably mistrustful of the medical system; expanding outreach efforts like the recent vaccine clinic at [Beverly J. Martin Elementary School] is a top priority.”

As far as her stance on defunding the police goes, Pillar said she does believe the current proposal from the county has pieces that align with her views.

“The specifics around transparency and collecting data on what is going on with law enforcement interactions and analyzing and publishing that data,” she said. “And then looking at what existing

resources we do have and how we can streamline our public service processes.”

Ultimately, Pillar thinks the most important part of the job is listening to people, and she thinks her skills as a teacher and a former peer counselor have prepared her for that.

“It’s about listening to people talk about their lives, their needs, their wants and their experiences and really believing them,” she said. “That’s a skill I think I’m very strong in […] I’m really drawn to interacting and connecting with lots of different people.”

Pillar grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Ithaca to get her PhD in physics at Cornell. She said that over time, she just nestled deeper and deeper into the community.

“There’s a strong sense of community here that I’m drawn to,” she said. “It’s just a really culturally and socially rich place.”

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Schill said her experience as a planner has provided her with the skills necessary to be successful as a legislator.

“The bread and butter of a planner is to constantly seek input and check ideas and create a feedback loop,” she said. “It’s bringing many voices together to formulate a design or plan or initiative, then going home and doing some research and bringing new thoughts and peer examples, and then talking it back out. It’s a very collaborative process. Any work I do would bring those planning principles where you draft an idea, get public input and then go back, change it and then put it back out there. That’s the way you get the best outcome.”

And in that vein, Schill said she appreciates the collaborative nature of the Reimagining Public Safety draft report that the county and city of Ithaca released.

“Our community took this mandate far more seriously than many others did,” she said. “There was a really diligent effort to make sure community voices were heard, and I would say they were heard,

and the draft recommendations are really reflecting the values of the community […] There’s more work to be done, but it’s a good, important first step. From here I hope the community continues to be the leader in the discussion.”

Schill moved to the area from Washington, D.C., in the late ‘90s. She lived “in Owego in a cabin” and commuted to work at Cornell. Her degree was in Russian linguistics, but she decided to go back to school (at Cornell) to pursue her interest in urban planning. When she finished her degree in 2002, she became a planner for the Parks and Recreation Department back in Washington DC, but after starting a family, she decided Ithaca would be a better place for her. She got a job with Tompkins County in 2007 and has been here ever since.

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The League of Women Voters is hosting a virtual debate on Thursday, March 11. For more information or to submit a question, visit http://www.lwvtompkins.org/.

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Tompkins County Poet Laureate Dr. Christine Kitano believes poetry serves a multitude of functions

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n Jan. 19, the Tompkins County Legislature announced Dr. Christine Kitano as the county’s next poet laureate, the 10th in county history.

Tompkins County Poet Laureate began in 2001 when it was established by the Tompkins County Legislature. Each poet laureate is honored for their local outstanding poetry. The role of the poet laureate is to help integrate poetry into the Ithaca community, enhance

education of young people and strengthen the county's position as a culture center.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kitano now resides in Brooktondale, right outside of Ithaca. Kitano is the author of “Birds of Paradise” and “Sky Country.”

Kitano is also an assistant professor at Ithaca College, where she teaches poetry and Asian American Literature, while offering classes such as creative writing. Over the summers, she teaches at a low residency Masters of Fine Arts and Creative Writing program, as well.

In her new role, Kitano wants to begin a monthly book or poetry club which will help blend poetry into the Ithaca community. She does not have a set plan yet, with there being obstacles of people not having the money to pay for books, but Kitano has an idea of how the club would operate and meet. She said the club would be virtual to begin with, but

whenever weather becomes warmer she would like to have outdoor club meetings.

A monthly poetry club would help involve the entire Ithaca community and not solely students.

“I see this as a way to take poetry outside of the colleges, outside of the classrooms, and bring them to people that are no longer in school,” Kitano said.

Kitano values the pillars of equity, inclusion and antiracism in her poetry because it gives her poetry a deeper meaning if she feels her work is impacting people and touching them.

“One of the things that I try to do in my work is I try to either reflect and critique the world that we all live in or imagine alternate structures that we can all live in,” Kitano said.

“I’m hoping that my poems also speak to, not just the world that we live in as it is, but what an ideal or better world might look like.”

These pillars are important to Kitano because she believes literature can make a positive impact if it were integrated into people’s daily lifestyle.

“I think it is important to look at literature as not separate from everyday life,” Kitano said. “Poetry is a reflection of our lived experiences. Poetry speaks to the connections that we have as people that we don’t always get to see or talk about. And I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that we all want to live in an eqMa r ch

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uitable world, a just world. So I’m always looking for how my work as a poet can connect with those larger goals.”

Poetry is not expressed enough to younger people, according to Kitano, and she believes it is because of standardized rules that they feel must be followed, such as the stereotype that all poetry must rhyme. She believes that negative stigmas surrounding poetry can cause some people to grow apart from it.

“When people come to poetry, they love it. And then something happens and they don’t love it anymore.”

Kitano emphasized how poetry can be free and not so uptight as people think it is.

“People sort of lose interest because they go to poetry for freedom and creativity, so I wanted to show people that the rules they have in mind... don’t necessarily need to be followed. They can be followed, but they don't need to be followed. I want to help people to reconnect with the initial sense of poetry being about freedom in some ways.”

Kitano has noticed how impactful poetry is on young adults while teaching at Ithaca College.

“I think that teaching at IC has really helped me see how important poetry can be for students,” Kitano said. “Especially students who are not necessarily writing majors or who are not poets themselves,

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or don’t consider themselves poets. I’m always looking to learn how to make poetry still meaningful for people who don’t have the goal of perhaps becoming a poet or going to graduate school in poetry.”

She gets a different experience working with graduate students that have a passion for poetry and making a career out of it compared to those who want to be involved, whether it be for fun or just out of curiosity.

“And getting to move between those two spheres, I think, has helped me envision a larger audience for poetry which will hopefully translate to bringing it to Tompkins County community.”

Kitano said that the most important message of poetry that she would want people to know is while poetry is a social cause, it is also pleasure.

“I think one of the stereotypes mainly about poetry is that either it’s just sounds or it's just images and has nothing to do with the real world,” Kitano said. “Or on the other hand that poetry is just for people who have learned to read poetry, that it’s just for people who have gone to school for poetry or somehow divorced from the real world. And I think both of those are stereotypes I want to work against. So there is absolute just fun and pleasure in poetry. You don’t have to have studied it to understand it, you don’t have to study it to enjoy it, but also poetry is not just for fun.

It does speak to larger social structures and social movements. So it’s not just one or the other.”

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Charles E. Burchfield’s Sublime American Landscapes on display at Corning’s Rockwell Museum

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“Still Life — Scrap Iron” by Charles Burchfield at the Rockwell Museum

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atercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) occupies an idiosyncratic but vital place in the history of modern American art. Based lifelong in Ohio and Western New York, he was often pigeonholed as a Regionalist or “American Scene” painter — labels he vehemently rejected.

In fact, he was a sophisticated cosmopolitan: abreast of the New York City scene and influenced by East Asian painting and an emerging European and American modernism. Largely eschewing oils, he partook of a strong national watercolor tradition while using a layered dry brush technique at odds with the spontaneous fluidity associated with the medium.

Alternating between the ecstatic expressionism of his early and late periods and the somber realism of his middle years, he remains elusive.

On view currently at Corning’s Rockwell Museum (through May 9), “Blistering Vision: Charles E. Burchfield’s Sublime American Landscapes” aims to track his vision of a mythopoetic struggle between industry and nature.

Curated by Tullis Johnson, the exhibition originated at Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center, marking the museum’s

50th anniversary in 2016. Dedicated to Western New York artists, the Burchfield Penney maintains a specialty in focused thematic presentations of the artist’s work.

A scholarly, specialized effort like this one is a less natural fit for the Rockwell.

A smaller museum, the Rockwell has limited space for special shows. Unfortunately, this one is scaled-down, shorn of supplementary materials, with pieces hung tightly around a one-room gallery. The result is a display that feels flattened out, with interesting but aesthetically slight sketches sharing comparable billing with major works.

Born in Ashtabula, Ohio, into an era of rural decline, Burchfield moved with his family to nearby Salem when he was five — into a house he occupied into his late twenties and an anchoring location for much of his early work. A student at the Cleveland School of Art between 1912 and 1916, he achieved artistic maturity early.

(His works of 1916–1918 were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1930 — the fledgling New York institution’s first oneperson show.)

The selection of early watercolors here is modest but rewarding. Burchfield developed a unique style, often incorpo-

rating synesthetic evocations of sound and emotion into quotidian scenes of rural and small town life. “Untitled (The Ravine)” and “Bozzert’s Dam, Salem, Ohio” (both 1916) display a coloristic warmth rare in his later work and a radical near-abstraction.

Burchfield moved to Buffalo in 1921, starting a family and finding success as a wallpaper designer before striking out as a full time painter eight years later. He remained in the Buffalo area for the remainder of his life.

More so than Regionalism, his work of the twenties and thirties recalls the unsentimental modernity of painters like his better-known friend Edward Hopper and the industrial documentarian Charles Sheeler. “Still Life — Scrap Iron” (1929) brings the traditionally indoor genre outside, echoing something of Sheeler’s dispassionate precision. The dour palette is typical of the period: thin patches and strokes of rust and mustard accenting a world in gray. “Roadside Stream” (1939), in sharp perspective, memorializes an ordinary country scene with its rhythmic interplay of trees, telephone poles and short posts.

Beginning in 1943, Burchfield returned to his experimental early approach. Working at an expanded scale and sometimes piecing his early sheets into new compositions, he achieved a grand, if eccentric, late style.

Like several of these paintings, “Early Spring” (1966-1967) — an obvious highlight here — seems to translate the gothic ruins of Northern Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich into a worship of nature. A copse of barren and evergreen trees occupies the center, rising like a mighty cathedral above a field of acrid yellow flowers. The light is harsh, bright, and the season indeterminate: blooms matched with what appears snow.

One appreciates seeing a show dedicated to an artist of Burchfield’s caliber and significance close to Ithaca. Although I did not see “Blistering Vision” in its original venue, a fair amount appears to have been lost in translation. Aside from the smaller size and absence of key paintings and archival materials, the current rendition suffers from a lack of context.

The Rockwell, though aiming to present “art about the American experience” following its 2015 designation as a Smithsonian Affiliate, retains its founding focus on Western and Native American art. This emphasis is clear enough, walking around the third floor permanent collection galleries that form the heart of any visit. (While up there, viewers interested in Burchfield might pull their eyes from the epic Hudson River School landscapes and heroic cowboys to take in one of the side galleries. Here are Burchfield’s true peers: mostly NYC-based realists and modernists of the early twentieth century.)

Burchfield ends up somewhat stranded.

Still, this is a substantial, occasionally gripping, presentation and well worth a trip to Corning — particularly for enthusiasts of early American modernism and lovers of visionary, animistic nature scenes.

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Special Events VIRTUAL Temple Beth El Evening of Jewish Storytelling, Poetry and Music | 7:30 PM, 3/6 Saturday | Temple Beth El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | There will be a mix of comedy, poetry, a story from Chelm and a solo violin presentation by Max Buckholtz.

Presenters represent a cross section of our community. The event is familyfriendly. Register in advance for this meeting by going to the TBE calendar at www.tbeithaca.org/calendar.

Sing with the Birds | 6:00 PM, 3/7 Sunday | The Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts is concluding its lecture series with a presentation

by Dr. Samantha Carouso-Peck. This lecture will explore the ways in which

Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era: A Discussion With Author Ming Hsu Chen | 12:00 PM, 3/5 Friday | In the fourth installment of the Reimagining Citizenship series, author Ming Hsu Chen will present her book in which she provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what itís like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion.†https://ecornell.cornell. edu/keynotes

provided. Geared for families with children 0-5 years. Families outside Dryden are welcome to join. Link will be provided after sign-up. Contact talktimedryden@gmail.com to get sign-up link.

2021 Winter Ithaca Farmers

Notices

be more spaced out than last year.

Ithaca Rotary Club Weekly Meeting | 12:15 PM, 3/3 Wednesday | This week’s guest speaker is Dr. Marty Stallone, President & CEO of Cayuga Health Systems on ‘Cayuga Health COVID-19 and Looking Ahead.’† Visit www.ithacarotary.com†to request an invite and link to the meeting.

one of the empty storefronts.

Live in Ithaca: Welcome Home Wednesdays VIRTUAL | 5:00 PM, 3/3 Wednesday | New residents are encouraged to drop in anytime during the event. Learn about services, programs, and volunteer opportunities in the area. Visit Tompkins Chamber website for more info and Zoom login.

Kids

Candor Troop 42 Fill the Sled Food Drive | 9:00 AM, 3/6 Saturday | Gazebo on Main St next to Tioga State Bank., 73 Main St, Candor | Help the Boy Scouts of Candor Troop 42 Fill the Sled. Drop off any non-perishable goods. All donations will go to the Bread of Life Food Pantry.

Ready for Kindergarten: It’s All About Words | 6:30 PM, 3/8 Monday | Six-week fun and family-oriented virtual series on learning ways to incorporate language and literacy into your family’s day. Books and materials

Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca | To comply with COVID-19 rules, vendors will Market will be in the atrium and in

Virtual ESL Talk Time | 3:45 PM, 3/3 Wednesday | The group is open to English learners hoping to improve their conversation skills. Visit tcpl.org for the Zoom link.

Beyond BANG, WHAM, and POW: How to Create Compelling Narratives in Comics | 4:00 PM, 3/5 Friday | Ithaca Collegeís Graphic Novel Advisory Board†will lead teen and adult participants in a discussion about narrative, plot planning, and creating effective text. No previous experience is necessary. To register visit†https:// www.tcpl.org/events/

Market | 10:30 AM, 3/6 Saturday |

Intro to Circuits: Make Blinky Lights! | 12:00 PM, 3/8 Monday | Attendees will learn the basics of building and programming a simple circuit with an Arduino, using the free program Tinkercad. No previous experience required. Register at†https://spaces.library.cornell.edu/ event/7469942.

Cayuga Bird Club Virtual Monthly Meeting | 7:30 PM, 3/8 Monday | For information, refer to the bird club’s website: www.cayugabirdclub. org/ and go to the Webinars link for instructions on how to join.†This month: e guest speaker Dr. Steve Kress speaking on†Saving Seabirds with Social Attraction.

Virtual ESL Talk Time | 3:45 PM, 3/10 Wednesday | The group is open to English learners hoping to improve their conversation skills. Visit tcpl.org for the Zoom link.

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To learn more, call 855-541-6634. (AAN CAN)

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Elementary Principal: Southern Cayuga Central School seeks an enthusiastic, proven educational leader for its elementary school of approximately 375 students, preK to grade 6. The successful candidate will be a student-oriented educator with a background that includes both quality teaching and administrative experience and able to develop a collaborative and constructive school culture with a climate of excellence for students, faculty and staff is essential. We are seeking a knowledgeable and inspiring educator, committed to excellence and the belief that all students can succeed.

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(Substitute)

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OCM BOCES is looking for experienced Teachers and Teaching Assistants.

Looking for teachers certified in the following areas: English 7-12, Math 7 & 8, Science 7 & 8, Algebra I & II, Geometry, Earth Science, Living Environment, Chemistry, Social Studies 7-11, Participation in Government, Economics, Physical Education, Special Education 7-12, Library Media Specialist, Spanish, and Health Sites are at the following locations: Wellwood Middle School, Cortland Jr. Sr. High School, Cicero-North Syracuse High School, and Camillus Middle School. Register and apply at: olasjobs. org/central For more information, please contact Aislyn Spencer at 315-431-8502. EOE

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Onondaga-Cortland- Madison BOCES offers cutting-edge high school programs that combine classroom instruction with hands-on application. Please consider joining our instructional team at OCM BOCES Cortlandville Campus by applying to be the next Heavy Equipment teacher. Applications will be accepted online until 03/19/2021 at olasjobs.org/ central. For more information, please visit our website at ocmboces.org/cte EOE

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