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olice have arrested William L. Marshall, 40, of Ithaca for the murder of Alan Godfrey. Godfrey was shot and killed on July 20, 2021 at 206 Taughannock Blvd. At the time, police said they believed Godfrey was targeted and not the victim of a random attack.

Ithaca Police Department was assisted by the New York State Police Major Crimes Unit, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office Investigations Division and the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office.

In October 2021, a large portion of the West End was closed to traffic as the State Police worked with Ithaca Police Department to perform a digital scan of the crime scene.

The results of that scan were never made public.

Police said they were able to collect and review an “unprecedented amount of evidence and information” that led to the grand jury indictment and subsequent arrest of Marshall.

He has been charged with murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

He was arraigned in Tompkins County Court. He is currently being held without bail in a detention facility.

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Cayuga Health to open clinical practice, learning center at mall Cayuga Health has purchased 108,000 square feet of space at The Shops at Ithaca Mall, CEO Dr. Marty Stallone said at a press conference on March 15. The space, which is the site of the former Sears and The Bon Ton, will be used to redevelop, relocate and consolidate existing practices into one location. Cayuga Health will also lease some of the space to prospective new vendors.

The space was purchased

for $8.5 million from Mason Asset Management and Namdar Realty Group, two Long Island-based investment companies that oversee leasing and management efforts at the mall.

Cayuga Health has been occupying the old Sears since March 2020 when they identified the space as an ideal location for critical COVID-19 operations. First, the parking lot acted as a mass testing site, then the interior acted as

a mass vaccination site when vaccines were released.

Stallone called the acquisition of the spaces a “classic win-win-win” for patients, Cayuga Health and the community. The vision for The Bon Ton is to centralize many existing practice locations and healthcare services that are currently scattered throughout the community.

“This will allow them to continue to grow as needed,” he said. “It’s going to create a single location for our patients that’s anchored by a primary care center with ample parking and an emphasis on convenience.” continued on page 4

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PHOTOGRAPHER Fifth graders call for eco friendly drinking water options after lead scare

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or the first time in over two years — in direct response to the COVID pandemic — the Ithaca City School District Board of Education meeting was met with a full house. While academic year budget information and general updates were shared, it was the presentations given by student representatives that livened the room, one that had grown accustomed to emptiness.

In 2015, there were trace amounts of lead detected in Beverly J. Martin Elementary’s water supply. With the students’ health as a top priority, the district took matters into their own hands, installing water coolers that dispensed fresh drinking water for student use.

At first, the initiative was beneficial. Students were given access to a fresh water supply and weren’t exposed to the lethal proponents of lead-infused water. However, over time, the district has recognized the financial and environmental drawbacks of the project, and students have been encouraged to conduct research on alternatives to using plastic drinking products.

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“In fifth grade one of the science standards we look at has to do with measuring saltwater in the world versus fresh water,” Steven Kellerman, a teacher’s aide at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School — colloquially known as BJM — said. “We didn’t find anything that was entirely relevant about that question, so we wondered if we could turn that around into something that would engage our young people.

Something that’s been on our mind for a while now is that we’ve been importing plastic to give our students fresh drinking water. So, we started with the very simple question of ‘is our drinking water at BJM safe?’ Around the time they were asked this question, fifth grade students at BJM began studying persuasive writing to learn how their voices could inspire change within their English Language Arts classrooms. This research inspired the presentations that BJM students shared at the Board of Education meeting held on Tuesday, March 8.

Students Desmond and Henry were first to present.

They were instructed to craft

an argument around why BJM’s plastic water coolers should be replaced with filtered fountains.

“Our school uses 4,800 cups per month,” Desmond and Henry said. “These cups would stretch down our hallways six times over. After being dumped in the trash, these cups end up in our oceans and animals find themselves tangled up within them. Soon the garbage dumped into the ocean is going to outweigh the fish in their natural habitat.”

The boys continued their argument by mentioning how the expenses of these singleuse plastic cups and jugs could be implemented elsewhere. According to their research, BJM spends around $90 a month on water cups alone, money that could be spent on school supplies.

In the second presentation, BJM students Bassam and Christopher focused their argument on the environmental benefits of filtered water systems. They placed a heavy emphasis on the idea that plastic pollutes oceans, drawing on data that revealed a dump truck’s worth of garbage and plastic is dumped into the ocean every minute. They were clearly astonished by their findings and made an active effort to promote this.

As Bassam and Christopher pointed out, within the last year BJM has worked closely

with Life Science Laboratories to measure the levels of lead within the district’s water supply. In the most recent study, only one part per billion traces of lead were detected in the water. This is considered a healthy level and the students yearn to see BJM take action in providing safe drinking water that doesn’t promote environmental crises.

In the third and final presentation on the issue, BJM students Jaquetin and AJ attempted to gain the board’s sympathy.

“We can fit 4,800 cups in 29 trash cans. Isn’t that crazy,” they said. “There is over 26 billion pounds of trash polluting our oceans today. There is absolutely no point in buying something that you use once or twice, like our plastic cups and jugs, just for it to end up in the trash, go into our oceans and kill sea animals.”

At the conclusion of the fifth-grade student presentations, Board of Education president Robert Ainslie directly responded to their concerns, outlining how these changes take time to implement, but aren’t impossible. He promised that the facilities committee will take their argument into honest consideration.

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That location will also have specialty services that Stallone said are in high demand, plus labs and ancillary services to support the different practices.

“The space will be more efficient as it brings individual practices together,” he said.

“Over time it represents a cost savings for Cayuga Health and a prudent use of our precious resources.”

The Sears space will be used to address workforce issues, such as a shortage in licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, medical assistants, surgical technicians, lab technicians and other positions.

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convert part of what was Sears into a health professionals learning center that will be focused on educating, training and supplying an array of disciplines in short supply.”

He also invited community partners such as Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College and BOCES to develop and offer programs in the learning center.

Stallone said Cayuga Health also envisions the new clinical spaces will revitalize the mall, which has fallen off dramatically in recent years with many retailers vacating the building.

“Community partners can co-locate and cooperate around serving mutual clients,” he said. “This reinvests in already existing infrastructure that might have otherwise fallen into disrepair.”

Dr. Marty Stallone (Photo: Tanner Harding)

He added that the foot traffic from employees and patients will support both

existing and future retail in the mall.

There is no precise timeline for the project yet, though The Bon Ton space will be focused on first. Cayuga Health is working with Ithaca-based HOLT Architects and does have a few renderings of what the future space could look like.

“It won’t be too long before we’re at the stage of asking for [request for proposals],” Stallone said. “There’s no timeline beyond that. Sears and the health professional learning center will be a longer timeline. We’re looking at 2023 and beyond.”

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Early successes as LEAD program gets officially underway

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efore former governor Andrew Cuomo ordered municipalities to reexamine their policing strategies, and before former mayor

the program or you can get in through a social contact referral,” Brooks said. “And if you have issues relating to [poverty, addiction or mental health] an

Travis Brooks has been the steward for the LEAD program in Ithaca. (Photo: Provided)

Sgt. Mary Orsaio has played an integral role in bringing LEAD to the Ithaca Police Department. (Photo: Casey Martin)

Svante Myrick unveiled his Reimagining Public Safety proposal, Travis Brooks was behind the scenes working on a program that perfectly encapsulates those goals.

About six years ago, Myrick put out a call to action when working on the Ithaca Plan, a plan to fight addiction locally.

He suggested looking at different programs in other communities, which led to the discovery of the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) initiative. Brooks, the deputy director at Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), went to Seattle with then police chief John Barber to learn about their LEAD program.

LEAD is a harm reduction program that is dedicated to reorienting typical responses to crimes and getting help for those suffering from addiction, poverty and mental health issues. Simply, it gives police officers an alternative to arresting people who need help.

And after a soft launch last fall, it’s now officially operational.

The program is a collaboration between Ithaca Police Department, GIAC, REACH Medical, St. John’s Shelter and community outreach workers.

“You can get in through a police officer referring you to

officer can refer you before you get arrested.”

After a person is referred to the program, they are assigned a caseworker.

“A caseworker isn’t a counselor, but can connect you to services,” Brooks said. “We go to the people in the program and meet them where they’re at. Your biggest need might be a few packs of warm socks, so that will be the first need we address. Your second need might be food. We build relationships with people.”

He added that what makes LEAD different is that if there’s a young person who’s selling drugs because they need money, the program can connect that person with job training and an opportunity, rather than just locking them up in jail.

“And as you’re going through that, we’re there to help you along the way,” Brooks said.

To make the program successful in Ithaca, Brooks knew he would need buy-in from the police department. Luckily, that came pretty easily under Barber.

“He was a huge advocate and went to LEAD training, so I have to give him a lot of credit,” Brooks said. “The two

chiefs after him [Pete Tyler and Dennis Nayor] were really into it, and the interim police chief [John Joly] has been helpful in making this happen too.”

Brooks specifically mentioned Sgt. Mary Orsaio as an integral part of the process.

Orsaio received training on LEAD, and has begun training other officers at IPD as well.

“I have about a 45-minute training about what to look for in a LEAD candidate,” Orsaio said. “There are types of offenses that are LEAD eligible.”

She uses petit larceny as an example.

“If someone steals from Walmart and Walmart agrees LEAD is a good option, or someone has an open container or a disorderly conduct, those are LEAD eligible offenses,” she said. “If it’s something like assault or domestic violence, it obviously isn’t.”

Orsaio has made laminated cards for officers to keep on them with reminders about LEAD eligible offenses. She said other exclusionary criteria includes if a person has been convicted of murder or is a registered sex offender.

“But there is a large population that is LEAD eligible,” she said.

Orsaio works closely with Officer Ryan Card, who is the other point person.

“He is the definition of a community police officer,” Orsaio said of Card. “His favorite part of the day is when he can walk the homeless encampments and talk to people.”

Once a person is in the LEAD program, all parties involved, from caseworkers to police officers, meet biweekly to fill each other in on how that person is doing.

“It makes sense to have everyone at the same table talking about the same people,” Orsaio said.

Currently, Brooks said, there are eight people in the program, with another six in the process of being onboarded. They’re also planning on hiring another case worker and they have a list of individuals who could be a good fit for the program. He’s hoping that as the program continues to be established, both with outside funding and city contributions, there will be an opportunity for a lot of change.

“If you remove 50-60 people from regular police contact,

regular contact in court, regular probation, you’re freeing up services to spend that money elsewhere,” he said. “If we can be preventative in our services, it’ll save everyone money in the long run.”

He mentioned that even with the handful of people in the program currently, they’ve already started to see a difference. According to Brooks, there are three “frequent flyers” with police who have had so little contact with police recently, that officers thought they had moved away.

Orsaio confirmed that, and said she can think of a couple people off the top of her head that the department dealt with nearly daily who are now in the LEAD program.

“There are a handful of people that we’re seeing a huge decrease in calls for service, and when we see them, they just look like they’re doing better,” she said.

Orsaio said LEAD seems like a missing piece of law enforcement that is now being fulfilled.

“As police officers we’re so used to, when we make an arrest, restricting someone’s freedoms,” she said. “Now, we have the option to empower someone and it feels great to be able to do that. We deal with the same people over and over again, and we want to see these people succeed.”

Brooks agreed, and hopes that he can see LEAD become permanent.

“My goal before I retire is that this program becomes a staple in this community,” He said. “That LEAD is a permanent fixture in this community, because it works and it benefits the most vulnerable and has started to reshape relationships with policing. I wish people could hear some of the conversations we have about people — the care, the compassion, the energy spent trying to figure out how to make situations better for people struggling.

Once you hear that, it humanizes everyone.”

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Ups We know people hate it, but springing ahead has given us an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings that make it feel like summer is on its way.

Downs Cornell’s men’s ice hockey team’s season is officially over after dropping the ECAC quarterfinal series to Colgate. See you next year, Big Red!

HEARD&SEEN Heard The Newfield boys basketball team knocked off the top two teams in Section IV Class C in Watkins Glen and Moravia this past week en route to its second consecutive sectional title. Woo! Seen We saw an old newspaper article from 1928 floating around Twitter in which it was detailed that Cornell University switched to Daylight Saving Time but the City of Ithaca did not. That surely got a bit confusing…

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his week is the twoefforts in our community, year mark of the CObut our data show that VID-19 pandemic Tompkins County has had here in Tompkins County. a lower death, hospitalizaI want to take this opportution, and positivity rate nity to thank the community throughout the pandemic and reflect on the pandemic’s than many of our peer impacts on our community, counties. I’m proud that how far we have come amidst our community approached challenges, and how we can this crisis with the compasbe a safer and healthier comsion and determination munity moving forward. needed to both stop the Every action, large and spread and support one small that we have taken another. collectively, and that you We have experienced have taken as an individual, collective trauma and many have made a difference in of us have experienced Public Health Director how our community has tragic losses. We navigated Frank Kruppa fared during COVID. From ever-changing guidance, actions as simple as wearing and many stepped up a mask as a sign of respect to offer mutual aid and for others to those who helped neighbors assistance. We used all the tools made and vulnerable community members get available to us, including the impressive vaccinated, your actions have led directly mass testing and vaccination sites set up to the safety of one another and saved locally. Businesses adapted and showed lives. We may never know exactly how continued on page 7 many lives were saved because of the

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break in the action of winter, 50 degrees on a March afternoon, brings a jolt of activity to the Ithaca Skate

Park.

The park is located on Wood Street and Route 13 at the city’s southern residential edge. Over 20 years old, it is the first public skate park built in central New York.

At 5 p.m., with some daylight left, there are about two dozen skaters. The park is lit and some will stay past dark.

The lights went up about five years ago as part of a major upgrade. The park’s inception and development have been expensive propositions. But the place clearly meets a need.

Adjacent to the park is an empty basketball court. It gets used, but not this early in the year, and not this much. Of course, the court can never be used by more than 10 people at a time.

Much of the skate park is built over old baseball fields. Some signs of those remain, like a wire backstop and the outlines of basepaths. But the fields were hard to maintain and tended to flood. A concrete skate park is more suitable for recreation here than fields of grass and dirt.

More importantly, the skate park is more useful. It takes two teams of nine people each to make use of a ball field, organized to arrive at the same time, then all leaving, with the grounds then empty and unused for hours, if not the balance of the day. Conversely, it takes only one person to make use of a skate park, which can also accommodate dozens at one time and all through the day, without any organizing or scheduling.

Most importantly, the skate park is more desired. When was the last time you saw someone carrying around a baseball bat or glove? But look around today and you will see someone somewhere with a skateboard.

The expenses for the skate park are met by various private and public sources, including multiple levels of government.

But much, if not most, of the organizing and fundraising effort has been done by skateboarding groups, individuals, and businesses.

“Skateboarders are do-it-yourself people,” one of them says. We spoke with two recently, whom we will call A. and B. The two are newly acquainted, but both are veteran skateboarders. They approach the activity differently, but express some similar attitudes. Foremost, perhaps, is a recognition of skateboarding’s independent, DIY nature, with acknowledgment of a semblance of an underlying culture.

A. is not a regular at the park. “For me, it’s just me and the board. It’s an escape,” he says. For non-skaters, he likens it to riding a bike, engrossing and relaxing at the same time, though skating is significantly less restrained or controllable, thus more immediate and intense. The focus and balance involved are acute at multiple levels, both as requirements and results.

B. has traveled to various cities to explore their skateboarding scenes. He speaks positively of parks as places to “talk, hang out, learn.” There are “rules” of a sort, he says, but these can exist wherever skateboarders gather: “The pace, the traffic, who uses what side of the plaza,” and similar considerations. Fundamentally, though, it is a culture of respectful autonomy. “I only speak for myself,” he says. “The activity defines you. The skating does the talking.”

If individualism is paramount, and collaborative learning next (“although you can learn from videos, too,” B. says), structured instruction and organized competition are practically non-existent.

Despite some talent for sports in school, A. disdained them. “I didn’t like the pressure. Learning plays, doing drills, all the repetition and time involved. Having to be there, at a certain place at a certain time. Having to meet expectations.”

With skateboarding there are no prescribed practices, no imposed schedules, no coaches or leaders, no arranged opponents to beat with artificial scores.

Instead, as B. says, there are “obstacles” to conquer: real ones, anywhere and everywhere..

“There’s a science to it,” B. says. “Calculations. But there’s also poetry. There’s a rawness, but also a flow.”

Despite the flow B. describes and the peacefulness A. finds, there are potential physical costs. At the very least there are the cumulative effects to muscles, bones, and joints from all the rattling, the bumps, the starts and stops. Worse, there are falls, and worst of all car accidents. This is where skate parks are a crucial resource: for the absence of motor vehicles. The importance of this for young and beginning skaters is especially clear.

Still, without any bravado, B. speaks of the attraction of ‘adrenalin” and skating’s “electrifying” nature.

A. and B. basically agree on this, in not so many words, or in fact perhaps three words: Once all the history is examined and the elements scrutinized, the reason they skate, and ever got on a board in the first place? “To have fun.” You can keep that as near or take it as far as you like.

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incredible resilience and patience amidst uncertainty. Childcare providers made emergency care accessible for essential workers during the shutdown.Testing and vaccination were brought to homeless encampments and masks, food and other supplies continue to be distributed by food pantries, libraries and other community partners throughout the county.

People have been creative, compassionate, and taken precautions despite divisive rhetoric and polarizing issues brought to the forefront during this pandemic.

Our lives look different than they did two years ago, and even the start of 2022 has brought dramatic shifts in our understanding of COVID-19 as a disease and the guidance to stop the spread and decrease hospitalizations. Even as things change and the disease is having less of a direct impact on our lives and decisionmaking, your Health Department’s commitment to the health and well-being of our community has not wavered. We continue to support organizations, businesses, schools, and individuals, interpret guidance, and communicate information to the public daily about the status of disease in our community. I encourage you to explore all the programming and services we offer in the areas of maternal and child health, children with special health care needs, environmental health issues, health education and community health planning, and emergency preparedness.

As we continue to monitor the disease, I urge everyone to take precautions, especially if they are at high risk for severe illness. The layers of protection that have been recommended throughout the pandemic are still something to use and not lose sight of as we do not know what the future holds for variants and other emerging diseases.

While COVID is not over, we have important work to do as a community to address other complex issues that existed prior to the pandemic and have intensified over the past two years. We must also work to address the structural issues that intentionally disadvantage our vulnerable communities, including People of Color and LGBTQ+ individuals, from accessing high quality health and mental health care to improve health outcomes. We know the problems and challenges, and we need action.

This year I plan to further commit my time and the efforts of the Health and Mental Health departments to the following areas. We believe that focusing on these priorities will continue to invest in our community’s health and mental health moving forward: Our Mental Health and Public Health departments will integrate into one organization (as approved by the Legislature in December 2019), and our teams will be re-engaged with our Strategic Planning process and model for integration

that better reflects our values and meets the community’s needs. The Strategic Planning process explicitly focuses on root causes of health disparities and social determinants of health, putting us on a path to better address inequities for our community, specifically our community members of color. Sign up for email updates from the Health Department by selecting from the Health and Human Services options.

Our departments will continue to work with community partners to address the increase in substance use disorders, overdose, suicide and other mental health disorders that impact our community and families.

The Health and Mental Health departments will continue to engage with the Reimagining Public Safety planning and the Community Justice Center to take actions on the intersections between public safety, mental health and public health.

Review recommendations, consider making suggestions, and offer ideas on the Ithaca & Tompkins County Reimagining Public Safety website.

Our Maternal and Child Health services, including WIC, MOMs Plus, and Children with Special Care Needs, focus on both fiscal and mental well-being of families and children. These programs are seeing an increase in referrals, and I encourage expectant parents, families with young children, and families with children who are having developmental delays to connect with their health care providers and reach out to our programs.

The Mental Health Department has trained therapists for children, youth, and families who are embedded in some of our schools as well as available for appointments at our offices.

Our Health Department continues to monitor emerging and ongoing environmental health issues, including but not limited to child lead poisoning prevention, rabies prevention, drinking and recreational water safety, and wastewater treatment. Remember to get children screened for lead poisoning at ages 1 and 2. Contact your pediatrician for more information.

As we mark this two-year anniversary and as our focus shifts from emergency COVID response to recovery, I hope the community will take the same energy and urgency that made us successful with COVID and put it toward other pressing public and mental health issues. As a community, we have proven that by working together we can do what is necessary to protect each other. Let’s carry that momentum forward to the other pressing issues impacting our health and wellbeing.

Frank Kruppa is the Tompkins County Public Health Director and Mental Health Commissioner. For more information about the Tompkins County Health Department and its services, visit: https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health.

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YOUR LETTERS To fix rising energy costs, stop subsidizing gas

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ising energy costs aren’t just leading the news today; they’re an issue for New Yorkers across the state waking up to personal gas and electric bills they can’t afford.

Our dependence on fossil fuels, tied to global market prices, means our bills rise and fall with something as minor as a cold snap or as severe as the war in Ukraine. As a result some New Yorkers’ energy bills have almost tripled this winter.

The good news: we have solutions for a healthier, safer, and more efficient energy system today; electrification, efficiency, and clean energy are at the heart of that system. I am co-sponsoring the Gas Transition and Affordable Energy Act, which would help us transition to renewable heating, cooking, and hot water services.

It would end subsidies for new gas hookups, eliminating New Yorker’s utility bills surcharges. It would require the Public Service Commission to develop a plan to limit gas service, moving us closer to a future where no household is dependent on a pipeline under their floorboards. It would lower utility prices and harmful emissions, while creating healthier and safer housing for New York.

Our buildings, which consume more fossil fuels and emit more air pollution than any other state, are a big part of the problem. Burning fuel every minute of every day, they account for almost 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. This status quo leaves New Yorkers exposed to the harmful emissions of gas, affecting us all, but not affecting us equally.

Low-income and Black and brown households already spend a disproportionate amount of their income on energy and suffer disproportionately from both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Living in energy inefficient homes costs them money and too often, their lives. All of this contributes to the early deaths of thousands of New Yorkers.

We know the model laid out in the Gas Transition and Affordable Energy Act can work. Ithaca passed its own Green New Deal in 2019, and last year unanimously approved a measure to decarbonize more than 3,000 of its buildings. The biggest challenge during this transition will be to make sure it is done equitably.

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for gas companies to build pipelines that will soon be obsolete. And as the cost of repairing and maintaining aging pipeline infrastructure has increased, we can expect these costs to be passed along to consumers.

As the budget deadline gets closer, it’s time for our Senate and Assembly to take the next big step in electrifying our state.

The climate crisis will not wait, and neither should we. The Gas Transition and Affordable Energy Act will bring lower utility prices, lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and healthier and safer housing for all of New York.

-Assemblywoman Anna Kelles, 125th District

Re: Policing reimagined?

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n reading the lists of Call Delineations proposed for the City, I couldn’t avoid thinking that a number of the calls falling under Division of Community Solutions are things that could very possibly involve/lead to violence from the subjects of the calls. Would the DCS responders be trained in martial arts, have nightsticks, tasers, tear gas or any other way to defend themselves and subdue a violent person?

There have been numerous cases over the years where a seemingly-ordinary call has resulted in police officers being attacked, shot at, and killed. What is an unarmed responder to do, with no strong protection to immediately back him/her up?Could/should armed police officers be trained to respond in non-lethal ways to all kinds of calls? Certainly. But to think you can pigeonhole problem calls in the way it is proposed, and safeguard the responders sounds crazy to me.

Also, the continuing efforts to figure out what to call the new departments is silly. What is wrong with the all-inclusive name “Department of Public Safety”, with police and “community responders” under its umbrella? There are lots of those in the United States. Sounds like a good name.

Do Ithaca’s community emotions have to make everything complicated?

-Norman Adelewitz, Ithaca, New York

The case for renewable energy has never been stronger

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ur hearts go out to Ukrainians and Russians who have been killed, hurt, and displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Other Europeans won’t protest the invasion by ending Russian oil and gas imports; they are too dependent on them.

Furthermore, Ukraine provides a valuable export point for Russian oil. Prior geopolitical crises, such as the war in Iraq, were also tied to oil. This only highlights the need to move away from fossil fuels and toward decentralized wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric and other forms of renewable energy. These sources of energy do not have wild price fluctua tions, nor can they be held hostage.

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BUILDING AN EMPIRE

With the addition of his latest venture Revelry, Kevin Sullivan and his team are dominating the food scene in Ithaca.

By Ta n n e r H a r di ng

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una Inspired Street Food, Purity Ice Cream, Jack’s Grill, Pronto Craft Pizza…If you live in Ithaca, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve eaten at one of Kevin Sullivan’s restaurants.

“I dropped out of college and found myself working in the restaurant business back here in Ithaca, found out I kind of had a knack for it and have been doing it ever since,” Sullivan said.

There are two Luna locations, one on Aurora Street and one in Collegetown, plus a Luna food truck and Catering by Luna.

There’s also the Ithaca Ghost Kitchen operating out of the building of the original Luna location in Collegetown, and Sullivan’s newest project, Revelry.

Revelry will be opening next to the downtown Luna location in the old Ithaca Ale House building, hopefully late this spring.

“The concept [Revelry] is based around is a social experience, which I think we’ve all been missing a lot,” Sullivan said.

The upstairs (yes, look up next time you pass by, there’s a second floor!), will be a microbrewery. The façade of that level will be replaced with plate glass windows to show off the fermentation tanks to passersby. Sullivan estimates there will eventually be around a dozen beers on tap at any time, most of them brewed right there on site.

But make no mistake, this isn’t a brewery in the traditional sense.

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“There’s going to be a dinner menu focusing on social shareables, kind of like an American tapas style,” Sullivan said.

There will also be an extensive wine and cocktail list and standard entrees. Another surprise, there’s a parking lot that runs from behind Viva Taqueria to about halfway through the Contemporary Trends building, and Sullivan is leasing it to use for Revelry Yards.

“It’s a large area that’s been a parking lot forever, and it’s going to have outdoor seating and a wood-fired pizza oven out there,” he said. “It’ll be like a winery/brewery scene but with a full-service restaurant and a patio out back.”

The inspiration for a new restaurant with a large outdoor area downtown came from the Streatery. The city closed off the Restaurant Row block of Aurora Street in the nicer months so the restaurants could expand their outdoor dining during the pandemic. However, with the future of the Streatery very much in jeopardy, and seemingly unlikely to return this year, Revelry will provide an alternative for those who liked dining outdoors.

“The Streatery had that community feel downtown all summer long,” Sullivan said.

“So the outback seating will be expansive.

There’s a lot of demand down here. Downtown is growing. This is an area that has been, ever since the Commons renovation was completed, on the rise.”

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He said with more people being able to work remotely and live downtown, he’s excited to help contribute to the vibrancy of an urban neighborhood in the center of the community.

If you don’t know Sullivan from Luna, you may recognize his name from when he took over Purity Ice Cream last fall. A community staple since 1936, this wasn’t the first time Purity changed ownership, but when former owners Bruce and Heather Lane announced their plans to retire after 23 years at the helm, the shop was faced with uncertainty.

However, Sullivan saw an opportunity to continue the legacy of a shop he’s loved his whole life.

“I grew up around here, and from the time I was seven7 or eight8 my dad lived around the corner from Purity,” he said. “I spent a lot of time in that neighborhood, and I would take my change and go down to get a scoop. So I’ve been a fan of Purity for most of my life.”

Much like the Lanes brought the business through a transitional time in the late ‘90s when the shop stopped producing its own ice cream and started outsourcing production to Byrne Dairy, Sullivan sees this as an opportunity to make some changes of his own.

Purity did serve breakfast and lunch but cut that from the menu at the beginning of the pandemic. So when Sullivan took over,

he decided to bring food back in a slightly elevated way.

“We have high quality burgers, chicken sandwiches, scratch-made chicken nuggets for kids or anyone else who likes chicken nuggets, and they’re really good,” Sullivan said. “They’re hand breaded. It’s not fast food, it’s upscale fast-casual. Our fries come from local potatoes from Silver Queen Farm in Trumansburg. So it’s products people can really enjoy and go well with ice cream.”

And the changes don’t stop there. Sullivan is getting ready to launch soft serve at Purity, made using the restaurant’s own chocolate and vanilla recipes with a slight modification to turn it into soft serve.

“It’s ridiculously good,” Sullivan said.

“And we’re going to be launching scratchmade gourmet donuts down there, which is going to be super exciting.”

But all the success for Sullivan didn’t just happen. It’s been the result of good ideas, hard work and treating people well.

He opened his first restaurant in Ithaca in 2007. It was a bakery called Nocturnal Confections that delivered cookies and brownies to the colleges late at night — Insomnia Cookies before Insomnia Cookies.

However, once the national cookie chain came to Ithaca, Sullivan decided to switch gears and, as he puts it, “has been going at it ever since.”

In the original Luna location on Stewart Avenue, Sullivan used to own a pizza shop.

K e v i n S u l l i va n a n d M at t C l e v e l a n d s ta n d i n f r o n t o f t h e i r l at e s t v e n t u r e o n au r o r a s t r e e t. (p h o t o : a s h b a i l o t) It was right next door to a bar called the Chapter House.

“It was an awesome bar, it had been there since the early 1900s,” he said. “You could find carvings in there from 50 years before. It was one of those really iconic neighborhood bars.”

And what do 21-year-olds who had one too many pints at the Chapter House want before heading home? Pizza. “[The pizza shop] totally relied on that business,” Sullivan said.

But one night the bar burned to the ground, and again, Sullivan was forced to regroup.

“It makes you challenge yourself and figure out what to do when it’s not easy anymore,” he said. “And that’s where Luna came from. We went after a concept instead of just feeding off of the bar. We had to figure out what’s going to get people here, what’s going to be so interesting that people are going to be like ‘oh my God, I have to go across town or walk down from campus to hit this little spot.’”

The man who helped answer that question was Matt Cleveland. Cleveland, originally from Massachusetts, moved to Ithaca with his wife who is a local. His sister-inlaw’s then-husband knew Sullivan and had

helped come up with the concept for Luna.

He connected Cleveland, a chef, with Sullivan, and Cleveland joined the team three weeks before Luna opened.

“Matt’s been one of the people in this business and in my life who became invaluable very quickly,” Sullivan said.

Cleveland is in charge of the culinary side of things and has been from the beginning. He said when creating the menu for Luna he looked at different food from all around the world, while keeping in mind the restaurant’s target demographic.

“This location is aimed at the young adult, the person with a creative palate, a palate that wants to try new things,” he said.

“I put a lot of different ingredients together.

One might look at it and think, is that going to taste good together? But it all blends very well so just being creative and knowing flavor profiles is how I create things.”

Sullivan gives a lot of credit to his staff and the people around him, emphasizing that he doesn’t do this alone.

“We have grown a lot, and certainly the organization is much bigger than me,” he said. “We have dozens of people who have been with us long term and are huge parts of the organization. Everything we do, we’re very collaborative.”

He also speaks extensively on the importance of treating his employees well and fostering a healthy work environment, noting the strain the restaurant industry often puts on people.

“This is a challenging industry to be in, at any point in any town,” Sullivan said.

“You see a lot in the news about restaurant jobs being absolutely terrible over the past few years. The reality is, that’s something we already knew.”

He said quality of life is a focus of his organization, noting that the restaurant industry has a habit of taking great people and running them into the ground due to long hours and low pay.

In an effort to combat the burnout that’s so common in the industry, Sullivan pays everyone on his staff a living wage.

“That’s something we guaranteed even before the pandemic,” he said. “Every single person in the company earns a living wage every single week. We guarantee it to everybody, and the vast majority of people earn far more than a living wage […] The company median was around $22 per hour last time I looked.”

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cording to the Tompkins County Workers’ Center.

“And that didn’t just happen,” Sullivan said about the higher pay in his restaurants.

“It took a ton of effort. Things like Matt creating food that’s really interesting, so people are willing to pay an extra dollar for tacos because it’s something they’ve never tried before, and the quality is off the charts. We also have a lot of purchasing power, so we save money that way. We have a lot of people cross-trained throughout the company, so we get value out of people…It allows us to drive our pay rates up, offer great health insurance, and we do paid vacation for everyone right off the bat.”

And while it’s not the cheapest way to run a business, Sullivan said it pays dividends.

“We’ve really focused on that quality-oflife stuff. Making sure people have vacation time when they need it, working a schedule that’s reasonable, getting overtime when they go over. Stuff like that is really important to make sure we’re not just growing, but we have an organization that we’re proud of,” he said. “And we get that back.

The business gets that back. So that’s part of our mission.”

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LETTERS

contribute to humanitarian relief agencies.

- Fossil Free Tompkins

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As we see gasoline prices soar, what better time is there to switch to electric vehicles and save time and money spent at the gas pump? Now is the time to reduce reliance on gas and oil everywhere.

Fossil Free Tompkins believes the US can play an important role in deemphasizing oil production and accelerating energy efficiency and alternative sources of energy.

The answer isn’t to release more stockpiled oil, which solves nothing. The sooner we all reduce oil and gas consumption, the sooner we can move towards a sustainable future.

While the war continues, we encourage readers to

Re: Flooding threatens future of The Hangar

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have a special place for The Hangar. I interned there as a teen in the catwalks. I’ve performed there at least a dozen times. I’ve debuted my own work there-in fact said piece was choreographed with the layout of the entire house and stage in mind.

But, Ithaca is a stony swamp and that building is pretty much right in the epitome of that descriptor. If we were to build a new theater (hypothetical thought) would we ever look at that location as being an optimal place? Probably not. I ask, why/how much should the city spend money to keep this literally sinking

ship afloat? More money for infrastructure when we can’t seem to do anything about potholes? Lame.

Assistance with flood insurance that will only ever go up, while residents in similar situations will face the same economic hurdles... will the city help them?

The only real option is to find a new location. It’s not the happiest solution, no one really wants to crack that egg, but the reality is that if we want to create an environment where the arts can thrive, you can’t keep the performance arena in a place that has flood issues, parking issues, traffic issues, and from an artist’s perspective, capacity issues. I think if the intention is to keep a gem sparkling, let’s recognize the value. Hangar, if it is going to rise to the full value it has carried all this year, needs a new setting.

-Kevin Olmstead, via Facebook.com

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Sports

A huge shout-out to Ithaca College sophomore Jalen Leonard-Osbourne, who brought the men’s track and field program its first ever national championship by winning the 60-meter dash in a time of 6.76 seconds at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in North Carolina.

In winning the title, Leonard-Osbourne becomes the 32nd student-athlete to capture a national title at Ithaca College, and the 51st overall individual national championship. His time in the preliminary heat (6.72 seconds) broke his own school record and is the sixth fastest time in Division III history.

Play Ball!

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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he Ithaca College baseball team took the field in Florida on Sunday for the first of seven spring trip games, and after the game I spoke with senior pitcher/first baseman Buzz Shirley. Given Buzz graduated from Ithaca High School, I made an assumption, and he politely corrected me. I said, “Buzz, most Ithaca High players start dreaming of playing for the Bombers when they’re very young. When did that dream start for you?”

“Actually,” Shirley stated, “I didn’t have I.C. in my sights at first, as I was recruited

by Wells College.”

As most local baseball fans know, Wells College launched its first-ever baseball team with David Valesente at the helm, but when George Valesente retired after 41 years as the Bombers’ coach, David was hired to fill his father’s shoes... or spikes... and Shirley transferred to South Hill.

One thing that did start early for the young Shirley was that given he is a lefty, some savvy coach saw fit to give him a try on the mound. I remarked that “If you’re a southpaw you’re gonna pitch,” and Buzz said, “Yes, it’s true that the ball moves differently, and if you can throw strikes you’ll be on the mound.”

As one of the top pitchers in the Bombers’ rotation, Buzz hopes to get about 10 starts and about 40 innings, and when he’s not pitching he’s a solid first baseman with a reliable stick. A 2021 Liberty League First Team selection, he hit .389 with 37 hits in 95 at-bats, including 10 doubles and three home runs.

Shirley said he did appreciate the “hometown factor,” adding, “I am very comfortable with the coaching staff,” and when asked what it’s like to have his high school teammate, Gil Merod as his battery mate, Buzz offered, “He was a bit behind me in high school (Shirley is a fifth year

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Ithaca High grad Buzz Shirley wields a big arm and a big stick for the Bombers. (Photo: Provided)

senior), but Gil and I have a very good relationship.”

Our phone call found Shirley in a good mood. He had just walked off the mound after a win in Florida, it was 70 degrees and sunny, and all seemed right with the world. In Shirley’s words, “It’s very exciting to know that we’ll get in a full schedule for the first time in three seasons.”

Like any real ballplayer, Buzz plans to play as long as he possibly can, and he has already received a handful of contract offers from Independent League teams. He said, “Of course, I’d like to be drafted, or sign a free agent contract, but we’ll see how it goes.” He has seized every opportunity to put in the work, having spent several summers grinding it out with teams like the Onondaga Flames, the Cortland Crush, and he has played in the prestigious Northwoods League. Those teams play around 40 games per summer, and Buzz said, “We get a taste of what pro ball is like. We play double-headers, get on a bus, get home at 11 p.m. and then get up and do it all over again, and those 40

games feel like an extra season of experience. We play all summer, and it feels like real barnstorming baseball.” ● ● ●

The Cornell men’s basketball team wrapped up its season over the weekend, surpassing many expectations. The Big Red was picked to finish seventh in the eight-team Ivy League, but instead found themselves taking top-ranked Princeton down to the wire in the Ivy tournament.

Cornell saw the game tying shot rim out before falling 77-73, and finished a very respectable 15-11 on the season. It was the program’s first winning season since the 2009-10 Sweet 16 team.

The team’s surprising success (after losing all five starters) earned head coach Brian Earle the Ivy League coach of the Year award, becoming the first Cornell coach to win the award since its inception in 2014-15.

Mask Up!

TCHD continues to recommend masking indoors & around others

KN95 Masks Add Protection

from COVID-19 for You and Your Family

When to wear a KN95 mask

• While you are indoors and around others, especially those who are ill or not yet vaccinated.

• If it will be crowded or if masks are required.

How to wear your KN95 mask

KN95 masks that fit tightly to your face will stop the virus.

• Ensure a good seal around your cheeks and adjust nose clip for a close fit.

• A tight seal stops air flow through sides of the mask so the mask filters the air you breathe in and out.

Where to get your KN95 mask

• The County has distributed 1,000s of masks to towns, villages, and organizations.

Scan the QR for a list of locations. tompkinscountyny.gov/health

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Cornell hockey season ends in conference playoffs T

he Cornell men’s hockey team largely did what it needed to by territorially dominating an ECAC Hockey Championship quarterfinal series

against Colgate over the weekend, except there was one problem — Mitch Benson.

The goaltender made 36 saves on Sunday to backstop Colgate to a 2-1 victory over Cornell in Game 3 of an ECAC Hockey

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Cornell lost to Colgate in the playoffs. (Photo: Provided)

Championship quarterfinal series at Lynah Rink, sending the Raiders on to Lake Placid while ending the Big Red’s season.

The series finale was the third straight game in which Cornell (1810-4) outshot Colgate (18-17-4), yet it was another occasion in which the hosts found itself chasing the game. Of the series’ 180 minutes on the weekend, the Big Red only held a lead for 1 minute, 28 seconds despite holding a cumulative advantage in shots on goal of 107-56.

At the forefront of that effort was Benson, who made 36 saves on Sunday — only conceding a goal with 7.7 seconds remaining to junior forward Ben Berard on a wild scramble in the crease on a six-on-five advantage created by the hook on freshman goaltender Ian Shane in favor of an extra attacker.

Whereas the Raiders’ power play had struck for six goals in the teams’ first four goals of the season, it was the visitors’ five-on-five play that proved to be difference in Sunday’s series finale. The key play came just after the midway point of the second period when Josh McKechney walked a faceoff to the left of Shane, then fed Matt Verboon for a tap-in from the top of the crease to give Colgate a 1-0 lead.

Cornell, which entered the tournament as the fourth seed while holding down a national ranking of 18th in the USCHO.com poll, continued to keep the pressure on fifth-seeded Colgate up until a breakaway goal from Ross Mitton midway through the third.

Printed with permission from CornellBigRed.com.

Ithaca Beer Co. officially opens its new location in Collegetown

By Rya n Bieber

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omething new is brewing in Collegetown — beer. Yes, local Ithacans and Cornell college students alike will be pleased to hear Ithaca Beer Company has opened the doors of its brand new satellite location in Collegetown as of Feb. 23.

Located at the new Student Agencies Building and former location of Collegetown Bagels, the new taproom boasts an interior of 4,000 square feet, plus an additional 2,000 square feet outside, with 16 IBC beers on tap “We’re happy to finally be open,” Dan Mitchell, owner and founder of Ithaca Beer Company said. “The place has been packed every night.”

Certainly, the close proximity to Cornell’s campus has played a role in that. As Mitchell explained, even though the new location doesn’t have the same lush outdoor space and ample seating as the main taproom, there is plenty more foot traffic to be had.

“It’s actually a very communal spot, which is cool,”’ he said. “I think Collegetown hasn’t had something like that in a while, certainly since CTB left, at least on this side of the street.”

Mitchell said he had been considering opening a second location for a few years, pondering potential opportunities in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. Still, when the Student Agencies Building was renovated and Mitchell was approached to take over the downstairs, he saw immense potential in the space.

“When it came up, I thought it would be a great opportunity for us to ingrain the brand further into the community,” he said. “I figured there are a lot of the Cornell community that don’t actually venture to the other side of Ithaca so I don’t know if they are as familiar with the brand as they could be.”

All in all, the location has a lot of similarities to the flagship location, located near Buttermilk

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Falls. The menu remains mostly unchanged featuring classic IBC fare such as woodfired pizza, a buttermilk fried chicken sandwich, and the “Taproom Burger,” featuring bone-marrow infused beef with aged cheddar cheese and smoked garlic aioli. However there are a few newcomers such as the ‘Steak Tips” with kalbi marinated beef, roasted bell peppers and house-made pita. The “Pub Mac” seems likely to become a new favorite, described on the menu as cavatappi pasta served in a creamy alfredo sauce with a shallot, garlic and herb blend.

As is the case at the original location, the majority of the food is either grown on Ithaca Beer Co.’s own farm or supplied by local farmers and suppliers.

“I really like to grow my own food or know where it’s coming from,” Mitchell said. “That should be important to everyone but it’s certainly important to me.”

Of course, the highlight here will be the drinks. With 16 drafts on tap, the beer will always be flowing with all of the IBC fan favorites, from Flower Power and Apricot Wheat to Cascazilla. An added bonus is that this location has two more beer lines than the flagship taproom, which Mitchell said allows for more experimentation with serving small test batches of beers not currently on the market. Normally, these

small batches would be on standby at the original location, but here they will be right up front with the rest of the lineup.

For Mitchell that experimentation is at the heart of why he opened the original taproom and brewery in the first place.

“My intention was to create beers that really weren’t served in the market and my thought was always I’m going to build it as far as people are interested and just take it from there,” he said. “I never had a grand vision of what it was going to look like … but I’m super happy with where we are right now.”

Over two decades later, from the opening of the brewery in the late ‘90s and the first restaurant in 2012, to getting Ithaca

Flower Power IPA in over 15 states, IBC has definitely come a long way.

As for the future, Mitchell said he always keeps an eye out for future locations.

One far reaching goal? New York City he said, though he added the other cities of upstate New York remain viable options as well.

“If there’s an opportunity that comes up I’ll entertain it,” he said.

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drum set-ups. When I think of the DSO, I always wonder what it takes to transport all that.

RK: Yeah, it’s a lotta drums, man, you know? It depends on what show we’re doing, as far as how much of it actually comes off the truck. Because over the years the drums have changed, but there’s a lot on the truck, that’s for sure! If we’re doing anything from the early 70s, there’s only one drum set; that’s all there is. In ’76 and ’77, it’s just the drum sets. By ’87, it’s all the big drums in the back, and all the electronics. There’s some nights where we don’t have anything on stage but one drum kit, and there’s some nights where there’s 50 drums up there. It depends on what year [of the live Dead catalog] we’re performing, because it changed so much over the years.

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Dark Star Orchestra returns

Grateful Dead tribute band returns to the State Theatre March 18

IT: What do you do with the 21 hours a day that you’re not on stage?

RK: That’s a great question, man. We all do different things. Some of the guys don’t do anything, they just sit around, watch TV. Some of the guys go exercise. For me, on show days when we’re sitting around 20, 21 hours, I have a podcast that I started during the pandemic, so I work on the podcast. I am involved with some community stuff where I live, with a summer camp I’m involved with, so I’ll do work for that.

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he Dark Star Orchestra has long been a popular attraction whenever they make it to Ithaca, and they’ll be in town at the State Theatre for another mystery show culled from the Grateful Dead’s vast catalog of songs. DSO percussionist Rob Koritz talked to the Ithaca Times about COVID, bringing enough drums on the road, and his jam bandbased podcast.

Ithaca Times: I know you guys have actually out-toured the Grateful Dead, but how did COVID impact the DSO? Rob Koritz: Well, for the first year or so, we only played maybe 10 shows in 2020. We were stuck at home like everybody else. And then last year, about May 2021, we picked it back up. But we only played weekends; we’d go to one town. So we would just fly in, play some shows and fly out. You know, that way, we weren’t on our bus and we weren’t touring, so to speak. We were able to work, but it was draining flying out every Thursday and flying home every Sunday, week after week. Coming up, when we’re comin’ to you guys now, this’ll be our second real tour; we just did our first one at the end of January-February. That was our first time

IT: Tell me about your podcast.

RK: It’s called “The Music Plays the Band.”

Dark Star Orchestra will be at the State Theatre March 18. (Photo: Provided)

back on the bus, goin’ from town to town.

It’s definitely different now; we don’t have backstage guests, we don’t spend a whole lot of time in public, we test very regularly just to make sure that we’re all safe. While it’s different, we’re just doin’ what we have to, at the moment anyway IT: I can’t even imagine — 10 shows in a year.

RK: Yeah, it was crazy. But at the same time, it was kinda nice to get to spend more time at home than I ever have. It’s the most time I’ve ever spent with my wife and kids. So there were definitely some positives to it. The negatives were not getting to do what we love, and really not making any money for a year.

IT: I know that Billy [Kreutzmann] and Mickey [Hart] used very elaborate

IT: [laughs] RK: And I interview different musicians from in and around the jam scene, not completely from the jam scene, on how they first got turned on to the Grateful Dead, and how it’s affected their careers as far as playing and songwriting and business and what kind of influence the Grateful Dead’s had on them over the years. I’ve had members of the Grateful Dead on, like Donna Jean Godchaux. I’ve had Jorma Kaukonen from Jefferson Airplane. But I’ve also gone outside the band world and had people like Bob Crawford, who’s the bass player in the Avett Brothers, who’s a big Deadhead. The bottom line: musicians that love the Dead love to talk about the Dead.

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1930s icons at the CAP Artspace F

emale Icons of 1930’s Hollywood, by local artist Michael Busch will be on display in the CAP Artspace during the month of March. They include mixed media drawings (pencil, colored

pencil, water color, and gouache, mainly) of iconic women of the films of the 1930s’, displayed along with annotated information about each film star, along with images of some of his memorabilia.

“I like to say that I grew up at the movies,” says Michael. “I remember watching on the Late Show the films of the Golden Age of Hollywood early on. This was before the age of videotape and DVDs, all there was was television; three channels, sometimes more if you were lucky.

I watched. I haunted the revival houses. I read extensively. In high school, I began collecting autographs. I learned about the movies.

“During the 1930s anyone going to the movies would be hard-pressed to know that the nation was in the throes of a world-wide Depression. The various Hollywood studios exported their escapist product all over the world. It was “the dream factory”. At the height of the Great

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Depression 85 million people a week went to the movies, generally paying an admission fee of twenty five cents (a dime for kids) and most of them went more than once a week.

“Today, you mention almost any of the great stars to people born after 1970 and they have no idea who they are. Have they ever seen the classics of the period or even more, the great silent films, the masterpieces of the silent screen? This is our cultural heritage slipping away.”

Michael Busch graduated with departmental honors from the Art Department at SUNY College at Cortland where he studied painting with George Dugan and Steven Barbash. His last exhibition was in the late 1980s when he exhibited a series of large drawings (in the neighborhood of 5 feet square) dealing with figures, many larger than life size, mainly in interior spaces and portraits in the photo realist manner.

Previous painting exhibitions included still life (the famous lemon series) and the landscape. He is interested in the study of light and composition and in the “domestic tone” which runs through the work of figurative painters. After a long sabbatic, he is again producing art.

Happily ensconced in downtown Ithaca for many years, Michael has always had an interest in the movies and was one course away from a film minor in college. He is an avid collector of autographs of actors from the silent era and the Golden Age of Cinema and his walls are lined with, as he calls them, “my stars.”

CAP Artspace Michael’s new work can be seen in the CAP Artspace Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 110 N. Tioga Street on the Commons (also home to the History Center and Visitor Center).

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Opera

Inevitable change

Opera Ithaca and Ithaca College collaborate to show the inescapability of change, in ourselves and in our world.

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he Orkney Islands off Scotland’s northeastern coast provide an evocative setting for an original opera, “We Wear the Sea Like a Coat.” The regretfully brief five performances recently marked the world premiere of this collaboration between Opera Ithaca and Ithaca College’s music and theatre departments.

The compelling music was written by IC music professor Sally Lamb McCune, with Yvonne Gray and Rachel Lampert penning the libretto. Opera Ithaca artistic director Benjamin Robinson staged the work, and IC music professor Christopher Zemliauskas directed the student orchestra.

Ithaca College’s mainstage theatre was transformed by a haunting set (the work of senior Rebecca Gottbetter) –– a cavelike frame of looming boulders, with rock piles that shifted against an endless seascape sky. Throughout, the suggestive lighting design by senior Keegan Webber echoed the music’s moods. Two intimate interiors slipped in and out as well: a busy pub, The Brig, complete with musicians, and a warm simple cottage for the young American couple who’ve landed in this distant place.

Sara is a scientist on assignment for an oceanographic institute, while her husband Jonathan, a professor who failed to gain tenure, hopes to work on his writing.

Some tension exists, as he looks forward to starting a family while she doubts that’s a good decision. Sara’s work-focused; Jonathan’s more exploratory, open to discovering the mysteries of the island and the culture.

They’re gradually accepted by most of the locals, until Sara’s institute is bought out by Hallex International, an oil giant (echoes of Halliburton). Outside development has precipitated climate change in the islands, posing danger to the land, the archeological sites and even the local fishermen. The couple’s personal drama seems small in the shadow of the environmental struggle, and the narrative offers finally only one assurance: the ineluctability of change.

The interactions of the couple and townspeople are threaded with the appearances of three terns, who preside over the shifting fate of the Orkneys and affirm nature’s inevitable dominance. The terns –– Anchal Indu Dhir, Mayavati Prabhaker, and Athena Rajnai –– are fabulously arrayed in filmy dark fabrics with feathered epaulets (superb costumes throughout by senior Hannah Sotnek). Their flighty

movements are choreographed by Jeanne Goddard, who also shapes the ocean movements (women wafting iridescent blue gauze). The terns animate the emotional through-line but the ocean swells seem too whimsical, cartoonish.

Interestingly, the terns’ beaky black masks are repeated by those of the entire cast (who are wisely masked for health purposes) –– further suggesting the avian and human connection on these islands.

Surprisingly, the masks don’t significantly impede the singing, and the supertitles account for rare instances of unclear phrasing.

The singing in this production was strong, matched by the performers’ acting: Elena Galván and Dann Coakwell as the American couple; Steven Stull as the charmingly laid-back local historian; and Mariya Kaganskaya as Rowan, the welcoming county archeologist. (On alternate nights, IC students Sofia Medaglia performed Sara and Madison Hoerbelt the part of Rowan.) Antagonists Colin (Brad Brickhardt), a strident environmentalist, and Marcus (Evan Sacco), a growth-minded businessman, square off regularly at the pub. Fisherman Charlie (Nicholas Capodilupo) is a quietly imposing presence.

This opera’s blend of the practical with the poetic succeeds often but not consistently. The context and locale are absorbing, the ancient sites suggesting thousands of years of human effort and desire. We’re reminded that our past, like the future, is shrouded in mystery. Jonathan is drawn to the intrinsic rhythms of the land and the Orcadians living in harmony with it.

And McCune’s score, especially in its use of woodwinds, captures this spirit, as does the singing of the terns.

The libretto is what varies in effectiveness: sometimes lyrical and expressive, other times explanatory and prosaic.

The theme of humans despoiling nature is not new, but this particular setting is fresh. Some plot elements give one pause, though: the duet between Jonathan and Rowan is so exquisite, their connection so profound, that it seemed some romantic attachment was building. Of most concern, the opera’s central tragic moment (which only occurs because of a complete absence of common sense) is washed over too quickly by an optimistic several-yearslater coda.

Emotionally and intellectually, one can’t help feeling a bit tossed about –– but there is much that’s beautiful and admirable in this imaginative new work.

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Never Silent

Pre-talkies screen with live music at Cornell Cinema

By Br yan VanC ampe n

A scene from “Underworld.”

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lsewhere the night deepened into silence and rest. But here the brutal din of cheap music – booze — hate — lust — made a devil’s carnival.”

I watched Josef von Sternberg’s pioneering silent crime epic “Underworld” (1927) on YouTube with no sound — no music, no nothing — but with title cards like the one quoted above, it’s a breeze following the narrative. Visual storytelling hasn’t really changed that much in the history of cinema; even with no sound on my iPhone, it only took me a minute to get into “Underworld.” I can only imagine how much better it would play with music, much less a live musical performance.

Continuing a long tradition, on Friday, March 18 Cornell Cinema will screen “Underworld” with a live score played by Roger Miller and the Anvil Orchestra, an offshoot of CC favorites the Alloy Orchestra.

It wasn’t until I went to Wikipedia to find the film’s cast list that I realized all the characters in “Underworld” have nicknames and aliases: Clive Brook plays a lawyer who has succumbed to alcoholism, “Rolls Royce” Wenset. He finds himself aiding and abetting notorious criminal “Bull” Weed (George Bancroft) and his moll, “Feathers” McCoy (Evelyn Brent).

When you watch a silent film from this era, what you’re really watching is this first generation of filmmakers inventing the medium, cutting from a wide master to an extreme close-up for maximum narrative and emotional impact was relatively new in the 1920s. It certainly is a technique that Sergio Leone loved to employ in his westerns and comedies.

You’re seeing the developing language of film. Maverick filmmaker Roger Corman liked to have lots of kludge, or articulation of the surface, shooting through

foreground objects. The big set piece in von Sternberg’s film is a vast, crowded gangster party. There are thick drifts of confetti everywhere, and the actors wade through copious clouds of the stuff. (Now I can’t help but wonder if Roger Corman ever saw “Underworld”?)

On Thursday, March 24, Hans Karl Breslauer’s “The City Without Jews,” based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer, will be shown at Cornell Cinema, with an original score by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film pianist Donald Sosin.

For decades, “The City Without Jews” was thought to be lost, until the Filmarchiv Austria found a fragment of it in 1991.

When other elements were discovered in Paris in 2015, the Filmarchiv Austria was able to create a full restoration. I wasn’t able to hear the upcoming live score, but the version I watched on Vimeo had a full, klezmer-themed score with piano and lots of strings.

“The City Without Jews” is not antisemitic propaganda, but it is about antisemitism. The story depicts a city that decides to pass a law exiling all Jews; the rich folk party on while riots and hate speech take over the streets and the townspeople. The film has its heart in the right place, but that doesn’t save it from being heavyhanded, didactic and preachy. It simply doesn’t have the dramatic heft that makes a film like “Underworld” play without a sound.

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portunity to ask some artists that we had worked with over the years to collaborate on the album “CAS.” It was very refreshing to change the focus a little from jigs and reels etc. The songs required a softer, more ambient approach which I think balances well against the energy of the tunes.

Holiday spirit

Lunasa will play their Irish music at Cornell University on March 18

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he artful musicians of Lúnasa decided on their name from the ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish deity Lugh. Formed in 1997, the band had former members from a wide range of popular Irish groups.

And since their inception, the group has had a commitment to intricate rhythms and sophisticated musical arrangements.

The band has also collaborated with other iconic artists such as Natalie Merchant, Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Tim O’Brien.

Below, bassist Trevor Hutchinson spoke about his experiences with the band and the upcoming live performance at Cornell University on March 18.

Ithaca Times: For decades Lúnasa has been performing Irish music and is known the world over for their sold out shows. But talk about the way you first began to perform Irish tunes and how you were drawn to music? How did you

choose the instrument you Lunasa will play at Cornell March 18 now play with?

Trevor Hutchinson: My involvement in Irish music came later than that tour, not realizing we would still be the rest of the guys; I grew up listening to together 25 years later. It was interesting in the Beatles and the Stones and played elec- that we had total control of the direction tric bass in rock bands for several years. It of the music with no record company or was through working with Sharon Shanmanagement input. So we made plenty of non who had joined the Waterboys during mistakes along the way but at least they my time with them that I got drawn into were our mistakes and I think we learned the Irish traditional genre. I also started a lot from the process. playing upright bass at that time which I thought worked better with the overall IT: All the members of Lúnasa play sound. with verve, but how does the group focus to keep moving ahead and come up with IT: Can you talk about how you first new directions such as with your last joined Lúnasa and what was that like release titled “CAS”? What was that like for you in the beginning with this band for you and the other members of the given your past work with other artists? group?

TH: Lúnasa was originally formed as a TH: Every album is always a challenge on e off project for an Australian tour that trying to capture something of the live enI had been offered, so we put together a ergy. We always had wanted to incorporate lineup and recorded a cd specifically for songs into our music and we took the op-

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TH: Now that we’re back on the road after two years we’ll hopefully start that conversation. The time off proved very difficult in terms of recording as we’re all scattered in different countries. We did manage a couple of online concerts but they were pretty challenging from a technical view.

IT: What will this coming performance at Cornell be like for you and what will be unique for you about it?

TH: We’re very much looking forward to the Cornell concert, we always have an amazing audience there and hopefully the energy we’ve experienced being back on the road will be even better by then. We also have our original fiddle player Sean Smyth back with us for this tour so that adds another dimension for us.

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Ariana Kim, violin: CU Music | 7 p.m. | Moakley House, 215 Warren Rd | Free

Homestyle Homicide: The Freagan Family Reunion Mystery Dinner Theatre! | 6:30 p.m., 3/19 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown | Come a runnin’, cousins, ‘cause it’s time again for the annual family reunion and the whole Freagan family is gonna be there!

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Home Brew Acoustic | 4:30 p.m. | Kilpatrick’s Pub, Tioga Street Friday Night Music - St. Patrick’s Day Celebration- 3 Stone Fire | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd

3/19 Saturday St. Patrick’s Celebration w/ Kevin Ludwig and Jordan Loretz | 11 a.m. | Treleaven Wines, 658 Lake Road St. Patrick’s Day Irish Coffeehouse w/ Three Stone Fire | 6:30 p.m. | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | $1.00 - $10.00 Concerts/Recitals

3/16 Wednesday Midday Music for Organ 3/16: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. | Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza | Free

3/18 Friday Dark Star Orchestra at State Theatre | 8 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | $35.00 - $40.00 Henry Rollins - Good To See You 2022 Tour | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer

3/19 Saturday Postmodern Jukebox: The Grand Reopening Tour | 7 p.m. | State

John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano: The Manley and Doriseve Thaler Vocal Concert at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.| Ithaca College

3/25 Friday Musicians’ Choice Chamber Series: Edgewood Piano Trio | 7:30 p.m. | North Presbyterian Church, 921 College Ave, Elmira The Fab Four - The Ultimate Tribute at State Theatre | 8 p.m. | $29.50 - $54.50

3/26 Saturday Reginald Mobley, Countertenor | 7:30 p.m. | First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St. | $15.00 - $25.00

Stage ComedyFLOPs 3rd Friday Improv Shows To Support Area NonProfits | 7 p.m., 3/18 Friday | Virtual, https://www.youtube.com/comedyflops | ComedyFLOPs’ 3rd Friday streaming Improv Shows in support of local area non-profit organizations. | Free

Two Shows: Invitational Exhibition and Connie Zehr, Glass Act | 12 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | The State of the Art Gallery will host two exhibits for the month of March: the Salon features Glass Acts, four pedestal size installations by Connie Zehr; the Main Gallery showcases the 2022 Invitational Exhibit. | Free A41 Life Drawing | 12:30 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Community School of Music-Arts, 330 E State St | Art Studio 10 First Thursday of the month is portrait session; all following are nude sessions. Drop in any Thursday!

Pop In Studio Night | 4 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Artist Alley at South Hill Business Campus, 950 Danby Road | Several artists studios and the gallery will be open to the public every third Thursday from 4-7pm.

When Soul Calls | 12 p.m., 3/20 Sunday | 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 Helen Ann Yunis and Autumn Springston. | Free

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March 18-24, 2022. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first. * X* | In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. | 107 mins R The Outfit* | A gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.| 105 mins R The Torch* | This stirring documentary, amplified by electrifying musical performances, charts the guidance Buddy Guy received from the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf while passing his wisdom to young guitar phenom Quinn Sullivan, who has been mentored by Guy since he was a kid.| 107 mins NR Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation | 97 mins R Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action | 122 mins R Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary | 160 mins PG-13 Cyrano | In this re-imagining 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. |124 mins PG-13 The Worst Person in the World | Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.| 127 mins R

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

Faya Dayi | 3/16, 7:00PM | Faya Dayi is a spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf that Sufi Muslims chewed for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today.

One of 15 films shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Featuring a pre-recorded Q & A with filmmaker Jessica Beshir.

Great Freedom | 3/17, 7 p.m.; 3/20, 4:30pm | In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality.

Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.

Paprika | 3/17, 9:30 p.m.; 3/19, 8:45pm | Japanese anime from Satoshi Kon where the heroine is a genius scientist by day, and an eighteen-yearold dream warrior named Paprika by night. Only Paprika, who has the ability to enter people’s dreams, can save the world from an evil genius threatening to invade and destroy the world’s dream life.

Underworld (w/live music by the Anvil Orchestra) | 3/18, 7 p.m.| The silent film will be accompanied by an original score performed by the Anvil Orchestra, Roger C. Miller (keyboards) and Terry Donahue (accordion, saw & more) of the widely popular Alloy Orchestra, that performed regularly at Cornell Cinema over the course of 20 years (1999 – 2019). Special pricing.

Nightmare Alley | 3/18, 9:30 p.m.;3/20, 7:00pm | When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena and her has-been mentalist husband Pete at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society.

Detour | 3/19, 7 p.m. | The nasty, manipulative Vera aligns herself with the crooked path of Al, a luckless fool who’s fled his piano gig at the Breakof-Dawn Bar in NYC to follow his fickle ex, Sue, an aspiring starlet caught up in the glitter of Tinseltown. What

follows? Cons, corpses and drunken narrative curveballs.

Nostalghia | 3/22, 7 p.m.| Narrative virtually dissolves in Andrei Tarkovsky’s portrait of a Russian poet visiting Northern Italy to research an eighteenth-century composer’s life.

While there the poet experiences nostalgia for his homeland in a series of dreams that are breathtaking to behold.

Rocks, Stars, and Other Feelings | 3/23,5 p.m.| Artist-scholar Jessica Bardsley just joined the Department of Performing & Media Arts, and this program traces her poetic pathways of thought and practice through five of her films made between 2007 – 2021.

Film descriptions online. Free admission with filmmaker Jessica Bardsley in person.

35 Shots of Rum | 3/23, 7 p.m. | Starring the wonderful Alex Descas as a long-widowed African immigrant who works as a train conductor, and Mati Diop as his daughter, a college student, the two live in a suburb of Paris where their easy relationship is on the brink of change, as Diop’s character is wooed by a handsome neighbor.

Special Events (Baseball) Mohawk Valley Community College vs. Ithaca College JV | 1 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Guchess Baseball Complex | Baseball: (Baseball) Mohawk Valley Community College vs. Ithaca College JV Cornell Softball vs Rider University | 3:30 p.m., 3/18 Friday | University Park | Cayuga Trails Club Hike at Various trails in the Ithaca region. | 10 a.m., 3/19 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.

Cornell Men’s Lacrosse vs Yale University | 12 p.m., 3/19 Saturday, Schoellkopf Field | Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 12 p.m., 3/19 Saturday | Higgins Stadium | Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituten

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Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Cornell | One of the first and greatest of the American gangster films, Underworld has all the elements of the genre: gritty mis-en-scene in the Chicago underworld, explosive violence, and a love triangle. The silent film will be accompanied by an original score performed by the Anvil Orchestra, Roger C. Miller (keyboards) and Terry Donahue (accordion, saw & more). (Photo: Provided)

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State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W. State St. | Performing to critical acclaim for over 20 years and over 3000 shows, DSO continues the Grateful Dead live concert experience.

Their shows are built off the Dead’s extensive catalog and the talent of these seven fine musicians. (Photo: Provided)

Community Relations & Outreach Committee Mtg | 3:30 p.m., 3/16 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Fully Local.

Alchemy Sound Bath | 6 p.m., 3/16 Wednesday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd | An evening of deep relaxation and meditation through the sounds of alchemy crystal bowls, chimes, tuning forks, harp, gong and more! | $22.22

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Cornell Women’s Lacrosse vs Columbia University | 3 p.m., 3/19 Saturday, Schoellkopf Field | Cornell Women’s Lacrosse vs Columbia Cornell Women’s Polo vs USC Aiken | 7 p.m., 3/19 Saturday, Oxley Equestrian Center | Cornell Softball vs University of Massachusetts Lowell | 10 a.m., 3/20 Sunday | University Park | Cornell Men’s Tennis vs Western Michigan University | 11 a.m., 3/20 Sunday, Reis Tennis Center | Cornell Men’s Tennis vs Bucknell University | 3:30 p.m., 3/20 Sunday, Reis Tennis Center | Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse vs Nazareth College | 4 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Higgins Stadium | The Finger Lakes Boat Show | 10 a.m., 3/24 Thursday | Cliff Street Retreat, 407 Cliff Street | Explore, Excite, Experience | Free 2022 Ithaca Polar Plunge | 10 a.m., 3/26 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park Beach, 1740 Taughannock Boulevard | Join us for a “Freezin’ for a Reason” for the 2022 Ithaca Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics New York!

Drag Brunch featuring Local Drag Royalty! at Coltivare | 10:30 a.m.,

Mobile Check Deposit.

3/26 Saturday | Coltivare Presents: Drag Brunch featuring Local Drag Royalty! Outrageous, ostentatious, and utterly fabulous... your favorite Drag brunch is back--again!

Books Women of WWII: On the Front Lines & the Home Front | 7 p.m., 3/16 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | In this presentation, historian and author Barbara Warner Deane will discuss women’s contributions to WWII, including the American Red Cross Clubmobile program.To learn more and register to receive the Zoom link for participation, visit https:// www.tcpl.org/event/women-wwiifront-lines-home-front.

Virtual Teen Writing Workshop | 4:30 p.m., 3/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | STEAM Book Club: Music for Tigers | 3:45 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Songwriting with SingTrece at Southside Community Center | 6 p.m., 3/16 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.

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Kids LEGO Club | 4 p.m., 3/16 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.

Preschool Story Time | 10:30 a.m., 3/17 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.

Groton Public Library Storytime at Groton Public Library | 6 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Join the Library for a monthly storytime. This months theme is around The Winter Olympics.

Celebrate Spring with Dino Eggstravaganza! at Museum of the Earth | 10 a.m., 3/19 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | This year we are celebrating spring with our Annual Dino Eggstravaganza event!

Spring brings new life, learn about the animals that laid eggs through time.

Kids in the Garden: Seed Starting FAMILY PROGRAM IN-PERSON WORKSHOP | 12:15 p.m., 3/19

Saturday | CCE-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue | As adults get excited to procure the seeds for Spring gardening, kids can share in the gardening spirit by starting some seeds of their own! | $15.00 - $40.00 Puppet Show & Special Guest Ballerina with Dance Workshop | 12:30 p.m., 3/20 Sunday | Ithaca Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street | Puppet show with guest artist Baroque Ballerina who will teach a dance workshop after the show! | $8.00 - $12.00 Baby/Toddler Time | 10:30 a.m., 3/22 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., 3/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Notices Mid-Week Mindfulness Meditation | 12 p.m., 3/16 Wednesday | Virtual | Sessions are free and open to the public. All are welcome. Please arrive 5-10 minutes early Visit www. tcpl.org/events/ for Zoom Link. | Free

Marijuana Anonymous Meeting | 10 a.m., 3/17 Thursday | Ithaca Community Recovery (518 W. Seneca St), 518 West Seneca St | Marijuana Anonymous in-person meeting every Thursday @ 10am (beginning March 3, 2022) at Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca St, 2nd floor in the “Seeds of Hope” room. Enter from back door of building. For more info: maithacany@gmail.com Cardio Dance Class | 5:30 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Taught

by YMCA fitness instructor Kate A., attendees are invited to this lighthearted, dance-based, cardio fitness class that will boost your mood and improve brain function. This class is appropriate for all skill levels. To learn more & register, visit www.tcpl.org/ events/cardio-dance-class.

Chess Club | 6 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | An all ages chess club for beginners and experts. Meets every Thursday at 6 p.m. Beginners will get a lesson on the basics of chess and experts can meet and play.

CRT Trivia Night | 7 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Cortland Repertory Theater, 24 Port Watson St | A CRT “FUN” d raiser! 6 rounds of 5 questions each on various topics. $5.00 per person - Up to 4 people per team. Pay at the door.

Beer/Wine Cash Bar. Free snacks!

Hula Hut Polynesian Dance | 7 p.m., 3/17 Thursday | Just Be Cause

Center, 1013 State Street | Hula dance lessons - in person and virtual options for adults and children.

Gentle Yoga Series | 9:30 a.m., 3/18 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | To learn more and register, visit https:// www.tcpl.org/event/gentle-yoga.

Winter Ithaca Farmers Market | 10:30 a.m., 3/19 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!

2022 Community Seed Swap | 12 p.m., 3/19 Saturday | Ithaca Children’s Garden | Calling all seed savers, gardeners, and garden-curious! It’s time for our beloved annual CCE Tompkins Community Seed Swap Seed Sharing event. | $5.00 Sunday Morning Meditation | 10 a.m., 3/20 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road | Sunday morning meditation, free and open to all.

Quilt Making for Hospicare Workshop | 5 p.m., 3/22 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Patrons with some basic sewing machine knowledge are invited to take part in this two-week project to make a small (3’ x 4’) quilt top using improvisational quilting techniques. To learn more and register, visit https://www.tcpl.org/event/ quilt-making-hospicare-0.

The Really Free Market | 6 p.m., 3/22 Tuesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | The Really Free Market is a free bi-monthly distribution in the Main Reading Room of the Cortland Free Library of food, personal care items, and household supplies.

Brambles: Zoom | 6 p.m., 3/22 Tuesday | CCE-Tompkins Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue | Raspberries, blackberries, and everything in between... | Free Beautification Brigade Trainings | 7 p.m., 3/23 Wednesday | This event is online | The Beautification Brigade takes care of public flower plantings in Ithaca. Have fun, learn gardening techniques, and help keep Ithaca gorgeous. No experience required. | Free

SUNDAY, MARCH 20TH AT 12:30PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH AT 6:30PM

Community School of Music & Art, 330 E. State St., 3rd Floor, Ithaca | Performed by LilySilly Puppets and Julia Bengtsson w/ a FREE dance workshop after the show! See a singing sloth, the Opera Cat, and Wanda the Wizard in this puppet variety show. (Photo: Provided)

Cortland Repertory Theater, 24 Port Watson St., Cortland | A murder-mystery dinner theater event sure to entertain. Ticket price includes meal, dessert, coffee and the show! (Photo: Provided)

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Account Billing Manager

We are looking for a cheerful, professional, detail-oriented person to join our team serving Ithaca and the surrounding community at the Ithaca Times, Ithaca.com and the Finger Lakes community newspapers.

Job Responsibilities:  Maintain account records  Monthly billing  Scheduling and administering legal, display and classified advertising  Process accounts receivable/payable and handle payroll in a timely manner  Entering financial transactions in databases & document transaction details  Produce work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail Work Hours: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9- 5 Qualifications / Skills:  Accounting  Confidentiality  Attention to detail and accuracy  A knowledge and/or appreciation of newspapers and the media business  Able to multitask, prioritize, work under pressure and meet deadlines  Ability to communicate complex data clearly  Excellent data entry skills  Great interpersonal and customer service skills  Familiarity with a wide range of financial transactions including Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable  Experience with MS Office and Google Apps

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Monticello Central School Elementary Teacher Leave Replacement Positions through June 2022, Elementary Math/Science Teacher (MS) NYS Certification Required. Please apply online by March 22nd! http://monticelloschools.tedk12.com/ hire (NYSCAN)

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The body of the email should include a paragraph describing interest as well as comprehensive work and/or education history for at least the last ten years. References required prior to hire.

Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant – 96% OCM BOCES Special Education SKATE program has the need for a 96% Teaching Assistant to be located at McGraw Elementary School in McGraw, NY. Successful candidate will provide academic and behavioral instruction to elementary students with Autism under the direction of the special education teacher. NYS certification as a Teaching Assistant required and experience with children with Autism preferred. Applications accepted online only.

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Teaching Assistant OCM BOCES Special Education

program has the need for a 96% Teaching

Assistant at the Cortlandville Campus,

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will provide support and individual

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a Teaching

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