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everal community organizations that may appear to have little similarities are joining up for a common cause: to celebrate the community members of Ithaca that have rallied behind them, ad have been integral in their success. The upcoming Community Carnival is the first of its kind to hit Ithaca, and is in celebra-

tion of multiple milestone anniversaries of eleven different Ithaca community organizations.

Taking place at Stewart Park, there will be several opportunities for family fun, including free rides on the carousel, and several booths with raffles, prizes, games, and live music. This event is not a fund-

T a k e ▶▶ Ithaca Bake Off. Baking shows have exploded recently, with shows popping up all over television and Netflix, led of course by the Great British BakeOff because sometimes the Brits are better at television than we are. Regardless, Ithacans have a chance to participate in your own city’s bake-off on September

15. But due to expected high turnout, sign-ups are taking place right now and ending August 12. Entry is $50 plus a refundable deposit of $100, and two separate checks should be sent to the Ithaca Sunrise Rotary Club at P.O. Box 6565, Ithaca, NY 14851. Those with questions should email IthacaSunriseRotary@gmail.com.

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N o t e ▶▶ Women Be Swimmin’.

This Saturday at the Women Swimmin’ for Hospicare, where women can sign up to swim across Cayuga Lake while raising money for Hospicare and Palliative Care Services.

The endurance event (in other words, not a race) takes place the morning of Saturday, August 11.

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Swimmers will look to complete a 1.2 mile swim across Ithaca’s most prominent body of water, while being watchfully guarded by escort boaters just in case.

Other swimmers can set their own distance and speed goals, so don’t feel like you have to be an expert. Visit the event’s Facebook page to find out ways to support the swimmers in their quest.

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Karen Baer “Egg Salad, bacon. Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Pickles, Ranch dressing. Topped with Salt and Pepper. Provolone cheese. BOOM” -Amy Rowles

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Karen Baer, the former director, brought a civil suit against Tompkins County and the Tompkins County Leg- the violation was not enough justification to reverse the islature hoping to negate her termination decision. He ruled termination due to an Open that the stated reason given Meetings Law (OML) violato the public at the October 3, tion in the form of an Article 2017 meeting, during which 78 proceeding seeking relief the decision to terminate Baer from the decision. In the wake was made behind closed doors, of the civil action’s dismissal, was indeed inadequate. But Baer’s lawyers have filed an while Baer’s legal team argued appeal. They did not respond that this violation was part of to a request for comment, and a larger pattern of secrecy and Tompkins County maintained should be grounds to throw its policy of declining comout the termination, Keene did ment on litigation.

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not agree to that extent.

“Not every violation of the OML warrants the nullification of the resulting resolution or action,” Keene wrote, citing precedents. “The Court finds that [Baer] has not shown the requisite ‘good cause’ for declaring [the county’s] action void [...] Here, [the county’s] failure to comply with precise requirements of the Open Meetings Law did not constitute good cause to invalidate [the county’s] actions.”

Neither side was awarded any money for attorney’s fees or other similar costs claimed.

Baer was dismissed in a messy affair that began in October last year, when she was initially suspended for, as the county stated, failing to cooperate with an investigation into allegations she had made of bias and discrimination along both gender and racial lines within the Tompkins County administration. Baer is a woman of color It was the second such allegation she had made during her time with the county, which began in 2013 when she was hired to lead OHR. Baer claimed the first investigation, which took place in 2016, was a sham and wanted another one conducted into her charges. But when she never met with the second investigator, the county placed her on leave for “misconduct and/or incompetence,” and said her actions had led to the destabilization of OHR and that she had created a dysfunctional environment rendering the department incapable of fulfilling its mission.

A follow-up decision by hearing officer Murry Solomon found that while Baer was guilty of misconduct regarding the investigation saga, he stated that OHR had not been hindered by Baer’s leadership and recommended she be given an additional month’s suspension instead of termination. The ruling, however, was non-binding, serving as only a recommendation of how the county should handle the situation. A month later, the county decided to proceed with her removal. As her lawsuit continued, the county began to move on after her termination, naming Dr. Kenneth Clarke as her permanent successor in May. -M att Butler

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YMCA which is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the most recent group to join Ithaca is Family Reading Partnership, celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Ithaca Franziska Racker Centers is celebrating its 70th anniversary, and Executive Director Dan Brown said Racker’s focus at the event is to cater to not only the general public, but to folks with disabilities. Many of the prizes planned for giveaways are sensory oriented that children with autism may enjoy in particular.

Brown, who was hired to his position at about the same time as Frank Towner, CEO of the YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County, has hopes and expectations that the community event will strengthen Ithaca’s knowledge of the organizations, but also to thank the public for decades of support. “[Towner and I] share strategies and ideas, and we were talking at coffee and he suggested maybe we should do omitting to give back to the community… It has just grown by leaps and bounds since then,” Brown said. “The whole idea is to give back to the community after all of the support we have received over the years.”

In effort to make the event affordable to the community, and to also celebrate the long run from the organizations, which average start date was about 70 years ago, some food prices will be dropped to mirror 1950s prizes, including chicken dinners which will be sold for $1.50.

“We are certainly hoping that all of the organizations will bring a different group of people to the celebration than we might bring if it were just ourselves, which means everyone will have an opportunity to learn about all the organizations,” Brown said.

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lthough it is not new information to anyone familiar with the Finger Lakes region, it is worth noting that today’s lakes are a result of a glacial retreat, the ice mass having covered the state for a period until its disappearance 11,000 years ago.

Change is occurring continuously and while the impacts of humans may seem minute in comparison to explanations of the lakes’ formation, they are changes worth recognizing especially as they may relate to ones’ own behavior. A new exhibit at Cayuga Nature Center, Cayuga Lake: Past and Present brings attention to the delicate and interconnected relationships humans have with the bodies of water that define our homes, as well as the homes of many an organism.

In a side-by-side comparison, two 650-gallon fish tanks show Cayuga Lake recreated as it was three-hundred years ago and as it is today. Opened on Sunday, August 6, the exhibit is the result of several years of

brainstorming made possible by grants from New York Economic Development Program, the Tompkins County Tourism Program, and the Triad Foundation, along with donations from Cornell University, Incodema, Inc., and individuals.

Overlooking Cayuga Lake, the Nature Center felt it was not only appropriate but necessary to incorporate the lake into an exhibit. Helaina Blume, director of exhibitions, worked with Split Rock Studios out of Minnesota and the Aquarium Company to design the exhibit. Not only two large fish tanks, they are surrounded by fabricated rocks and trees, taxidermy animals from the center’s collection, and murals done of a farm today and an old growth forest, modeled after Smith Woods in Trumansburg which is also managed by the Paleontological Research Institute.

Known for its collection of live animals, the Nature Center will expand its legacy to actively include fish. Where

the center’s gift shop and lobby was once decorated with a few admittedly dilapidated fish and turtle tanks, the ground floor of the center now houses the two grand tanks, and over time will come to house as many as possible of the over 80 species of fish that are present in the lake today and as many of those that are native to the lake, inhabiting it three-hundred years ago.

Taking on a position essentially created to manage the exhibit, Natalee Wrege is a 2018 graduate from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who is now Cayuga Nature Center’s manager of aquatic animals.

Wrege will be in charge of the day-to-day care of the tanks which includes significant temperature monitoring, making sure it is in a range suitable for all the fish.

Much of the research and knowledge necessary for the stocking of the tanks to make them as representative of the lake as possible was done by Cornell University professors with whom the Paleoethological research Institute has a close relationship. Based on their information, Wrege will be able to stock the tanks accordingly.

Wrege has a strong affinity

to water which is complimented by her preference for looking at the world from an ecological perspective, examining how the ways in which things interact affect one another and the surrounding conditions.

Also responsible for the coral tanks at the Museum of the Earth, Wrege sees an important connection between the two exhibits, although one salt water and one fresh, they can act to highlight how even what people inland do can have an effect on the ocean due to the flow of watersheds.

Alongside the tanks are interactive and multi-media displays to enhance viewers’ understanding of the lake’s physicality and the history of human interactions with it.

While Wrege plans to have programming surrounding current issues regarding the lake such as blue algae, its causes and its threats, she is exceedingly open to hearing from visitors as to what they would like to learn about and tailoring the programming to common curiosities that arise.

Blume and Wrege were assured that changes to the lake need not be constituted and necessarily negative, however the exhibit makes clear that European settlers had extreme impacts on the Cayuga Lake watershed. The introduction of large-scale farming has greatly changed the lake’s make-up, while nine non-native fish have been introduced in the past three-hundred years.

While Native Americans have long been present in the region, their activities included limited farming and no threat of sewage runoff, as there is today.

Through the exhibit and future programming Wrege hopes to visitors will discover why they also feel a connection to water as she diffuses more knowledge about the mysteries of life as a fish and reiterates time and times again things like not recycling can affect organisms living in the lake, as well as harm humans by endangering our drinking water.

The Cayuga Lake: Past and Present exhibit is open permanently at the Cayuga Nature Center.

UPS&DOWNS

▶▶ Thumbs Up: Shout out to Ithaca’s strongest Man and Crossfit Pallas co-owner Tim Paulson, who just finished 29th at the annual Crossfit Games in Madison, Wisconsin. This year’s series of 14 workouts over 5 days included a disgusting 42,195 meter Marathon Row (Tim finished in 3 hours and 2 minutes.) Follow him on instagram @trexpaulson. ▶▶ Thumbs Up: this week, for the newly implemented all-way stop at the intersection of Route 13, Route 79 and Floral Avenue in the West End. Interesting to hear, since the Facebook commentariat has been, well… less than complimentary of the current construction over in that area. But hey, if the city’s won over one person, they can probably win over some more. The Ithaca Times predicts no ‘Thumbs Up’ for the construction other end of State Street, though. ▶▶ Heard and Seen: Best of Ithaca ballots are still open, so go vote and just by voting you’re entered to win a $50 Coltivare Restaurant gift certificate. You can find the ballot link on our Facebook, Twitter or homepage. You have the power to bestow this great honor upon some of your favorite local establishments.

But remember: with great power comes great responsibility. So whoever put down D.P. Dough as Best Restaurant, you’re on thin ice

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ason Sidle was born in Tompkins County and treasures his large extended family. Growing up in Fall Creek, playing basketball at Ithaca High School (Class ‘91), Sidle could count on running into someone he knew wherever he might be. Wife, Melisa Milton Sidle was also born and raised here.

Between their two loving, lively family clans they have helped shape Ithaca into the diverse, supportive community we share today.

After high school Sidle dove into the Hotel and Restaurant program at Tompkins Cortland Community College, before heading on to Rochester Institute of Technology for his BA in 1997. By 2014 when Sidle was back in town, working at TC3, and engaged in the launch of Coltivare Restaurant on Cayuga Street in Ithaca, he spiced things up with an MBA program.

Melisa went to TC3 and SUNY Cortland (Class ‘2008). Since Coltivare opened in 2014 Jason can walk over to GIAC at the end of the day to pick Melisa up after she closes the Computer Lab, which she supervises.

Jason’s daughter Cassandra, goes to TC3, and helps out at Coltivare when she can. His son, Jason Jr. is looking toward law enforcement, and admires the fine agencies in this region. His sister Emily Richardson studied hospitality at TC3, Jason’s father, Frank,

known and loved by many during his many years as manager at Bishop’s Hardware, studied business at TC3, as well.

Sidle loved his studies and maybe because of that he also wanted to use his time, energy, resources to help others break into the world of education. “Early on I committed myself to helping people wherever and however I could-- to have the opportunities I had,” Sidle said. “I wanted to help lots of people from every walk of life have a chance to study. And TC3 is a place that makes that possible. Through my work at Coltivare I can help students who are struggling with their homework, I can bring in hungry people I meet in the community and offer them a delicious, nutritious meal.

I can discuss employment and industry certifications, and just pitch in wherever I can offer support.”

Sidle, a natural born ambassador, has his own fan club as Director of the Coltivare Culinary Center located on Cayuga Street in Ithaca. When he speaks about the Finger Lakes region—its farms, its foods, its wines, TC3, Coltivare--those around him smile; his enthusiasm is infectious.

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thaca is technically a city, but the country encroaches pretty closely, with three big creeks running through and hills and a lake surrounding, providing verdancy and natural life to offset the density and intensity.

We live in an interesting blend of urban and rural. I live on a downtown street a block from Six Mile Creek, and have seen blue heron in the neighborhood more than I’ve seen some of my neighbors. (This neither pleases nor displeases me; it’s just a natural fact.)

One sees plenty of deer in the neighborhood, too: in yards fairly frequently, and occasionally not just crossing streets, but strolling them.

They seem to favor South Titus Street as boulevardiers, as it abuts the creek, a good place to dash to if there are humans to avoid.

I think there are so many here because they dwell largely in the woods above Spencer Road, and there are fewer in other neighborhoods with less private living space for them.

Once in a while you will see them right in the heart of downtown in the commercial zone. A few years ago one entered the Dewitt Mall, quite quietly, although it left rather markedly (but safely).

One finds raccoons everywhere, of course, also bats. Rabbits are not uncommon.

Occasionally I will see an animal

I can’t identify because I am originally from Brooklyn, and it is not one of the above, nor a pigeon, rat, or squirrel (that city panoply), and I was a middling biology student, and I never had a lawn to cultivate. If I had, maybe I would know more about the population density of moles and badgers, and whether or not groundhogs and woodchucks are the same thing.

Living in Ithaca 25 consecutive years, somehow I never saw a skunk, but that streak ended last weekend.

It’s ironic because I was doing one of the most urban New York things possible, going out on Saturday night for the Sunday New York Times (available in one Ithaca location), as metropolitans love to do.

On foot, on Wood Street, I saw a small animal scurrying across the asphalt. The mode of movement itself got my attention, as usually a furry nocturnal sojourner of this size will be a raccoon or cat, neither of which has a scurrying style. Raccoons tend to lumber, although they will scamper. Cats move as cats do, languidly when relaxed, boltingly when annoyed.

I noted the creature’s posture of head low, tail high, also unfamiliar to me. Finally, by the streetlight, I saw its telling stripe.

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YOUR LETTERS I am writing in support of Gary McCaslin, a community leader, environmentalist, and dear friend of mine.

Congressman Tom Reed has accused Gary of stealing campaign signs. However, Gary picked up several signs after the Democratic primary. Therefore, at that point, the signs had become litter. Gary was doing his civic duty.

Meanwhile, not a single bill Reed introduced in 2017 became law.

Maybe he should focus on his job instead of wasting taxpayer money on this petty political charade.

If this guy worked in my company, I’d tell him to knock off the drama and get back to work. Better yet, I’d fire him, which I intend to do this coming November.

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plenty of skunks from far-off distances, which this wasn’t, and I have the general sense that skunks will do a lot worse than bolt when annoyed, and to be personally sprayed with skunk biohazard at such close range would have certainly changed my plans for the night.

I know skunks don’t see very well, which is why they have actuarial problems with cars, so I slowed my gait, but didn’t change my path, and the skunk went its way and I went mine and that was that.

Except when I got back home, about thirty minutes later, on Plain Street this time, not Wood Street, I again see a skunk crossing the road.

After all these skunkless years of sight, now there are two in one night.

It might have been the same individual, but still, it was two separate

sightings.

Whatever the case, the curve surely skewed the next night when I drove home from work around midnight and parked at my house and had a skunk in my headlights, forty feet away.

My residential neighborhood is fairly stable, but now I felt like I had new neighbors.

With my strictly urban upbringing, I have always naturally considered things like Sunday newspapers on Saturday nights, and not proximal wildlife, enhancements of existence, but living here has broadened me. The fact that these species are willing to live among us feels somewhat redeeming to me. That they, still, would just as soon have not much to do with us feels not like an outright insult, just a measured and sensible stance•

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Events Manager Lauren Lowman, Front of House Manager Paul Stelmack and Business Manager Gerry event at Coltivare Restaurant. But that McDonough. Sidle said the goal of the group is to attract students from as is only a part of the amazing promany discigram,” he said. plines as they “Created by can to make generous and creative comthe experience munity memabout conbers in 2014, nectedness, Coltivare also not experincludes the tise through Sustainable exclusion. It’s Farm at TC3 opened other in Dryden, opportunities Wine Marketfor him as well ing Program, to become the Culinary more involved Institute and a in community Caption: Coltivare Ithaca Director of Operations Hotel and ResJason Sidle (top right) shown here with family. issues he cares taurant degree about. program.”

“Through Within Coltivare on Cayuga Street Sidle over- TC3 and Coltivare I am now able to support a new program for incarcersees the entire facility which includes ated young adults,” Sidle said. Childa restaurant (seats 110 people), the events space for 150 guests, the hood friend Matthew Wright and his Culinary classroom with 10 full-size colleague Clarissa Perez Fulmer work kitchen work stations—each work-sta- at MacCormick Secure Center, a maxtion large enough to create restaurant imum secure New York State facility. meals. An amphitheater-style wine There young people, mostly between marketing classroom rounds out the 15 and 18, have a chance to work with real estate in the Coltivare complex. our amazing Coltivare Sous Chef, “Meal preparation is busy, and can John Corbin. Each week John treks to feel high pressure,” he said. “Luckily MacCormick, and with Matthew and our Executive Chef Elliott Anderson Clarissa, he provides training in a setis a master at translating theory into practical applications for students and up similar to one used in a restaurant kitchen.” patrons alike.”

Jason and his OCFS partners are While keeping his calm, Sidle feels moving toward specific culinary blessed to be surrounded by such a and hospitality programs which will talented culinary team and leadergive young adults the chance to earn ship team that along with Executive industry-recognized certifications, as Chef Anderson also features Sous Chef John Corbin, Catering and well as TC3 credits• COMMUNITY CONNECT Contin u ed From Page 6

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Dentist Scott Noren, a former soldier in the Army, is running on a platform of using clean money and arguably not fitting into a specific conventional political ideology. He’s not new to campaigns, having mounted unsuccessful challenges to U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand several previous times.

Much of Noren’s campaign is fueled, it seems, by dismay at what he views as an undeserved free pass given to Gillibrand for her time in Congress, which he argues has been ineffective and not worthy of continuing at a national representation level, let alone at the Presidential level for which she is often rumored to be destined.

“There’s always a lot of people out there who say ‘But I like her,’” Noren said. “Well, that’s all good, but my whole point is Senator Gillibrand has been a legislative failure, when you look at it objectively.”

Obviously, Noren’s not looking at it objectively, he’s a candidate who wants to unseat her. But he asserts that his frustration stems from a reputation he doesn’t think Gillibrand has earned.

“She talks about women’s issues and equal rights, and it resonates, it resonates with liberal Democrats,” he said. “And you can say she supports all that, but she’s never done anything.”

As for Noren’s own views, they occupy a few different sides of the political spectrum, something he embraces. He supports a federal ban on fracking, a view he said he’s held for a long time, and pledges on his campaign site to reject any campaign money from the coal, oil or gas industry. One of his largest concerns is the student debt crisis, which he theorizes could be solved through A u gu s t

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a aisle-crossing solution like capping student debt interest that can be enforced by the government (Noren’s working number is a 3 percent interest cap).

“I see value in doing something that’s going to solve a problem, and be attractive to different parties, and actually pass,” Noren said. “That’s the way I would sell that. I don’t see how people could be against that.”

At the same time, Noren opposes the recreational legalization of marijuana, eschewing an almost uniform belief among modern liberals that laws against the drug should be significantly relaxed. He mainly expressed fear that such a move would cause more potentially deadly car accidents, and that he thinks it’s more or less a statement to get votes among Democrats.

Children’s issues seem particularly important to Noren, as a parent of two children who have varying degrees of disabilities.

Many of the issues Noren says are some of his priorities are things that have had an impact on his daily life, things that he has to deal with personally. That includes things like the Affordable Care Act, as a practicing dentist. He said as for shifting the nation to a total universal healthcare, single-payer system, he cast doubt about the viability of such a plan, although seemed to leave the door open for such a system if student costs for medical school were to come down beforehand to ensure students aren’t scared away from those professions where education is more costly and lengthier.

Overall, Noren knows he’s facing a steep battle, and that there’s a litany of issues on which he and Gillibrand actually might agree. But he simply believes he would be more effective than she has been in office, perhaps viewing his more eclectic political values as better accustomed to the fractured times the country is facing.

“The things that she’s touting equal pay for women, all those sorts of things, I’d be on the same piece of paper with her on those,” Noren said. “So when people ask ‘What makes you different?’ The things that make me different are the things that we’ve just talked about, and I think I could get them done. ” -M att Butler 2 0 1 8

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Now we get to figure out who’s going to do it, and what it’s going to look like.

There were a few bumps in the road, though they appear to have been for the better. Initially, the city sounded the alarm for proposals to redevelop the site but received only one project back: a $123 million submission from Ithaca Peak developers, who had brought their project to the city late last year and had directly led to the advancement of redevelopment discussions. At the time, it seemed strange that such an attractive, and lucrative, building opportunity would have yielded only one interested party, but regardless all indications seemed to be that the city would move forward and consider Ithaca Peak’s proposal.

That all changed in late April, when the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, which has been handling the submission process on behalf of the city, voted to reopen the request for proposals (RFP) process in the hopes that more developers would come forward with the benefit of an extra 90 days to formulate ideas. There was at least some thought given by the city to avoiding any allegations of nepotism or a skewed process that could have arisen due to the first RFP’s relatively short timeline.

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To briefly recap the city’s goals for any Green Street Garage redevelopment, they didn’t change very significantly from when it was first published earlier this year. The Green Street Garage is in probably the worst shape of all the city’s garages, with renovations sorely needed in the next decade-plus for the 385-space structure and making up an integral ingredient of the city’s criteria for an acceptable proposal.

Along with that, the RFP included criteria for housing units aimed at a “diverse demographic,” with a “substantial amount” of units set aside for affordable or workforce income housing, street-level active uses on Green Street, the retention of Cinemapolis and Home Dairy Alley and a conference center (the need/demand for which had been studied in 2017). To follow up on the parking aspect, the city asked for 450 publicly available parking spots including 90 for short-term parking. These aren’t necessarily hard requirements, as the RFP notes that the IURA is willing to consider alternative methods that still substantially address the community’s needs, but they are at least listed as “preferred programmatic elements.”

Here’s what the prospective developers came up with:

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Submission by Harold’s Holdings: L Enterprises, McGuire Development, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services This proposal comes courtesy of the same development team behind the neighboring Harold’s Square project, which after waiting years to begin is now well on its way to completing construction. This time they’ve come with a much smaller proposal than most may have been expecting for the site, particularly considering the number that was seen in Ithaca-Peak’s initial proposal (404 units).

Overall, the Little Commons project would bring a 76 unit housing structure that would stand five stories tall and interestingly nearly all of the units would be rented at lower than market rates. As it’s proposed, 12 of the total units would be available at rents commensurate with 30 percent of the Area Median Income, followed by 24 available for 50 percent AMI, 26 at 60 percent, 10 at 90 percent and 4 at market rate. All but four of the units will be one- or two-bedroom designs, and the units would be sold to INHS upon completion. It is listed as costing $24.975 million to construct, with a $2 million purchase price, and would be completed by the early- to mid-2020s.

“Increasing density in downtown Ithaca with mega-projects geared towards student housing does not, from a social equity perspective, mean increased density for the less wealthy in our community, it means displacement,” the proposal states.

“As an alternative to monolithic student

housing, we are designing a ‘village’ where a diverse demographic of young professionals, as well as families and empty nesters, are encouraged to live synergistically, truly making a home here.”

As for additional project elements, the two major remaining aspects are 20,000 square feet of market space along with a mezzanine, which it looks like the development team aims to fill with a grocery or convenience store that could also serve as a “grab and go cafe” type of operation, and the idea of the project as a “civic center,” creating a network of venues and utilizing nearby buildings to achieve some of the conference center goals. There is no conference center specifically proposed, opting instead to utilize Cinemapolis as a sort of pseudo-conference space, as a secondary use to its obvious movie theater, as well as space at Harold’s Square once it is finished. It also mentions the potential for an indoor Winter Farmers Market. The major public amenity listed is an outdoor theater that would theoretically be in the center of the building’s ground floor, which would be open air and operational year-round, and also work in conjunction with Cinemapolis. GreenStar is heavily mentioned as a potential tenant filling the groundfloor grocer role, moving and expanding from their current DeWitt Mal spot.

The development team only proposed buying the Western portion of the parking garage, but still claim to be able to maneuver a net parking gain. The project also includes some rather intense energy goals, which they say can be achieved through

its relatively short height, usage of heat pumps and rejection of natural gas, along with sensors that can determine suitable times for energy reduction in units.

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Submission by Newman Development Group, Visum Development, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Newman Development, responsible for the City Centre mixed-use project, and Visum Development, responsible for most of what’s new in Collegetown, are undeniably two heavy hitters on the Ithaca development scene. They brought 184 units of housing to the table split up as 120 “workforce” housing (a somewhat fluid term it seems) that would cost 90100 percent of AMI, to go with 50 affordable units between 30 and 80 percent of AMI (managed by INHS) and 14 market rate units.

This project might end up representing a middle road of sorts, as besides its 141 units it proposes a 30,000 square foot conference center, 20,000 square feet of street level retail that can be split up among tenants or just used by a single vendor, and 5,000 square feet of community space. The building’s total height is 10 stories for the most part, though the more expensive apartments are raised on one side of the building to create an upwardsfacing L shape with two extra floors there.

The vast majority of units would be oneand two-bedroom apartments.

An obstacle here might be that all of the housing cost-levels are grouped together: affordable in one part of the building, market-rate above everyone else, and workforce taking up the bulk of the center of the structure. Whether or not the city will object to that isn’t yet known, but they

did make it a point during last month’s tax abatement reforms to say they wanted affordable units mixed in with the rest of the population, not relegated to certain parts.

That being said, Visum/Newman also provide the most detailed plan to repair the Green Street Garage, laying out specific construction and renovation focuses and an addition of 57 spaces for a total of 525 parking spots.

Throughout its proposal, Newman and Visum are clearly appealing to the city’s stated middle-income housing shortage, something that has only recently gained more attention as higher-rent and affordable housing have both experienced somewhat of a construction acceleration, leaving out the middle.

“Newman/Visum proposes to provide the majority of units at 90% to 100% of AMI, which is approximately 25% to 35% below market,” the proposal states. “In addition, there appears to be an opportunity to include a few market rate units (about 10%), which would optimize the potential of the site and produce additional income that will further support the below-market workforce housing units.”

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“This new supply of affordable and diverse housing will make a significant contribution toward the need for affordable housing and the proposed PILOT schedule represents an important and worthwhile investment and subsidy by the City and others.”

going in since they can theoretically navigate renovating the entire garage and only having to negotiate with the city instead of another developer.

(it looks as though the Racker Center and Tompkins Community Action are both willing to help with the latter population).

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Submission by Peak Campus, Ithaca Properties The first ones to plant their flag at the Green Street summit, Ithaca-Peak’s proposal hasn’t changed very much since it was first introduced, besides converting a few more units to “affordable” status, going from 38 units to 41, and reducing the proposed rental rates of those units from 90 percent of AMI to 75 percent. They do specifically note a willingness to negotiate those numbers with the city (most likely an acknowledgement they will have to move that number of units farther up if they want to receive a tax abatement thanks to the recent reforms requiring 20 percent of units be affordable for consideration).

Otherwise, though, the development team seems pretty comfortable with the March incarnation of their project. They still have 404 units, easily the largest housing supply addition, with 620 beds and a focus on graduate students and young professionals from the nearby universities -- the only project, perhaps it’s relevant to mention, that is stating that focus publicly.

One-bedroom studios make up the majority of the offered units, followed by twobedroom/two-bathroom.

It does also offer a conference center, albeit smaller than the others listed here, at 20,000 square feet, and offers 10,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.

And even after facing some criticism from housing advocates, the project still retains its same rental rate structure, with those aforementioned one-bedroom studios going for $1,373 a month and prices ascending accordingly from there. It’s also the most expensive project overall, most likely due to its sheer size as it boasts two 13-floor towers, 10 floors of which is taken up by housing, followed by two for parking and one for ground-floor retail.

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cent and 80 percent of AMI, meaning their proposed rents are between $657 a month for a 300 square foot studio with one bathroom up to $1484 for a 975 square foot three bedroom unit with two bathrooms.

Different sizes among unit types also dictate slight rent increases. 107 units of the 209 proposed would be one-bedroom/ one-bathroom apartments rented at $863 per month (compared to the expected market rent of $1400, per their proposal).

Like most of the other proposals here, Vecino has looped in INHS to serve as property manager, and is looking to add

The estimated total cost is about $95.2 million, and they propose a free land acquisition cost since “the revenue generated from this project cannot sustain the added costs for the land, but we feel the trade off of the affordable housing units, as well as increased number of parking spaces and the conference center, offsets the land donation.” The submissionto-completion timeline would be about four years.

Four levels of construction would be added atop the Green Street Garage’s center portion, while the Western portion would be demolished and replaced with 13 floors of primarily housing, accompanied by a sixth-floor terrace, a rooftop lounge, and ground-floor mixed use. The highlight of that mixed use is the 33,000 square foot conference center that would occupy the first two floors of the building, with parking also going up until the sixth floor (the remaining 8 floors would consist of housing).

“The Conference Center will increase the City’s capacity to host events and groups, making Ithaca an even more attractive destination and ultimately having a positive economic impact on the community,” the proposal states. “3,000 square feet of support staff offices and program space for the not-for-profit tenant will be designed to accommodate specific programs.”

While the project notes that it acknowledges Cinemapolis must stay open during construction, it does say the project would be “infinitely easier” if the movie theater was to close during the process.

As for the ever-touchy subject of tax abatements, the development team does say they will be necessary for a period of 30 years, though one would think the city would be amenable to such a request for this level of affordable-to-workforce housing influx. Exact figures were not made available in terms of what they will be requesting in total tax incentives, although the development team appears to be hoping that a significant portion of the project’s construction funding will come from outside sources like New York State•

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fter completing her first Cayuga Lake Triathlon in 2009, Alexandra Klienerman likely did not know that her involvement would lead to several Ironman finishes and to her becoming the event’s Co-Director for several years. She would eventually take over in 2017, and after the success of her brainchild – the first-ever Cayuga Lake Kids Triathlon - it appears that Alex has assured that her duties will be more complex (and rewarding) moving forward.

The Cayuga Lake Triathlon just wrapped up for the 16th time, and the Ithaca Triathlon Club has done such a great job in promoting and running it that is it one of the preeminent triathlon destinations in the Northeast, and the addition of the Kids Triathlon is a good thing for many reasons.

One of those reasons is the fact that many young people are under the impression that if they want to be good at a particular sport, they must do it year-round.

While 1/4 Pagesuch specialization does hone a young athlete’s skills, sports medicine professionals caution against over-specialization. Developing bodies are vulnerable to “overuse injuries,” and cross-training is recommended to avoid these problems.

“Getting kids started in triathlon can be a challenge,” Alex said. “Some have been runners but have not done much swimming, and some have experience on a bike but haven’t done much running... organizing this event and giving them this opportunity is something I have been dreaming about for a long time.”

When putting the event together, Alex had several goals. Location was important to her, noting the Cass Park pool locale and utilizing a section of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, while also noting the beneficial collaboration between the Ithaca Youth Bureau and the Ithaca Triathlon Club.

“I also wanted to make it a real triathlon experience by having the parents stay out of the transition areas and have actual timing services (donated by Ithaca-based Happily Running), and all the finishers got a water bottle,” she said. “Also, it was important to make it affordable, and Cayuga

Family Medicine made that possible.”

The young triathletes were split into two groups, and the 7 and 8 year-olds did a 50 meter pool swim, a 3K bike ride and a 1K run. The 9 and 10 year-olds swam 100 meters, biked 5K and ran 1K. It was a great introduction to a sport that continues to grow in popularity, and Alex says the Kids Triathlon will be even better next year.

One of the reasons event organizers want to give young athletes this opportunity is the fact that, in Alex’s words, “Triathlons can be intimidation to adults, because many of them didn’t grow up swimming, or biking, and we’re trying to take some of these limiters away. If done properly, triathlon can be a lifetime sport.”

She also pointed out that there was a triathlon mini-camp held at Island Health and Fitness the weekend before the event, and that event was well attended.

To put a finer point on that assertion, Alex told me about Thomas McGee, who made the trip from Ottawa. McGee was the second overall finisher (behind former Ithacan Travis Turner), and the Canadian made the 1,500 meter swim in 24:59. He followed that up with a 24-mile bike ride, which he nailed in 1 hour and 7 minutes, and closed out his race with a 43:57 time in the 10-kilometer run. Factoring in his transition times, McGee’s total time was 2 hours, 18 minutes and 37 seconds. That’s a fast time for anyone, but it’s even more impressive when you look at the fact that if McGee was a U.S. citizen, he would be eligible for Social Security on his next birthday. That’s right, he is 61 years old. A lifetime sport indeed.

I would like to recognize the effort put forth by Ithacan Laurie Linn to establish an award in honor of Stephanie Gardner, the local triathlete who passed on last December. Steph was a beloved member of the local triathlon community, and the award was given to the top male and female finishers in the 40-44 age group. This year’s winners were Jennifer Roberts and Ray Fitzpatrick•

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Ky l e Fa r r he Finger Lakes Liftoff comes to The Haunt in typical Ithaca fashion on Friday August 10th.

Not only do you get three great bands in Dapper Dan, Space Carnival and Raibred, but you get to enjoy a great professional light show and a live painter too. The event is a great example of artists of all kinds of artists coming together to build each other up as well as an example of how social media can be used in a positive way as the event was primarily orchestrated through a Facebook group.

Event organizer, Steve Bassi of band Dapper Dan, came up with the idea after a Facebook group he had joined, “Phans of the Finger Lakes

painters, and everyone else they could find with the mindset of helping each other grow and allow new connections to be made. The event is still open to vendors as well.

The success of an event like this largely depends on the venue and your ability to promote it. Bassi reached out to the obvious choice, DSP Shows. Without hesitation, DSP got behind the idea and gave The Finger Lakes Liftoff a home at The Haunt on August 10th, with tickets only $10. DSP Shows is well known for bringing national touring acts to Ithaca time and time again, but it is heartwarming to see an organization that will also support the fantastic talent locally just as consistently.

Now with a place and time set, it was time to put the idea in full swing. After polling the

called them “great examples” to Dapper Dan and said, “We’ve been wanting to join up with them for a while.” The Ithaca based band is a psychedelic high energy disco based jam band that has been taking music scenes all of the country by storm and will be headlining the event. Going from a college party to band to being on some of the larger festivals in the country and sharing stages with likes of Infected Mushroom, Midnight North, Flux Capacitor and Dopapod in just five years.

Raibred, a Binghamton band is a psychedelic progressive rock jam band that brings a great high energy performance and is battle tested with over 200 shows under their belt since 2011, is making their Haunt debut. You don’t often hear bands that are heavily influenced by progressive rock that explore songs in improvi-

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Daperdan, Railbred, Space Carnival

& Upstate NY” began to quickly collect more members. The group is dedicated to connecting Phish and other similar jam band fans in the area. Bassi, a big Phish fan himself, said though he recognized many people in the group, he realized there was a whole new group of people from the area he would want to meet. Plus, he thought, they might be interested in the kind of music Dapper Dan is making. After a large crowd of “Phans” from the group showed up to The Range when Dapper Dan played the Twiddle pre-party show, he came up with an idea to bring them all together again. This time alongside some of the area’s top jam bands while also supporting many local artists who are also members of the group.

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members of the “Phans” Facebook page, they decided on inviting Space Carnival and Raibred, though Bassi commented there are many more bands he wanted to work with. Noting that if the show is successful, he would be interested in doing a similar event with all different bands or possibly even an outdoor event in the future.

Overall, the night consists of three extremely talented bands who like to explore their music and improvise, but each having their own distinct sound. Dapper Dan, the host band, is a funk/reggae fueled jam band based out of Ithaca that has been picking up a lot of traction over the past couple of years. After becoming a staple at Two Goats Brewing Company, playing many of the areas festivals like Seedstock and Togethernessfest, along with consistently trying to play in front of new audiences they have been able to take major steps forward in their musical journey.

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sational jam sessions so the show is definitely a unique treat.

It’s not just the musical artists getting in on the action either. Visual Artists, Grooven Loomen Lighting, brings their artwork to life in the form of light shows. Even though they sport an impressive resume of different festivals and events in the Finger Lakes Area, this will be their first time working in Ithaca and DSP Shows. Another unique addition to this performance will be live painter Sleepyhead which is something new to performances at The Haunt.

Whether it’s the way the lights swelled when the band comes out of a long jam on your favorite song, the visual representations of a painter’s experience and emotions during the performance, or the more literal capturing of moments through photography and videography, they all come together to support each other and help make The Finger Lakes Liftoff a night to remember•

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Hangar’s “Doll’s House” a winning story

By Barbara Ad am s

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early 140 years after Ibsen’s Nora Helmer slammed that door, walking away from her home, husband, and three children, audiences and critics have debated the significance of this defiant gesture, revolutionary for the time. Playwright Lucas Hnath looks beyond, to the 15 years since Nora’s departure, in his sequel “A Doll’s House, Part 2.” The compelling drama ran five months on Broadway last year and earned Laurie Metcalf a Tony Award for best leading actress.

Hangar Theatre artistic director Michael Barakiva loved the show and has brought it to this summer’s season with sensitive, creative choices throughout. Be prepared: this is a talky play, reflecting the dramatic mode of realistic and psychological theater at the end of the 19th century.

There’s a lot of dialogue, but opening night audiences leaned in and hung on every word. And when one character speaks,

the listener really listens (as do we) –– a pleasurable change from our own hurried, interruptive mode of conversation.

Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play presented the dilemma of a bourgeois wife trying to do right by her ailing husband, beloved children, and needy friend –– but foiled by society’s legal, social, and moral constraints on women. Powerless, shamed, and infantilized, a trapped Nora finally did the unthinkable, leaving to forge a new life for herself.

Hnath’s play begins with a firm knock on that door she once shut: and when the nanny, Anne Marie, opens it, there stands Nora, an imposing black silhouette (attentive lighting choices by Steve TenEyck).

When she enters, added light makes her less fearsome but even more elegant; her dark blue ensemble with sealskin-textured jacket signals her financial well-being and social status. (Olivera Gajic’s period costumes reveal each character deftly).

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onym.) She’s returned after a 15-year absence because she’s learned Torvald never filed divorce papers. And she’s now being threatened with exposure as a fraud who’s remained married (and thus illegally signed contracts and had lovers) while advocating that women reject the marital institution.

Her options are either to publicly reject all she believes in or achieve a swift divorce. And while a man can obtain a divorce easily, the wife must prove severe mistreatment. Nora wants her freedom and independence, not lies and more grief for Torvald. But when he arrives home unexpectedly, she learns –– no surprise –– that he has no intention of assisting her.

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The anteroom where all the action occurs, also designed by TenEyck, is a greywhite oval, a near-barren space with a few chairs. No decorations and cracked walls; nothing to distract from the freighted encounters onstage. After his wife’s departure, Torvald Helmer jettisoned all her belongings; this space suggests his subsequent emptiness and emotional disrepair.

Overhead the pale oval ceiling offers an oculus, as if we’re witnessing interactions under a microscope. This ashen set is metaphorically the state of souls scrubbed bare and raw.

Nora, after years of silence and struggle, eventually turned to writing –– and has enjoyed great success with books that speak truth to women about their lives.

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A Doll’s House Part 2 At The Hangar (Photo: Provided)

played by Linda Larson and Greg Bostwick. Their subtle performances portray mature people with dignity, intelligence, and passion who even at their most headto-head quarrels treat one another decently. Onstage disputes can feel sour, but these are ideological exchanges imbued with feeling and respect.

Larson holds herself and speaks as a self-determining, progressive-thinking woman; you sense the detachment Nora’s worked to achieve in order to thrive. Bostwick’s Torvald is far beyond Ibsen’s priggish spouse; he too has ripened through suffering. At every moment Bostwick brings a warmth, humanity, and civility to Torvald, which enables the couple’s exchanges to occur on truly new ground.

In a final scene, they both sit on the floor, illuminated but exhausted, hands touching.

In this empty space, Barakiva’s staging is always thoughtfully expressive. So is his choice of the talented Ariel Blake as Emily, the teenage daughter who appears with her own third option for Nora. Radiantly beautiful, Blake is poised, outspoken, and unresentful. As in the New York

production, the (unscripted) casting of a woman of color in this role has a refreshing symbolic effect: a new generation has stepped beyond its parents’ world. (Or has it? Hnath asks.)

As the overburdened housekeeper who raised Nora and then her abandoned children, Susannah Berryman on opening night hadn’t quite achieved the 19th century and modern mix of the role, but this should develop.

In this narrative, all three Helmers have been or are willing to maintain fictions, lies even, to preserve their own lives, so it’s inspiring to see the heroic choices Nora and Torvald finally make. This play of ideas and integrity both stimulates and satisfies•

Inn folks sing and dance to their heart’s content.

Corinne Aquilina’s orchestra opens with the show’s frantic medley and goes on supporting the cast admirably. Thanks to sound designer Ed Chapman, every song and speech can be heard. Shoko Kambara’s clever scenic design offers a four-framed set with a mix of reality and artifice; it’s like looking into a box of Whitman’s

Interestingly, their fine performances mean that we’re moved emotionally and forward in the narrative by the music itself, as it should be. Benjamin Mapp’s Ted does some impressive tapping, but his acting is still a bit too stiff. Julie Kavanagh comically captures Lila’s carefree superficiality –– “I can’t live out here with all these vegetables.”

Hangar Theatre “A Doll’s House Part 2,” by Lucas Hnath, directed by Michael Barakiva, with Linda Larson and Greg Bostwick.

At the Hangar Theatre, through Aug. 11. Tickets at 607273-2787 or HangarTheatre.org.

Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Deep cast performances lift “Holiday Inn” at MGR

By Barbara Ad am s

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omewhere in your memory you’ve got the words and tunes to songs of yesteryear, like “Easter Parade,” “Heat Wave,” “Cheek to Cheek,” and “White Christmas.” All Irving Berlin hits, they were featured in “Holiday Inn,” the 1942 musical film with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. But it wasn’t till 2014 that a stage adaptation emerged, reaching Broadway in 2016 and now pleasing audiences at Auburn’s Merry-Go-Round Playhouse.

This “Holiday Inn” features music and lyrics by Berlin, of course, with book by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge. As directed and choreographed by Richard J. Hinds (of last season’s “Guys and Dolls” and assisting on Broadway’s “Come From Away” and “Newsies”), this is an unabashedly old-fashioned musical enthusiastically delivered in full retro style and spirit.

It’s well-cast, well-sung, well-staged and thoroughly entertaining. Relax into the period and sail away.

The familiar theme –– country mouse vs. city mouse, farm vs. metropolis, the boonies vs. Broadway –– took a different tack in “Crazy for You.” Here, a struggling song and dance trio breaks up after Jim (the singer) proposes to Lila; best friend Ted (the dancer) must fend for himself.

But Jim’s dream of an idyllic farming life and family-to-be in rural Connecticut isn’t half so attractive to Lila as the new six-week tour with Ted their manager’s just booked.

Jim heads out to learn pastoral ways (a source of some nice comedy, complete with parsnips), only to be disconsolate when Lila decides to stay in show business for good. With the benevolent help of a meddling caretaker (aptly named Louise Badger) and schoolteacher Linda, the family farm’s reluctant seller, Jim gradually adapts. To pay the mortgage, though, they all end up transforming the farm into a “holiday inn,” with sold-out performances by his visiting New York troupe, who can only get away on holidays.

Linda, as it turns out, once had an abortive start in theater herself, and she’s now coaxed back onstage. (Premise: theater’s magical lure is irresistible, ever and ever amen.) She’s a natural talent, as Ted discovers when visiting; he persuades her to join him acting in a Hollywood movie about the very Holiday Inn story (with Jim’s songs). While performing on stage might be seductive, the movie world is phony and artificial, and yes, Linda makes the right choices, and the Holiday

Holiday Inn at the Merry-Go-Round Theatre

chocolates, all framed with a bow. Jose Santiago’s lighting sparks every scene and mood.

But it’s the costumes by Tiffany Howard (topped by Alfonso Annotto’s wigs) that take your breath away: scene after scene after scene features this cast of 23 in different styles, colors, and details of outfits.

I can’t recall when I’ve seen so many costume changes, and Howard outdoes herself with the dance ensemble. Whether ’40s shorts for the July 4th number or jewel-tone ball gowns, the effect is dazzling and delicious.

The dancers perform alternately at the farm and in New York, where the costumes grow ever more intricate as Ted and Lila’s duo act soars. Hinds’ choreography, assisted by Lizz Picini, is all flashing arms and legs, deliberately retro, it would seem.

Not novel, but that’s ok; it’s the singing that pulls us in –– as Jim, Ben Mayne has a wonderful, textured speaking and singing voice, and as Linda, Jennifer Evans quietly astonishes, her voice lovely and strong; her characterization pitch-perfect.

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The ensemble is talented and eye-catching (that Christmas number!), but three supporting roles deserve a shout-out: Kate Chapman’s magnetic “fixer” Louise, who brings good-humored depth to the show; Jake Mills’ theatrical manager, a personable caricature; and Brock Calabrese’s Charlie, the pragmatic local errand boy whose scene-stealing entries charmingly deflate everyone’s fantasies.

Every foray into an earlier time should be just so delightful•

Merry-Go-Round Playouse “Holiday Inn,” music and lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Gordon Greenberg & Chad Hodge, Directed and choreographed by Richard J. Hinds. At the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Auburn, through Aug. 22. Tickets at 315255-1785 or online at FingerLakesMTF.com.

Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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AUG. 16–SEPT. 1 The Muses of Ancient Greek Mythology task themselves to inspire the greatest Venetian artist of all time. But instead of Venice, Italy, they find themselves in 1980s Venice Beach, California.

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n the past decade or so of showing her work regularly at Ithaca’s member-run State of the Art Gallery, local artist Ethel Vrana has shifted her work towards a focus on abstraction.

A poignant, assured colorist at her best, her approach has been eclectic. Working mostly smaller scale, her explorations have ranged across abstract painting’s established vocabulary: emphatic strokes and archaeological layerings of paint; varied and mixed media; geometric shapes and grids; fragments of imagery; Klee-like signs and symbols.

Vrana’s most recent oils, done on canvas or panel, turn away from her previously heavy textures and unusual applications of paint. The results are less risky but more consistent.

A large selection of paintings and works on paper (24, a big show by area standards) are on display at the Ulysses Philomathic Library in Trumansburg through the end of August. Many, perhaps most, of the pieces here could be familiar from the SOAG, particularly from “Shapes and Symbols,” a solo exhibit held last summer in their smaller back-room gallery.

One of a handful of larger pieces on canvas, Sky Ladder is particularly striking. (It hangs apart from the others, on the other side of the library space – look out for it.) Like several others here, it evokes a nocturnal atmosphere, with faintly contrasting forms that slowly emerge as you adjust your eyes. Against a space filling background of dull purple, hazy shapes seem to pulse with light. Three haloed circles of orange-yellow and pink shine brightest while a “ladder” of turquoise rectangles, fainter, forms a central vertical. Smudged squares of crepuscular blue accent the lower left corner.

Color Space 2 by Ethel Vrana

Another large canvas, Midnight Stroll hangs near the library’s back entrance. The piece suggests it would rather be a drawing, with chalky-looking lines in bright colors – yellow, orange, pale-pink, aqua – seemingly scrawled like graffiti against a dull swampy green background. Blocks of color, mostly verticals, form a kind of rhythmic procession, creating a sense of ambiguous depth-in-flatness. Appearing in different blues as well as green and brown, these seem to occupy a different light-world from the lines – fading against the dark backdrop. The whole thing seems a study in forced contrasts.

Some of Vrana’s most assured – and often most adventurous – pieces are on paper. Recalling fellow SOAG abstractionist Marian Van Soest, Red and Blue Composition is a liqueous, luminescent swirl of acrylic. Combining acrylic and ink, the square shaped Winged layers drips and blots of lovely translucent color. Playing smudgy ink against the delicate rice paper. Dots and Lines places a scaffolding of black lines aside a cloud of ink spots, riotous in magenta and yellow.

Using the same materials but with quieter chroma, Organic Shapes recalls Abstract Expressionist pioneer Arshile Gorky’s delicately outlined biomorphic forms. The scene appears ghostly, as if in the process of dissolving or erasing itself.

Perhaps because it crosses lesser-known terrain – often obscuring boundaries between painting and drawing – abstraction on paper feels like a fresh direction for local art. Vrana’s works on paper recollect her earlier experimentalism but feel more assured.

Those well acquainted with the local art scene will be familiar with the phenomenon of long-time figurative painters experimenting with or fully embracing abstraction. Vrana’s paintings in Tburg might be seen in the company of fellow SOAG members Ileen Kaplan, Diane Newton, Janet Byer Sherman, and Van Soest, who have pursued similar trajectories in their recent work – albeit with differing degrees of seriousness and success.

Ithaca and its surrounding communities contain more than their share of abstract artists doing ambitious work.

Although non-figurative art might appear challenging or strange against a sometimes

conservative cultural community it’s best to try and see such artists as working in a mode – even a genre – over a century old and as basically well-established as landscape or still-life. Rather than being radically new, such artists work interesting, but mostly modest, variations on a known tradition. That there’s honor in that can be well seen in this fine exhibit•

Ulysses Philomathic Library 74 E Main St, Trumansburg, New York July and August, 2018

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Born in a Small Town

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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’ll admit it, I was wondering if Thornton Wilder’s Our Town was wrung dry emotionally for me. It’s a piece that I’ve acted in twice, once at Ithaca High School. (Bob Finley, a member of CRT’s current production, estimates he’s acted in “Our Town” at least half a dozen times.) Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winner is just 20 years shy of its 100th anniversary, and it’s a piece that I know quite well.

If you’ve never seen Our Town, it’s a chronicle of 12 years in the lives and loves of the people of Grover’s Corners, usually presented in the barest minimalism possible, tailored to the theater presenting it and presided over by a stage manager who shows us the town, moves scenes on and off and offers mordant commentary.

That’s the way I’ve always seen Our Town, but CRT’s production just proves

that skilled actors can always find new ways of saying the words. 80 years after its debut at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, there’s still something fresh and new about Our Town as staged by CRT. For one thing, there’s nothing mordant about the way that Jason M. Shipman has decided to play the Stage Manager. He approaches the life of a small town with matter-of-fact directness underscored with genuine compassion. I’ve seen the role played by many skilled actors over the years, and it’s a testament to Shipman’s performance that he finds new takes on some very famous lines and speeches.

The overall storyline revolves around two families, the Webbs and the Gibbs, and how Emily Webb (Heather Arney) and George Gibbs (Jack Cherry) fall in love, marry, and as the Stage Manager says, you can guess the rest of it. Along the way, we get vibrant, well-fleshed out performances from Mrs. Gibbs (Catherine Gaffney), Dr. Gibbs (Dale J. Young), Mrs. Webb (Jan Labellarte), Mr. Webb (Patrick White) and little brother Wally Webb (Chase Patte). Patrick White’s performance was very funny. I never thought of Editor Webb as a particularly comic character, but White’s surprising reactions and takes are very inventive and expressive.

Kerby Thompson’s direction combined with Dana White Jr.’s surprising production design results in a production that stays within Wilder’s minimalist aesthetic while springing several authentic surprises throughout the evening. I will talk about two of them, so if you hate spoilers, jump to the next paragraph.

In a nod to the documentary OT: Our Town, the adults are dressed in proper 1901 attire, while the actors playing the younger people in town are clad in hoodies, t-shirts and backwards baseball hats, a nod to the notion of the young always being ahead of the town’s curve, perhaps.

And rather than rely on pre-recorded sound effects, members of the ensemble appear onstage with noisemakers and emulate the sounds of town bells, bull frogs and cicadas.

The cumulative effect is that of a talented and cohesive ensemble coming together to make something heartbreaking and beautiful out of the everyday banality of human life. Wilder himself felt that the play was best performed simply, directly and without sentimentality, and that’s what this production feels like.

Please note that the play is three acts, and that there is an intermission and a “five minute pause” and that the show starts at 7:30•

Cortland Repertory Theatre Our Town, by Thornton Wilder; directed by Kerby Thompson; assistant directed by Jason Sofge; stage managed by Timothy James; scenic design by Dana White Jr.; costume design by Wendie R. Zea; lighting design by Matthew Webb; prop design by Andrew Carney; performances through August 11.

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Rob Ervin | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca Sunday Music Series: Charlie Ellis | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

8/13 Monday Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

Music

8/10 Friday

Bars/Bands/Clubs

City Limits | 6:00 PM, | The Boat Yard Grill, Ithaca

8/8 Wednesday

Friday Night Music: Third Story | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

Andrew Alling | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Djug Django | 6:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Music Series at Mill Park: Johnny Dowd | 6:00 PM, | Mill Park, Newfield Open Mic with Marty Flynn and his Good Time Band | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing Reggae Night w/ the Crucial Reggae Social Club & DJ Mike Judah | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5

Mostly Beatles Chorus Summer

Garden Concert Series: Custom Taylor Band | 6:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg | donations Maplewood Jazz Team | 5:00 PM, | Red Newt Bistro, Hector Pete Panek & The Blue Cats | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Space Carnival, Railbred, & Dapper Dan | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10

8/9 Thursday

Viva Mayhem! w/ Teencat! | 9:30 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

CFCU Summer Concert Series: Stone Cold Miracle | 6:00 PM, | Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca East Side Park Summer Concerts: Bon Bon Vivant | 7:00 PM, | East Side Park, Norwich Steve Southworth and the Rockabilly Rays | 6:00 PM, | Lucas Vineyards Winery, Interlaken The Yardvarks | 6:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

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Agent Orange w/ Fea | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15-$18 Backyard BBQ w/ Zaun Marshburn Quartet | 5:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Cayuga Blue Notes | 12:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

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Salsa Dance Night | 10:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | $5

I-Town Jazz Jam w/ Prof. Greg Evans | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Beginning Argentine Tango Class | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Cornell University Physical Sciences Building, 245 East Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | $10

Tuesday Bluesday with Danny P & friends | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 10:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca |

Concerts/Recitals

Salsa at The Range | 7:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | The Range, Ithaca Commons, Ithaca | $ $5 before 10pm, $7 after

The Piano Guys | 8:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Alan Jackson | 7:30 PM, 8/10 Friday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Honky Tonk Highway Tour | $30-$100

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Saturday, 8/11 at 11:30AM | Brownie’s Produce Market, Route 96, Trumansburg | It’s that time of year again – Brownie’s famously delicious sweet corn has arrived! And the good folks of the T-burg Lions Club are no fools – they are taking advantage of this opportunity to host a chicken BBQ right at Brownie’s and include an ear of this scrumptious summer vegetable. Don’t miss yours by waiting too long. The BBQ begins at 11:30 and is available until it’s all gone! Will that be before noon? Do you really want to risk finding out? Get over there while it’s still Saturday morning! (photo provided)

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DJ/Dance/Trivia

Firelight Live: Tuesdays with Ted Walsh | 6:00 PM, | Firelight Camps, Ithaca

Skaneateles Festival | Now through 9/1/18 | Various Skaneateles locations, | 8/11: Joshua Redman Quartet will be at Robinson Pavilion at 7:30. (among other performances all week).

8/11 Saturday

GoGone | 6:00 PM, | Ryan William Vineyard, Hector

8/14 Tuesday

Playerless Piano | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

Friday Night Deck Party: The Tarps | 7:00 PM, | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | | $3 per person

Dojo Treo | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Open Mic hosted by Benny T | 7:00 PM, | Flynn’s Roadhouse Cafe, Lansing

Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson | 7:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM, | Argos Inn, Ithaca

West Hill Billies | 6:00 PM, | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, Trumansburg

Bubba’s Birthday Fundraiser ft.

Powerdove’s Bitter Banquet | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $10

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

311 and The Offspring | 7:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | w/ Special Guests Gym Class Heroes

Open Mic | 9:00 PM, | The Nines, Ithaca

Sam & Mandy from Noon-Fifteen | 9:00 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

Synth Night | 8:00 PM, | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Ithaca

2018 Myers Park Summer Concert Series: Small Town Shade | 6:30 PM, | Myers Park, Lansing

Show | 7:30 PM, | Community School

8/12 Sunday

Galactic Monday | 9:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca

Sunset Serenade #1 w/ Professor Louie and The Crowmatix along with guitarist Michael Falzarano of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. www. brownpapertickets.com or turkeytrotacres.com. | $60-$100

Jason Aldean | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center | Sunset Serenade #1 : The Woodstock Rockin’ Revue | 4:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | Turkey Trot Acres Hunting Lodge, 188 Tubbs Hill Rd, Candor | In celebration of rebranding themselves as Peace Tree Lodge, will present

Trivia Night | 9:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Karaoke w/ DJ Dale | 9:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Night | 8:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Tango Milonga, new dancers welcome!

Trivia Night w/ Herman Nugent | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tango Tuesdays with Xavier Vanier | 7:00 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Just Be Cause, 1013 W State Stree, Ithaca | No partner needed. No pre-registration. Pay at the door. Class 1 (Tango Fundamentals) at 7PM, Class 2 (Tango Sequences) at 8:15. Free Practice until 10:00. Reduced student prices.| $15 for 1, $25 for both

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Stage A Doll’s House, Part 2 | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Fifteen years ago, Nora Helmer walked out on her family and life. Now, she’s come home. Witness her hilarious and heart-break homecoming.

Holiday Inn | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 East Lake Road, Auburn | $51-$62 Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Our Town | Contact theatre for showtimes. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 6:00 PM| Presented by Center Players.

Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, blankets, and picnic items to each performance! Locations: 8/9 Homer Village Green; 8/10 Court-

house Park, Downtown Cortland; 8/11 1890 House Museum, Cortland.

Drag Show with Cassanova’s Royal Court | 9:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Cassanova’s Royal Court’s bi-weekly drag show.

Evita | 8:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday thru 8/11 Saturday; 2PM on 8/12, Sunday| Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | The Geneva Theatre Guild’s 40th Anniversary Summer Musical, R2P presents School of Rock | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Additional shows 8/11 at 7pm and 8/12 at 2pm. | $12-$15 The Trials and Tribulations of Trixie Terpsichore | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | Hilarious Interactive Musical Melodrama! Shows thru 8/12 - Fri&Sat at 7pm; Sun at 2pm Moody McCarthy and Friends | 8:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | Comedy Show | $10/$15/$17

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Juxtaposition of Light and Texture | Ongoing | Boyce Thompson

Steuben County Fair | All Day 8/14 Tuesday | Steuben County Fairgrounds, 15 E. Washington St, Bath |

Three Identical Strangers | In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted discover that they are triplets who were separated at birth.

They describe their lives, and what they’ve discovered about why they were separated. | 96 mins PG-13

Kids

Eighth Grade | An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school. | 93 mins R

Thinking about putting money into a CD—but wondering if rates might go up? With the Tompkins Bump-Up CD, you can keep your options open. If rates go up, you can opt for a higher interest rate once during your 3 year term.

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Trivia Night | 7:30 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Monk’s Patio BBQ, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? |An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children’s television host, Fred Rogers. | 94 mins PG-13

The Third Murder (Sando-me no satsujin) | A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president. | 124 mins NR

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Institute, Tower Road, Ithaca | A photography show of flowers and cement abstracts by Nancy Ridenour.

Reflexion | Printmakers of Atelier de gravure de la Villedieu | Ongoing | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Drop-in Art Creation Series | 5:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At these drop-in sessions, patrons can stop by to see what artist Laura Rowley is up to. Each session will feature a 10-minute project using a different tool each time. After completing the project, or while waiting their turn, participants can also make art with the Open Art Hive. August 9: Silk Screen Printing; State of the Art New Members Show | 5:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | During August, State of the Art holds its New Members Show in the main gallery. Featuring works by Saundra Goodman, a textile artist; Tobias Inigo, drawings and paintings; Photographer Harry Littell; and Vanessa McCaffery, drawings that explore various aspects of human relationships with animals.

BlacKkKlansman| Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter. | 135 mins R

Works by Paulina Vel·zquez SolÌs & Travis Johns | 4:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Neighbors Art Gallery, 115 Franklin St., Ithaca | August 10-26, opening reception 8/10, 6-8pm Celtic Coastlines:An Artistic Homage by Brian Keeler to Ireland and Scotland | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | North Star Art Gallery’s new exhibition opens this Saturday with an exhibition of the works of Brian Keeler celebrating his ancestral lands of Ireland and Scotland.

Film Cinemapolis Friday, August 10, 2018 through Thursday, August 16, 2018. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes.

Sorry To Bother You | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe. | 105 mins R

Family Expedition Cruise | 12:30 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca Cruises every day until 9/12/18. | $80 for a family Science Together | 10:30 AM, 8/8 Wednesday & 8/10 Friday| Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Summer Movie Nights at the Fire Station | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Cayuga Heights Fire Station, 194 Pleasant Grove Road, | Monsters Inc. (inside) Summer Teen Writing Workshop | 1:30 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teen Takeover | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | F

Tioga County Fair | Now through Saturday, 8/11 | Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro | Watkins Glen Italian-American Festival | All Day 8/10 Friday thru 8/12 Sunday | Clute Park, 155 S Clute Park Dr, Watkins Glen | 2018 Open Farm Days | 12:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday & 8/12 Sunday| Various locations in Tompkins County, NY, | .Learn more at: OpenFarmDays.org .

Creative Dance Class | 10:30 AM, 8/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Amanda Moretti will lead this creative dance program, intended for all families with children ages 3 to 10.

Food and Fun | 12:30 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Game On! | 3:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Downtown Ithaca Food Tour | 11:30 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Various locations, Ithaca Call 607-272-4830. | $57

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken

Garden Tours- Cornell Botanic Gardens | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Cornell Botanic Gardens- Nevin Welcome Center, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Tours are offered every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. | $5 suggested donation

Seussical Jr. | 10:00 AM & Noon, 8/9 Thursday thru 8/11 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in a fantastical musical extravaganza. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, and a trial, ultimately the powers of friendship, loyalty, family, and community emerge triumphant!

Sterling Renaissance Festival | Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Fraden Rd, Sterling | Each weekend through 8/19.

RAPTOR WEEK!

DAILY THRU SUNDAY, 8/12

THURSDAY, 8/9 AT 7PM

Morrison Hall – Room 146, 48 Judd Falls Road, Ithaca | It is awesome that the fine folks studying in Cornell’s Raptor Program have invited us up to their space to learn more about these amazing creatures! There are talks each night for the rest of this week and programs this weekend, as well. Learn about hawks, eagles, falcons and vultures and see some up close in all their feathered glory. (photo provided)

Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons | Staff at the Ithaca Times are big fans of Stone Cold Miracle, having said in these very pages, “Stone Cold Miracle is heavy. Heavy on the funk, the soul and the unyielding energy.... Live, the band brings an intensity and rawness that is honest and real.” Come see if you agree with us this Thursday! (photo provided)

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Dan the Snake Man | 6:30 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | The show features exotic reptiles you can meet up-close and personal. Free.

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ICSD BOE Policy Work Session | 5:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | ICSD Administration Building, 400 Lake St., Ithaca |

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Ithaca Town Council | 5:30 PM, 8/13 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Includes a privilege of the floor interval where the public may speak.

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y Linda Glaser Current Broadway hit “School of Rock” comes to Ithaca this summer with a regional premiere by Running to Places (R2P).

A heartwarming show with a wild edge, this comic rock musical will get your feet tapping and your head bopping. The show runs Aug. 10-12 at Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium.

Shows currently on Broadway usually can’t be produced elsewhere, but “School of Rock” has been made available exclusively to youth companies. Normally the difference between seeing a show on Broadway and locally is that Broadway shows feature adult professionals, says Joey Steinhagen, R2P artistic director.

“But for this show, the kids in the Broadway production are the same age as the kids in R2P,” he said. “We have incredibly talented kids so this is really close to an authentic Broadway experience.”

After being kicked out of his band for bad behavior, ne’er-do-well Dewey Finn (Dom Bisbee) badly needs money. He poses as his best friend, Ned Schneebly (Mark Dodici),

to become a substitute teacher at a prestigious private school. When he discovers the students can play music, he decides to use them to get revenge by competing in the Battle of the Bands. With Lucy (Madelyn Morris) on guitar, Freddie (Maggie Schneider) on drums, Lawrence (Andrew Kaiser) on keys, Katie (Gabi Rose) on bass and Summer (Samara Schwartz) as manager, even shy Tomika (Tori Payne) finds a place as the band struggles against parents, principal Rosalie Mullins (Emma Ellis), and Ned’s girlfriend Patty (Ana Luisa Brady-McCullough) for a chance to prove themselves.

“It’s a feel good rock version of the ‘Music Man,’” says Steinhagen.

“The kids in the band discover their own creativity and how to be true to themselves. Their parents define success as great jobs and lots of money; through the inspiration of this charlatan teacher who despite himself turns out to be the real thing, the kids discover success through authenticity.

Spencer Town Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building, 79 E. Tioga St., Spencer | † It’s a ton of fun for families because it’s so empowering for kids.”

The rock musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Julian Fellowes, is based on the 2003 film of the same name and was nominated for multiple Tony Awards, including best musical.

The contract to produce “School of Rock” requires that the actors have to play the instruments themselves – live, no faking it.

“There are real rock stars in this show,” says Steinhagen. “Dom walked into the audition with his own guitar; Jasper Fearon, who plays Theo, the leader of Dewey’s former band, fronts a real-life band, The MonkeySquids.”

In encouraging the “inner rock star” in the cast members, resident music director Jeremy Pletter is joined by sound designer Jordan Fearon, who previously ran the School of Rock

program in Fall Creek Elementary and serves as “rock coach” for the show.

Harmony Malone’s choreography follows a similar theme, emphasizing the joy in movement and dance.

Costumes are by Liz Woods, lights

by R2P alum and co-director of the recent “Songs for a New World, Caitlin Mallory. Janet Olsen manages props.

“School of Rock” is exclusively sponsored by Inn on Columbia, with scholarship level support from the Savage Club of Ithaca, Northeast Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine and an anonymous fund at the Community Foundation of Tompkins County.

Additional grant support is provided

by Park Foundation, Triad Foundation, and is made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, with season-long support from CSP Management.

The show runs one weekend only: Aug. 10-12, Friday and Saturday at 7 PM, Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets are $15 general admission; students and seniors $12, available on-line at www.runningtoplaces.org.

Performed by local students from the Hangar’s Next Generation School of Theatre Sing-Along Matinee | 3:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | The Lion King; Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/10 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Comic Creation Workshop Series for Teens | 4:15 PM, 8/10 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Outdoor Events at TCPL | 8/10 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Chalk Art Extravaganza:from 2:00 to 5:00 PM Chalk will be provided for anyone who feels the urge to decorate the sidewalk along Green Street in this exercise in the power of community art.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/13 Monday | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken |

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Mystery on Mount Olympus: A Greek Writing Adventure | Begins 10:00 AM, 8/13 Monday, runs all week | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Suitable for children ages 8 to 12. Space is limited, and registration is required.

Teen Week | 10:00 AM, 8/13 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Circus Culture Youth Camp Performance | 10:00 AM, 8/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | All are invited to watch Circus Culture’s 2018 campers as they show off their new skills in acrobatics, aerial maneuvers,

juggling, and more, including fanciful costuming.

Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/14 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield |

Newfield Town Board | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Town Hall, 166 Main Street, Newfield

Kids’ Club: Super Science Tuesdays | 12:30 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

Civic Meetings City Planning & Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Common Council

HANGAR THEATRE’S KIDDSTUFF PRODUCTION OF SEUSSICAL JR.

THURSDAY, 8/9 THRU SATURDAY, 8/11.

PERFORMANCES AT 10AM AND NOON.

Hangar Theatre | Various Dr. Seuss creations spring to life onstage in a fantastical, musical extravaganza performed by local students from the Hangar’s Next Generation School of Theatre. Characters learn that support often comes when and from where you least expect it; unlocking the greatest support of all, a belief in one’s self.

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Spencer-Van Etten Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Spencer-Van Etten Middle School, 1 Center St., Spencer | Meeting held in library.

Dryden Schools Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | Meets in the Middle School Library.

Town of Covert Board Meeting | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | Town of Covert Town Hall, 8469 Main Street, Interlaken | Groton Town Board Meeting | 7:30 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | ICSD BOE Monthly Discussion and Voting Meeting - | 6:00 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | ICSD Administration Building, 400 Lake St., Ithaca | Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm Street, Trumansburg |

Notices Caring for Raptors in Captivity | 6:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca | From Mild to Wild: Training America’s Mustangs | 11:00 AM, 8/8 Wednesday | Rodman Lott and Son Farms, 2973 State Route 414, Seneca Falls | Also at 2pm. Horse trainers demonstrate just how well Mustangs can be tamed and trained using natural horsemanship and performance techniques in just 100 days. More info: www.empirefarmdays.com Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Jeffrey Smith, Rotary District 7170 Governor and Rotary Club of Endwell | $15 Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Contact: Denice Peckins - denicepeckins@hotmail.com Taste of Summer Series with Red Newt Winery | 4:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Aurora Inn, 391 Main Street, Aurora |

OPEN FARM DAYS

SATURDAY, 8/11 AND SUNDAY, 8/12 NOON TO 4PM EACH DAY

Farms across Tompkins County will open their gates, barns and pastures to the public for farm tours, demonstrations, food tastings, and animal interactions. Farms on the west side of Cayuga Lake are on Saturday, while farms on the east side are open on Sunday. Call or visit Cornell Cooperative Extension’s web site for a detailed list of participating farms and activities offered at each.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca Weeding Wednesdays with Cornell Botanic Gardens | 4:00 PM, 8/8 Wednesday | Cornell Botanic Gardens, 124 Comstock Knoll Dr., Ithaca | Wednesdays are drop-in volunteer nights.

5th Annual Finger Lakes Harmful Algal Blooms Symposium | 11:45 AM, 8/9 Thursday | Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 337 Pulteney St, Geneva | Held in Vandervort Room, second floor of the Scandling Center.

Hosted by the NYSDEC. Registration includes a buffet-style lunch, keynote speaker and presentations, panel discussion, networking reception, and takeaways. | $25-$35 A “Learn In” on Korean History 1900-1953 | 7:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Discussion of Portsmouth Treaty (1905), Japanese Annexation (1910), Occupation and Resistance (1911-1945), and US Foreign Policy (1945-1953). This is a presentation by A.P. Donohue, a member of the the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Begin Again Horse Rescue Live Horse Presentation | 10:00 AM, 8/9 Thursday | Rodman Lott and Son Farms, 2973 State Route 414, Seneca Falls | Second show at 2 pm. BAHR will have miniature horses for viewing and petting and will talk about how to recognize signs of equine neglect and steps to take to help a horse in need. | $10 parking Candor Farmer’s Market | 3:30 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Fresh local garden produce, cheeses, meats, eggs, baked goods, handcrafts and more Get Pumped! HeatSmart Community Meeting | 6:30 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Brooktondale Firehall, 786 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | HeatSmart Tompkins is a non-profit community organization.

At HeatSmart community meetings staff and leadership provide information on the effectiveness, personal economic benefits, direct health ben-

efits, and community environmental benefits of adopting heat pumps.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Boatyard Grill, 525 Old Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Host: Loisanne P., RSVP: wlfd66@zoho.com Let’s Talk Hawk! A Guide to Hawks and Eagles | 6:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca | Networking@Rev: Hardware Demo Day | 6:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, 314 East State Street, Ithaca | Rev Hardware Accelerator teams will have spent 11 weeks working to move their product ideas from concept to prototype.

Demo Day is their chance to show off all of their hard work!

Nexamp Community Solar Happy Hour | 5:30 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | All NYSEG customerswhether renters or home owners- in the area can subscribe to a share of the farm to save money on monthly electricity costs and support a local, clean energy project without putting panels on their roof! Bring a copy of a recent NYSEG electric bill to get a $25 credit with Nexamp. Please RSVP with the Nexamp team at 800.945.5124 or solarize@nexamp.com.

Saturday | Montezuma Heritage Park, High Street Trailhead Kiosk next to firehouse, Montezuma | . | $5 Candor Feed the 5,000 | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Candor Fire Pavilion, 74 Owego Rd, Candor | This is a free community event sponsored by some of the local Churches: food, Bounce House, Music, Games, Face Painting, Volleyball.

Dorothy Cotton-Civil Rights Icon: Celebration of Her Life and Legacy | 2:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Fledgling Fun! Raptor-themed activities for kids | 3:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca Historic Ithaca’s Walk and Talk: Freeville on the Move: Mill Dam to Rail Junction | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Meet at the parking lot at the rear of the Freeville United Meth-

at 363 Main St. on day of sales. There will also be a chicken BBQ at the Fire Hall and Library Book Sale at the library!

Owls and Their Extraordinary Senses | 2:00 PM, 8/11 Saturday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca T-burg Lions Club Chicken BBQ | 11:30 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Brownie’s Produce Market, 1901 Trumansburg Rd, , Trumansburg | 1st Annual Ride for the Wreaths | 9:30 AM, 8/12 Sunday | Eldridge Park, Elmira | Hosted by Defiant Brotherhood MC NY for the benefit of Wreaths Across America. 100+ mile motorcycle ride with stops at Wild Wolf Hollow and Matt’s Bar and Grille. Chicken BBQ, vendors, raffles, patriotic bike contest and live music by The Rapid River Boys. Family friendly event.

Conservation Through Falconry:

Masters of Flight: Falcons and Vultures | 6:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca | Canal Splash Historic Walking Tour: Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem on the “Eerie” Canal in Montezuma | 9:00 AM, 8/11

Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Mathews Family at The Country Dinner | 4:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | The Country Diner, 45 East Tioga St., Spencer | The Cortland LGBTQ Annual Picnic | 12:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Yaman Park, Kennedy Pkwy., Cortland | This family friendly picnic will be held at† Pavilion 1. Open to the public to enjoy Bobís BBQ and there will be fun games as well.

Turkey Dinner | 12:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Ledyard United Methodist Church, 1069 Route 34B, King Ferry | Worship service at 10:00 AM. All are welcome. | $10/$5 Club Cayuga: Boat Party at Sunset | 7:00 PM, 8/13 Monday | Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Running for Elected Office: Do I Have What it Takes? | 5:30 PM, 8/13 Monday | Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Come join us and learn what it takes to run for a local office. Not interested in running for office? Find out how to support and elect a community member. Dinner and child care provided.

Workforce Forum (formerly Professional Opportunity Developers Meetings) | 9:00 AM, 8/9 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Current Trends in Job Searching: Join our staff and your professional peers to discuss new trends that may impact your job search as you move forward. Staff will share current news articles and invite discussion among participants.

Ithaca Heritage’s Downtown Ithaca Architectural Walking Tour | 4:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Meet at the trolley circle on the Ithaca Commons in front of Center Ithaca.

in their cars along +/- 30 miles of country roads in Tompkins and Cortland Counties, answering riddles, taking pictures, and picking up scavenger hunt items along the way. Minimum two people per team; no maximum ñ however many fit safely in the car are welcome! | $10-$20

MYERS PARK SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: SMALL TOWN SHADE Thursday, 8/ 9 at 6:30 | Myers Park, Lansing| There are just two shows left in this concert series this summer. This week you can enjoy the recent winners of two Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY), for Best Country Recording and People’s Choice for Best Band. Come see why this Cortland-based group has garnered so much attention since forming in 2015. (photo provided).

odist Church, 37 Main Street, Freeville, NY. In case of rain, gather under the pavilion at the adjoining Freeville Elementary School.

Newfield Community Garage Sales | 9:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Approximately 50 sales! Maps available

The Benefits Through the Ages | 2:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | 146 Morrison Hall - Cornell, 48 Judd Falls Rd, Ithaca Ithaca Rotary Club’s 5th Annual Rotary Rally | 1:00 PM, 8/12 Sunday | Homewood Suites, 36 Cinema Drive, Ithaca | Participants will follow clues

Sunset Cruise | Daily, 7:00PM| Allen H. Treman State Marine Park, Ithaca | Daily two-hour cruises aboard the MV Teal, that feature a light narration and a chance to chat informally with our crew. Feel free to bring your own refreshments. | $40 regular fare Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 522 Valley Road, Brooktondale | Conquering the Interview Workshop | 1:00 PM, 8/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Preparing for your job interview can be a challenge.

This workshop will teach you what to

expect during, how to research and prepare prior, how to follow up after, and how to avoid common problems during an interview.

Ithaca Forest Preschool Open House | 9:30 AM, 8/14 Tuesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Our nature-immersed outdoor preschool with a village feel is now accepting applications for the 2018-19 school year. Experience the place, meet staff, and learn about the program. RSVP requested by phone during business hours at 607-272-2292 ext. 195.

Metrix Overview | 10:00 AM, 8/14 Tuesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Metrix is an online skills and job-related training program that contains over 24,000 courses. Courses range in topics covering accounting, leadership, healthcare, computer programming, and more. Once registered, customers have accounts with unlimited access for 6 months. Please Note: This workshop requires a mid-level competency with computers.

Health Overcome Long-Term Pain Without Drugs | 11:00 AM, 8/11 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca | William Garrison of Jolly Buddha Massage and Tim Emerson of Kwan Yin Healing will share how certain patterns sustain pain and how they may be interrupted.

Tick-Borne Infection Prevention | 2:00 PM, 8/10 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Led by Tompkins County Health Department staff. Receive information on tick identification and habitat, safety measures to take for prevention against infection, proper removal of ticks from the body, and guidelines for when to call a medical Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, 8/9 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Meets weekly on Tu/Th. Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 8/9 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net

SHOW RUNNING NOW THROUGH AUGUST 26, GALLERY HOURS FRIDAY-SUNDAY 11-4

SATURDAY, 8/11 AT 2PM BAILEY HALL, CORNELL

North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Brian Keeler celebrates his ancestral lands of Ireland and Scotland.

Looking at these glorious paintings will bring you back to a land that’s too beautiful for words or make you want to go see it in person yourself. (photo: Nocturne at Inis Oirr Island, Ireland by Brian Keeler provided)

Come celebrate the strength and benevolence of a civil rights hero we were lucky enough to have in our community. The event is free and open to the public, but you will need to pick up a ticket, available at the Ithaca Visitors Center on the Commons, Tomp. Co. Public Library, GIAC and Southside Community Center. The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers will be performing songs of inspiration and praise

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BOLTON ORCHARDS

Bolton, MA needs 7 temporary workers 9/01/2018 to 11/1/2018. Work tools, supplies equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50 % of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hour.

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Hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crop conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered.

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