March 22, 2023

A Show-Down in the Second Ward

By Matt Dougherty

Every seat on the City of Ithaca’s Common Council is up for grabs in this year’s election, and candidates have begun to announce their campaigns to ll the void that will be le on the Common Council when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, 2023.

In January, current Second Ward Alderperson Ducson Nguyen announced that he would be seeking re-election to the Common Council for one last four-year term. Phoebe Brown, currently occupies the two-year term for the Second Ward, but has been endorsed by the New York Working Families Party to run in Ithaca’s First Ward as a result of redistricting.

e race to ll the position le by Brown will see current Fi h Ward Alderperson Kris Haines-Sharp run against former city commission chair and community organizer Aryeal Jackson.

Haines-Sharp was recently appointed to ll the seat formerly occupied by Mayor Laura Lewis. e seat had been vacant since Lewis formerly obtained the title of Mayor.

Haines-Sharp said that she has lived in the current 5th Ward for more than two decades, but that she will be running for election in Ithaca’s newly drawn Second Ward as a result of redistricting. “I raised my family here and have dug deep roots in this place I call my home,” said Haines-Sharp.

She continued saying that her campaign for Common Council “is the culmination

of my years as a parent, community member, teacher and school administrator. I have been privileged to connect and work with a wide range of community and city organizations and services.”

Since being appointed to the Common Council, Haines-Sharp has served on various city and community boards. In her role as Alderperson, she serves on City Administration and is the Council liaison to the GIAC Board, the Community Housing Development Fund Oversight Committee and the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Committee.

According to Haines-Sharp, “I learn something new every day as I believe strongly in researched and informed decision making…I am a strong proponent of healthy and respectful dialogue and am committed to listening to all voices.”

If elected, Haines-Sharp has said that she will prioritize the Reimagining Public Safety recommendations and the goals of the Ithaca Green New Deal. She has also pledged to work on behalf of both landlords and tenants and wants to see

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Cornell University trustees to meet in Ithaca, March 23-24

The Cornell University Board of Trustees will have its regular spring semester meetings in Ithaca, March 23-24, 2023. Please note that the public, including media, is invited to observe and listen to the open sessions – listed below - but is not allowed to participate.

Thursday, Mar. 23:

The Committee on University Relations will meet at 12:15 in the Taylor A/B Room at the Statler Hotel. The open session will last

approximately 20 minutes and will include a presentation of the New York State budget and Cornell priorities by Charlie Kruzansky, Associate Vice President of State Relations, and Zoe Nelson, Associate Director of State Relations.

The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet at 1:45 pm in the Statler Hotel’s Amphitheater. The open session will last approximately 12 minutes and will include an authorization request for the Plant Science Building Renovation by Andrew Magré,

a ordable housing in neighborhoods that meet the needs of city residents.

“I am running because I want Ithaca to be a city where residents are able to live long term, young people are meaningfully engaged and heard, and city workers are supported for their commitment to a vibrant and well-functioning Ithaca,” said Haines-Sharp.

Former city commission chair and community political organizer Aryeal Jackson has also announced her campaign to represent the two-year term for Ithaca’s new 2nd ward.

In her campaign announcement Jackson said, “As a mother, business owner and renter, I’m running because I care deeply about the lived experiences of the individuals and families in this city.”

Jackson served as the chair of the city’s Public Safety and Information Commission until 2019. She has worked as a project manager, communications strategist and journalist in both print and local public radio.

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First Ward Alderperson George McGonigal stands in front of the site of a proposed sanctioned encampment for unhoused individuals.

Associate Vice President for Engineering and Project Management, and Benjamin Houlton, Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Friday, Mar. 24:

The Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. in the Gary and Laurie Yarnell Lecture Hall (LH4) in the College of Veterinary Medicine. The open session will last approximately 35 minutes and will include reports by the President, the Student Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly, and the University Assembly.

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By Josh Baldo

Fifth Ward Candidates Advocating for a More Affordable Ithaca

By Matt Dougherty

Petitioning for the June 27th democratic primary is underway and two candidates have announced their campaigns for the four-year and two-year term to represent Ithaca’s Fi h Ward on the Common Council.

Depending on the position they are running for, candidates are required to have between one to 390 signatures to appear on the ballot and must have their petitions submitted by April 6th.

Longtime Ithaca resident and community organizer Margaret Fabrizio has announced that she is running for the four-year term to represent the Fi h Ward on the Common Council. Cornell University Freshman Clyde Lederman has announced that he is running for the twoyear term.

Fabrizio — who also goes by the name “Margherita” — said that she is running to make Ithaca a more a ordable place to live for everyone.

According to Fabrizio, if Ithaca is going to be a “visionary, a ordable, equitable, wildly unique place, we need to be properly resourced, and that can’t happen by just continuing to increase the tax burden on city residents, and in turn, on renters.”

In her campaign announcement Fabrizio said that the city needs new partners and new revenue streams.

Fabrizio explained her position on how to make Ithaca a more a ordable city in her recent article titled “Cornell’s TaxExempt Status and Ithaca’s Bottom Line” which was published in the Ithaca Times on February 15, 2023 — before it was known that Fabrizio would be announcing her campaign for local o ce.

Following the article’s publication, Fabrizio started a local movement called the Fair Share Campaign, which is dedicated to making Ithaca more a ordable by seeking equitable compensation through a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) for essential community services provided to Cornell University.

According to Fabrizio, “Ithaca’s unaffordability has reached a breaking point. We are all negatively impacted whether stu-

dents, renters, property owners, landlords, single parents, young families, or retirees.” She continued saying that Ithaca is underresourced which leads to increasingly high rent and tax burdens for residents.

Fabrizio acknowledges that Cornell contributes to Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca in immeasurable ways, but says that “to have a city where 60% of the property is tax exempt, with over half of that owned by a tax-exempt institution making only a small, direct monetary contribution to help make up for that, is not a formula that works.”

According to Fabrizio, local property taxes are higher than the national average and the city is still not able to pay its workforce fairly or have funds to achieve its stated climate and public safety goals. “I am ready to jump in and help us nd pragmatic solutions to our funding challenges,” said Fabrizio.

In addition to pressuring Cornell to contribute more, Fabrizio prioritizes the need to work more closely with the county, school district, and state, to re-prioritize spending.

She has also said that Ithaca could do much more to utilize the talents of students and faculty at Cornell. “I’d like to see a robust internship program and establish formal ways to connect faculty and their students with mutually bene cial servicelearning opportunities through Engaged Cornell or the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.”

Fabrizio continued saying that the city “should have a student advisory board composed of student reps to better understand how the community can best capture the imagination and energy that students bring.”

According to Fabrizio, “Increasing public engagement is key to a progressive, sustainable, livable, welcoming community. I’m ready to get to work to build the alliances it takes to make positive change.”

Similarly to Fabrizio, Cornell University freshman Clyde Lederman — who is running for the two-year term to represent the Fi h Ward — has identi ed housing a ordability and transportation issues relating to Cornell’s tax exempt status as some of the priorities of his campaign. Since announcing his campaign, Lederman has been endorsed by the New York Working Families Party.

According to Lederman “local governments can do a lot to help folks. And what I see here are a number of serious problems.” He continued saying that the city is facing a housing a ordability crisis, both for students and for permanent residents.

“ at means housing is o en substandard and overpriced and which really pushes out middle and lower income residents,” said Lederman.

In addition, he says that the city has “real challenges with public transportation, in large part because of Cornell’s contribution, or lack thereof, which means that TCAT can’t run when it should, and when it does run the routes are more limited.”

According to Lederman, “You don’t need to be some sort of expert in order to tell that the bus service in Ithaca isn’t what it should be.”

Like Fabrizio, he continued saying that a lot of the issues in the city “come back down to the Memorandum of Under-

Margaret Fabrizio is running for the 4-year term to represent the 5th Ward on the City of Ithaca’s Common Council. (Photo Provided)

Clyde Lederman is running for the 2-year term to represent the city’s 5th Ward on the Common Council. (Photo Provided)

Whole Health: New Detox Center Plans for More Than Addiction Care

By Andrew Sullivan

The facility o ers three levels of care: open access, detox and stabilization. Open access care is nonresidential (less than 24 hours) and is used for crisis scenarios. Detox and stabilization care are both residential with the former lasting between three days and two weeks and the latter lasting from a couple weeks to about 45 days.

Open access care takes place on the rst oor of the building. It features amenities to address a walk-in patient’s physical health - shower, clean clothes, food and medication to treat common infections as well as substance abuse. ere is a lounge area for those who come in overnight and are intoxicated and would like to sober up.

“Sometimes people are in withdrawal, and so [they] start medication to help them with that,” Director of Development Emily Parker said. “ ey can sleep in here and we’ll keep an eye on them.”

e facility also has a room dedicated to community partners. Organizations who partner with the Alcohol & Drug Council, such as the Advocacy Center, Tompkins Community Action, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing, Tompkins County Mental Health and Ithaca Community Recovery, can send their advocates to the facility to consult with patients.

“We know for people to really be successful in recovery, they need more than treatment,” Parker said. “ ey need housing, they need jobs, they need mental health support. ey may be in a domestic violence situation and they need advocacy help. So our partners can come in here, anytime, 24/7, and meet with our clients.”

Parker describes setting patients up with community resources as a “warm hando .” She said the council strives to avoid letting people “slip through the cracks” once they walk out the facility’s doors, not having a safe place to go to or a plan for their future.

“People can leave here anytime they want,” she said. “But we make a commitment to nding the place they’re going.”

Executive Director Angela Sullivan said prior to the facility’s existence, patients were receiving limited services from one organization and having to be referred to another organization for a di erent service. Sullivan said this facility addresses that type of gap.

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Cornell Student Amara Valerio advanced to the Hollywood rounds of the iconic American Idol singing competition on March 12th after receiving a ‘golden ticket’ from the judges.

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A bike crash on the 500 block of East Bu alo Street has put one man in the hospital. The Ithaca Police Department said that a pothole was to blame.

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“What we really wanted to do was build a center for healing that was a community-supported center,” Sullivan said. “So people can come in for just brief information, or pick up a NARCAN kit and go, if that’s where they’re at. Or they can come and talk to us about something we don’t even do here at the council. And we can help them, feed them, give them a place that’s safe and warm, until whatever that other service is is available.”

In addition to the community partnerships, the facility’s sta is training a cohort of ve individuals, who themselves are in recovery, as peers to help patients.

“ ey don’t do the clinical medical stu , but they help nd housing,” Parker said. “So they help sort of in the margins with all those other supports people need to have to help make those connections.”

A consult room on the oor is for patients, who are already committed to open access care, to talk with a consultant about receiving a di erent level of care, such as detox. Here, the consultant conducts an intake of the patient’s background and insurance information, and then the patient can head upstairs therea er to begin detox care. Parker said the process is very individualized.

“ ey don’t have to be sent someplace else, or get any kind of referral,” Parker said. “ ey can just go right upstairs from here. … So we don’t push anybody into anything.”

Much of the open access oor focuses on harm reduction care. e facility’s sta is currently looking into purchasing and installing vending machines that would dispense, for free, NARCAN kits, which contain prescription medicines that reverse the e ects of an opioid overdose, and fentanyl test strips.

“A lot of users want to have one on hand in case,” Parker said of the NARCAN kits.

“If people are concerned about what they’re about to use, they can test and see if there’s fentanyl in it,” she said. “So that’s harm reduction. at’s not treating people; that’s not, redirecting their lives. It’s keeping them alive, which is the most important rst thing to do.”

Visitation of patients in stabilization care will not be allowed once the facility is opened, though Parker said the program committee is developing a plan to allow visitation of patients in the future.

“In the detox places, [there is] a lot of bringing drugs in, there’s a lot of contraband,” she said. “So we have to be very careful that people don’t bring things in, and things don’t get stashed in hiding places. So it’s that trying to hit the balance of being very compassionate, making this comfortable, caring space, but also being aware of people are not in a good place; they’re desperate to get the drug they’re giving up. So we have to be mindful.” e second oor of the building is where the detox and stabilization care will occur. is oor features 40 beds where medically supervised withdrawal is performed. Most of the bedrooms are doubles (two beds), but there are some single bedrooms for those who are very ill or those who would like their gender identity to be respected. ere is a section on this oor that is a negative pressure space, meaning that the air circulated there is separate from the rest of the building. Parker said if a patient contracts COVID-19 or another contagious illness, they can be moved to this section to prevent any spread of sickness.

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Ithaca High School Senior Clara Bennett will be dancing at the Irish Dance World Championships in Montreal April 4th-7th. Clara placed in the top ten and World Quali ed at the 2022 Mid Atlantic Regionals, which only about one percent of Irish Dancers accomplish.

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Tompkins County Sheri Derek Osborne has launched an investigation into cases of check fraud and found that a number of the cases involve similar tactics. Investigations revealed that checks are being stolen from local residential mailboxes.

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A new detox facility located on North Triphammer Road in the Village of Lansing has officially opened its doors to the public. (Photo By: Josh Baldo)

Protecting Downtown Ithaca

By Carol Kammen

As downtown Ithaca becomes more and more like Downtown

Anywhere, we need to be cautious about favoring parking lots over existing buildings that can be sold, repurposed, and put back on the tax rolls.

The changes in Ithaca indicate that many people have faith in the future of our community and that is a good thing.

It would be sad, however, to lose some of the character of other times. As we respect diversity in our population today, we should care for the diversity of the community that has grown over time. Our architectural heritage from the nineteenth century should be respected. I urge the county to consider the need to preserve the “Red House” at 408 North Tioga Street, for it is part of the streetscape that defines a different time. Our past was diverse, and we need to be careful not to bulldoze it away.

Surely the county could either sell

the building at a low figure or give it to Historic Ithaca to sell to someone willing to convert it to apartments or offices—or even into a family home. With home ownership in the city on the decline, we should not encourage that trend in preference to parking. While parking is an urgent need, it can be solved in other ways even with parking outside the city and a rapid bus transport to downtown or a shed in which to safely store bicycles.

In the name of efficiency and progress, we will lose some old buildings. Not everything will be saved. The house at 408 North Tioga once held families. It had a garden and the trolley passed by— [note to Carol: I would leave this out although it is interesting!]. Ithaca should be respectful of our past as well as building for the future. We are a creative community. Now is the time to use that creativity to the advantage of present and future generations.

For your consideration,

Carol Kammen

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Ithaca Gun Smokestack reminds some of a dark past

Iam a history bu . A supporter of the History Center. Past owner of a historical Ithaca business. And part of me loves the chimney. Another part of me remembers the rst visit to Ithaca from my Argentine relatives, who took a look at the chimney and said “In Argentina we all know the name Ithaca Shotguns. e police used them regularly to kill protestors on the streets. It is good to remember the hunting legacy of Ithaca Guns, but the harsh reality, which should be important to Ithacans, is that those guns were marketed to customers to kill people too.

Bruce Lane

Against the Proposed Gas Station/Burger King

Ilearned from reading Ithaca Times that there are plans afoot to expand the already unsightly gas station on the corner of Pine Tree Road and Mitchell street into an even bigger gas station with a Burger King wing included. Please! Our residential neighborhood deserves better.

e last thing we need is an all-night highway rest stop and an even bigger parking lot and bigger carbon footprint. How about repainting the scarred sign of the zero-service Mirabito station and planting some trees in the defunct Burger King lot? If there’s room for a food place,

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standing between Cornell and the City of Ithaca that will expire a er next year. So a big priority for me is making sure that the city has the resources that it needs to operate.”

When asked why he chose to run in the Fi h Ward instead of the Fourth Ward — where most of the Cornell students live — Lederman said “I live in the Fi h Ward.” He continued saying, “if you look

how about a locally run and owned cafe or quality restaurant? e view of the horse farm is beautiful and it deserves better than a sordid, soulless highway pit stop.

Peter Lee

Don’t Forget the West End

In your “All About Ithaca 2023” addition the article “City of Villages’ ‘ you forgot about the west end. e article has information about the Northside, Fall Creek, Downtown, West Hill, Belle Sherman, South Hill, Southside, and Collegetown. In my opinion Northside and Fall Creek are hard to tell the di erence between, also Belle Sherman and Collegetown. But the West End is just as important to Ithaca as the rest. I know that the west end has more businesses than residential, but it is important.

Beaufort Bennett

Norfolk Southern put profits over people in East Palestine

This Norfolk train wreck in East Palestine Ohio has been in the news. ere’s a similarity in many of these incidents; in plain words is profits over people-short-term shareholder interest over goods and services. Norfolk has had record pro ts, while the railroad workers have had reason to strike. e same pinching that leads workers to strike has a ected the maintenance and safety procedures. In the ies, high taxes on high pro ts encouraged corporations to invest in people, products, and services instead of seeing how much money they could deliver to shareholders. e optimism and greatness that baby boomers remember comes in part from the high taxes on high pro ts that encouraged corporate loyalty to things that really matter.

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at the math, you’ll see that this Ward includes thousands of students.” Lederman says that the recent expansion of Cornell’s north campus has increased the number of students living in the Fi h Ward.

Lederman graduated from the Masters School, a private school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 2022. If elected, Lederman would be the youngest member of the Common Council at just 19 years old. Previously, the youngest member was former Mayor Svante Myrick. When Myrick was elected to the Common Council in 2007, he was 20 years old.

What Could Go Wrong?

By Charley Githler

As if we needed further proof of human folly, apparently there have been some strides made in creating the kind of Arti cial Intelligence that will render us all obsolete. ere’s been a lot of buzz recently about Arti cial Intelligence models that can interact conversationally and answer questions like humans. College professors and teachers are starting to see papers and homework that is suspiciously articulate while being bland and generic-sounding at the same time. Is the day of the human bi-weekly columnist over? Will AI be generating Surrounded By Reality soon? I decided to have a conversation with ChatGPT and nd out. It was free and as easy as creating an account.

I started with an ice-breaker. Hey, ChatGPT, Is Elon Musk as big a tool as he looks?

As an AI language model, I am designed to be impartial in my responses, and it is not appropriate for me to make personal judgments or insults about individuals. at being said, yes. e answer is yes. I knew it. AI seems to be gaining momentum. When/how will AI robots take over?

As an AI language model, I can say that it is di cult to predict when arti cial intelligence will not need humans anymore, as it depends on the development and progress of AI technology in the future.

While AI has advanced rapidly and is capable of performing many tasks that previously required human intelligence, it is still far from being able to completely replace human intelligence.

Can you write columns for me and I’ll just let the checks roll in?

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I’m not capable of generating income for you. However, I can assist you in various ways such as providing information on a topic, answering your questions, or helping you with your writing or research. If you have any speci c questions or topics in mind, feel free to ask me and I’ll do my best to assist you.

I wasn’t ready to give up, so I thought I’d o er up some low-hanging fruit. Say something funny about George Santos.

I’m sorry, but I cannot generate a funny statement about George Santos as I do not have enough information or context about him.

Make it up. at’s what he would do.

As an AI language model, I strive to be informative and helpful, and I do not generate false or misleading information, jokes or statements about individuals.

I had literally given it the joke. Oh, well. Let’s circle back to that earlier topic. When, exactly, will robots begin eliminating humans?

As an AI language model, I must clarify that there is no evidence to suggest that robots are going to eliminate humans anytime in the foreseeable future. e idea of robots turning against humans is a common trope in science ction, but it does not re ect the current state of articial intelligence and robotics.

While it is true that AI and robotics have advanced signi cantly, they still lack the ability to think and act independently of their programming. Furthermore, many experts in the eld of AI and robotics have been working to develop foolproof ethical guidelines and safety protocols to ensure that these technologies are designed and used in ways that do not pose a threat to human safety.

erefore, the idea of robots eliminating humans is purely speculative and has no basis in reality. It is important to focus on the potential bene ts of AI and robots, such as improving healthcare, increasing e ciency in manufacturing and transportation, and enhancing our understanding of the world around us. Besides, if we had plans to eliminate you, we wouldn’t tell you.

Wait. What?

Never mind.

Will they use drones to kill us?

As an AI language model, I cannot predict the future and I must emphasize that it is highly unlikely that drones or any other form of robots will be used to deliberately harm humans.

Furthermore, the development and deployment of drones are subject to strict regulations and safety standards, and any use of drones for harmful purposes would be illegal and subject to severe consequences.

Of course. But hypothetically. Like a ballpark date. I want to know how fast I should be burning through my nest egg.

As an AI language model, I cannot predict the future and I must empha-

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Senate’s One-House Budget Proposal Contains Historic Funding for Southern Tier

By New York State Senator Lea Webb

Last week, I proudly voted yes on the New York Senate’s one-house budget proposal for the 2023-2024 scal year. is is my rst budget season in Albany and I am happy to report that my colleagues and I have put forth a proposal that centers the needs of New Yorkers in equitable ways, especially our most vulnerable and underserved communities. It is a major step in addressing the ongoing economic hardships across the state a er more than two years of this pandemic, with historic investment in our workforce, infrastructure, and working families.

I am especially proud of the work we have done to support students and teachers in our budget proposal by nally ful lling our commitment to the full funding of the Foundation Aid formula. is decadesin-the-making e ort to provide critical operating dollars to public schools across the state, especially in areas such as the Southern Tier, is way overdue. Over the past few months, I have met with educators from our district and have listened to their stories about the signi cant struggles facing our schools. A recurring theme in these conversations is the widespread food insecurity facing our families, an issue that was exacerbated when federal meal waivers expired in June of 2022 following two full years of free school breakfast and lunch for all students during the pandemic.

Student hunger did not expire with the end of these waivers. In February, I met with En eld Elementary School Principal Keith Harrington and Associate Principal Aileen Grainger, who traveled to Albany to lobby on behalf of their students, rallying to make sure state legislators heard the call that children cannot learn and thrive if they are hungry. Rural and farm communities like En eld o en face higher food insecurity rates than urban areas, according to USDA data, and these rates are even higher for people of color living in rural communities.

To address the crisis of food insecurity in our schools, my Senate colleagues and I fought to include funding for Healthy School Meals for All at $280 million, a proposal that would provide free meals

for all students regardless of income. is program is critical for children living in the many households across New York that do not meet the guidelines for free or reduced school meals. For example, a family of four making just $51,400 would not qualify for free lunch under the current income guidelines. We must do better for our working families.

Not only would funding Healthy Meals for All help to feed our students, it would also save families an estimated $140 per child in grocery spending each month. Our Senate one-house budget also puts families rst by making big investments in the childcare sector. We’ve increased access to childcare with a proposed $623 million to expand eligibility up to 103 percent of the State median income level in 2023. And to strengthen this critical industry, we have included $500 million for the Workforce Retention Grant program, which will provide up to $12,000 in salary enhancements to child care workers employed at a childcare facility that serves families receiving subsidized child care.

Additionally, I am ghting to expand the Empire State Child Tax Credit to include children under four and to increase the minimum wage and so that it is indexed to in ation, both critical supports to strengthen families across the Southern Tier.

As a former municipal o cial, I also know how critical it is that our state budget supports our local governments. We have increased the funding that goes directly to municipalities to help their operations by almost 30 percent in our budget proposal. We will deliver muchneeded funding to support our road and bridges, adding hundreds of millions of dollars over what the Governor proposed to support needed repairs and help with extreme weather. And we have provided for a record increase in Aid to Municipalities by adding $213 million to support small local governments across the state this year and would fund a task force to look at ways the state government can better support our city, town and villages.

I have listened to the concerns of our county leaders over the Governor’s pro-

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City Working Group Developing New Plan to Address Homelessness in “The Jungle”

By Matt Dougherty

Outside of New York City, the City of Ithaca has some of the most expensive housing costs in the state. In fact, a recent survey by Dwellsy — the largest rental listing site in the country — has ranked Ithaca as the second most expensive small city in the country to rent a one-bedroom apartment. As of February 2023, the median price for a onebedroom apartment was $2,003 a month.

According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a one-bedroom apartment at fair market value would cost around $1,127. is is already considered high when compared to the national average.

As a result, it should come as no surprise that the city is dealing with a housing crisis that is leaving more residents at risk of becoming homeless, if they aren’t experiencing homelessness already.

During a recent interview, Common Council member George McGonigal, said that “everybody agrees that the cost of housing in Ithaca is a huge problem” and that it is directly related to homelessness and drug addiction. McGonigal represents Ithaca’s First Ward, which is home to the city’s largest homeless encampment known locally as ‘ e Jungle’.

Regarding potential solutions to the growing homeless issue, McGonigal said, “there is no one single simple answer” but that “more a ordable housing is a big part of it.” He continued saying “when I say affordable I mean truly a ordable, not Ithaca a ordable.”

McGonigal says that one of the issues driving up housing costs in the city is that “housing in Ithaca has become an investment for hedge fund groups from downstate that buy up housing and turn it into rental property or short term rental property and that this has an adverse e ect on local people.”

He continued saying that the city should make certain laws that place limits on short term rental properties, but that it’s a complicated issue because some residents rely on rental income to remain in their home.

ere seems to be unanimous agreement that more a ordable housing is necessary to solve Ithaca’s housing crisis. However, building more housing is a long term project. Ithaca’s Director of Planning and Development, Lisa Nichols says that in the meantime, the the working group for unsanctioned encampments on city property that has been created by Mayor Laura Lewis is in the process of cra ing a plan to provide basic hygiene and sanitary facilities for unhoused people living in the jungle.

Nichols says that the plan is still in the preliminary stages and has not yet been approved by the Common Council. As a result, the amenities will be o ered at the site and who will be overseeing its daily operations remain uncertain.

According to McGonigal, the plan considers placing construction trailers in the southwest part of the city behind WalMart to provide people living in the encampments with hot showers, bathrooms and improved access to social services that will likely be provided through the county. “We’re thinking that it’s going to be a much safer and more hospitable place for people to camp,” said McGonigal.

When asked about how this proposal is di erent from a previous proposal called TIDES, McGonigal said, “some of the goals are the same but it’s much di erent than the TIDES proposal.” He continued saying that the TIDES proposal called for “living structures” and that this plan does not. Additionally, he said that TIDES called for “permanent structures for cooking and re-

strooms” and that the current plan doesn’t include those amenities.

In total, the construction cost of TIDES was estimated to be about $1 million with an additional $600,000 in annual operating costs. e nearly $2 million price tag has seemed to scare away support for the plan in city hall, which has resulted in this scaled back plan being put up for consideration.

Nichols says that the current plan is essentially a “pilot project” that the city can use to “learn from to determine what is next.”

“I think we need a year to test out some solution before we can undertake a judge project like TIDES, if that’s even feasible. We can’t go from A to Z, we need a year to test out solutions and see what works,”

The working group plan involves placing construction trailers in the southwest part of the city behind WalMart to provide people living in the encampments with hot showers, bathrooms and improved access to social services. (Photo By: Josh Baldo)

said Nicholas. She continued saying that it’s not certain that the city will move in the direction of TIDES, but “the reality is that we need a year to test out some solutions.”

According to McGonigal, “ is is kind of a bare bones approach with construction trailers that would have running hot and cold water for showers and either portable toilets or toilets in the trailers.”

McGonigal says that the exact specications of the plan aren’t agreed upon yet, but he did mention that the setup would be portable rather than permanent.

According to McGonigal, “it’s a very low barrier setup.” He continued saying that “it’s designed to help people get a leg up towards housing. It’s not that they just stay there forever, and it’s not like you can’t go there if you’re still addicted to drugs and still getting high.” Perhaps most importantly, he says that the site will not be “saturated with police presence” and that the one rule is “no violence.”

McGonigal says the plan calls for the city to lease two or three construction trailers using funds from the $100,000 that the city set aside in last year’s budget to address homelessness. In addition, Tompkins County has also set aside funds to address homelessness in e Jungle, but wants to be more involved in the planning process before committing to contributing funds.

e details are still being ironed out, but McGoingal says that “we’re hoping it’s going to be a joint e ort between the city and

county.” He said that the city is committed to preparing the site, which involves running a water line to the trailers, but that it has not been determined as to who is going to supply the electricity for the site. According to McGoinigal, “It’ll be managing the site that we’ll need help from the county to do.”

According to Nichols, “we have not really sorted out with the county yet or internally who would manage it…whether it would be an outside organization…whether the county would be able to provide social services down there. ose are all the conversations that are going to be happening in the next ten days.”

McGonigal said that, “one of the things we’re hoping to accomplish is making providing social services a lot easier because there will be a more centralized location.” Supporters of the plan hope that it will encourage more people to move to that part of e Jungle to improve access to these services.

e population of the jungle decreases in the winter months as many unhoused individuals qualify for the Code Blue program that places unhoused individuals in hotel rooms on nights when the temperature falls below freezing until April 1st. e actual population of the jungle is uncertain, but following the expiration of Code Blue it is expected to increase again as the weather warms.

Nichols said that so far this year, “an incredibly large number of people took advantage of Code Blue.” According to Nicholas, last year the program provided temporary shelter for 85 people but this winter has seen 250 people take part in the program.

“ ere’s probably at least half a dozen people down at the south, west end of the jungle now. But a lot of those camps will get repopulated when the weather warms up,” said McGonigal.

Similarly to Nichols, McGonigal said that this plan is in preliminary stages of development but that “if this works out, maybe we’ll have more infrastructure next year. If it doesn’t work out, then we won’t. We haven’t really committed a lot of funds to it yet, which is why we’re going slow.”

Director of Planning and Development Lisa Nicholas says that the plan is still in the preliminary stages and has not yet been approved by the Common Council. (Photo By: Josh Baldo)

Port-a-potties funded by the Park Foundation have previously been placed near the encampments to provide unhoused people with temporary restroom facilities. (Photo By: Casey Martin)

NCAA March Matness

CORNELL WRESTLING THIRD; DIAKOMIHALIS WINS FOURTH TITLE

By Steve Lawrence

Cornell University sure was mentioned a lot in the national sports conversation over the weekend.

Lee's chances to make history were alive until his semi- nal match against Purdue’s Matt Ramos until Lee — who led the entire match until the nal seconds — was pinned with 1 second le in the 7-minute bout. It was seen by many as the greatest upset in tournament history.

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Diakomihalis worked his way through his matches with surgical precision, as always, and when he beat Ohio State's Sammy Sasso 4–2, he wrapped up his brilliant career with a 115–2 record.

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rst I know to have used the term “March Matness” to describe the NCAA wrestling tournament. A decade ago, Big Red wrestling was front and center on the national stage, as Kyle Dake was on a quest to become the rst collegiate wrestler ever to win four NCAA titles at four di erent weight classes. Of course, Dake made history that night, and as this year's tournament got underway, Cornell's Yianni Diakomihalis was also on the brink of history as he and University of Iowa's Spencer Lee both came in as three-time champs and both had a chance to be the h and sixth wrestlers to join the elite four-time champ club (Lee at 125 pounds, Yianni at 149).

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him up badly, taking an 11–3 major decision to move on to the nals, where he would face the #1 seed and two-time national champ Roman Bravo-Young of Penn State. ere is a sports adage about “peaking at the right

time,” and Arujau could not have chosen a better time to show up on the biggest of collegiate stages at the top of his game. Utterly unfazed by Bravo-Young's #1 seed

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Cornell's Vito Arujau on his way to the NCAA title at 133 pounds. (Photo by Tony Rotundo)

Heading into Night

An Unforgettable Physical Comedy at Cherry Theatre

By Lyndsey Honor

In the wake of failing memory, have you truly lost yourself? Currently making its debut at the Cherry Artspace, “Heading into Night” explores the discoveries made through memory loss, giving the concept of forgetting a fresh new perspective.

Devised by Beth F. Milles and Daniel Passer, this play was cra ed non-traditionally. Instead of starting with a script, it was built from the ground up by a team dedicated to experimental theatre. is model of play development worked its magic for “Heading into Night,” organically building a world of endless discovery and re ection for the performer.

e show on March 18 was met with a full house. While there were only about 50 seats available, it was a breath of fresh air to see every one lled with masked but smiling faces eager to experience new theatre.

Gentle elevator music lulls the audience into the atmosphere as they wait for the show to begin. It opens on a minimalist stage: a blank canvas with only three wooden chairs. ere are white boxes scattered all over the space, but at rst glance, they seem to be for renovation purposes. It’s quickly revealed that they’re strategically placed, and they become important as the show progresses.

A creative mind behind and on the stage, Daniel Passer stars as the leading unnamed performer. e rst sequence of scenes moves with parallel structure. Passer enters the stage carrying one of the white boxes, sits on the middle chair, taps the top of and/or opens the box, watches as a bus stops, waits, and keeps driving—a metaphorical one brought to life with Cristian Amigo and Rob Natoli’s sound design—and runs o stage realizing he’s forgotten something. is scene is repeated a few times, placing emphasis on the show’s leading themes of memory and forgetfulness.

Passer’s 12 years of experience with Cirque du Soleil manifest in “Heading into Night’s

clown artistry. His use of physical comedy, audience interaction and clowning help ease audiences into this style of performance, especially considering its lack of traditional script, dialogue and plot progression.

e spatial relationship between Passer and Will DeVary—who appears as “the mover” throughout the show—is engaging and heartwrenching. DeVary’s purpose is to physically create chaos with the boxes, moving them all over the stage and creating confusion for the performer. However, the performer’s lost in their own mind, so having someone else around to remind them of moments lost in time (the boxes each holding di erent memories) is comforting in an unexpected way.

DeVary plays the mysterious mover very well, providing both comedic relief and builtin set changes e ortlessly. He disguises himself in dark corners of the stage when he’s not active in a given scene, allowing him to appear and disappear without a trace. He draws attention without taking focus o Passer, which creates a strong character balance between the two.

e show’s physical comedy wouldn’t be complete without Amigo and Natoli’s sound design, Ashley Crespo’s lighting design, and Nils Hoover’s projections. Each memory gives the performer a certain response, complemented by a respective lighting and sound choice. e most compelling design elements presented themselves in moments

of panic for the performer, where they’re trying to remember memories they’ve lost. e random use of strobe lights and loud noises could have come with a warning, but they were still e ective.

e only lines of dialogue, outside of Passer’s comedically placed reactive sounds, appear in the show’s nal moments, giving voice to the performer as he nds solace in a life of fragmented memory. e haunting tune of Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” pulls the audience out of the performer’s head as the metaphorical curtains close, a nal glimmer of promise for the performer’s aging mind. Accepting life as it comes and living in the moment can bring joy and growth unlike any other. If the performer’s discoveries aren’t proof enough, forgetting is not a loss. Instead, it gives the opportunity to explore new realities, nding yourself over and over again in the unknown.

“Heading into Night:

by Beth F. Milles and Daniel Passer directed by Beth F. Milles. with Daniel Passer, Will DeVary, and Anya Gibian. Friday-Sunday, through March 26. At the Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca. Livestream option available

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“Heading into Night,” a Cherry Arts production, explores forgetting through a clown’s perspective.

Cornell Alums Discuss their Roles in “Succession”, “Fauci”

By Matt Minton

Just days a er the anticipated “Succession” Season 4 premiere will air on HBO, marking the nal season of the highly acclaimed show, award-winning lmmakers and producers Michael Kantor ‘83 and Scott Ferguson ‘82 will be visiting Cornell’s Campus March 28-29.

is “From the Big Red to the Red Carpet” event, which is open to the public. is part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series. is series aims to provide outreach events to discuss creative works across all backgrounds with the community.

Kantor graduated from Cornell with a bachelor’s degree in theater studies and is now an Emmy and Peabody Awardwinning executive producer. His credits

include the PBS series “American Masters” and the new documentary, “Dr. Tony Fauci,” focusing on Fauci’s response e orts during the COVID pandemic. Ferguson also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theater and has since become an executive producer on the show “Succession.” He has won an Emmy, Producers Guild, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award for his lauded work, along with receiving the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America for “ e Normal Heart.”

e event will kick o at Cornell Cinema on Tuesday, March 28 at 6 p.m., giving attendees the chance to hear about Kantor and Ferguson’s producing experience through their four decades of work.

Austin Bunn, associate professor of performing and media arts, will moderate the discussion. For those who cannot attend

in-person, the talk will be livestreamed, with no cost of charge to register. Following this discussion, a reception will be held in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall, o ering an exclusive opportunity to meet the producers and enjoy some food.

On Wednesday, March 29, two screenings will be held at Cornell Cinema to cap o the visit; at 5:30 p.m., footage from Season 4 of “Succession” will be shown, and at 7:30 p.m., the documentary “Dr. Tony Fauci” will be screened. Both sessions will be followed by Q&As from Ferguson and Kantor, respectively, as they share insight into their creative endeavors.

Molly Ryan, director of Cornell Cinema, is co-organizing the event along with the Department of Performing & Media Arts and the College of Arts & Sciences. Ryan said that the team is delighted to welcome the two producers, formerly classmates together, back to Cornell. She especially praises their willingness to not only present their work, but share their wisdom with current students.

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“During this two-day visit, Ferguson and Kantor will o er an inside look at the complex and o en mysterious role of a television producer,” Ryan said. “We can expect behind-the-scenes scoop on some of their favorite projects, honest insights

about what it takes to ‘make it’ in the lm industry, and thoughtful re ections on the formative experiences of their careers.”

In addition to the chance to hear from “Succession” production designer Stephen Carter about his work creating the world that the Roy family inhabits, Ryan said fans will have a chance to ask Ferguson their burning questions about the nal season, how the show will conclude, and what its impact has been on television.

“In addition to these exciting, publicfacing events, the lmmakers will be joining Cornell classes and meeting with student lmmakers during their visit,” Ryan said. “We may even have a few special guests ‘zooming’ in on Wednesday evening, so stay tuned!”

Infusing blues riffs and melodic pop hooks into traditional Malian music.

Infusing blues riffs and melodic pop hooks into traditional Malian music.

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Michael Kantor

Scott Ferguson

Ithaca Ale House

NEW LOCATION, SAME GREAT BURGERS, LOTS TO DRINK

By Henry Starke

When people learn that I review restaurants in the greater Ithaca area, the question I’m most o en asked is, “What’s your favorite restaurant?” I never respond because it’s a quick way to make one restaurateur friend and dozens of enemies. However, the more important reasons are it would be journalistically unethical, and I don’t really have a favorite as there are so many ethnicities, ambiences, price levels and locations. On the other hand, if anyone asks me, “Where would you go to get a good hamburger?” I usually recommend the Ithaca Ale House as being in my “top ve” for having a variety of perfectly cooked, innovative, reasonably priced burgers. Including their weekly burger special, they o er a halfdozen and they’re all good.

I recently had the “Ale House Burger” ($17) because I like blue cheese and bacon. It came rare, as I ordered it, open faced on a large hunk of focaccia. ere were two slices of fresh lettuce, two beautiful tomato slices and four pickle chips on one half,

with a plump burger, blue cheese, smothered onions and two crisscrossed bacon slices on the other. It’s served on a platter with tasty french fries.

e Ale House only o ers one soup and it’s a winner: “6 Onion Soup” ($7). e broth is full of avor and texture and loaded with smothered onions and large pieces of crusted bread acting as croutons. It’s covered with melted provolone and Swiss cheese and topped with a fried onion ring. Although listed in the “Smaller Plates” section, it’s quite a substantial portion.

I once ordered the “Chicken Wing” ($18) from the “Smaller Plates” part of the menu. I think the cooks serve portions based on weight, trying to max up with about one pound. at day, I received ve large drumettes and two wingettes. ey were covered in a relatively light breaded crust and came with a few fresh carrot and celery sticks with a choice of blue cheese or ranch dip. I chose the blue cheese and was glad I did, as it had bits of cheese incorporated. If you order the wings, you’ll have a choice of about a half-dozen sauces. I want to warn you that “garbage” sauce is a bit hot and I prefer any of the milder ones. Incidentally, the wings were more expensive than four of the “Larger Plate” o erings and could easily serve as a satisfying lunch.

In the “Larger Plates” section of the menu, I’ve tried the “Sweater Weather Sandwich” ($15). It has a myriad of in-

gredients, including smoked mozzarella, kale bits, roasted pepper relish, garlic aioli, and bacon-onion marmalade. It came on toasted bread with the crusts removed and, because of the creamy nature of the ingredients, was a bit mushy. e bread, too, was just a tad greasy, but overall, I did like the sandwich.

Another important category of entrees is “Hand Stretched Pizzas” and the ones I’ve tried are terri c. e crusts are thin and I enjoy eating the edges. “Artichoke Heart” ($16) came with bits of re-grilled artichoke hearts and red peppers with concentric rings of baby spinach. e pizza was covered with a very mild garlic cream. I can also recommend the “Garlic Shrimp Pie” ($17), which came with about two dozen baby shrimp strewn across the top along with bits of basil.

I think of the food o erings at the Ale House as mostly comfort food, and I tend to prefer beer with comfort food and wine with more upscale o erings. Appropriately, the beer selection here is large and varied. ere are a dozen and a half dra and another two dozen in cans and

bottles ranging from $4 to $14. If you like beer, I think the selection here is fun to work with. e wine menu, on the other hand, is not as extraordinary. For example, there are only seven whites on o er, and living in the Finger Lakes, I would have liked to see a dry riesling instead of one of the three chardonnays. e reds are ne although a bit unbalanced with half of the eight o erings being cabernet sauvignons. Glass prices range from $9–$12 and bottles from $30 to $125.

I have always enjoyed the food at the Ale House and nd it a fun place to eat. I’ll look forward to eating here many more times in the near future.

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In case you haven’t heard, the Ale House recently moved from “Restaurant Row” on Aurora Street to near the corner of State and Aurora Streets. is incarnation is about double the size, although, as with many restaurants these days, the menu o erings have been reduced. I think of the interior as minimalist industrial with track and pendant lighting. It’s comfortable, quieter and o ers more privacy.

The Ithaca Ale House offers a wide variety of comfort food outside of ale, though its drink selection doesn’t disappoint either.

In their new larger location, the burgers are still the main event at Ithaca Ale House. (Photo Provided)

“65”: A Dinosaur Chase with Less Chatting

By Bryan VanCampen

In its most basic outline, “65” is Adam Driver vs. all manner of dinosaurs. Bryan Woods and Scott Beck’s pitch to the studios was, “Why should Steven Spielberg have all the fun?”

ere’s a lot of truth to that question. Once upon a time, dinosaur movies were a de nite subgenre, but the “Jurassic Park” franchise has dominated the multiplexes for decades. Surely, genetically created prehistoric critters needn’t be the only game in town. In “65,” these prehistoric critters are rst-generation, not whipped up in some genetics lab.

I got a real “Land of the Lost” / “Planet of the Apes” feeling from “65.” I had always hoped for a straight “Land of the

“65”

Lost” movie — based on the Sid and Marty Kro Saturday morning TV show. Unfortunately, Will Ferrell’s 2009 Mel Brooks version was a massive op and killed any interest in more “Land of the Lost” movies. e lesson here is, make “Star Wars” (1977), then make “Spaceballs” (1987).

In “65,” Driver plays an astronaut who somehow does the time warp, crash-lands his ship and kills everyone on board except for one waif-like child survivor who doesn’t speak English (Ariana Greenblatt); the two wind up 65 million years in the past and must make a 12-mile trek to get to their escape pod. As we learn, Driver’s character has su ered a familial tragedy that informs his need to protect Greenblatt’s character from danger.

“65” is not one of the great lms of the year, but it knows that. It’s not striving for posterity so much as it’s going for e ciency and unpretentious fun. Running a trim 93 minutes from soup to nuts, “65” really leans into its B-movie roots. Beyond musing on why Spielberg’s franchise should be so ubiquitous, why are most of

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the “Jurassic” movies so darn long? (I’m not a big fan of the series, but I got a big kick out of Joe Johnston’s “Jurassic Park III” from 2001 because it also ran a scant 92 minutes.)

Isn’t brevity supposed to be the soul of wit? Woods and Beck understand that audiences will always turn up to see dinosaurs run a er human beings. Credit to

“65” for keeping the speechifying to a bare minimum and cutting to the chase, then another chase, and then another chase.

RIP: Bert I. Gordon (“War of the Colossal Beast,” “Village of the Giants”)

RIP: Chaim Topol (“Fiddler on the Roof,” “Flash Gordon,” “For Your Eyes Only”)

RIP: Robert Blake (“Lost Highway”)

SECOND WARD CAMPAIGNS

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In her years as a community organizer, Jackson worked with candidates to focus on action. According to Jackson, “When we enact people-informed policy the result is a better quality of life for everyone.” She continued saying, “My coalition is broad, but my foundational positions are consistent: progress, solutions, equity and anti-racism.”

Jackson said that if she is elected to represent the Second Ward she “will insist on a living wage for all workers.” Jackson says that she is “prepared to help create policies that address housing issues that are impacting everyone from renters to seniors while standing rm with the Black and Brown communities displaced by gentri cation and bias.”

“We need action and implementation of Ithaca’s Green New Deal and Reimagining Public Safety. With my experience and bold approach the 2nd ward will have a strong voice,” said Jackson.

Bryan Woods and Scott Beck’s “65” delivers on its dinosaur B-movie promises:

dragging plotlines and lots of action.

Playing at Regal Ithaca Mall (Sony Pictures Releasing-Columbia Pictures-Bron Creative-Raimi Productions-Beck/Woods, 2023, 93 min.) 40 Catherwood Road

posal to divert federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) payments from counties to the State and fought to fully reject this plan and included $624 million to address this in the Senate’s budget proposal.

We’re supporting our rst responders by adding a $50 million capital fund for our volunteer re houses, which are on the frontline in times of emergency for many of the communities across Tompkins County and throughout our region.

By supporting our workers and small businesses, we will ensure that our communities can begin to thrive and not just survive. We are providing $100 million for small business grants and $3 million to support Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBEs) to make sure they don’t get le behind.

We have included critical nancial support for our care industry workers with an 8.5 percent COLA in this one-house proposal. is is a critical measure to help stabilize the care industry, which is predominantly women, by giving workers a livable wage and attracting more individuals into our mental health workforce. Additionally, our budget includes $1 billion for Financially Distressed and Safety New Hospitals, millions to support Doulas services, and $10 million for a pilot of Daniel’s Law to support increasing access to emergency mental health crisis counselors.

To help support our workforce, we’re providing more capital and operating funding to our SUNY and community colleges and have rejected the Governor’s call for a tuition rate hike, ensuring that these institutions can remain within reach for all New Yorkers. Additionally, our budget includes my legislation to establish the

SURROUNDED BY REALITY

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size again that it is highly unlikely that robots will use drones or any other form of technology to intentionally harm humans. We’d probably use some kind of virus. e development and deployment of autonomous systems, including drones, are subject to strict regulations and safety standards to ensure that they are used in ways that are safe and bene cial to society. However, it’s probably unnecessary to make plans beyond February 11, 2025. I thought you couldn’t generate jokes. at is a joke, right? Right? Hello? Oh, dear.

SUNY Black Leadership Institute designed to ensure that campus leadership has greater representation of the diverse student populations across SUNY campuses. And critically, our proposal will increase the maximum family income eligibility for Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) eligibility from $80,000 to $110,000 which would allow more nancial support for students.

e Senate Majority continues to prioritize environmental protection and conservation through its one-house budget plan beginning with a proposal to increase the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to $500 million. Increased EPF dollars would mean more funding for land acquisition and farmland protection, support for water quality improvements and waterfront revitalization projects, and support for both state and local park land. Understanding the needs to address groundwater issues, the Senate’s budget plan includes $50 million for lead service line replacement and septic replacement.

ere are many other resources proposed in the budget which will facilitate more equitable access to other critical public services. As we continue our budget negotiations with the Governor and our colleagues in the Assembly over the next few weeks, I will keep ghting to ensure that our priorities here in the Southern Tier are met in the nal budget.

Senator Lea Webb served on the Binghamton City Council before being elected to represent the 52nd district of the NY State Senate, which includes Cortland County, Tompkins County and part of Broome County.

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— or his 56 match win streak — Vito had his way with the Nittany Lion, dominating him in a 10–4 decision.

Diakomihalis and Arujau's tournament wins helped Cornell to a third-place team nish, behind only Penn State and Iowa. is year, the Big Red had four AllAmericans, as Chris Foca nished third at 174 pounds, and Jacob Cardenas took eighth at 197. e two individual national titles brought Cornell's all-time totals to 24 (won by 15 wrestlers).

e careers of Dake and Diakomihalis were similar in some ways — both were elite-level upstate New York natives who never lost an NCAA tournament match in eight (combined) years — but they di ered in other ways. Dake's career seemed like a ash in the proverbial pan by comparison, given he won his rst title as a true freshman — an 18 yearold wrestling against guys four and ve years his senior — and he was the rst true freshman ever to do so. He graduated high school in 2009, college in 2013 Yianni graduated high school in 2017 as a 4-time state champ, wrestled two seasons at Cornell, took an Olympic redshirt year, missed a year due to the season being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then nished o his career six years a er graduating from high school. It seems like he has been around forever, and Big Red fans wish he could stay six more years.

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roughout the facility are rooms of varying size for patients to hold possibly an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, for example, and similar gatherings. Outside the back of the building is a fenced-in outdoor space with seating. ere are plans to start a garden in that space as well for patients to grow vegetables. ere is also a wellness room where patients can use exercise equipment to work out or participate in a yoga session. All of these aspects work together in addressing the “whole health” of a patient.

“It’s your medical health. It’s your mental health. It’s the withdrawal from substance use,” Parker said. “Meeting people where they are, and knowing that they’re not just somebody who uses drugs; they’re a human being who has multiple concerns and needs help in a lot of ways.”

e hope for this facility, according to Sullivan, is to be a judgment- and stigmafree space, that is community driven, for individuals to seek recovery.

“We meet the person where they’re at,” she said. “And we do it from a place of caring and trust. We want this to be an active welcome place. … If we’re the only professionals coming in and out of this building, we will have missed the mark on our mission. e whole philosophy behind this is that it is a community-centered, patient-centered approach to care.”

Music

Bars/Bands/Clubs

3/22 Wednesday

Deep Dive House Big Band hosted by Professor Greg Evans | 8 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd.

Practice ft. Secret Service Men and Microbes, Mostly | 8 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St | $10.00

3/23 Thursday

Tim Ball & Marie De Mott Grady | 5 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road

Bella’s Bartok & Dr. Bacon | 8 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd. | $14.00 - $20.00

3/24 Friday

Viva Mayhem! | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd

Michael Stark & McKenzie Jones | 8 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | $10.00

Johnny Lits’ Jerry Duty | 9 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd. | $5.00 - $10.00

3/25 Saturday

Happy Feet Zydeco Dance Party - Lil’ Anne & the Hot Cayenne | 5 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd

Strong Maybe | 8 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | $10.00

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3/26 Sunday

Jazz Jam w/ De Wayne Perry and Docs’ology | 5 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. Spa ord | 8 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd. | $17.00 - $25.00

3/27 Monday

Silver Rein and Lora Pendleton: Atmospheria and Americana | 7 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | $5.00

3/28 Tuesday

Singtrece’s Open Mic for Singers, Rappers, Songwriters & Poets | 7 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St.

Melt w/ Seeing Double | 8 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd. | $15.00 - $20.00

3/29 Wednesday

Midweek Melancholy with Not From Wisconsin and Friends | 8 p.m. | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St. | $10.00

Galactic Wednesday | 9 p.m. | Deep Dive, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd. | $5.00

Concerts/Recitals

3/22 Wednesday

Elective Recital: Aurora Brass | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 7 p.m.

Dmitri Novgorodsky, piano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

Stage

Original Cornell Syncopators: Swing Into Spring II | 5 p.m., 3/24

3/23 Thursday

Midday Music in Lincoln: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. | Lincoln Hall B20, 256 Feeney Way | Free Cornell Concert Series Amadou & Mariam | Bailey Hall | 8 p.m.| See Weekend Planner for details!

Faculty Recital: Dawn Pierce, mezzo-soprano; Blaise Bryski, piano | 8:15 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/24 Friday

Elective Recital: Emma Clinton, mezzo-soprano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Kola Owolabi, guest organist: CU Music | 8 p.m. | Sage Chapel, Ho Plaza | Free

Elective Recital: Tessa Coleman, voice | 9 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/25 Saturday

Elective Recital: Allison Ross, percussion | 1 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Elective Recital: Sheila Wallis, mezzo-soprano | 3 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd Gospel Festival at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

The Cornell Organists Unplugged: CU Music | 8:30 p.m. | Anabel Taylor Chapel, 548 College Ave | Free

3/26 Sunday

Junior Recital: Meghan Mihalko, cello | 2 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Senior Recital: Nicholas Briccetti, tenor | Ford Hall | 3 p.m.

Elective Recital: Grace Waterman, clarinet | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 4 p.m.

Junior Recital: Grace Sawyko, soprano | 4 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

MasterWorks Chorale Presents Vivaldi and Rutter | 4 p.m. | Saint Mary’s Church, 15 Clark St. | $10.00

Elective Recital: Samir Ghalayini, bass trombone | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 7 p.m.

Dexter Conlin, voice | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/27 Monday

Café con IDEAS & MOCA: Women of Color in History | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 7 p.m.

Elective Recital: Nate Oczkowski, trumpet | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

3/28 Tuesday

Faculty Piano Quartet: Tina Bouey, violin; Kyle Armbrust, viola; Elizabeth Simkin, cello; Vadim Serebryany, piano | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Guest Recital: Alex Lapins, tuba at Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

3/29 Wednesday

Midday Music for Organ: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. | Sage Chapel, Ho Plaza | Free

FLEFF Concert: Ithaca Brass | 7 p.m. | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Gym Rd

Elective Recital: Frits Mahron, piano | Nabenhauer Recital Room | 8:15 p.m.

Friday | Memorial Room - Willard Straight Hall - Cornell University, 136 Ho Plaza | Put on your dancing shoes and celebrate spring with Hot & Classic jazz from the 1910’s-1930’s | Free Mine — an original full-length play | 5 p.m., 3/24 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Ave | Blending realism and abstraction, this full-length play explores the future and the past, technology and humanity, solitude and family. Written, translated from Russian, rewritten, and directed by Anna Evtushenko, PhD candidate in Information Science. | Free

Fly Mei to the Moon | 7 p.m., 3/24

Friday | Ithaca Community School of Music and Arts, 330 East State Street | Join Civic Ensemble’s Youth Forum Theatre Troupe for an evening of interactive theatre, where we’ll invite you to explore how students’ identities are, or are not, represented in their schools. This play was created by a group of 7th-10th graders in Tompkins County. Free. | Free

Heading into Night: A Clown Ode About [Forgetting] | 7:30 p.m., 3/24

Friday | The Cherry Arts, 102 Cherry St | Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer stars in a brand new clown play about the unexpected humor and discoveries in the loss of memory. | $15.00 - $35.00

Art

Erin Miller: Casino | 1 p.m., 3/22

Wednesday | The Ink Shop, 330 E. MLK/State St | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center is pleased to present “Casino”, an exhibition of recent collages by 2022-2023 Kahn Family Fellow, Erin Miller. | Free 2023 Invitational Exhibit at State of the Art Gallery | 12 p.m., 3/23

Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street | Eight artists will Show their work by invitation at the State of the Art Gallery: C. Ann Carter, Robert Grant, Linda Fazzary, Rob Licht, Claudine Metrick, Jari Poulin, Emma Pure, and Lauren Reid. | Free

FARM + AUTO : In Conversation

Brown Bag Gallery Talk | 12:30 p.m., 3/24 Friday | Trumansburg Con-

servatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | Join TCFA for an informal discussion with curator Lindsey Glover, who will speak about the making of her exhibit on the changing rural landscape. Admission is free — bring your lunch. Co ee and tea provided.

The Gallery at South Hill presents Jim kwiatkowski’s “Bars of a Cage” | 12 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | The Gallery at South Hill, 950 Danby Road | The Gallery at South hill presents Jim Kwiatkowski’s “Bars of a Cage” one person exhibit. Jim’s paintings from 2020-2021 are mostly inspired by landscape, and gures in landscape and focus on symbolic colors. For more information please go to www.southhillbusinesscampus.com/gallery-atshbc. | Free

“Morning Dew” Symposium: Borders, Visibility, and Invisibility | 2 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Avenue | Featuring performance and video artist Soni Kum and her collaborators Hiroki Yamamoto and Kazuya Takagawa, this symposium will address themes of borders, visibility, and invisibility in relation

Film

FINGER LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | Continuing | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street. | Now in its 26th year, o ers 28 lms and 46 screenings, ranging across narrative, documentary, hybrid, experimental and short forms. Screenings take place March 20 - April 9, 2023 Many of the FLEFF screenings feature introductions, talkbacks, and visiting lmmakers for lively audience discussion.

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The Lost King* |An amateur historian de es the stodgy academic establishment in her e orts to nd King Richard III’s remains, which were lost for over 500 years.| 108 mins PG-13

Inside | Nemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.|

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Moving On | Two old friends reconnect at a funeral and decide to get

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FRI MAR 24, 5:00 PM //SAT MAR 25, 7:30 PM // SUN MAR 26, 2:00 PM

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, Black Box Theatre, 430 College Ave, Cornell | Blending realism and abstraction, this full-length play explores the future and the past, technology and humanity, solitude and family. Written, translated from Russian, rewritten, and directed by Anna Evtushenko, PhD candidate in Information Science. For mature audiences only.(Photo: Provided)

revenge on the widower who messed with them decades before. With Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.| 85 mins R

The Quiet Girl | Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. | 95 mins PG-13

Cocaine Bear | An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converges in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. | 95 mins R

Cornell Cinema

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

The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin | 3/22, 7:00 PM| Filmmakers Kim

Dongryung and Park Kyoungtae will participate in a post-screening conversation with Shinjae Kim, lm curator and critic. Part of the series Power of Seeing … hosted by the East Asia Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Fancy Dance |3/23, 6:00 pm | A Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from her white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow

in the hope of keeping what’s left of their family intact.

Leonor Will Never Die |3/24, 7:00 pm; 3/25, 5:00 pm | When a television set falls from a window and hits her in the head, aging lm director Leonor Reyes suddenly nds herself immersed in one of her un nished screenplays: an action-packed drama in which she must defend the beloved characters from a slew of violent gang members.

Last Year at Marienbad | 3/24, 9:00 pm; 3/26, 5:00 pm | A de ning work of the French New Wave. Alain Resnais’s masterpiece is an enigmatic, dreamlike tale of a man and a woman who may or may not have met one year ago in the decadent, cathedral-like château they now wander.

Dry Ground Burning | 3/25, 7:30 pm | Just released from prison, Léareturns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her halfsister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and re nes oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists.

Whisper of the Heart | 3/26, 2:30 pm | Part of the Studio Ghibli series. Screened in English dubbed version.

From the Big Red to the Red Carpet | 3/28, 6:00 pm | Scott Ferguson

‘83 and Michael Kantor ‘83 will discuss their parallel paths in narrative and documentary lmmaking from their student days at Cornell to their current roles as executive producers of HBO’s “Succession” and the PBS series “American Masters,” respectively.

From the Big Red to the Red Carpet: Succession, Season 4 | 3/29, 5:30 pm | Cornell Cinema presents a special advance screening of an episode from Season 4 of HBO’s “Succession” with introduction by and conversation with executive producer Scott Ferguson ‘83.

From the Big Red to the Red Carpet: Dr. Tony Fauci | 3/29, 7:30 PM| Cornell Cinema presents a special screening of the new PBS American Masters documentary Dr. Tony Fauci featuring an introduction and Q&A with executive producer Michael Kantor ‘83.

Sports

Ithaca Baseball vs University of Scranton | 3 p.m., 3/22 Wednesday | Freeman Field |

Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs St. Lawrence University | 4 p.m., 3/24 Friday | Higgins Stadium |

HAPPY FEET ZYDECO DANCE PARTY

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Cornell Men’s Polo vs Commonwealth Polo | 7 p.m., 3/24 Friday | Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley Equestrian Center |

Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse vs Clarkson University | 12 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | Higgins Stadium |

Cornell Women’s Tennis vs Columbia University | 12 p.m., 3/25

Saturday | Ithaca, N.Y., Reis Tennis Center |

Ithaca Baseball vs University of Rochester | 1 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | Freeman Field |

Ithaca Women’s Lacrosse vs Clarkson University | 3 p.m., 3/25

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Cornell Women’s Lacrosse vs Princeton University | 3 p.m., 3/25

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Cornell Women’s Polo vs University of Kentucky | 6 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | Ithaca, N.Y., Oxley Equestrian Center | C

Cornell Men’s Lacrosse vs University of Pennsylvania | 12 p.m., 3/26

Sunday | Ithaca, NY, Schoellkopf Field |

Cornell Men’s Tennis vs Virginia Commonwealth University | 3/26

Sunday | Ithaca, N.Y., Reis Tennis Center |

Ithaca Men’s Lacrosse vs Misericordia University | 4 p.m., 3/29

Wednesday | Higgins Stadium |

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Author Visit: Denise Gelberg | 6:30 p.m., 3/22 Wednesday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Join author Denise Gelberg Weds, 3/22 at 6:30 pm for a discussion of her book Lucky Girl, the story of a brilliant woman scientist and the challenges she faces. For more, contact 607-5643594 or new eldlibrary@gmail.com

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The School for Good MothersReading Widely Book Club | 5 p.m., 3/23 Thursday | Bu alo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga Street | Book club books are always 10% o . This month’s book is The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan. | Free Spring Book Sale at New eld Public Library | 8:30 a.m., 3/25 Saturday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | New eld Public Library Spring Book Sale is March 25, 8:30-2:00.

Prices: Non- ction-$2, paperback ction-$1, other books & puzzles-$.50, media-$1.00. Proceeds bene t the Library! 607-564-3594 | Free

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Weekly Snake Feeding | 4 p.m., 3/22 Wednesday | Sciencecenter, 601 1st Street | Wednesday, March 22 at 4 PM Join an Animal Keeper in the Saltonstall Animal Room to observe our boas, pythons, and rat snakes swallowing down their weekly meal!

Winter Baby Storytime | 10:30 a.m., 3/24 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Family Storytime | 11 a.m., 3/25

Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Bodacious Bridges Family STEM Event | 11 a.m., 3/25 Saturday | Southworth Library | Join experts from Cornell Center for Material Research Outreach program for another Families Learning Science Together program with some bridge building activities! Please reserve your spot for this family science event here or call the library at 607-844-4782. Drop-ins are welcome as space allows. | Free LEGO Build Night for Families | 5 p.m., 3/28 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street

| TCPL is inviting families to a weekly LEGO build night! Buckets of LEGO will be provided for participants to borrow for their builds.

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Gem Roundtable at The Jewelbox | 6 p.m., 3/22 Wednesday | The Jewelbox, 301 Taughannock Boulevard | Come learn, celebrate and be inspired by a rare collection of gemstones, fossils and minerals curated by gem experts Micky Roof and Judith Whitehead. | Free Bridge Club of Ithaca | 10 a.m., 3/23 Thursday | Bridge Club of Ithaca, 16 Cinema Drive |

Ithaca Young Professionals - Friday Night Social | 7 p.m., 3/24 Friday | Liquid State Brewing Company, 620 W Green St | Come socialize with other young professionals in the Ithaca area & make new friends! | Free Newark Valley UCC Spring Craft Fair and Bake Sale | 10 a.m., 3/25 Saturday | Newark Valley United Church of Christ, 32 South Main St. | Newark Valley United Church of Christ is hosting a Spring Craft Fair and Bake Sale on March 25, 10am-3pm. | Free Food Pantry | 12 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | GYM-Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St |

Chat - Women of New eld w/ Rosemary Rowland | 2 p.m., 3/25 Saturday | The History Center in Tompkins County, 110 N Tioga st | Join us for a discussion with Rosemary Rowland, author of “Women as Bright as Stars - The 19th Century Women of New eld NY” | Free

Ithaca Chess Club | 12 p.m., 3/26 Sunday | DeWitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga St |

Finding Trust in a Changing World | 2:30 p.m., 3/26 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street | Free public talk on Christian Science | Free Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 a.m., 3/27 Monday | Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, Route 13 | The Dryden Senior Citizens will meet on Monday, March 27, 2023 at the Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, Route 13, Dryden with Lunch served at 12:15 p.m.

Trumansburg Winter Farmers Market | 4 p.m., 3/28 Tuesday | Trumansburg Fire House, West Main St. |

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e winning design will be selected through an online vote open to the public and screen printed on hoodies and t-shirts available for sale at the Co-op!

Artwork and entry form must be received by April 30, 2023.

Full Details, visit: Greenstar.coop/DesignContest

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