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opens this week When Laurie Jameson, a charismatic professor at a prestigious New England college, accuses a student athlete of plagiarism, her seemingly well-ordered life is thrown into dizzying disarray.

Both Laurie and her student, nicknamed “Third,” begin to question their own beliefs and life choices.

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he Town of Ithaca planning board is still wrangling over the specific language that should be in the environmental impact statement (EIS) they will require for the Maplewood housing development rebuild.

Deciding on the “scope” of the EIS, largely an exercise in semantics and in specific requirements of things like traffic studies and building energy use analysis, has taken one meeting with public comment and two with only the board discussing the matter among themselves.

This board sets a three-hour limit on their Tuesday night meetings.

The planning board has been receiving modified versions of the original plan for the 17 acre from EdR Trust Collegiate Housing since at least February.

Initial changes requested of architect Murphy Antoine included moving buildings around the site in the plans for the 474-unit, 887-bedroom complex that includes 380 to 1,750 square-foot apartments. EdR and Cornell need an approval of a planned development zone to complete the project, as it doesn’t fit into current zoning.

At the June 21 public hearing, Jeffrey Resetco, vice president for real estate development with EdR, had announced that the privately managed complex, if built, would pay property taxes. Resetco also announced that the project would use LeChase Construction as a contractor, making union representatives in attendance happy.

At the July 5 meeting, planning board chair Fred Wilcox III told his fellow members that he “didn’t want to let the perfect get in the way of the good” and would push hard to finish the scoping document that night. But the July 12 meeting, the board used up its time and will meet once again on July 19 to attempt completion of the document, according to town planning director Sue Ritter.

[Didn’t get there, sorry Dear Readers—one reporter, two meetings.]

On July 5, board member John Bosak raised his concerns about methane leakage from the project and his opposition to the plan to heat with electricity.

“Electricity is the least efficient way to heat, period,” Bosak said, “and from an overall standpoint electricity is being generated someplace else, by the burning of fossil fuels, and [there are] line losses getting here.” continued on page 7

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“My strong memory of that meeting was there were two projects you thought could be developed on that site, and this was one of them,” Marx said. “This site has languished as having almost no benefit for the community for almost 20 years. And we have a great chance to fix that. If this goes away, I don’t know what will happen next.”

The other proposal Marx was referring to was an adaptive reuse of the old library building, designed by STREAM Collaborative. The Tompkins County legislature voted 7-6 in July 2015 to award the project to Travis.

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by Ithaca developer Frost Travis for the Old Library site at Court and Cayuga streets is still in limbo after a July 12 joint meeting of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) and the city planning and development board.

The question of the night was whether the ILPC would issue a “certificate of appropriateness” for the 57-unit building. After about two and a half hours of deliberation and public comment, the ILPC decided to table their decision—if the ILPC gets new information, including visual renderings of how the building will look from different angles in the streetscape, they have 90 days to make a call on the project.

An approved Revised design for Dewitt House, a HOLT Architects design for the old county certificate would find library site. (Image courtesty of Kimberley Michaels) that the building is “consistent with other large buildings within DeWitt Inn, had a different take on the the district, including the DeWitt Mall, Cayuga Apartments, and the court house.” DeWitt House plans.

“The legislature was warned about A denial of that certificate would find that this moment, ” Metzger said. “They were the project “does not sympathetically relate warned they were approving a building to the smaller residential scale buildings that was too big for a historic district. that comprise the area.”

[Legislator] Martha Robertson said, ‘If Tompkins County planning it can’t be 57 apartments, it’ll be 40, and commissioner Ed Marx was one of about we’ll have still have more housing … it was a dozen public commenters to speak their kind of a given the building could not be mind during the hearing. Marx said that successful at this size.” the Frost Travis project, which requires Tom Shelley, a member of the demolition of the old library building, was one of two projects that got good reviews continued on page 4 from city officials and staff in January

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▶ Electing a New District Attorney, Following the retirement of Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson on July 8, the Tompkins County Democrats will seek a candidate to run in the November election for a four-year position. Later in the summer, the Tompkins County Democratic Committee will schedule a meeting open to all registered Democrats in the County so that citizens may meet any and all candidates who have come forward in hopes of running for District Attorney on the Democratic line.

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County Committee members from the City and Towns will vote at that session. The DA candidate who wins the majority of votes will appear on the ballot on the Democratic line (row A).

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eil Golder has filed a lawsuit against the City of Ithaca Planning & Development Board and Visum Development Group, headed by local developer Todd Fox. Fox’s group received preliminary site plan approval on June 28 from the board for a five-story, 44-unit, 76-bed building at 201 College Avenue, with final site plan approvals scheduled for the July 26 Board meeting.

Golder, who resides at 203 College Avenue, filed a suit through his attorney Dirk Galbraith of Holmberg Galbraith LLP, Ithaca, with papers filed at the Tompkins County clerk’s office on June 21. The suit is of the “Article 78” variety, the kind that contests an administrative agency’s decision.

The planning board’s decision approving the 201 College Avenue project was “made in violation of lawful procedure, was arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion and should be annulled,” Golder’s suit claims. The suit is focused on “annulling the decision of no environmental significance” which the board made in May; Golder wants the board to require a full environmental review of the project.

In the suit’s affidavit, Golder says that the 201 College Avenue plans would be “completely out of character with the rest of the neighborhood, would dwarf the

“With all the events that they have on the Commons, why not put a hotel there. It’s a perfect spot and it creates more jobs.”

—Bill Rumsey

“I think it’s fine. I don’t see anything wrong with it.”

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“It’s probably closer for people to explore the Ithaca Commons better. It’s nice.”

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Sustainable Tompkins board of directors, told the combined boards the proposal “looks kind of like a Hampton Inn.” City historic planner Bryan McCracken told the boards that he had 13 written comments about the project, a dozen in opposition. Proposed materials for the building’s façade include limestone, brick, and linear-fiber cement siding.

Katelin Olson of the ILPC took a look at lot sizes in the historic district compared to building sizes, and found that lot coverage of the proposed DeWitt House was about 54 percent, compared to about 38 percent for the DeWitt Mall and about 10 percent for the DeWitt Inn. Susan Stein of the ILPC told the architects that the design reminded her of Robert Venturi’s Guild House, a Philadelphia low-income senior citizen housing project commissioned by a Quaker organization in 1960.

“Not that that design hasn’t been celebrated,” Stein said,” but I think it’s too institutional for this area.”

ILPC chair Ed Finegan asked Travis how flexible he could be in changing the

“I think it’s good that they are developing downtown as opposed to the outskirts of town like on route 13.”

—Katrina Moraine

“It definitely looks nice and it’s in a good location.” ­—Rich Taormina

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Neil Golder stands on his porch roof surveying the remains of three spruce trees in front of the neighboring house. They were cut down to make room for a five-story building at 201 College Ave. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

houses around it and would stick out like a sore thumb.”

Three spruce trees out front of 201 College Avenue that Golder and his supporters have asked to be saved were cut down last week. Golder and friends held a blessing of those trees on July 2.

“We held an honoring, a blessing of the trees, which we thought were likely to be cut down,” Golder said. “Their spirit continues.”

The Ithaca Police Department showed up during the tree blessing. Golder said it

was his “understanding that Todd Fox had called the police, and he said it was one of his workers.”

Fox said that his property manager called the cops; his concern was liability.

“If someone trips and falls downstairs, our homeowner’s insurance is going to be sued,” Fox said. “I don’t want to have anyone arrested.”

“This is Collegetown, and people

size of the project.

“To support the site and the cost of construction,” Travis said, “we need to have this rentable volume to make it financially feasible and financeable with the lender.”

“If there’s design concerns, it’s worth having another meeting with ILPC,” Travis said later. “If this isn’t going forward because of mass and scale, we would like to know that. That doesn’t mean the project is dead in the water, but at some point the county’s patience will wear thin and they’re going to say fish or cut bait.

If this is going to go through another [request for proposal] process, I would not participate.”

Architect Kim Michaels, of Trowbridge Wolf Michaels, responded to a couple of public comments that called the DeWitt House proposal a “trainwreck.”

“It’s a big building,” Michaels said, “[but] it’s not a trainwreck. It can be large and work with the neighborhood. It will be different, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it will be catastrophic. Density is desirable, and the addition it will bring to the neighborhood is a positive one …

The design team has heard loud and clear size of it is a concern to this board. Do

you believe that the size is mitigable in any way other than slashing units out of the building? … That’s really the crux of the question.”

The old library building itself is not considered historic. Designed by Victor Bagnardi, ground was broken in 1964 after the city’s first public library, gifted

by Ezra Cornell and located at Seneca and Tioga, was demolished in 1959 for parking. DeWitt Park historic district’s “period of significance” is between 1820 to 1930, so the old county library, completed in 1969, is a “non-contributing resource.”

The proposed project must be considered by the ILPC as how they affect historic context in the area.

According to a 1979 housing survey

by Mary Donahue of the state division of historic preservation, “two fine homes were torn down to make the site for the new library—the 1830 Munn-Stowell house, acquired by Odd Fellows in 1904, the first brick residence in Ithaca, and the 1830 Gosman-Sage-Grant house,” a Greek Revival like those on Geneva Street.

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abbi Scott Glass of Temple Beth-El is celebrating his 40th anniversary in Ithaca this year. Glass was installed as rabbi of Temple Beth-El on Sept. 19, 1976; it was his first position after he was ordained at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The Ithaca Times sat down with Glass to talk about his early days in Ithaca, how the faith community here works together, and what life looks like on a dayto-day basis for a rabbi.

Ithaca Times: How did you first come to Ithaca?

Rabbi Scott Glass: I came for the job … I had a friend who was a year behind me in rabbinical school and he came to be the high-holiday rabbi at Cornell, I think.

He was flying back on the plane after the high holidays and he was sitting next to the person chairing the search committee at the synagogue. The chair of the search committee said they were having a lot of trouble finding somebody, and my acquaintance suggested he look at my school.

IT: What were your first impressions of Ithaca?

RSG: My wife Sharon and I came from New York City, I had grown up in New York City.

This wasn’t the Jewish life we were accustomed to … I told the paper I thought my main difficulty would be getting ritual objects. I didn’t know

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anything. The main difficulty was getting food. We were shopping at the A&P, and it had like nothing in the way of kosher.

When we first came here we got our meat shipped in from Albany—twice a year, there’d be like half a cow that came frozen.

We really didn’t expect to be here for very long, but the community grew, the people were extraordinary, and there’s a lot to recommend Ithaca.

IT: Temple Beth-El practices Conservative Judaism. Can you explain a bit about what that means?

RSG: Conservative doesn’t refer to political conservatism or what most people think of as religious conservatism. The name is really a misnomer … it’s kind of a compromise—the conservative part of it comes from preserving tradition while adapting to modernity. We’re rooted in tradition with a recognition of the realities of modern life … Part of the reason that I was a good fit here is it was the only Jewish congregation at the time, and pretty much served the whole community. I was raised Conservative, but attended an Orthodox day school and went to a Reform seminary.

IT: In sketch form, what’s the history of Ithaca’s Jewish community and Temple Beth-El? RSG: The community goes back to the mid-19th century. It began mostly as a business community, as a result probably from the establishment of Cornell, with tailors and general store keepers and things like that. It only picked up in population after the turn of the 20th century. In 1924, a group of people got together and incorporated Temple Beth-El, and they began a campaign to build a synagogue. Since February 1929, when the building was dedicated, it’s served as the center of the Jewish community, and it has grown other congregations have established themselves. After about 1950, there was a much larger influx of Jewish academics. Now our congregation is primarily people affiliated one way or another with Cornell or Ithaca College, as academics and professionals.

IT: What’s a typical week look like at Temple Beth-El? RSG: There’s something happening just about every day. There are services on Friday night, and children are in religious school on Sundays and Wednesdays, with high school meeting on Thursday nights.

Tuesday nights are board meeting nights, and there might be a lecture on a Thursday.

Sunday night there’s

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a square dancing group, there might be a dinner, and on Monday nights there’s an Israeli dance group.

IT: You’ve been involved in lots of interfaith efforts in Ithaca, including starting the chaplaincy at Cayuga Medical Center. How did those relationships come about?

RSG: I hadn’t really given much thought of the whole issue of interfaith relations when I first came here, and it soon became very obvious to me that was an important part of my job. We’ve worked together through Feed My Starving Children and Area Congregations Together … I was very fortunate in my formative years to be influenced by Jack Lewis [Cornell United Religious Work], John Taylor [First Unitarian], David Evans [First Baptist] and Rabbi Morris Goldfarb, who carried the Jewish community here from 1947 and for many years after that.

IT: How have those interfaith relations manifested themselves in action?

RSG: I don’ t think it’s necessarily constructive to talk about the good old days, but it’s important not to forget what’s owed some of these really amazing individuals … A lot of the very important progressive social movements in Ithaca owe their genesis to the mainstream religious institutions in town. We’re a very well served community from a social service perspective, and the clergy in particular were instrumental in fostering the growth and development of Planned Parenthood, Suicide Prevention, Hospicare, the Advocacy Center, so many of these groups.

In the early years of Planned Parenthood, it was in the basement, I think, of the First Baptist Church … The clergy also reached out when there were some really nasty outbreaks of anti-Semitism in the 1980s.

The clergy took a very vocal stand against it and basically said not in our town, and it stopped.

IT: Do you have any big plans for year 41 at Temple Beth-El? RSG: I’m organizing a trip to Israel, hopefully for February. One of the reasons I wanted to do an Israel trip is to help educate people about the situation in the Middle East and also help people understand how I feel about it … I have a very deep personal connection to the land of Israel, based on my own personal experience and based on my people’s history. In many ways it’s central to my life and very much in my consciousness – particularly so because I have a son who lives there. We’re putting together a trip designed give people an opportunity to visit holy places of both Christianity and Judaism and engage in dialogue there with people who represent a broad spectrum, of both Israeli and Palestinian views.

▶ Diaper Grant, The Ithaca Rotary Club has been awarded a $2,400 grant from its home Rotary District 7170. The monies are designated for a new “Personal Care and Diaper Drive” program, which will be conducted in collaboration with Catholic Charities of Tompkins and Tioga Counties.

Led by Rotarians Jean McPheeters and Mary Berens, this project is an extension of the existing Linen Closet program between Rotary and Catholic Charities. These new grant funds will provide much-needed diapers, toothbrushes and toothpaste.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Tiny House on Tour, Ithaca will be a week-long stop on the 20city “Proof is Possible” Tour by TV home improvement personalities Corbett and Grace Lunsford, who will share with the public tours of their high performance tiny house, which they refer to as #Tiny Lab. The tiny house will be on display at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County from Monday-Friday, July 25 to 29, and is open for FREE tours from 5:00-6:00pm daily. There is no need to register to tour the tiny house. For more information, contact Guillermo Metz at gm52@cornell.edu or (607) 2722292. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of July 13-19 include: 1) The Death of Collegetown 2) Star Truck: The future has arrived in Ithaca and it’s vegan 3) New Principal to Begin at Newfield High School 4) Dock Project- Dead in the Water?

5) Will It Rain?: The driest March to June on record For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Would you like to see more food concessions in local state parks ?

60 percent of respondents answered “yes” and 40 percent answered “no”

Weekly adult education classes with Glass and Cantor Richard Rosenfield will resume in October.

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– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

Rabbit Scott Glass (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

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Consequences of Bad Weather O n July 15, 2016, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos issued a drought watch for the entire state of New York, following consultation with the State Drought Management Task Force and Federal partner agencies.

According to the DEC, “A watch is the first of four levels of state drought advisories ("watch," "warning," "emergency" and "disaster"). There are no statewide mandatory water use restrictions in place under a drought watch. However, local public water suppliers may require such measures depending upon local needs and conditions.

“The drought watch is triggered by the State Drought Index, which reflects precipitation levels, reservoir/lake levels, and stream flow and groundwater levels in nine designated drought regions throughout New York. Each of these indicators is assigned a weighted value based on its significance to various uses in a region.

“This Index is intended primarily for guidance to public and private water suppliers and withdrawals. If you are experiencing a water shortage, please contact your local agricultural extension, Department of Health or DEC regional office.”

Locally, the accepted wisdom is that if it doesn’t rain on the Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg, we’re in trouble. However, farmers in Tompkins county are already feeling parched. The second plant-

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ing of corn went into dry soil, and if it doesn’t rain, it won’t grow. Soybeans, hay and oats are feeling the heat. An article last week by our sister paper, the Ithaca Times, noted this is the driest spring and early summer (March 1 to July 5) on record for this area. During that period it is normal to get 13.73 inches of rain; we have gotten 7.01 inches this year.

It’s interesting to look around and notice the number of brown, dry lawns caused by the drought. Those lawns also indicate a sense of responsibility and frugal water usage by the homeowners, however, since few people seem to be watering the grass. Sprinklers are turned on in the evening and the morning for people’s gardens, but not so much for lawns.

Which brings us to the whole idea of sustainability. In agriculture as in finance, sustainability means not relying on future resources that may not be there, like keeping lawns green with water that may be needed for drinking, or growing food. Two hundred years ago- and we hope this isn’t an omen- the summer of 1816 became the summer that never was. A volcano, Mt. Tambora, erupting in the Dutch East Indies, caused a “stratospheric sulfate aerosol veil” that, in effect, put a blanket between the earth and the sun. In May 1816 killing frost destroyed most of the crops in upstate New York and New continued on page 7

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Collegetown Lost

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

Of course I picked a rainy night To try to find our past The streetlights all were flickering The leaves were falling fast I walked down the winding road Looked up through the trees And I saw the corner window That you once shared with me It was Old College Avenue And in the time of having you I remember it as if it were today – Harry Chapin, Old College Avenue, a song about Collegetown in the early 1960s)

“I really need to get my head straight. Just help me find Johnny’s Big Red. I kind of got my start there. Maybe they’ll let me play a couple songs and I can sort this out.”

I broke the news. “Harry, that place closed seven years ago.” His dismay was palpable, and I regretted being the bearer of such sad tidings.

“What about the Palms?”

“Right now it’s a hole in the ground. It’s going to be a ‘multi-story interior atrium’ in an office building,” I replied. “Look, why not get a bite to eat? You’ll feel better.”

He brightened a little. “Yeah, some mac and cheese at Yeno’s would hit the spot.” But n a recent evening, I stepped out the my face must have told the tale, because he slumped again. “How about Pete’s?” My front door of Ruloff ’s, whence I had stare remained blank. repaired for a restorative beverage “OK … OK … where’s the 400? I could after the affairs of the day. Two restorative use a Swiss Steak right beverages, to be precise. A now.” dark, misty night had settled “It’s a coffee shop over Collegetown, and as I now,” I said, pointing turned left and approached across the street. the corner, I spied a “Starbucks.” curious figure standing This news seemed to amid the heavy machinery come as something of a and staring at the upper relief to Harry. “A coffee stories of the surrounding shop? Of course! The buildings, turning slowly truth lies in coffee shops! around. He had a guitar You can always have a slung by the strap over his conversation in one. Let’s shoulder. I drew near and go.” we made eye contact.

We picked our way “Can I be of assistance?” through construction I asked. A second martini debris, and I held the tends to bring out my Harry Chapin door for him as we went helpful side. in. A dozen customers “Oh, man, I hope so,” were strewn about the he said. “Name’s Harry. I establishment, absorbed guess I’m kind of a time in a variety of personal electronic devices. traveler you might say, but I think I’m lost.”

But for Lana Del Rey moaning on the sound He shook his head. “I was supposed to land system, it was as quiet as a tomb. Harry at the corner of Dryden Road and College surveyed the scene, clearly bewildered.

Avenue in Ithaca.”

“People don’t converse any more?” he asked.

“Dude,” I exclaimed. “You’re there!” My “Sure, they converse,” I said. “Just not jovial side also emerges. with anyone in their presence. It’s kind of a “Impossible,” he said. “The place looks thing.” like New York City. What’s with the big We left without buying coffee. Oddly, as buildings?” we walked outside, a huge old checkered cab “Mostly apartments,” I explained. had appeared and Harry opened the door, “In fact,” I said, gesturing across the almost as if he was expecting it to be there. intersection, “LeChase Construction is going to finish that apartment building over Plus it had begun raining. Hard. As he got in, I heard him say something to the driver there in the next two weeks. And Visum about heading to Frisco. Then he turned to Development is poised to build a five-story me. “Thanks, man. I guess you can’t stand in building on the corner of Bool Street. You the way of progress.” won’t recognize the place in five years.”

“Not when one room in a suite fetches “Visum?” he said. “Sounds like 1500 dollars a month.” I replied. He made something that might accumulate in the a kind of gurgling sound in his throat and folds of your skin. And I don’t recognize it shut the taxi door. I watched it disappear now.” into the rain and crossed back over to I shrugged. “They say nothing under Ruloff ’s, my joviality and helpfulness to five stories is profitable any more. It’s all revive. • about density.”

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England. In July, it snowed.

After food riots and famine in Europe, including the death of some 100,000 people in Ireland, people began to move.

Many settlers in our part of the country moved West, looking for better soil and less winter. The family of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was one of those that left Vermont after being frozen out, and settled in New York. Some historians credit the weather disaster with inspiring the inventor of the bicycle- a horse you don’t have to feed. The year “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death” provided one of Mother Nature’s harshest reminders to use only what you need, and save for a day with no rain.

Kudos to our neighbors who keep their sprinklers turned on only for what’s necessary, and not just to have a pretty lawn.

With any luck, it’ll rain just about the time the first campers show up at Trumansburg- or maybe during Ricky Skaggs’ performance- but if not, it’s better to save the water before we have to. • capriciousdecision contin u ed from page 4

are often on each other’s lawns,” Golder said. “We weren’t doing anything with the house—it was just eight people standing in a circle chanting and praying with the trees. We were inside a red tape that said asbestos hazard but we didn’t really think there was an asbestos hazard since we saw people working inside the house with no mask. It was a very peaceful, non-violent gathering so we were a little surprised at seeing police.”

Fox’s understanding of the suit is that the city would have to do a “more detailed SEQR if Golder’s suit succeeds—the case is being heard in a state court on August 8.

“The lawsuit against the City of Ithaca planning board is proceeding,” Golder wrote in a July 12 Facebook post on the “Save the Soul of Collegetown” page he created. “It challenges the decision of the Board to allow the 201 College Ave. Project to proceed WITHOUT an Environmental Impact Statement, which is usually required for projects of this size.

If we win—and I believe there is a good chance—the developers may have to do a full environmental review, which would take up to 6 months and allows for more public input.”

Fox said that he and his partners are “not going to walk away” from the project, something that Fox says he’s told Golder multiple times. The two property owners have discussed swapping lots. Fox said that the 203 College Avenue lot is too small for the kind of building that’s needed.

Golder said that he “proposed a property swap which would put my house on the 201 lot and save the trees—and give me a southern exposure ... but they did not go for that.”

The Visum Development Group website’s write-up on the property reads like so:

“Located on College Ave. right in the heart of Collegetown, the most sought after and vibrant location for Cornell University students. Named Ithaca’s ‘second city,’ with casual restaurants, taverns, retail and more. Currently there is a 0.5 percent vacancy rate in the city and Collegetown is comprised of aging buildings, the newest being 15 years old.

Cornell is also increasing enrollment by 300 students per year. With virtually no available development sites, this location is positioned to dramatically capitalize on the increasing demand.”

For background on this story, see “Big Building vs. Little House in C-town,” May 4 Ithaca Times, “What Will College Ave. Look Like in 10 Yrs?,” June 1 Ithaca Times, “Future vs. Past in C-town Development,” July 6 Ithaca Times.

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The board added a requirement to study the comparative impacts of electricity and gas heat. The project goals should be to meet Tompkins County’s 2050 goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 80 percent from 2008 levels.

Bosak also pushed for more study of how the Maplewood rebuild would affect other potential projects proposed but not in progress, such as Cornell’s plan to redevelop East Hill Plaza as a mixed-use student housing “neighborhood.”

“We have no authority to require independent impact analysis for other projects, except as they’re using the same resources,” replied Susan Brock, town attorney.

Bosak stated his understanding of the State Environmental Quality Review process [SEQR] is to “mitigate everything we possibly could, say, ‘Here’s the impact and does the social benefit make the value of the impact worth it?’”

“I want to know what the hell I’m voting on,” Bosak continued. “Otherwise I can’t determine whether the social impact of the whole enchilada outweighs the impact of the whole enchilada.”

The board also questioned whether the number of beds in the project would be equivalent to the number of people living there. EdR representatives replied that leases would be per bedroom.

“You could put a single bed, a double bed, a king-sized bed, in one bedroom,” Linda Collins noted.

“What we’re dancing around here,” Wilcox said, “is your double bed here and the person you might meet—who comes to live with you in your one bedroom. The definition of one person, one bedroom sometimes becomes two people in that bed.”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

New TCAT bus drivers. Agnes Beck is third from the right. (Photo: Jaime Cone)

months for drivers to complete training, so TCAT was not able to bring back its normal summer routes despite the new hires.

A shortage of qualified people with commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) is being felt throughout the country, said Eccelston. “It’s really competitive for drivers right now,” she said. “If we look at the Tompkins County area there are a number of places that need CDL drivers. There’s trucking, trash removal — all these types of industries need people with a commercial driver’s license.” The new drivers were hired at $19 per hour.

TCAT’s strategy for hiring new drivers was to choose people who are customerservice-minded first; training and earning a commercial driver’s license could come later. “We made the conscious decision to focus more on the customer-service skills and years of defensive driving and so forth.

We will train for the CDL,” she said. “That gives us larger pool of candidates to work with.”

One such hire is Agnes Beck of Dryden, who was unemployed for a year and half before finding the position at TCAT. “I had other things in my life that I needed to tend to; I needed to take care of family,” she said. “I’ve been looking for a job a long time, but this is the job I’ve been waiting for.”

Beck happened to have an up-to-date CDL, but she will still need to get a special license before she can drive a bus. She first got her CDL in 1984 and has experience driving tractor-trailers.

She said she was lucky to be at a place in her life where she could “be a little picky” about the job she chose. She never considered being a bus driver until her friend found the job online. “She said ‘this would be the perfect job of you. You would make everyone’s day.’ I didn’t even think about that aspect of the job, but that’s why I chose TCAT; first and foremost I have a passion for customer service, and secondly, I love to drive.”

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he Tompkins County Area Transit system (TCAT) recently hired seven new drivers and only needs a few more to remedy the driver shortage that led to a greater reduction of service than normal this summer.

TCAT normally reduces service in the summer as most college students leave the area for summer break, but Patty Poist, communications manager at TCAT, said this years’ cuts go far beyond the normal summer reduction in service with the elimination of 315 revenue hours.

Alice Eccleston, TCAT general manager, said this is the first time she can remember TCAT making cuts to its service due to a lack of employees. TCAT had been utilizing contract drivers to supplement the current staff during the busier winter and spring months but decided not to use them through the summer.

“We wanted to fit the services to the actual resources we have available,” Eccleston said. “We decided to reduce our summer hours and ramp up for the fall, and we’re moving in that direction by bringing in more bus operators, who are training now. We’re feeling like we’re in a better position for our fall service.”

TCAT had to mandate overtime for its drivers last summer. “We didn’t want people to lose time with their families,” said Jennifer Dotson, member of the TCAT board of directors. “Split shifts are hard to get away from, but it’s really difficult because people need to get around in the morning and evening, not so much in the middle of the day.”

With its recent recruitment efforts, TCAT was able to increase its number of drivers to 81, and Eccelston said they are hoping to bring that number up to 84 or 85 by the fall. She explained that it takes T

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Scraping Sky Reworked Harold’s Square: much more downtown housing

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here has been a great stir every time a building higher than five stories is proposed for downtown Ithaca. Most recently the developer Campus Advantage proposed an 11-story building on the site of the one-story Trebloc building at the corner of South Aurora and East State streets.

According to a 2015 post at their website, Campus Advantage believed, “The new development will offer a product unlike any other in the marketplace starting in fall 2018.”

They had intended to introduce their “award-winning program Students First™.” After having their design critiqued by the city planning board and criticized by the general public, Campus Advantage withdrew. Last month, Newman Development of Vestal announced plans for a ninestory building with market-rate apartments and ground-floor retail.

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and the reception of this proposal was relatively muted. This might be good news for L Enterprises LLC as they restart the process of building Harold’s Square, a proposed 11-story building between East State (the Commons) and East Green streets.

Originally announced in spring 2013, Harold’s Square is the project of David Lubin, whose father Harold once had a clothing store on the site.

The Lubins owned a chain of stores for many years, but got out of the retail business in the mid 1990s. Lubin said at the time he became aware of on line sales through the internet and began to tell his suppliers that he would be happy to sell their products through his stores’ website. His suppliers told him, thanks, but no thanks; we’ll be selling our clothes over the internet ourselves. Lubin decided that the future of retail was going to be quite different than what he had known and opted out around 1997. u l y

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The Scale of Harold’s Square

The Harold’s Square project will incorporate the existing Sage Block building at 137-139 The Commons, historically the site of architect William H. Miller’s office. A McDonald’s that went out of business memorably occupied its first floor and then Benchwarmers, a sports bar. It is now a financial services office. The storefronts that now are home to the movie poster store, a office for the Chainworks District (another Lubin project), and the empty former Race Office Supply will be torn down and replaced with new four-story buildings.

“They will be articulated into separate parts,” said planner C.J. Randall of Randall + West and a former member of the city planning board. “They will look like individual storefronts instead of a monotonous façade.” The pedestrian, she said, is looking for visual interest to lead them on. Planners and developers now understand that if people are

encouraged to move down a street out of curiosity, they will shop more. She contrasted this approach with that of Center Ithaca, which she described as “of its time.” Center Ithaca is 35 years old; it was built in 1981.

According to an article by Rob Montana in the March 13, 2013 Ithaca Times, as originally proposed Harold’s Square was going to 126,000 square feet (SF), including 16,000 SF of ground-floor retail space, 47,000 SF of professional office space on the next three floors, and 36 market-rate apartments in a six-story tower, which to be set back 75 feet behind the Commons façade.

The building was meant to be “U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED guidelines, with emphasis on energy efficiency, natural light, healthy work and living space, and the incorporation of natural green rooftop elements on the four-story portion of the project,” wrote Montana in 2013.

“The design is done with a few

different features,” said Lubin in 2013, “we put a balcony in there, to give it a rhythm,” he added. “It won’t be one roof line, so it doesn’t look like a solid, 130-foot building face. But, we also wanted to make it have a more classic look to keep it in context with the Commons, which is more or less a historic site.”

The Commons is, in fact, on the National Register (like the Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell Heights, Dewitt Park and several other places in Ithaca). The part of the proposed building on the Commons is in the CBD (Central Business District)-60 zone; the maximum building height is 60 feet. The location of the proposed tower of apartments is in CBD-140; it can be 140 feet tall. The original plan was to make the 11th floor a penthouse, which would bring it up right up to the 140-foot mark.

The set back from the Commons façade was stated as 62 feet, 8 inches in the variances that L Enterprises applied for and received from the city. One variance allowed them to go without a rear yard (which is not present behind the existing buildings either). In a subsequent variance application the building had grown to 12 stories. L Enterprises will not have to build the requisite number of loading docks (they will located in space shared with the city) and might slightly exceed the 140-foot maximum height.

Harold’s Square was originally approved in August 2013 with a CIITAP tax abatement package approved by the county IDA in October 2013.

Hitting a Hitch

In 2015 we stopped hearing about Harold’s Square. The original division of uses was not going to work. “We redesigned the building to some degree,” Lubin said. “We reduced the amount of office space because I didn’t have tenants who were willing to sign up. I had 15,000 square-foot floor plates and I needed two of them

[have to be looked at by city planners]. The point is not to do that,” he said. “This will go to the [City of Ithaca] planning department for a conversation about what the trajectory of the project will be. It may be only subject to an internal staff review if the changes are not substantial.”

Whitham said that if the changes from office to residential use primarily involved moving internal corridors, then it would not be expressed on the exterior of the building and would not be deemed a “substantial” change.

“It there were changes to the massing, for example, then the planning board would want to see it again,” he said. The planning department would bring it back to the volunteer city board. Whitham has escorted the project through the planning board and board of zoning appeals twice already.

When completed the tower of Harold’s Square will be, at 140 feet, the tallest building in downtown Ithaca. However, it will not be the tallest building rented before the bank would in Ithaca. That privilege goes C l o c k w i s e f r o m u p p e r l e f t : S ag e B l o c k finance the project. If it to the 15-story, 180-foot Titus i s t h e c e n t e r b u i l d i n g ; D e ta i l o f t h e were built, I could probably Towers 1, which was built in S ag e B l o c k , w h i c h w i l l b e p r e s e rv e d ; t h e find tenants, I couldn’t do it 1972. It will be only 20 feet b u i l d i n g t h at wa s t h e r ac e o f f i c e s u p p ly without the financing.” taller than the Hotel Ithaca w i l l b e t o r n d ow n ; Dav i d l u b i n ( P h o t o s : As redesigned the tower and 19 feet taller than C a s s a n d r a Pa l m y r a ; f i l e p h o t o o f L u b i n) building will now have Seneca Place (home to the 11,500 SF of retail space on Hilton on East Seneca Street).

Renewal Agency (IURA) questioned the ground floor and 25,000 The Marriott and the proposed Trebloc as to whether the rest of the Harold’s SF of office space (including 11,600 building are to be 120 feet tall.

Square project would qualify as SF in the renovated Sage Block). Two Three structures on the Cornell reconstruction. floors of office space are now going campus are taller, including the 173to be residential, and the number of foot McGraw Tower (built in 1891), apartments has now increased to 104.

Bradfield Hall (11 stories, 166 feet Of these 40 are now advertised as tall, and built in 1969), and the Olin “Often, with any project of this “studios,” as well as 30 one-bedroom Chemistry Research Wing (7 stories, scale, there is a lot going on with it, ” and 30 two-bedroom units. (This 154 feet tall, and built in 1967). said Scott Whitham of Whitham represents a further increase from an “During the approval process,” said Planning & Design, which has been interim 2015 plan for 86 apartments, Whitham, “we got a lot of support for coordinating all the review and which had been re-approved by the the design because of the step back.” permitting aspects of the Harold planning board in August 2015.)

Randall, the planner, noted the Square development project. “This The studios are a new addition. city’s desperate need for housing; is a prime spot in the city, a street According to Lubin, they are more Harold’s Square now offers even more wall right on the Commons, so properly called “micros,” because there with the same footprint as originally it’s important to get this right. The are many features—including Murphy proposed. financials have to be right as well.” beds (which fold into the wall), She recalled that during her time Variances need to be renewed after storage, and some of the furnishings— on the planning board, that the board’s two years.

In fall 2015 Whitham took that will be built-in. chief initial concern was that historic the variances that had been granted Brian Crandall, in his “Ithacating structures would be demolished to Harold’s Square in 2013 back to in Cornell Heights” blog, has reported to erect the new building. Further the board of zoning appeals. They rethat Lubin has applied for Restore NY examination of the building that approved them. grants, which are for reconstruction of holds the former Race Office Supply, “The changes from the approved historically significant properties. This however, revealed that the upstairs plan are not significant,” said Lubin. has been broken into two segments. office space had been “tacked on.”

“The city is unlikely to balk.”

A $500,000 grant request has been And Lubin had proposed saving Whitham, who has not seen made for the $2.5 million Sage Block the Sage Block from the beginning. the latest revision of the design by rebuild, which is clearly a renovation “We’ve been looking at that since CJS (Chantreuil, Jensen, and Stark) of a historical building. A separate the 1980s,” he said. “There was never request for the same amount was made Architects of Buffalo and Rochester, enough space to make it handicapped said the final elevations are being for the rest of the project, which is accessible. But building all around it readied now.

“Any program changes to cost $36 to $38 million. Crandall makes that work.”• that may be expressed on the exterior noted, however, that the Ithaca Urban

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county police department,” Mareane explained. “So, there’s a 20-year police retirement plan.

Over a period of 20 years you would assume you could get to a full consolidation.”

The third option, the dissolution of municipal police agencies and an expansion of the county law enforcement operation, is more immediate.

“That would occur in a very quick way,” Mareane said. Any other models the consultant believes superior to those options are also welcome and

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t a meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature on July 5, county administrator Joe Mareane spoke about the county’s first step toward conducting a law enforcement consolidation study, a request for proposals (RFP) that will be issued assuming the county public safety committee approves it at its July 21 meeting.

Currently four village law enforcement departments, the Ithaca City Police Department, and the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department serve Tompkins County municipalities.

According to the draft RFP, Tompkins County and City of Ithaca have allocated a combined $16,780,212 in their respective 2015 budgets, representing 25 percent of the combined property tax levies of the city and county, to support their law enforcement agencies.

Mareane reminded the legislators that this is not a new discussion. He said that “quiet or informal” as they may have been, there have been talks that addressed the idea of consolidation for several years. “It’s not new to the conversation, he said, “but it certainly is new in the seriousness of the effort.”

Recently the county received a $50,000 state grant to hire a consultant who will analyze the potential options. The county expects to award the consultant a contract for six months. The feasibility study will analyze different structural options, Mareane said, three of which are already obvious,.

The first is consolidation of some functions. “There are examples everyone always talks about,” said Mareane. “One is training. One is investigations; we might have a central investigation unit that serves all of the municipal departments.”

The second option mentioned in the RFP is a full consolidation of all participating municipal departments

will be considered as well.

Once the study is complete, the county will be tasked with reviewing the information and deciding if there is one option that should be pursued. Doing nothing is also a valid choice, Mareane said. If the legislature decides the county should do something other than the status quo, more state funding would be available to develop a strategy for implementing that specific course of action.

The plans, once developed, would go back to the legislature again, and if the county still Top to bottom) Legislators Mike Lane, Carol Chock, and Martha Robertwants to move forward then the son, county administrator Joe Mareane. (File photos) full $1.1 million grant would be available to the county in order through an attrition-based process. “As an to actually carry out the consolidation officer from one agency retires and leaves, efforts. that position is refilled by the central

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Mareane stressed the fact that there will be many opportunities throughout the process for public input even though the RFP only mentions plans for one public session to be held during the six months when the consultant is completing the study.

Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) said that she would like to see more public sessions planned during this first stage of the process. “It seems to me you might want to have more than one meeting at more than one location on more than one date,” Chock said. “I’d like to see two or more input sessions.”

“At least my experience in advocacy and outreach is that when you do have one large public session. Some groups don’t necessarily feel always welcome,” said Legislator Anna Kelles (D-Ithaca), “and lots of times we assume that they don’t have any input, but it’s more that we actually have to reach out to them to get that input.”

She agreed with Chock about having more than one session.

“I’d like as a group to think that through a little bit more,” she said. “I’d love for it to say ‘sessions,’ at least for now.”

“One of the things that Tompkins County does well is to take controversial issues and study them,” said Legislator (and chair) Michael Lane (D-Dryden) at the conclusion of the discussion.

“Sometimes we move ahead with them, and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we hit a home run and sometimes we drag our feet a little bit, but this is something we ought to be talking about.” •

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The Return of Little Red

With more opportunities to play, Players get better

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try not to point fingers, but to be very honest, the scholastic softball team at Ithaca High School has struggled mightily of late. That’s not to say that there haven’t been some good players to take the field, or that there haven’t been some dedicated and knowledgeable coaches in the dugout, but the Little Red have not been able to rise to the challenge in the highly competitive Southern Tier Athletic Conference.

Many remember the Ithaca Diamonds—a travel team that played a decade ago—and that team gave some girls a glimpse into what it takes to compete on a larger scale, but the organization disbanded.

The Ithaca Babe Ruth program has done a good job giving the players an opportunity to extend their season, and that has been another positive development. My daughter played a season with the Babe Ruth program, but knowing she wanted to play in college, she made the decision to play for the travel teams based in the Triple Cities, or the Horseheads area. Both of those areas are rich in talent and interest, and while making the trip two or three times a week was a hassle, it got her to where she wanted to be.

I am very pleased to see that another option now exists for local girls, and the Little Red Softball Club is really picking up momentum. The program is now in its third year, and the numbers—and the skill level—are rising.

I spoke with parent Maria Muscente, and if the players are as excited as she is, the program’s future looks bright. She told me, “I have three daughters, and I have seen how much the scholastic program has been struggling, and I wanted to do something.” She roped her dad, “Grandpa Jim,” into helping out, and she told me, “We got involved in the Cortland Summer League, where there are 14U and 17U teams, and we actually won a couple of games in the 17U division.”

As adults, we tell our kids that winning isn’t everything, but let’s be honest and acknowledge that winning once in a while feels great.

Several other people got involved— like my old softball compatriot Jeff Spada—and the program kept growing.

This year, more pieces of the puzzle have come together, and Maria offered, “We had 49 girls sign up this year, and (Babe Ruth director) Ray Glahn said he doesn’t remember ever seeing this level of interest!”

There is also a new athletic director at Ithaca High. “David Hanna has actually joined us as a 14U Novice coach (there are

14U Novice, 14U Elite and 17U teams),” Maria said, “and we had 75 people come to a board meeting in June. We also had over 300 signatures on our petition, and the interest level is growing.” In fact, Hanna is working to expand the scholastic team’s non-conference schedule, knowing that facing more evenly matched teams will be a good thing for the players’ confidence as they evolve.

Also coming on board is a gentleman named Al Plue, whose daughters have played competitively in the Albany area, and of course, no local youth sports story would be complete with me mentioning that yes, Rick Kuhar has come out of coaching retirement, and all is indeed right with the world.

The Little Red Softball Club is still competing out of the Cortland area, playing against teams from FabiusPompey, Dryden, Groton, and Homer (among others), and the 14U team is sporting a dazzling 6-0 record. Optimism abounds as this core group of players

Ithaca High School softball team. (Photo: provided)

approaches the junior varsity and varsity ranks, and a lot more efforts are being undertaken to give the girls the opportunity to improve. The club has brought in Kim Osovski—a regionally renowned pitching coach—and plans are in the works to offer clinics with many of the Ithaca College players. Maria said,

“There is a real wealth of enthusiasm and talent coming together, and it’s wonderful to be able to help breathe new life into girls’ softball in Ithaca.” • On Friday, Aug. 12, the Little Red Softball Club invites the community to their Grand Slam/Grand Finale Showcase Game.

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t takes a lot of work to get fresh vegetables on your plate.

Workers from 14 to 18 years old learn just how much work farming can be when they spend a summer on the Youth Farm Project, a 10-acre farm off Nelson Road in Danby.

On a recent morning, Zoe Larson and

Jackson Oates were digging a ditch for the eventual purpose of laying electrical line to connect a transformer to the barn.

Working with pickaxe and shovel, the two worked in tandem on chopping out one of the “lots of roots in there.”

“You have to build a rhythm,” Larson said, “where you’re trusting each other. I had to trust Jackson to not move where the pickaxe was going, and he trusted me to not pickaxe his head.”

Working in crews, the students build “nice stable relationships based in equal opportunity,” Larson said. The crews this year are named the Dandelion Defenders, the Basil Babes, the Scarlet Squad, and the most controversial—the Sweaty Melons.

“When people are new together, everyone’s awkward. They don’t want

to play with dirt,” Larson, a fourth-year returnee, said. “By the end you can ask about compost, and we can geek about it for an hour.”

Out in the field, Hser Kaw Ler, Taina Daniel, and Faith Deetz were trellising tomatoes under a hot July sun with the aid of modified PVC pipe and a box full of string. The Youth Farm Project fields are rotated every year. Most crops are irrigated, and some plants are in the ground before the youth arrive for their 20 hours of paid work per week. Students are paid through the Youth Employment Services program at the Ithaca Youth Bureau.

Deetz, a sophomore at Ithaca High School, said that she joined the Youth Farm Project “because she thought it The Youth Farm Project includes farming and raising animals, usually in teams. (Photo: Youth Farm)

would be fun and wanted to work with her friends.” Deetz isn’t sold as farming as a career, but might become a gardener.

Inside the barn, there’s a chalkboard with the day’s schedule written up: checkin is at 9:15 a.m. in the morning on this day, chores at 9:20 a.m., field work for two hours and then a break. That’s about the routine for seven weeks; with afternoon visits to the Youth Bureau.

On Wednesdays, the students take a break from the field and go to Lehman Alternatives Community School, where they have guest speakers and learn to cook their veggies. Some produce from the Youth Farm also goes to the Ithaca City School District to provide for its fresh snacks program; YFPers visit the schools’ central kitchen sometimes to help prepare those meals.

The Youth Farm Project recently added a “Harvest Box” program, a lowcost vegetable CSA share starting this year at $12, with drop-offs at Pete’s and John’s convenience stores and the Congo Square Market at Southside Community Center on Fridays. Accompanying those boxes full of fresh veggies this year is the Youth Farm Project’s new harvest trailer, built in 2015 with the help of Rayna Joyce, who raised funds and coordinated building it with the Hammerstone School of Carpentry for Women as a LACS senior project.

According to farm manager Ann Piombino, the Youth Farm Project is located on property owned by the Ithaca Waldorf School. Now in its seventh growing season, the YFP was originally a joint effort of the Three Swallows Farm, the Full Plate Farm Collective CSA, LACS and the Southside. The Youth Farm’s fields are still the u-pick option for Full Plate members.

The YFP has grown since Piombino started with the program; there were 18 students cultivating about an acre of land at its beginning, and this year there are 27 youths farming about four acres.

“We grew about 20,000 pounds of food last year,” Piombino said. “This is how we get kids engaged with our food system.”

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More Jets, A New Runway, and ... Buses

Ithaca’s regional airport rises to the challenges of an era of congested hubs and challenging federal regulations

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ext Monday, July 25 the Ithaca/Tompkins County Regional Airport expects to re-open their runway, which is being repaved.

The airport will mark the occasion with a “customer appreciation week.”

“We’d like to let our loyal travelers know that we appreciate them,” said Mike Hall, the manager of the airport. “And we like to let them know that we are sorry for this inconvenience.”

Hall said it has been 22 years since the runway was last repaved. The option to do it in segments between midnight and 6 a.m. was available, but it would have cost $1 million more and would have been flawed by a large number of “cold joints,” place were hot asphalt is poured on cold asphalt.

The airport administration allotted 15 days for 10 days of paving. Hall said that you have to allow extra time for rejection of substandard asphalt, mechanical breakdowns, and rain. Although we have been in a moderate drought, it has rained at the airport three times during the repaving project.

Hall was told by one of the contractors that if you stand on asphalt in your socks and they get wet, then it’s too wet to pour more asphalt. The airport manager is not used to this folksy approach; in his previous career as an air force officer he saw many airports constructed, but always by a team of military engineers, who tended not to rely on socks to test asphalt dampness.

He had, however, much praise for Suit-Koat, the Cortland-based paver that has the runway contract. They have worked on Interstate 81 and locally have poured Ellis Hollow and Hanshaw roads.

Suit-Koat began the job by milling

Suit-Koat workers applying the finish coat of asphalt to the runway at the Ithaca airport. They will reopen the runway next Monday. (Photo: Diane Duthie)

two inches of old paving off the runway.

“After you do that,” said Hall, “you look at the base for cracks that go deeper than two inches. The bigger ones have to be routed out. It is like going to the dentist.”

The specifications for building a runway require both more precision and more accuracy than highway construction.

The milling machines, for example, are controlled by electronics in order to keep them perfectly level as they remove old pavement.

Then a base coast is applied to the milled surface, further smoothing it.

This serves the same purpose as a primer coat of paint. The electronic leveling technology make it possible for the surface to be accurate within an eighth of an inch across the entire runway. As of Monday, July 18 half the finish coat had been applied.

Dealing with Regulations The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the regulatory body behind airport maintenance. “The Aviation Trust Fund funds this project,” said Hall.

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“There are incentives in place to get things right,” Hall said. “There are no penalties if you get it right.”

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shut down the runway in order to repave the rest of the taxi way.”

On Monday Hall said that there had been some specification issues with the quality of the asphalt mix, so there would be no pouring. “Actually it’s fortunate that we had the issue today,” he said, “ because it’s going to rain today anyway. If these things happened on different days, we’d lose both days.”

cited the Bombardier CRJ (Candair Regional Jet) contin u ed from page 14 series, used by Delta via SkyWest, as being ideal. frustrating. Hall provided an example: five Although the larger 737 years ago the regional airport extended its can land and take off at runway by 500 feet to make it nearly 7,000 Ithaca, having one in the feet long. “This was not long enough ago morning and one in the to replace it, according to the regulations,” evening would be moving said the manager, “and they wouldn’t let a lot of people through us do it as part of this job.” This frustrated our airport. him, as it created one significant cold Airplanes and Runway Length Regional air travel joint between the new runway and the The “gold standard” for a runway has changed greatly over extension, and furthermore the extension would have to be repaved before the rest of length is 8,000 feet, said Hall. International the last few decades, according to Hall. For the runway, leaving them permanently out airports that handle larger planes reguire 12,000 feet. The locations of Warren years you saw “a lot of sync.

Road and Route 13 limit the length of the of 19-seat activity.”

Another example of regulatory Ithaca/Tompkins County Regional Airport Then DeHavilands, impracticality is the FAA’s refusal to allow runway to 7,000, which, the manager said, which are prop planes, the regional airport to pave back to the can handle any plane up to a 757 or an began carrying 20 to 30 “hold short lines,” which is where a plane Airbus. Our runway is actually longer than people, and then bigger must stop on the taxi way to leave the those at John Wayne Airport in Orange DeHavilands carried 40 runway entirely free for a plane that is County, California or Midway Airport in to 50 people at a time. taking off or landing.

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The CRJ Series was “Because we weren’t allowed to pave “A 150-seat plane is big for us,” said introduced in the early back to the hold short lines,” said the Hall.

“70to 90-seats are best for us. ” He 1990s; the CRJ700 can former air force officer, “we will have to carry up to 70 seats.

“Airlines have over Airport manager Mike Hall in front of a prop plane. He is trying to bring in more time chosen to use Choose Eagle Envelope as your printer bigger planes,” Hall said. noted that it was forced to fly passengers “Fuel and crew are your and become part of our to Philadelphia and Newark, both of primary costs, so the more people you Envelope which were less reliable because they are carry per flight, the more efficient you’re Company, Inc. “saturated,” so that if anything goes wrong being.” The Ithaca airport moves 90,000 there, delays propagate through the system passengers per year through its doors, a Forest Stewardship Council Certification to Ithaca. but five years ago 120,000 people passed a Rain Forest Council Certification “We are looking aggressively at using through the terminal. “Demand is strong,” jets,” said Hall. “Unlike turbo props, jets said Hall, “which is why prices stay high, a Green-e Wind Power Certification like to fly higher for maximum efficiency.” but airlines have restricted seat capacity.

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He recently submitted a proposal to Living on the 105-acre campus of Kendal at the state Department of Transportation, Ithaca not only keeps Loretta connected to the at the invitation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to get funding to improve the Ithaca places and companions she loves, but the care she airport’s customs and to build a “multimay need someday. And, from here, the story just modal transport terminal.” Ithaca, he keeps getting better. said, needs an airport, because it doesn’t Come for a visit and tell us your story. have an interstate highway. The governor has announced that successful proposals Call 800-253-6325 877-891-7709 or go to kai.kendal.org kai.kendal.org/IT2 will result in five upstate airports each to learn more. receiving $40 million.

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sounds. eople are becoming more comfortThe clinics moved primarily to make able with addressing their hearing itself more accessible to its clients. “The issues,” said Heather Hughes, the new location is easier to find, easier parkdirector for community relations and ing, and easier in and out,” said Hughes. development at Franziska Racker Centers.

While the audiology office had shared “Hearing aids used to be bulky, but now space with other Racker Centers clinics in they are like Bluetooths and are bearly the Signworks building, and it does have visible and even come in different colors. more space at the new location, it did not People are realizing it can be a life-changmove in order to expand. ing thing to get a hearing aid.”

“It’s kind of maxed out right now,” said In the second week of May Racker Centers moved its audiology clinic out of the old Signworks building and into the newly renovated building at 619 W. State St., also the new home of HOLT Architects.

“There is a correlation between noise exposure and hearing loss,” said audiologist Monica Brace. “It is just the noise of the world and people are not wearing hearing protection.”

Although the constant wearing of earbuds and headphones, and noisy games and toys all contribute to hearing loss, Brace said that in some Audiologist Monica Brace with a young client (Photo provided) areas there have been improvements.

“In the past factory work Hughes, “but it isn’t a goal right now to was a lot louder,” she said. “Today hearincrease the number of clients, not to say ing protection is a requirement in those that we don’t see doing that in the future.” environments.” She was also happy when The clinic employs a single audioloshe sees parents putting ear muffs on their gist and her services are available to the children at loud public events and wishes general public. The facility is Medicaid that more parents would do so. eligible, but also accepts private insurance “Younger ears are not more vulnerand cash payments. able,” Brace said, “but the loss is cumulaMost of the clients are referred by tive over the years; you can have more loss other doctors, but people may also make for a longer time.” their own appointments by calling or visitThe audiologist noted that many ing the clinic. They don’t, however, simply studies have shown that it is better to get see clients who walk in off the street; it is a hearing aid sooner than later because too busy. § your brain begins to forget how to process

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es, Stacey Mojo is her real name, and her company is called Mojo Woman.

Mojo, who took her surname from husband Mike, started her business selling natural fiber clothes for women about 16 years ago. She started out selling suits and friends’ baby clothes on eBay, moved into gently used clothes and then transitioned into the new clothing business. Getting into e-commerce gave Mojo an out from pharmaceutical sales, an industry where the increasing pressures of managed care was making life unpleasant.

As a small business owner, life isn’t less work—but it’s flexible. ”I’m coming home from work and half the time I’m doing work in the back here,” Mojo said, “or sending emails at home.”

Mojo’s last shop was on Brown Road, but she had wanted to move downtown for a good while—when a space opened up in Fulton Meadow, she moved in about three years ago.

“It’s on the road, we have parking, but it’s tucked away,” Mojo said of her location.

The shop is usually open on Fridays and Saturdays, though Mojo is always willing to make appointments for women to check out her wares.

“I love when people come and shop by appointment—and they shouldn’t feel they have to buy anything,” Mojo said, showing off a new, finely-stitched curtain for her changing room she picked up in the Adirondacks. “It’s good to spend oneon-one time, to let them know what looks good, what doesn’t look good. Department store shopping is not what it used to be—there’s not enough stock, or they don’t know the product they’re selling. I do know what I’m selling—there’s some ownership to it.”

Mojo Woman is always looking for new manufacturers to offer, and someday there may be a Mojo Woman clothing line.

“It’s all natural fiber and accessories; nothing made in a sweatshop,” Mojo said.

There’s a personal reason for Mojo to avoid sweatshop labor (though she does admit to owning an iPhone): “My great-grandfather came over from Russia and he perished in a

sweatshop fire— not the Triangle [Shirtwaist Fire of 1911]. He got out but he went back for his cousin, a young woman, and didn’t make it out.”

Mojo says she’s the “pain-inthe-ass customer at apparel shows.”

“I can’t do my due diligence and visit the factories, but if it’s certified fair wage, fair trade, basically.

Some is made in China,” Mojo said.

“I get to know the owners and Stacey Mojo (Photo: Diane Duthie) start buying their stuff. The people who sell stuff and Google and [internet] searching. You have make stuff are pretty neat. If I meet an to keep reading and trying to figure out owner and like them, then that’s a lifetime the latest and greatest.” business relationship.”

Internet code developers put out their Over her years in business, Mojo code “half the time” for people to play has researched how to operate an online with, and one does need to know some business—now located at MojoWoman. code to keep the site online for a customer com. base that’s all over the United States and “It used to be the groups were on the world.

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PLEDGE 4 Ithaca: Against Sexual Assault

A new community campaign, PLEDGE (Protect, Listen, Educate, Defend, Guide and Empower) 4 Ithaca, was recently founded in an effort to help end sexual assault and rape in local secondary schools. Although efforts to stop sexual violence have been implemented at the college level, similar programs haven't been created for students in elementary, middle and high schools or their families. While this coalition takes pride in our community, this is something that Ithaca is not immune to. The creation of PLEDGE 4 Ithaca has been developed for more than a year with the support of many

community leaders who have a passion to end this violence against our children.

Raising local, regional and national awareness about rape and sexual violence in secondary schools will build a sphere of understanding and compassion. By getting communities, parents, educators and other stakeholders to get involved, this will not only spread the message, but will also help to positively impact the campaign’s mission. Raising awareness will help provide our community with state and federal funding that we need to support education in secondary schools, health facilities, advocacy centers and the criminal justice system.

Research shows that 44 percent of sexual assault victims are under the age of 18, and 15 percent are under age 12.

This is an issue that is currently happening within our community, not only to college students, but also to K-12 students, who are not being taught in schools how to recognize sexual assault, support prevention, where to turn for victim support, and how to handle rape it if it does happen to them or to a peer. The PLEDGE 4 Ithaca campaign is a critically important initiative to bring light to the under-recognized problem of sexual violence in our elementary, middle and high schools. PLEDGE 4 has identified and hopes to support community resources that will protect children from sexual assault and rape. However, we need the support of the Ithaca community.

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Filling the Housing Void

Lansing looks at changing business zone to multi-family housing zone

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he Lansing village planning board will consider re-zoning a portion of the Cornell Business and Technology Park on Bomax Drive to accommodate a multi-family apartment complex.

A unanimous vote for the planning board to consider the proposal was passed at a joint meeting of the village board of trustees and planning board Monday, July 18 at the Village of Lansing office. The zoning law would have to be changed from a business to multi-family code.

Andrew Bodewes, partner at Park Grove Realty, LLC out of Rochester, wants to build an apartment complex covering the 20-acre parcel that would be inhabited by upper to upper-middle class people who want a high-quality place to live in a rural community.

He’s working with Jess D. Sudol of Passero Associates Engineering Architecture out of Rochester and Tom LiVigne, who has been on the board of many local projects and recently retired as the president of real estate operations at Cornell.

LiVigne said Ithaca has focused on housing in Collegetown or downtown mostly for students and a complex like this fills a void the three see in the area.

They envision mostly one-person living situations on lease for young professionals who want to stay, but don’t want to buy a house, or for older people who want to downsize from big homes.

“There’s still a great need for various other types of housing in Tompkins County,” LiVigne said.

In the engineering firm’s initial plans, the complex would have mostly twobedroom apartments of around 1,2000 square feet. It would also have about 40 one-bedroom locations (900 square feet) and 12 to 15 three-bedroom apartments (1,400 square feet). There will be 10 units per building with four on the bottom and six on the top, making a total of 1,000 apartments.

“It’ll be a good mix of young professionals as well as older people who don’t want to stay in larger homes,” said LiVigne, who was part of the group that first acquired the Cornell business park for

the school.

The three have worked together on projects before in other capacities. Bodewes has worked for Conifer Realty and put up the apartments across from the Dryden High School.

This particular complex would have apartments with garages out front, community green areas, amenities with possibilities such as bocce ball, a community garden and a dog park.

“This really gives you a sense of townhome living and we haven’t really seen that in this market,” Sudol said.

His engineering firm looked at what the location would be like under its zoning regulations at the moment. It found if the area were a business there would be less transitional green space, more traffic and more of a bad environmental impact.

The boards asked detailed questions after the presentation. It was Lisa Schleelein of the planning board who got at the biggest question: price.

Schleelein said the focus right now is on affordability, but a big focus of the complex is “upscale.”

“So where do these two come together?” she asked.

LiVigne said it’s a very difficult question. Cornell has agreed to sell the land to the realty group for development, but its selling point is based on what it

paid for the land.

“The price of the land does not allow for affordable housing on it. That’s just reality,” he said.

“Everyone says that, ‘it’s just reality,’ but at some point someone has to do something,” she said. “We’re not talking about low-income. We’re talking about affordable … it’s a little upsetting.”

Bodewes said the price points would be around $1,400 for one-bedroom, $1,700 for two-bedroom and $1,900 for threebedroom.

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Grassroots 2016

rassroots is well known as a ‘kid-friendly’ festival. It’s a multi-generational event where cultivating the health and future of music, ourselves, and the planet are as important as the headliners with top billing. Yes, it’s a music festival, but over the past 25 years organizers have cultivated an arena that acknowledges the value of its attendees as much as its performers. A temporary community of celebration, Grassroots nurtures inter-generational bonds that have reinforced our area’s burgeoning young musicians who’ve continued creative pursuits into adulthood.

Many of those musicians, perhaps once pushed there in strollers, have returned to perform at the stomping grounds of their youth.

Bands such as Sunny Weather, Sugar in the Raw, Kiev, Laila Belle, Sim Redmond Band, and the Grady Girls (the latter three of which are playing this year) are a handful of local acts that exemplify how the festival has helped transition young people into the world of professional musicianship. The latest incarnation of this lineage are the Ithaca Bottom Boys, who are playing their first official Grassroots set Thursday night in the Cabaret. Almost four years ago to the day, the Bottom Boys released their first studio album, the not-so-subtly titled We Wanna Play Grassroots. For some, dreams do come true.

“I’m excited to play,” said Bottom Boys mandolinist, guitarist, and LACS graduate Tristan Ross, who in fact was not allowed to attend Grassroots until late in high school.

His first year attending the full weekend was in 2011, when he played in the now-defunct Teen Tent with the Bottom Boys and received a free performer pass. With its spontaneous rock ’n’ roll vibe, Ross cited the festival as being significant as a “creative space where teens can share the stage with older, more professional

(Above) The Ithaca Bottom Boys (Photo: Facebook)

groups.” In Ross’ eyes, that blend of hyper-local and internationally renowned is what makes Grassroots “so great for anybody trying to become a musician and transform their art and really go for their art. To have your first stage opportunity in such a socially supportive environment is unbelievable, because if you mess up at Grassroots, as long as you’re all good vibes, everyone applauds and is like, ‘Whatever; start the song over.’”

Not every venue or festival is that forgiving.

Unlike other national festivals, Grassroots is of a class that puts a major emphasis on celebrating its attendees as it does its performers.

Organizers have set the stage to bring out creativity in the area’s young people with, for example, their summer outreach program, Roots in the Schools, and their Saturday morning band contest. Poetically, when Bottom Boys’ percussionist Tenor Caso was 6 years old, he won the band contest. Having gone to Grassroots every year of his life (and even one while in the womb), Tenor reflects on the festival as a place that equalizes like no other: “Grassroots builds a realization in you as a young person that it’s okay to enjoy, it’s okay to let go. There’s always a time at the festival when everyone is so happy to be there in that hyper-relaxed state—like, this is anything-goes type of territory.”

“Usually before Grassroots, I’m totally excited,” says Bottom Boys banjo-player Banjo Joe, “but this year I’m kind of stressed out.”

Perhaps, his stress is originating from his deep connection to the festival. The first five years

by Ru dy Gerson

THE GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

By Leah Kaller

It is 9 a.m. on Sunday morning at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, and the music has begun. People begin filing into the Grandstand, their hands filled with cups of coffee and plates of breakfast food from various vendors. Volunteers and staff are picking up trash and setting up tables for people to sit in the sun. Nearby, a few people sleepily sway to the music, but the band on stage is not Donna the Buffalo or Sim Redmond, it is the GrassRoots Festival Chamber Orchestra and these people are dancing to Beethoven.

In 2005 Jeb Puryear, lead guitarist for host band Donna the Buffalo, decided that a symphony orchestra would be the perfect way to begin the last day of the GrassRoots Festival.

Cayenna Ponchione agreed to tackle the challenge as conductor and musical director and the GrassRoots Chamber Orchestra was born. The first year they had tables and chairs and the Sunday New York Times on the track in front of the stage, and it was billed as “GrassClassy”.

There is often a theme to the Sunday morning program. Ms. Ponchione is a new music advocate and is dedicated to integrating humanitarian and environmental issues with the arts. This year she is shining the spotlight on two causes, the work the group We Are Seneca Lake is doing, and Rachel Lockwood’s Displaced Voices project.

The Displaced Voices project was inspired by the increasing flow of refugees from Syria and elsewhere to Europe. This project commissions and performs new works based on the words of incoming refugees.

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Miracle on Meadow Street

W IN N E R OF 3 TO NY AWA R D S

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Ithaca cartoonist creates a mural

By War re n Gre e nwood

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im Garmhausen is a cartoonist and painter living here in Ithaca. I believe he is a major 21st century cartoonist, and is developing into a great 21st century fine artist.

He is also a muralist. One can see his work around the city of Ithaca. He has two superb pieces in Press Bay Alley. He also has excellent murals at both Waffle Frolic and The Westy.

And, most recently, Garmhausen painted a marvelous mural on South Meadow Street (on the west side of the street, right where it intersects with Cleveland Ave).

The art consists of six large panels set in the brick wall of the Fulton Meadow Building. It looks like the panels of a very large comic strip.

Garmhausen’s work can be a bit disturbing. I have described it before as like Max Fleischer cartoons on acid. And Garmhausen can freely access his pain and despair.

However, because these large works are visible from the street, and

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by the motorists passing on Route 13, Garmhausen specifically designed them to be more upbeat and positive.

Panel 1 shows two elderly cartoon characters greeting each other. They have huge cartoon heads, little cylindrical bodies, stovepipe arms, and great grinning faces like some sort of tribal masks. One character wears a Tim Burton-issue red-and-white striped shirt and a top hat. The other wears old-guy suspenders. They are both essentially bald, but with multiple strands of crazed, high hair sprouting and waving like a paramecium’s cilia. And they have a bygone era look, like they walked out of an early 20th century comic strip.

Floating over them, large, overarching lettering asks us to “Consider …” The thought continues into Panel 2 where two equally strange (but upbeat) characters greet each other with intertwining speech balloons reading: “Slow and easy … wins the race,” a message no doubt directed to the Route 13 traffic rolling by.

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Internal Mapping System

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Artist tells of dreams with her work

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urely this isn’t the first time that the work of local artist and cartoonist Alice Muhlback of Spirit and Kitsch has been called “whimsical” or “playful.”

The soft, scrawled and curving lines paired with the childlike wonder and imagination evident in her work seems, time and again, enough to elicit such descriptors for lack of a better way of expressing their essence.

No matter the location, whether painted on a mural or hung in collective groups on the walls of a café or gallery, Muhlback’s art is distinctly her own, instantly recognizable as yet more work from her Spirit and Kitsch brand. And this distinction is in part because of whimsy, because of Muhlback’s unique style and consistent desire to continue exploring the world of characters she’s created, characters (whether birds, cats, or humans) who breathe of their own accord and whose stories exist outside of the dimensions of the artworks where we view them.

This month, Muhlback’s work is on display at Sarah’s Patisserie downtown, in a show entitled The Map is Inside. At first

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Alice Muhlback’s “Cloud Love” (Photo Provided)

the show seems like a smattering of works displayed together rather than a collective whole, yet with further thought there is a distinct narrative present that weaves the works together. Cloud Love begins one wall of narrative: a cloud imbued with facial features whose eyes are squeezed shut as he (it?) blows against an airborne heart.

Upon the frame’s white-painted border is

Jim Garmhausen next to his South Meadow Street mural (Photo Diane Duthie)

These characters, once again, have the oversized Maori mask faces, and that early 20th century cartooning look … although, this time, one guy wears a blouse sporting big circus clown polka dots, and the other has a smiley face logo on his shirt.

Panel 3 features two more cartoon characters … one with a giant, light bulb-shaped head, and his jersey reading, “Hello,” and the other holding an old fashioned landline phone and looking like someone’s businessman dad. Both characters have geometric continued on page 21

the phrase “Love is not accidental,” written in looping, cursive letters. Next are various totems: an eagle, cat, and spirit. Each (as are all the pieces) painted on recycled wood in vibrant colors and simplified shapes. By calling these figures “totems,” Muhlback gives significance and spirituality to otherwise commonplace figures. They become objects of reverence and wonder, guides in this mythological venture of life.

There is an implication of voyage and journey in various pieces, of characters embarking on some seaborne quest out into the unknown. Characters in Feel It press their hands to their hearts and peer out of the side of the frame, witnessing a scene that we the viewers do not see. However, they do so with an epic sort of drama about events the future may hold, triggering questions about what they may know that we do not.

Ask the Horse is a slight standout, perhaps because of its use of resource, which in this case is a repurposed drawer, as well as its inventive scene. A horse sits in a boat, right hoof to its heart, and stares forward knowingly. The boat itself is a bird that paddles its wing to propel itself across the water. This all is encased between the sides of the wooden drawer: one scene in a story still unfolding. But what, one is left to wonder, are we supposed to ask the horse?

The words “you know” are stamped beside the horse, though what is known is still uncertain. The scene is both ominous and continued on page 21

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A Trip Through the Zones

Science fiction and fantasy collide in hefty novel

By Bil l Ch ai s son Cataclysm: The Myst Clipper Shicaine Kerry Forrestal & John Fracchia (Selfpublished; 2016)

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fter you get 100 pages into this 570-page book you will find that new characters are still being introduced and new aspects of the world of T’Amorach are still to be discovered.

The amount of invention and imagination here is impressive, and you will not be surprised to learn that this is the first volume of a proposed tetralogy. Cataclysm is a mash-up of several genres, including maritime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The book opens on a high-tech sailing ship that is floating through a toxic brew (called myst) in a place that bears no geographical resemblance to Earth and is populated by humans, androids (sentient and not), mutants, genetically engineered beasts, and … vampires.

The plot is one familiar from actionadventure films: getting the old gang together again because something has changed in the world. The crew of the Shicaine once smuggled sentient androids from places where they were mere servants to an anarchic place called Rossums,

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bodies and soda straw arms and look like they wandered out of that wonderful old Beatles animated cartoon Yellow Submarine …

As does the character in Panel 4 … painted as blue as a Blue Meanie in the aforementioned film. He also has a weird, red, cylindrical body, Mickey Mouse pants and little, waving doll-like arms. Also a giant blue grinning head (again, saying, “Hello,”) and fluttering sea-anemone hair, and a top hat with a little window in it, and another, tiny character peering out like a bird nested in a birdhouse.

Panel 5’s character (greeting the character in Panel 4) is another bigheaded, tribal mask character … again, like all the characters, with oversized grinning lips like a crazed puppet or a ventriloquist’s dummy … although he, unusually, has a full head of shoeblack hair, waving like the tentacles of an undersea squid. (And, once again, seems to be visiting Tim Burton for his tailoring.)

Panel 6 features a full-bodied character, high up on the second floor, looking like he is lodged in the window and perhaps drifting off to sleep.

Garmhausen confessed to me that it was his least favorite panel—that he thought

where they could live as free persons (and, yes, the network of which they were part was called “the railroad.”) They had been betrayed five years before the book begins and in exchange for being allowed to live, everyone signed a contract stipulating they would never see each other again.

T’Amorach is a post-apocalyptic landscape where life continues within domed “zones.” Each zone has its own ideology: two are devoted to corporate capitalism; two to piracy and crime; one is a Luddite agricultural society; one is a theocracy; and the oddest is controlled by a vampire tribe called the Lokaryns.

Forrestal and Fracchia construct the book in short chapters that leap from place to place, introducing you to the many parts of this world and its strange mixture of social realism and magic.

Typical of their brand of invention is the concept of a bondling. Some members of the population of Ravensford, the agricultural zone, are able to manifest at will a metallic projection that changes shape through a liquid to a solid and becomes a variety of weapons. These people are members of a sect of warriormonks called the Seb-Ichi. Concepts like the character looked like he was dead— but Garmhausen was having difficulty because he was suffering from vertigo up there on the second story while painting it. (The sensitive artist is never happy.)

It occurred to me lately that everything I have written for the Ithaca Times has one underlying theme: on some level, I believe in Ithaca as this sweet, loopy, green, progressive place—an island of sanity surrounded by all-too-cruel reality.

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hopeful, depending on which way you’d like to take it. It’s a touch confusing, but also equally intriguing in its ambiguity.

The final chapter in this tale is a storyboard entitled The Moon Rained.

In the context of the other artworks, this piece contains familiar elements. A heart, perhaps the one from Cloud Love, floats along and a horse, presumably the same one from the previous scene, wanders, passing a sign that says “dreams.” As the title proclaims, the moon cries, though seemingly it does so joyously, seeing the horse there as the two of them meet. Is this the end of the story? It’s hard to say.

But the satisfaction is there, the initial idea

this seem to surface in about every fifth chapter and are introduced without fanfare. The cumulative effect is to progressively expand and prolong the suspension of your disbelief; you are drawn further and further into a world that is so like and yet so unlike our own.

Cataclysm is informed as much by the conventions of cinema and comic books as it is by those of literature.

The idea of sentient androids comes from Philip K. Dick, but more people probably first encountered it in Star Wars movies. The quick cutting from scene to scene as you burn through these chapters will strike you as paced more like film than books. Forrestal and Fracchia’s prose style is transparent and without artifice. The book never gets bogged down in long speeches, exposition, or interior monologues about the absurdity of existence. Instead the plot plunges forward, and the many threads that were separate at the start become progressively more interwoven as you race toward what turns out to be a cliffhanger conclusion.

It took Forrestal and Fracchia three years to write Cataclysm, but it has been in the making for 15 years. The depth and duration of this rumination is manifest in the language of T’Amorach—given names, surnames, place-names, sacred words used in prayers—which suggest the awareness that etymology preserves and reflects history. Personal names in Kwyne, for example, are somewhat different from those in Ravensford. More generally, formal names associated with older or sacred places and people of rank are more exotic than those given to commoners and

marginal places.

There is also a sense of humor running through Cataclysm that most resembles the wry understatement and self-deprecation that has come to be associated with action-adventure movies. It isn’t the madcap absurdity of Douglas Adams novels, but it also isn’t the adolescent guy-humor of maritime fiction or the gross-out yucks of horror. Forrestal and Fracchia’s humor lends verisimilitude to the characters; in spite of the fact that they are wielding shape-shifting weapons and drinking the blood of the living, you still think, “Hey, I know these people.” •

that “Love is not accidental” bringing these characters together and proffering hope that a journey can be achieved.

Muhlback’s art is a bit out of the norm, but that’s precisely what makes it enjoyable.

It’s storytelling through image in its most

pure form. It’s allowing your brain to wonder into the surreal and imaginary, into a world of bird boats and crying moons.

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A Musical Interplay

Local artist showing her colors at CAP Art Space

By Ar thur W hit m an

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ersonal Abstractions”—the title of local poet-painter Laura Glenn’s current solo show—embodies a seeming contradiction. Generally, “abstraction” refers to precisely what is most impersonal. In visual art, the meaning is different but the suggestion remains of a style reduced to the basics, shorn of anything idiosyncratic or unnecessary. And while there’s a lot to

be said for the reductive approach, it is largely out of keeping with the local artistic temperament. (As I’ve said before, what happens on-campus is rather different, unsurprisingly leaning towards more intellectual—or, too often, faux-intellectual—approaches.) From questionable café art to more professional work: the tendency is for the “colorful,”

the eclectic, the playful, and the mythopoetic. For better and for worse, this is us.

Up this month (through June 30) at the Community Arts Partnership’s (CAP) ArtSpace gallery, “Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages” consists of a generous selection of Glenn’s signature mixed-media works on paper, framed behind glass and given an irregular hanging that enhances engagement rather than detracting from it. I’ve never seen so much of her art in one place and my estimation of it has improved considerably as a result.

Glenn’s painting-drawings combine such materials as ink, watercolor, and pastel with the frequent collaging of tiny scraps of paper. These are sometimes thin and wrinkled and often dyed, drawn or painted-over, or feature hard-to-decipher reproduced patterns or images.

Her backgrounds, softly inflected with a single color or a patchwork of colors, suggest underwater environs. (Enclosed in their black frames, I think of aquariums.) Black ink scribbles mimic Chinese calligraphy—perhaps reflecting a longing for a culture in which art and poetry are not separate endeavors.

The effect is self-consciously lyrical, with all the promises and risks that that implies.

(Far Left) Laura Glenn’s “In The Cafe” (Above) “Whale Ride” (Photos Provided)

About a third of these pieces are excellent. But honesty compels me to say what I find wanting in most of the work here. (And this relates to work of hers that I’ve seen in the past.) Too many pieces, which—if I may stretch my aquatic analogy—appear washed out, tepid in their overall tonality. More attention holding is Ziggurat, which employs a melted rainbow of background colors given coherence by fields and bridges of black ink scratchings.

I prefer Glenn’s work when it deals in stronger colors and stronger contrasts.

I love pieces like Arrangement—with its painterly collage of thin, textured papers—as well as the would-be-Chinese Afterthought and the endearingly gritty Taking Off and In the Café.

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Whale Ride is particularly musical in its interplay of colors and textures.

It also benefits tremendously from its presentation. Unlike her other pictures here, she‘s chosen to “float” it on the white matboard, emphasizing the rough edges and irregular boundaries of the papers—particularly a mountainous scrap of bright ochre that juts out from the top edge of the central square. Glenn plays saturated colors off of thinner ones and offsets the ochre and a central area of thin, foggy brown with enframing black shadow and patches of cool colors.

There’s something very Ithacan about this sort of abstraction: tinged with fantasy and surrealism; eclectic and impure; seemingly unconcerned with appearing “advanced.”

That Glenn, as far as I know, always works on paper is also indicative.

Abstraction on paper is almost a genre of its own in local art. In this regard, the artist has marked affinities with the likes of Scout Dunbar (now of Brooklyn), Peter Fortunato (also a poet-painter), Syau-Cheng Lai (a pianist and polymath), and Melissa Zarem—all artists who use the support exclusively or nearly so. Paper is a lovely material to work on and it facilitates the combination of drawing and painting techniques, as well as the use of collage. But it also implies casualness in a broader artistic culture where working on a more durable support remains the norm. Echoing the purposeful informality of indie rock, the suggestion—and often the reality—is of artists without dedicated studios, of work done on kitchen tables in one’s spare time.

Well-known local abstractionist Barbara Mink usually paints on canvas but she’s currently showing works on paper at Decorum Too in the DeWitt Mall, also through the end of the month. The two exhibits are well worth comparing. •

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The Hues of Turtle Rainbows

Colorful and progressive collective hits up Ithaca

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Wei Zhongle, Brian, Tender Cruncher, Wednesday, July 27, 8:00 p.m., Scared Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar

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f Brooklyn’s wacky progressivesurrealists Cloud Becomes Your Hand were an ice-cream flavor, they’d be Jalapeño Onion Peach, with a dill-flavored sugar cone mixed with blackberries and rubber-glue to boot.

Yummy! Fusing a sort of post-Nintendo apocalyptic sensibility, with cartoon psych-punk, prog-rock, techno, avantgarde, and the hue of Cirque Du Soleil, this collective washes themselves in streams of endless rainbows, churning and burning into a dreamlike portal. This is a funny band that plays the hell out of their instruments, and write killer songs.

Their newest album Rest in Fleas (ha to Megadeth’s Rest in Peace) is an acid trip through some serious levels: tunneling, curvy, morphing, and gearing up for Pluto. I caught up with band members Stephe Cooper and Sam Sowyrda as they prepare to enlighten the Ithaca faithful Wednesday, July 27 at the ol’ Sacred Root.

Ithaca Times: Is there a distinct dimension or portal that Cloud Becomes Your Hand resides in; and is this realm an encouraging or delusional one?

Stephe Cooper: Underwater in grandma’s medieval canned ham is an example of a realm. Many songs are inadvertently about animals, which is something I’ve been trying to get away from, but probably won’t.

IT: When you guys approach a new composition, are there any defining terms for the artistic intent?

SC: Pretty much every composition for this band has struggled with resisting the urge to make it overly dense. There are six voices now and a lot of freedom with respect to timbre (one very flexible

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synthesizer, and one MIDI triggering Malletkat that can play any synth or sample imaginable). Having too much to choose from can be dangerous and overwhelming, but it’s certainly worth the risk. As plain as it sounds, the approach to a new song is often determined by the vibe of the previous one. For example, if the previous song was rocking and loud, I’ll work on one thats softer and sneaky. The longer we exist as a live rock band, the more of a challenge it becomes to resist the tendency to play a “hardhitting” set. The fear of playing something that “sucks the energy” out of the set is probably deceptive from the performer’s standpoint. I think of the dynamics in the live shows of Ed Schrader’s Music Beat as a reference for how successful slow, quiet songs can be when constrasted with loud, fast, abrasive ones.

IT: Is color important in art?

SC: The pianist and inventor Mary Hallock Greenwald invented a color organ in the early 20th century that had one set of keys for music, one set of keys for lights … how I would like to get my hands, ears, and eyes on one of those!

IT: If you could point to influences or inspirations that have been part of the DNA of Cloud Becomes Your Hand, who or what would you point to?

SC: From the first recording we made, the precedent was set for the material to be widely varied. A lot of my favorite recordings are all over the place stylistically. Growing up, my favorite Beatles album was the white album because it was so rich with variation and arrangements. New York City-area radio stations WFMU and WKCR have been constant inspirations to all of us in our time here. I’d say the two studio albums produced by Belgian band Aksak Maboul are part of our DNA. IT: How do the streets of New York

Brooklyn’s Cloud Becomes Your Hand (Photo Provided)

City play into your configuration, mindset, and general scope?

SC: There’s a track on the new album called “Third Avenue Slime” which is literally named after a street in Brooklyn that I work on. I strive to write music that embodies the different smells you encounter as you bike around the city. For instance: garbage, weed, garbage, sewage, flowers, weed, bus exhaust, fried chicken, garbage, Chinese food, noodles, weed, et cetera.

IT: Is humor a powerful emotion for an artist?

SC: Ever since we first starting working together, Sam Sowyrda [malletKAT] and I have strived to use humor and all round silliness in the realm of experimental music because it seemed that most of the “new” or “experimental” music we encountered was always played with a very straight face, as if the ridiculous noises were some kind of stoic, important pursuit. This is why we were drawn to the work of Mauricio Kagel, one of the rare composers operating in the classical world that was intentionally silly, and used a lot of theatricality in his work.

IT: Do pop and experimental forms go together, and is surrealism an

important concept when encountering Cloud Becomes Your Hand?

SC: Before starting CBYH, I had been focusing on more abstract/composed/ conceptual music for a few years and my excitement for it was waning. I wanted to do something energetic and not afraid to embrace “catchiness” while still feeling open enough to consider all different musical and non-musical possibilities.

IT: Does food influence anything about the band?

Sam Sowyrda Since we all like to cook, we do a lot of cooking on tour and I think that contributes to comradery as well as allows us to feel good on the road, which makes touring easier and more fun and ultimately more sustainable.

IT: Are there any philosophies or ideologies that are absolutely fundamental to the band?

SS: You have to be open-minded.

In music and in the world, we strive to understand and appreciate everyone’s unique perspective and contribution. This can lead to fractures or polarities, but these tensions are the fabric of life and if they are approached with compassion, they can be made into a richer and stronger weave. •

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of his life, he never missed a Grassroots, as his father John Hayward was a member of one of the founding bands, the Horseflies, until his untimely and unfortunate passing in 1997. Therefore, Joe’s first official set is imbued with mythological undertones as he plays Thursday night and the Horse Flies play Saturday afternoon.

years, he too does more than admire. He gives them crucial encouragement: “They have to be their own person, of course, but I’ve been more of an instigator.” He’s also a producer, providing opportunities for young people. In the fall, his Brightspark Electric Folk Festival in Brooktondale hosts youth bands, including the Bottom Boys for the past three years.

It’s personal for Doing. He is the father of Georgia Doing, one of the members of the all-female outfit Sugar in the Raw

(Top) Saxophonist Orlando Julius leads his Afrosoundz into GrassRoots (Left) Banjo player Travis Knapp (Photos Provided)

The band is ready though. They’ve recently returned from a two-week tour in Germany under the tutelage of Park Doing, a man who’s not only played the festival 10+ times under a variety of names but has also never missed a Grassroots in its 25 years. While he has watched the fivemember Bottom Boys develop over the 24

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(mentioned above), who first played Grassroots at the impressionable age of 14 in 2006. Unsurprisingly, Maddy Kinsella, the daughter of Kevin Kinsella (who’s playing Saturday afternoon), was in the band as well. Doing and Kinsella are testament to our region’s profoundly interwoven network and personal commitment to our musical future.

For 21-year-old Kati Dvorak, summer and Grassroots have always been inextricably linked: “It’s sort of incredible how all the Grassroots from my childhood blend together to create this super-memory that I’m reminded of every summer that I go.

“As I got older,” Dvorak reflected, “and started realizing a lot of the musicians I was seeing were native Ithacans or even neighbors, I began to really appreciate having that connection to the performers.” She admits that there are downsides however: “In some ways, I think the lineup often represents the Ithaca musician ‘in-crowd,’ which I think the people running the festival could do a little u l y

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more to ameliorate.”

While the tight-knit festival produces collaboration, it does have its shortcomings. Local musical maestro Shikhar Bajracharya notices too, as he recounts how his former band Ayurveda landed a Grassroots set, “We thought about applying, but our drummer (Mike Parker, now of the Blind Spots) had a good relationship with the organizers. And all of a sudden we got an email asking us to play.” It would have been difficult for a progressive rock band such as Ayurveda to have secured the opportunity any other way. This year, hip-hop group Empire Kings stand out as the outlier of the general international and bluegrass feel of the festival.

• • • Musical sustainability is coupled with environmental stewardship throughout the festival. Perhaps you remember last year’s composting modification. It was announced early in the festival that the ‘greenware’ utensils were not compostable.

Volunteers were stationed at waste disposal sites to remind attendees to put them in the trash instead. Well, this year we must take the intentionality of our trash disposal further, because Cayuga Compost, where Grassroots’ compost is delivered, is no longer accepting any plate ware or utensils.

Plate ware and utensils cannot go in the compost, and if they have any (yes, any!) food still on them, they cannot go in the recycling either. In short, please scrape food scraps into the compost before tossing food-related tools into the trash. Better yet, bring your own reusable dishware and eco-friendly soap and wash your eating tools at the various spigots and make the whole composting intricacies a non-issue. If you’d like to learn more about composting, Compost Theatre will be performing their cabaret-style performance on Saturday in the kid’s area.

In addition to reducing waste and fostering a healthy music scene, Grassroots is a national leader in healing arts and will be making two major expansions. New this year will be the Listening Tent, an area where certified professionals trained in active listening and crisis counseling will be available for those seeking emotional support throughout the festival. Of similar importance, the women of Ithaca Red Tent will be teaching female safety and empowerment throughout the weekend in a women’s only area modeled after the Anita Diamant novel of the same name.

• • • While people don’t typically make their decision to come to Grassroots based on the lineup alone, this year we are blessed with a stellar schedule of performers.

Of course as always, Thursday will have Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band kicking off the festival in their trademark Cajun style. The Cabaret will play host for the late-night dancers of us with the conscious electronic DJ Astro Hawk alongside banjo-extraordinaire Travis Knapp and Driftwood’s stand-up bassist Joey Arcuri. On Friday, if you’re looking for early evening salsa, head to the Dance Tent for Cuban Son duo Cortadito.

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soprano and chamber orchestra.

“Trying to Live” draws on the words of a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon. Ithaca College Associate Professor Ivy Walz will perform Ms. Lockwood’s piece with the orchestra.

Last year at GrassRoots, Ponchione announced her newest project, Sounding 2020. It is a 5-year commissioning project, which aims to generate five to 10 new compositions between 2016 and 2020 that engage directly with humanity and the environment. Earlier this year, Sounding 2020 launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the commissioning and recording of a new piece to promote the work of We Are Seneca Lake, a grassroots organization working to protect Seneca Lake and the surrounding area from a proposed expansion of a fracked-gas storage facility. This project brings together the musical talents of Ithaca-based artists, composer Kathleen Ballantyne, poet Melissa Tuckey, and Walz.

Puryear’s one request to Ponchione was that Beethoven must always be included in the program. Therefore, the orchestra will be performing a movement from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and a movement from Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.

L.A.-based violist John Paul Tobin will be joining the orchestra on stage in Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Concerto. The performance of the Clarke concerto was also funded by the grant from the Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant which is “dedicated to leveling the playing field for women in music”. •

Later, you’ll have your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see leader of the resurgent Afrobeat movement saxophonist Orlando Julius and the Afrosoundz playing the Infield all the way from Nigeria.

While few will miss Saturday’s headliner Brett Dennen, whose Americana sound will be as comforting as a glass of top-shelf whisky, many might overlook Kinobe and the Wamu Spirit earlier in the Infield. That would be a mistake. Every year, Grassroots invites some of the world’s most virtuosic African musicians, and for those who haven’t seen a kora (a harp from Mali) in action, you simply must.

Afterwards, if you can bounce away from Donna the Buffalo for a stint, catch the twosome Elliot Martin and Jay Speaker (of John Brown’s Body) spinning their electroreggae, live-vocal mixology in Club RubA-Dub. Consult the guide (widely available locally) for more information on workshops, performers, and other happenings around the festival. After the monument of last year, the 26th is managing to continue the upward climb, especially in the realm of education.

Culture Camp, a four-day pre-festival program of workshops, rolled out this year and assures the long weekend will begin with good vibes, spirit high, and improvements that will not sacrifice the intimacy and love that keeps so many coming back for pilgrimage year after year.

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7/20 Wednesday Eric Aceto in MAQ, Richie & Rosie, Louie G. & The Town Squares | 6:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Americana, Swing, Folk, Acoustic.

Open Mic Night | 6:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Sign Ups Start between 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm, Music Starts around 7:00 pm.

The Backtalk Band | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM | Bethany Village, 3005 Watkins Rd., Horseheads | Classic Rock, Motown, R&B. Ley Line | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Folk, Soul.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Ahimsa Yoga Studio, 215 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

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Folk ‘n Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz, and Gospel Music, featuring Angie Beeler, Travis Knapp, Leon Arguello, and Special Guest Stars.

Dr K: Paul Kempkes | 8:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Solo guitar with attitude.

Tango Night | 8:00 PM-11:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Telekinetic Walrus, Toto’s Magic Show | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Experimental

The Pelotones | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Thursday Night Swing.

Robin Burnett | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Rock, Country, Soul.

Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Every Thursday Night.

Acoustic music. Listings and info at sixmilecreek.com CTB Jazz Thursdays with Who Let the Cats Out | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Triple Down | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Jazz, R&B, Funk.

7/22 Friday GoGone | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | American Roots, Blues, Rock and Roll.

Bendher | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Modern Rock, Hard Rock.

Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Chicago Blues, Blues, Rock.

Dr K: Paul Kempkes | 6:30 PM | Ludlowville Park, 12 Mill St., Lansing | Solo guitar with attitude.

Chillakaya1 | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | El Caminos | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | American Bar-Room, Country, Rock.

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Naps, Lung Cycles, You Still Have Friends, Motorcyclez | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Experimental, Ambient, Pop, Rock, Shoegaze, Minimal, Ithaca Underground presents.

David Pulizzi | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | American Folk, Country, Blues, Rock.

Tim Ruffo Band, Charlie Wheeler Band | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Outlaw Country, Rock, Southern Rock, Hard Rock, Blues.

Ladies Night Out Club Dance Party | 9:00 PM-1:30 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca |

7/23 Saturday Led Foot | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | R&B, Blues, Rock.

RUST | 7:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Classic Rock: Steely Dan, KISS, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, and more.

Grey Wolf Jam | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | The Colonial Inn, 701 N Franklin St., Watkins Glen | Early R&R, Country, Blues.

Rapid River Boys | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Organic Folk, Americana.

The Tradegy Brothers | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Americana, Country, Rock, Blues, Folk, Funk.

The Purple Valley | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll.

7/24 Sunday Eric Aceto | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Jazz.

Music and Mimosas with Tribal Revival Duo: Marc & Tom | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Hosmer Winery, 6999 State Route 89, Ovid | Roots, Soul, Acoustic Jerome Attardo | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano with gust instrumentalists.

Chrissie and Ken | 3:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY 414, Burdett | Acoustic, Pop, Rock.

Dr K: Paul Kempkes | 3:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Solo guitar with attitude.

Blues Plate Special | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Bluegrass, Americana.

Jesse Collins Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, Funk.

AJ Strauss | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Honky-tonk blues and ragtime piano.

GREYE | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Progressive Indie Rock, Rock, Pop, Americana.

7/25 Monday AJ Strauss | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Antlers, 1159 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Honky-tonk blues and ragtime piano.

Elephant Sound Karaoke | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM | Rulloff’s Restaurant, 411 College Ave Ste 1, Ithaca |

7/26 Tuesday Sally Ramirez and Doug Robinson | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy,

1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jazz, Instrumentals.

Bert Scholl and Friends | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Outlaw Country, Americana, Bluegrass.

David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) with Alex Reed (ThouShaltNot, Seeming) | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Post Punk, Gothic Rock, Indie Folk.

Tuesday Bluesday | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Weekly Blues.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

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Norah Jones with Preservation Hall Jazz band | 7:00 PM | Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown | Jazz, Blue-Eyed Soul, Blues, Folk, Country, Adult Contemporary, Pop. Ithaca Concert Band | 7:00 PM | The Horizons, 1 Leslie Ln., Ithaca | The concert will open with the late

Chas Hockett’s arrangement of The Stars Spangled Banner. For additional information, please contact ICB President Dave Wohlhueter at 273-5891 or dpw5@cornell.edu Chris Stapleton with special guest Brandy Clark | 8:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Country, Bluegrass, Southern Rock, Outlaw Country.

Marie Burns and Friends | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | New Park Event Centre, 1500 Taughannock Blvd, Trumansburg | Food and beverages provided by Agava.

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7/20 Wednesday Dryden Music Series: Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM | VFW, 2272 Dryden Rd, Dryden | Country, Folk and Rock.

CFCU Summer Concert Series: Viva Mayhem, Sammus | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Ithaca Underground’s Summer Concert Series show. Ska, Punk, Rock, Rap, Hip Hop. Suburban Plaza | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8,

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Troica | 7:30 PM | Klarman Hall and Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Kim Dunnick (trumpet), Steven Mauk (alto saxophone), and Diane Birr (piano)

The Old Crow Medicine Show & Brandi Carlile Revue with Dawes | 7:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Alternative, Newgrass.

El Rumbon | 7:00 PM | Cornell Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca | El Rumbon means big dance party—and that’s what you get when this hot Latin band launches into a merengue, plena, bomba, cumbia, or chachacha.

Depot Friday Nights | 7:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Live music every Friday.

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Swiss Army Man | A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. | 95mins R | The Innocents | In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent. | 115 mins PG-13 |

7/23 Saturday The Dixie Kats: Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath House Stage, Trumansburg | Traditional American Dixieland.

Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Of Mice & Men | 6:30 PM | Lakeview Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way, Syracuse | Heavy Metal, Industrial Metal, Hardcore Punk, Nu-Metal, Thrash, Gothic Rock, Metalcore.

Lynyrd Skynyrd | 8:00 PM | Tag’s, 2679 State Route 352, Elmira | Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock.

Our Kind of Traitor | A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch’s plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. |117 mins R | Tickled | Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesnt stop him

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getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. | 92 mins R | The Lobster | In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. | 119 mins R | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. | 101 mins PG-13 | Equals | In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society. | 101 mins PG-13 |

Stage Third | Thursday, 7/21, 7:30 PM, Friday, 7/22, 8:00 PM, Saturday, 7/23, 3:00 PM, 8:00 PM, Sunday, 7/24, 7:30 PM, Tuesday, 7/26, 7:30 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | When Laurie Jameson, a charismatic professor at a prestigious New England college, accuses a student athlete of plagiarism, her seemingly well-ordered life as a wife, mother and daughter is thrown into dizzying disarray. hangartheatre.org

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Mainstays Donna the Buffalo head a lean and mean roster filled with the likes of the Indigo Girls, Silversun Pickups, the venerable John Brown’s Body, Driftwood, Sophistafunk, Plastic Nebraska, and so, so many more. It’s a family affair at Grassroots, as many local and former Ithaca musicians make it their annual pilgrimage. h e

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Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 7/20 Wednesday | Sunset Grill, 821 Danby Rd., Ithaca | RSVP lpd4@cornell.edu or 607-273-4013 Master Gardener Volunteer Training | This training is only offered every two years. Applications are due by August 7 and interviews will be held in mid to late August. More information, an application and training schedule can be downloaded from the CCETC Master Gardener page http://ccetompkins.org/gardening/ master-gardeners

Learning Cornell Free Summer Lectures | 7:00 PM-, 7/20 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Ken Blanchard: Refire! Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life.

The Skinny on Fats | 6:30 PM-7:45 PM, 7/20 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn what you need to know about fats and weight loss, and the difference between good fats and bad fats with Sophie Alexander of The Nutritional Wellness Center.

Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar.coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

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Kitchen Theatre, Friday, July 22 through Sunday, July 24 To cap off its fourth full season, Homecoming Players is bringing back the wildly popular Dotty, by Arthur Bicknell, which had its world premiere as part of the Kitchen Sink Series in July 2014.

Dorothy (“Dotty”) Parker (Kristin Sad), a divorced and oncesuccessful editor and ghost-writer whose career has been rocky (at best) for the past several years, now faces an entirely new set of challenges. Shortly after the death of her father, she moves back to her family home in New England and attempts to make things work out with her mother and her past.

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Seeking Submissions for New Column: Lessons from the Land | The first Lessons from the Land will appear in the Fall issue, due out in early October. The topic is Water: Woes and Triumphs, and the submission deadline is August 12. Submissions of 400 – 800 words may be submitted online at groundswellcenter.org/lessons-fromthe-land/ Tompkins Learning Partners accepting donations for annual Garage Sale | Tompkins Learning Partners, 124 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | We will take working electronics, kitchenware, working toys, small furniture, books, office equipment, and the like. We are not accepting clothing donations. Donations should be dropped off at our downtown office at 124 W. Buffalo St. Mondays-Fridays between 9am-3:30pm until Tuesday, August 16th. The Garage Sale will be held at our W. Buffalo St. offices from 9am-3pm on Saturday, August 20th.

American Red Cross Blood Drives | Monday, July 26th 9am to 2pm at South Hill Business Campus, Tuesday, July 27th 1pm to 6pm at the Dryden Veterans Memorial Home, Wednesday, July 28th 12pm to 5pm at The Space at GreenStar, Friday, July 29th 9:30am to 2:30pm at Cayuga Medical Center.

Rotary Dairy Dash 5K | 8:30 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Dryden Lake Park, , Dryden | Online registration at rotarydairydash. com Walk, Look and Learn Hike | 9:00 AM, 7/24 Sunday | Logan Hill Nature Preserve, , Ithaca | Cayuga Trails Club will lead the hike. For further details about this hike visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

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A Chorus Line | Wednesday, 7/20 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, Thursday, 7/21, 7:30 PM, Friday, 7/22, 7:30 PM, Saturday, 7/23, 7:30 PM, Sunday, 7/24, 2:00 PM, Tuesday, 7/26, 7:30 PM | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and celebrating its 40th anniversary, this dazzling musical tells the story of the unsung heroes of the Broadway stage – the dedicated, talented and overworked chorus dancers. A nine-time Tony-Award winner, this musical and dance spectacular brings to life the dream, the thrill and the hope of the Broadway audition. With one captivating song and dance after another, this show is also a brilliant metaphor for all human aspiration.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night | 6:00 PM, 7/22 Friday through 7/24 Sunday | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt. 89), Ithaca | An exploration of love in all its forms, the crowning glory of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies is a richly layered and endlessly entertaining play. Hilariously funny and deeply romantic, Twelfth Night features: a shipwreck, a clever heroine in disguise, twins that no one can tell apart, multiple cases of mistaken identity, and much more.

Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism 3 | 7/21 Thursday, 2:00

PM, 7:30 PM, 7/22 Friday, 8:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday, 2:00 PM, 8:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Til Death Do Us Part is the latest class to be unveiled in this sinfully funny series. After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Sister is now offering up hilarious lessons on the Sacraments of Marriage and Last Rites, including her own wacky version of the Newlywed Game.

Dotty: Kitchen Sink Series | 6:00 PM, 7/22 Friday, 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 7/23 Saturday, 2:00 PM, 7/24, Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Arthur Bicknell. Dorothy (“Dotty”) Parker (Kristin Sad), a divorced and once-successful editor and ghost-writer whose career has been rocky (at best) for the past several years, now faces an entirely new set of challenges.

Pinocchio | 10:00 AM, 7/22 Friday, 7/23 Saturday| Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | In this funny, charming and interactive re-telling of the classic Italian tale, lonely Gepetto the woodcarver longs to have a son to whom he can pass on his knowledge of woodcarving and artistry. He creates a wooden puppet but alas, a piece of wood just doesn’t provide much in the way of conversation.

The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: A Tiger’s Heart | 6:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Allan Treman State Park, Taughannock Blvd. (Rt.89), Ithaca | When Henry V dies and leaves his young son on the throne, the divisions in the kingdom break open and England erupts into civil war. The Wars of the Roses pit the house of Lancaster against the house of York — one led by one of Shakespeare’s most formidable women, and the other driven by the ominous rise of the future Richard III.

7/21 Thursday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Talk is designed for those new to Medicare and anyone who wants to understand this benefit. Bring your questions. Advanced registration is appreciated: call 607-273-1511.

Medicare Basics | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/21 Thursday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Sarah Jane Blake, Tompkins County Outreach Coordinator for New York StateWide Senior Action Council, will be speaking. If you are new to Medicare or someone already on Medicare who finds it confusing, this presentation will help you gain a better understanding of your health insurance coverage. Walk-ins are welcome, but advanced registration is much appreciated. Just call Lifelong at 273-1511.

Full Moon Fire Ceremony & Fire Building | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 7/22 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Learn to build a sacred fire. Sit, drum and sing around a sacred fire outdoors, and get messages from the fire.

Anthony DiRenzo and Andrei Guruianu: Writing Workshop | 2:00 PM-, 7/23 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Authors reading from their recent releases, Dead Reckoning: Transatlantic Passages on Europe and America, and Word and Image: Art and Creative Writing in the Age of Hybrid Narratives. Both the reading and writing workshop are free and open to the public. To register, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248.

Pond Planning, Construction & Care | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/25 Monday | Neuhauser Tree Farm, 434 W. Groton Rd., Groton | The Southern Finger Lakes Chapter of the NY Forest Owners Association invites you to join them to learn how hosts Ed and Peg Neuhauser designed and built a several acre pond last year. Discussions will include the planning, permitting and implementation of the project, as well as plans for on-going care and enhancement.

Questions can be directed to Brett Chedzoy at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schuyler County: bjc226@ cornell.edu, or 607-535-7161.

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Dance Party Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 7/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their families are invited to wiggle, hop and

skits and demonstrations. Events are fun for all ages and accompanied by Cowboy historians to answer questions about life in the Old West. Food, drink and vendors on site. Hours are 9:00 am to 7:00 pm on Saturday, July 23th and 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on Sunday, July 24th. More info at HomevilleMuseum.

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Contact: 607-972-5724 The 173rd Annual Seneca County Fair | 100 Swift Street, 100 Swift Street, Waterloo | New to the fair this year is the Empire State Myotonic Goat Show. More info and complete lineup at senecacountyfairny.com Sciencenter Mini-Golf | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of science fun! www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600.

Exploring Science! | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you explore science through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn different science processes each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/20 Wednesday | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com.

The Grapehound Wine Tour | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 7/21 Thursday | Seneca Lake Wine Trails, Rte. 13 and 414 | Friends, wine and greyhounds.

Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015.

1*2*3 Gluten Free | 7:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/22 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, , Ithaca | Try out delicious gluten free and vegan baked goods.

Info: (240) 538-3917.

Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | OA is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging.

Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835 Sterling Renaissance Festival | Join us for the 40th Anniversary Season at the Sterling Renaissance Festival! Show schedule, special events, and more at www.sterlingfestival.com.

Bement-Billings House Open For Tours | 12:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Bement-Billings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | nvhistory@ stny.rr.com / www.nvhistory.org

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Comprising IC faculty members Kim Dunnick (trumpet), Steven Mauk (alto saxophone), and Diane Birr (piano), the chamber ensemble Troica will perform in Cornell’s free summer events series on Tuesday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Klarman Hall Auditorium. The trio draws on existing repertoire and has helped create a body of new works for this combination of instruments, including pieces by Dana Wilson, Marc Satterwhite, Peter Lawrence, Mikhail Bronner, Efrem Podgaits, and Dominick DiOrio. (Photo: provided) shake. This free program is open to children of all ages and abilities and will include stories, songs and lots of movement. Refreshments will be served. No registration is required. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Moreland the Magician | 7:00 PM-, 7/21 Thursday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | His show is fun for everybody in the family! Giggle at his antics; be amazed by his sleightof-hand! It’s an evening packed full of audience participation so get ready to laugh.

Tween Night | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, 7/22 Friday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | Showing the new movie Zootopia (PG). Also, Minecraft, iPads, Legos and more. Pizza and snacks provided. Parents- stop in to sign your kids in, then enjoy a few hours to yourself. Pick up at 9:30 sharp.

Game Development Camp for Teens: Fables and Tales | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 7/25 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Offering intense role playing games, tabletop and card gaming, while helping participants create an epic tale or heroic fable using either Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder, or BattleTech and Card Wars. For more information, contact Game Leader Joah

Bierkamper at jtang@tcpl.org or Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

Firefighter Storytime | 11:30 AM-, 7/25 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will host City of Ithaca Firefighter Thomas Basher, Jr. for a special storytime. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275.

Special Events Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | See www.grassrootsfest.org for schedule.

Finger Lakes Cheese Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Sunset View Creamery, 4970 County Road 14, Odessa | Fun-filled family day of food, music, animals, games, classes and more , once again held at Sunset View Creamery -- just south of Watkins Glen.

You’ll have the chance to taste all the cheeses of the farms of the Finger Lakes Cheese Alliance in one place, and enjoy plenty of local foods and beverages provided by our friends and neighbors.

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| 10:00 AM-, 7/23 Saturday | Stray Haven Humane Society & SPCA Inc., 194 Shepard Road, Waverly | Take a tour of our facility and learn more about volunteering with shelter pets and perhaps adopt a new best friend!

Family friendly activities, games and learning stations for pet care. Meet local pet friendly businesses and learn about he many pet-oriented things to do in Tioga County. Email: events@strayhavenspca.com www. strayhavenspca.org Blueberry And Books Festival | 9:00 AM, 7/23 Saturday | The Berkshire Library, Fire Station, and Community Hall, Rt. 38 and Jewett Hill Road, Berkshire | There will be games for children, blueberry foods, blueberries, a chicken barbecue, book sale, trash and treasure sale, vendors, entertainment, raffles, an old car display and so much more. lots of food, fun and prizes.

Dryden Lake Festival | Dryden Lake, Dryden | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | The full day event offers tours of the lake, a bounce house, vendors, wine tasting, live music and 5K and 10K races National Day of the Cowboy: Preserving Pioneer Heritage | 9:00 AM-, 7/23 Saturday | Central New York Living History Center, 4386 US-11, Cortland | Shadows of the Old West and Ghost Ryders, with horses Big Red and Rebel Yell, will provide an educational glimpse of life in the Old West through

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/20 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ Summer Exhibition: Motion Mania | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Design a roller coaster while making discoveries about force, energy, friction, and stability. Explore the science behind what it takes to build an amusement park and then create, test, and re-test as you build your own twisting, spinning, zooming coaster. www.sciencenter.org or 607-2720600.

Live Demo: The Coolest Science | Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Beat the heat this summer and experience the coolest science right before your eyes! Join our educators to discover how different items react to the extreme temperatures of dry ice and liquid nitrogen. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Beginner Belly Dancing Series | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 7/20 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library invites adults of all ages to exercise their minds and bodies this summer by joining Belly Dancing Basics With Regina, a four-part introduction to belly dancing. This fun-filled, judgment-free program will be facilitated by TCPL Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro and feature—through beginner-level movements--an introduction to Middle Eastern dance. To register or for more information, contact Teresa Vadakin at tvadakin@tcpl.org.

Bike Night | 6:30 PM-, 7/20 Wednesday | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Come down every Wednesday to listen to music, chat with friends, eat good food,

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In this funny, charming and interactive re-telling of the classic Italian tale, lonely Gepetto the woodcarver longs to have a son to whom he can pass on his knowledge of woodcarving and artistry. He creates a wooden puppet but alas, a piece of wood just doesn’t provide much in the way of conversation! A friendly cricket overhears Gepetto and convinces the mysterious Blue Fairy (who is suffering from a head cold) to bring the puppet to life...and she does! Pinocchio is a classic for everyone!

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Dryden Farmers Market | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 7/23 Saturday | Dryden Agway, 59 W Main, Dryden | Enjoy local fruits & veggies, honey, eggs, cut flowers, canned salsas & sauces, artisan crafts and so much more.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

42nd Annual Broome Country Fair | Broome County Fairgrounds, 51 Grand Stand Blvd., Whitney Point | Info at 607-692-4149 or via email at broomecofair@frontiernet.net.

The Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/26 Tuesday | Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | Enjoy farm fresh produce from Elmer Family Farm, Whispering Willow and many more farms.

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I swear, it’s not a “women aren’t funny” argument. I could fill paragraphs with names of funny women. This is a “this is a lazy nostalgia cash grab, and it’s not funny” argument. All four ladies have made me laugh a lot in the past, so I sit here stunned that Kristin Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones aren’t very funny on their own terms, much less in comparison to Ivan Reitman’s 1984 comedy classic.

I can’t figure it out, either. This thing should have worked. Co-writer and director Paul Feig has gotten the best of Wiig and McCarthy on film with Bridesmaids and Spy, and McKinnon and Jones have been killing it on SNL. (Of the four lady ghostbusters, McKinnon and Jones have the most impact and possibilities.)

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Books Reading by Michael Basinski | 6:00 PM, 7/25 Monday | Montour House Cafe & Tapas Bar, 401 W Main St, Montour Falls | Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo and Director of UB Special Collections. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with the Don Metz Experience (D.M.E.). Contact: e-mail cdickens@lightlink.com or call 910-988-2268

Amateur Hour. A mix of geometric and stylized landscape illustrations. | www. buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Personal Abstractions: Paintings and Collages by Laura Glenn. | www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | Gabe Carraher, “En plein air”, featuring oils and watercolors done in California. | www.thecellardor.com Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Nature Made.

Don’t let modernization make you forget the taste of real food. | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Fifteen: Celebrating 15 Years of the Quilt Divas. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, the Quilt Divas present an exhibition of contemporary fiber art by 23 past and present

Art GC Myers: Contact | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 7/22 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | An exciting exhibit featuring new paintings. Music by Classical Guitarist William Groome. On exhibit: July 22- September 2. ongoig Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Catherine Montgomery: Illustrations. This collection of bright and beautiful illustrations by local artist Catherine Montgomery, feature intricate figurative and floral patterns in gleaming gilt images | www. benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Rafe Harpending:

months from green light to opening, and sure, as funny as it is, some of the special effects are pretty poor. So a new film could have better effects, and they do. Many hours clearly went into the effects, cinematography, animation, editing, costume design and prop design, and maybe a week on the script.

Creatively, the whole thing feels like one baby ghost step away from the original. All the original cast cameos, references to the movie logo, and the remixes of Ray Parker’s title theme are just plain awful. This movie needed to be as bold as its casting, and much funnier. Bill Murray shows up dressed like a Wes Anderson character that hit the cutting room floor, and if you thought Bill Murray cameos couldn’t get any sadder than Get Smart (2008) … they can.

(Liam Hemsworth, as the company secretary, is the only actor to score a lot of laughs. He can’t help it if he’s male.

• • • If you saw What We Do In The Shadows, Taika Waititi’s sublime vampire mockumentary and figured you had him pegged, he’s gone 180 degrees in a different direction with his latest film, a rough-around-the-edges New Zealand family wilderness comedy called Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Based on a Barry Crump book called Wild Pork and Watercress, It’s all about this three-time unlucky foster kid named Ricky (Julian Dennison) who gets one last chance at a stable home life with “Aunt” Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and

member artists. | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 903 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca | Two person exhibit featuring Suzanne Onodera and Stan Taft. An extraordinary exhibit of oil paintings On view through August 31.

Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Barbara Mink will be showing works on paper at Decorum Too through July. | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too. com Eye Gallery | (126 The Commons Fl. 2) | Hitch Lyman & Domenica Brockman bring the lush expanse of the plant kingdom to the Commons.

Hilton Garden Inn | 130 Seneca Street, Ithaca | Laura Soroka: State of Mind. Laura will display acrylic paint prints on watercolor paper which symbolize different mental health recovery projects.

Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Water & Life: Fernando Llosa and Ryan Curtis. An invitation

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Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | The Map is Inside. A voyage of paintings and recycled creations by Alice Muhlback of Spirit and Kitsch. | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ State of the Art Gallery |120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Bowman, Bowman, and Kather. This is a lively and colorful mix of photographs, digital manipulations and sculpture by three gallery

members during July. | www.soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Landscape Paintings of Ithaca Scenes by Nari Mistry Landscapes in watercolors, acrylics, oils and a few pastel paintings make up much of his work. His paintings reflect his fascination with the theme of water in the natural landscape.

Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Rose Gottlieb will be exhibiting select drawings. | www. wafflefrolicking.com

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In the years since the two legendary bands disbanded, he’s worked with artists like Porno for Pyros, Jane’s Addiction, and Voltaire, among others. He’s also worked as a DJ, producer, and writer, to much praise. Expect an intimate and engaging setting for the Casita Del Polaris show, a perfect chance to catch a post punk legend.

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into a spiritual experience of Nature, featuring two local nature-centered artists. | www.homegreenhome.com The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Conceivably Plausible/Heidi E. Marschner. This exhibit presents prints from the collections of Beauvais Lyons and Jennifer Scheuer that test the limits of belief. | www.ink-shop.org Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Anke Hoffstaetter will be displaying her abstract series at Lot 10 through August. | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com Mockingbird Paperie | 142 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850 | The exhibit “Cars and Cigars” ~ metal and paper prints from Cuba by Sheryl D. Sinkow, continues daily at Mockingbird Paperie through September 2016 Madeline’s Restaurant | 215 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibit of Guy Ciarcia’s Digital Art Paintings | guyciarcia.com

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Dennison is a rough comic dumpling and besides Te Wiata’s sweet and daffy turn as Bella, Hec is a great part for Neill: it’s safe to call his character “gruff but lovable.” If this film had been made by Disney in the 1960s, his part would have been played by Keenan Wynn. Waititi cameos as an eccentric minister, and Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, The Boat That Rocked, What We Do In The Shadows) just about steals the whole show as an eccentric hermit named Psycho Sam. •

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“Uncle” Hec (Sam Neill). Due to events that are best left undiscussed, Ricky and Hec run afoul of child services and find themselves on the run through some of the most breathtaking New Zealand scenery previously seen in the Hobbit and LOTR films, not to mention Hercules and Xena.

Broken into chapters from beginning to epilogue, this is one family film with a bit of an attitude. It reminded me a lot of The Bad News Bears, and older Disney rough country films like Old Yeller.

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