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Making Rules for Using Body Cams

Parking Kiosks May Be Unsafe

ccording to Undersheriff Brian Robison, the sheriff deputies’ body cameras will not be used to record your mom half-naked. That was just one of the possibilities that came up during Monday’s discussion of the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department’s new body camera policy draft.

At the county’s Public Safety Committee meeting on Friday, July 17, legislators peppered the sheriff and undersheriff with questions about the county’s policy, which is based on a similar policy the city unveiled in May. One of the questions from Legislator Will Burbank (D-Ithaca) addressed whether cameras would be turned off inside private homes and on private property in order to protect privacy.

Robison said, “If you go in there … and mom is sitting there scantily dressed ... common sense would tell you to shut it off.” The policy specifically states that officers may discontinue recording at their discretion when the victim’s privacy may be an issue or when a victim is “non- or partially-clothed.” (The word “victim” is used in the policy text.)

Some legislators commented that the policy does not always require police to disclose that they are recording.

Specifically, the policy reads, “Officers are not required to inform members of the public that they are recording, but must disclose that they are recording if asked by any individual other than a suspect.”

Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) wanted to know whether that meant that officers were allowed to lie about whether they are recording in certain situations, and Robison confirmed that it did.

Burbank also asked whether concerned citizens’ groups could get access to video footage for controversial incidents and Robison affirmed that they could do so through the county’s regular Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) process. As per law, some things would be exempt from FOIL. In response to a question about the data retention period, Robison noted that the time frames outlined are only minimum requirements and that video can be retained longer. The policy indicates that all footage should be retained for six months, while videos of violations and traffic infractions should be held for one year, videos relating to misdemeanors should be retained for

uestions have arisen about how to use the new parking pay stations in downtown Ithaca and in Collegetown that were turned on for the first time on July 6.

The most pressing concern brought to the attention of Ithaca Times newspeople thus far is the need to cross streets to access the pay stations. You can no longer hop out of the automobile and throw some quarters into an immediately adjacent meter.

It has been asked as to whether any thought was given to the location of the stations with respect to access by the elderly and others who might not move too quickly.

“I don’t like that better than anyone else does, city Parking Director Frank Nagy said about having pay stations on only one Delight and Chris Gartlein work their way through the key strokes at one of their homeside of the street. town’s new parking kiosks. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) There were three considerations Soon explanatory brochures will be taken, Nagy said, to determine where available to instruct parkers in machine the pay stations were located. First, they operation. Keyfobs will be distributed to considered where handicapped spots provide a place for drivers to write down were located; a handful of mechanical their license plate numbers. This is the “lollypop” meters have been left at first information that the machines ask handicap spots downtown for the for. (Regular parkers in downtown Ithaca convenience of those folks. Second, they are advised to know their license plate put the stations as close to the middle of number by heart.) the block as possible. And lastly, the pay The system catalogs cars by plate stations are solar powered, so the spot had to have some sunshine streaming down continued on page 4 during the day.

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That was the killer on some streets, finding sun penetration, Nagy said. One example of that challenge was on the 200 block of North Cayuga Street, where placing a station at a corner was necessary.

Right now, 21 of the 23 purchased machines are set up, with two more to be installed near the Commons when that project is completed. The plan is to buy 60 machines that will eventually replace 900 meters. So far 326 meters have been retired and the poles made headless.

Nagy says his budget request will be for $500,000 over the next two years to complete the pay station plan: they run about $10,000 a pop. By the completion of the plan, machines should be available on both sides of streets where parking is not free.

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“ Stay inside and watch Hulu.”

—Brittni-Shannon Williams

“Write fiction ... but I do that all the time.”

—Christine Vines

“We work at summer camp, so we do whatever we’re told to do with the kids” —Joey Mansfield

“If it rains, snows, if it’s hailing, I’m out working on the Commons.”

—Justin Dickens

“I cuddle with Lily here.” ­—Leila Walton & Lily

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etitions were filed the second week of July for this fall’s elections, and three new people are running for the city’s Common Council.

The only contested election, so far, is in the Second Ward, where J.R. Clairborne is choosing not to run for reelection.

Ducson Nguyen and Isabelle Ramos are the two people who have filed the Ducson Nguyen nominating petitions. In the third ward, (Photo provided) Rob Gearhart is the only person to file to replace Ellen McCollister, who’s also leaving council. Josephine Martell, George and getting neighborhood input on what they wanted, when you survey the notes McGonigal, and Stephen Smith are all on the wall. Packing in as many homes as running for reelection in races that are possible is what was so far officially needed, and others uncontested. kind of wanted to keep Gearhart things low like the has worked at surrounding houses—I Ithaca College think they came up for nine years with a pretty good and is currently compromise.” an assistant Nguyen said his provost for online involvement with learning and Tompkins Connect extended studies. led him to meeting His community young politicians involvement in the area, and as a includes serving self-described “details on the board of nerd,” he thought the State Theatre, running for council working with the was the right way to Bryant Park Civic give back to a city he’s Association, and lived in for about five Rob Gearhart in the past he years. Keeping talented (Photo provided) was on the Ithaca graduates in Ithaca is Festival board. one thing he’d like to “I really emphasize. believe one of the top priorities for the “Every year a bunch of really talented city is to really embrace smart growth graduates leave the city. We should and development,” Gearhart said. “The question is how do you best find a balance encourage them to stay here and build between being able to grow smartly and making sure you’re not disadvantaging any Bodycams of the residents.” contin u ed from page 3 Gearhart accepts there is a “housing crisis” in the city. This inclines him to be five years if it is part of the investigative supportive of the Ithaca Neighborhood record, and all footage associated with Housing Services proposal for the old felonies should be retained for “25 years to P&C Fresh grocery store on Hancock Street. “Hopefully that’s the kind of project permanent, depending on the crime.”

Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga we’ll see more of in the future, in the sense Heights) wanted to know how long the they’re trying to find some balance there,” cameras could record and whether they Gearhart said. “It is important to give people a chance to talk about the project— could be left on throughout an entire shift. Robison said that he didn’t know the this wouldn’t be the Ithaca I know if we exact battery life while recording, but did didn’t have a conversation about an issue.”

Nguyen, who’s a software developer at know that it would not be enough to make it through an entire shift. He estimated Gramatech, echoed Gearhart’s support of around five or six hours of recording time. the 210 Hancock project.

Legislator Nate Shinagawa (D-Ithaca) “We should be encouraging growth in pointed out in the event of an officera respectful way to the city, so that we can involved shooting or in-custody death, do something about the crazy rise in the the highest-ranking officer at the scene housing crisis,” Nguyen said. “[INHS] did is responsible for taking possession of a great job of having three open houses 2 2 -2 8 ,

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their businesses here—which seems to happen more, recently,” Nguyen said.

“Anything we can do to encourage them to stay will broaden our economy from total reliance on education and medicine.

When Cornell has budget freezes, that has a huge impact on the community.”

Ramos moved from Texas in 2001 to attend Wells College, and made Ithaca her full-time home about two years ago when the licensed attorney started working at IC in the admissions office. She says that interning with the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2004 “solidified my desire to be in politics.” She’s an advocate of opening up a methadone clinic, which she says would “make the city healthier and cleaner” and “reduce drug use in public facilities.”

Ramos is also a supporter of the 210 Hancock project, and says that she “has no reservations” about requiring developers to include affordable units in new buildings. Keeping up with park maintenance and keeping water clean are also Ramos’ priorities.

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all the officers’ cameras to preserve the evidence. He said, “I thought that was a really interesting part of the policy and something that was good for the public to know.”

Right now, the biggest stumbling block toward implementation is data storage. While the city has moved forward with a cloud-based storage system, the Sheriff ’s Office has taken longer in order to find a way to integrate data storage with the county’s Spillman emergency services data system. Although in May Robison said that he hoped to see the cameras in use by mid-summer, now he said that he couldn’t predict a rollout date for the cameras until data storage is fully hashed out. When Shinagawa asked if the cameras would be in place by the end of the year, Robison said, “I can’t answer that.” • —Keri

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hether Tompkins County will find its way into some fresh signs is now in question after a city committee voted down $150,000 that would have funded a signage project.

The City Administration Committee voted 3-2 on July 15 against spending $50,000 a year for the next three years to replace and upgrade signs around Tompkins County.

In June, Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce president Jennifer Tavares and county planner Tom Knipe presented information on the wayfinding project, showing the same committee mock-ups of proposed signs and explaining how color coding would be used to lead people to different districts, like downtown and the waterfront. One slide was titled “Lack of Consistency” and below it “From Hodgepodge To … “We Care,” showing an example of a green sign saying “Cornell” with an arrow as something that could be improved.

At that time Tavares told the committee the total cost for the project, part of the 2020 county strategic tourism plan, was estimated at $1.226 million.

That cost assumed about 40-percent of the funding was coming from state sources, which Tavares considered then to be “a stretch.” There were a number of different funding models explained in June, including splitting up the costs by population, or in a “fair share” manner that divides the cost by among the destinations toward which the signs are pointing.

Last month Tavares was estimating $490,000 would come in from state funding, with a population-based funding share to cost the city around $115,000, the county providing about $294,000, and a fair-share model putting the city at closer to $200,000 in revenue, with an estimated near-$100,000 contribution from Cornell.

“We have a lot of old and tired signs around the county, and a lack of a unified sense that this is a signage system,” Tavares said in June. “Ithaca Falls is clearly one of the best assets that Ithaca has in terms of attracting visitors, and there’s literally no signage right now.”

The committee that worked up the signage proposal went through about 300 possible destinations in Tompkins County, Knipe said, and narrowed down their number to “just over 50 of our top attractions.”

The most numerous signs added are planned to be in the waterfront area, with 39 there.

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Falls. Clairborne and McGonigal, along When the proposal came up for a vote with Alderperson Donna Fleming (D-3rd), at City Admin in July for the $150,000 ended up voting against the proposal. contribution, three of the five alderpersons What happens now is unclear, expressed their discomfort with spending according to Tavares. money on the signs, particularly since “Our team will be evaluating the costs were not yet set in concrete.

The $150,000 was still an “assumption,” Tavares said, coming down from initial estimates of over $300,000—a number that was knocked down mostly by figuring out that installation could be done by county or city employees.

Tavares told the committee that she already had a commitment Existing signs around town can be vague. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) from the Town of Ithaca for up to $35,000 toward the project feasibility and options for a project; what a resolution to fund from reduced or phased project,” she said. the city would be useful for, she said, was “Since the majority of the signage program applying for the grants. is located within the city of Ithaca and “I’m not comfortable with some of the includes designated districts within things facing the city to spend money on the city, the project is not likely to be this,” Alderperson J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd) effective without the city’s participation said. He asked Tavares whether the project and endorsement. We believe that the could be downscaled. “We might not need collaborative effort needs to be embraced by the key stakeholders in order to as many of these in some of the places maintain project integrity and attract the around here.” investment we are seeking.” • Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) took up the theme of reducing the — J o s h B r o k aw number of signs, wondering aloud if the on July 13, the smartphone app should be working by the end of July, which will parkingkiosks contin u ed from page 3 allow people to add time to their parking from anywhere in the city. number and you pay with change, cash, or Nagy is optimistic about the rollout credit. Then parking officers can check for so far. He said there were 933 transactions violators by using their handheld devices on the machines as of July 14, with nearly to see which vehicles have been paid 900 on one day by Friday of the first for and which haven’t. Nagy said police week after 65 uses on that first Monday. cars also have a license plate recognition Downtown merchants will be receiving system that rings a bell when they drive validation codes to give to their customers by an unpaid car. The officer then stops for street parking, and the hope is that the and will verify the vehicle’s payment status newly hiked price of street parking $1.50 with the handheld interface. an hour, versus the garages holding steady The advantage of putting in the plate at $1 per hour will improve business number, for parkers, is that payments conditions. made to the system travel with the car.

The whole concept of the idea is to get If someone decides to park on Seneca long-term parkers off the street, leaving it Street and pays for 30 minutes while only open for short-term parking, Nagy said. spending a quarter-hour doing an errand Back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, the original there, and then needs 10 more minutes design for parking meters was to go in, do on Green Street, their payment travels your business, and get out. • with them. With a vendor contract signed — J o s h B r o k aw T

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Ups&Downs ▶ United Way Awards, which Students in the Dryden Focus on Community Understanding Service (FOCUS) project, a United Way of Tompkins County program, awarded $2,000 to three nonprofits that serve the Dryden community. The FOCUS students awarded the following grants: Community Dinners at Dryden United Methodist Church- $850; Adult Computer Literacy at Tompkins Learning Partners- $600; Varna Community Association- $550 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 ▶ Eating the local harvest, The 10th annual Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty harvest dinner is Monday, August 3 at 6 p.m. at Geneva on the Lake, Lochland Road, Geneva. Regional farmers, chefs, and winemakers will create a multi-course feast of foods and beverages from the Finger Lakes. At 7:00pm, guests will move to a tent on the lawn for a sit-down dinner and dessert, with each course paired with Finger Lakes wines. For specific menu items, and participating chefs, farms and beverage makers, please visit: www.flcb.org/ ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of July 15-21 include: 1) New Comic Shop Comes to Cortland 2) Baker Florist in Spencer Moves On 3)Loaves and Fishes: A Miracle a Day 4) Locally Sourced at Johnson 5) Chicken Owning Remains a Crime For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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t’s unlikely, if not impossible, that whoever snagged a blue camping hammock or a red, two-cupholder camping chair, or a white muslin hoodie from the Trumansburg Fairgrounds is reading this newspaper. Everyone who reads a paper in print is a good person, but if you do have these things, please do drop them off at the Ithaca Times office.

Anyway, there’s no use complaining about things lost at a festival, GrassRoots or otherwise, as material stuff has this tendency to become misplaced over four long days and nights. One is supposed to take home the music echoing around one’s sunburned head, and not worry too much about where a coozie or a sock or one’s keys might be at that moment.

One hopes, though, that if things do not disappear by accident, the stories about it being those damn kids nosing around tents for nice stuff and things are true—and they eventually grow out of the sticky-fingered habits into propertyrights-respecting adults like a good middle-class American.

Stay till Monday morning and if you’re needy or a hoarder, you can help clean up and get plenty of stuff to take home, completely legit. It’s there for the taking at the “Breakdown Boutique.”

Take some stuff. Leave some stuff.

Busted folding chairs. Blankets, towels,

yoga mats, flip-flops, sunscreen, the last pull of Smirnoff and Jose—and enough bags full of returnable aluminum cans to pay for a robust drinker’s cream ale for a decade or more. Hopefully, there’s enough juice in the battery and no leaks in the engine block, or then all of these wondrous goodies will be soon sitting out along Route 96 while you await a friend who’s going to need to take a couple trips in their Prius to carry all the crap that one can shove into all at once into a Westphalia van.

There’s something to be said for the “less stuff ” movement when it comes to festival time. There’s a stalwart member of the small-show Pennsylvania scene who goes by “John 420” and has a system figured out that seems ideal: He brings four things, and none of them are wallet or keys. Armored in denim jacket and jeans against the elements, and with nothing to lose, he can be found sleeping on benches, by the fire, in the woods … or in the tent of the pretty young woman who’s driven him to the weekend’s festivities.

So the lesson, as Thoreau said, is simplify, simplify—and have someone who loves you drive you around. And I don’t really care, of course, it’s just stuff ... but if you see something of mine, could you give it back, please? •

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ews item: Ithacash, Ithaca’s new alternative local currency, is poised to burst upon the scene, with scores of local businesses pledging to accept “Ithaca Dollars” in lieu of U.S. currency for goods and services. “We’re on the verge of launching in earnest,” says Scott Morris, founder and CEO of Ithacash. He expects dozens of shops to be ready to accept Ithaca Dollars in the weeks ahead. Morris pointed to a letter of commitment signed by more than 100 businesses and other non-profits indicating that they would be willing to offer products for Ithaca Dollars. Morris said that Ithaca Hours—another alternate form of currency for Ithaca—was an important inspiration for Ithacash, but that his organization is now aiming to do something new. (He added that Ithaca Hours would be convertible to Ithaca Dollars for those who retained the currency.) Morris sees Ithacash as a way for businesses to receive value from goods and services that may otherwise not be sold. In addition, Ithacash also aims to benefit local residents by increasing the amount of local trade; Morris says once consumers begin spending their money in a currency devoted to the area, that money will necessarily again be recirculated here, thereby increasing local trade for the overall region. (Ithaca Voice – July 9) Maybe you saw it. Set up just by the Art Barn at last week’s GrassRoots extravaganza was a tidy little booth stocked with all manner of Greek fisherman hats and only Greek fisherman hats. Unbeknownst to probably everyone passing by, the wild and crazy guy manning the booth was none other than Alex Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece, desperate to find currency for the faltering Greek economy. The following conversation is certified to have really happened.

Customer: Dude! Fisherman hats! I haven’t seen these since Anthony Quinn played Zorba the Greek!

Tsipras: You are forgetting Mr. John Lennon? Mr. Robert Dylan?

Customer: Sure, man, but that was like fifty years ago.

Tsipras: Is retro look. Will come back, I promise.

Customer: (trying one on) Actually, it’s not bad. You know what? I’m in. How much for this one?

Tsipras: Thirty-five American dollars or thirty-eight Euros.

Customer: (counting out) Here’s thirtyfive Ithaca dollars. I don’t need a bag.

Tsipras: (unmoved) What this?

Customer: Ithacash, man. Our local currency. It’s money for the people. We’re opting out of the Wall Street economy. This is money for Main Street, dude!

Tsipras: (suddenly intrigued) So new money is just … made?

Customer: I … I guess so.

Tsipras: You pay with these Ithaca dollars just like real dollars?

Customer: Sure!

Tsipras: Business pay workers in Ithaca dollars? Bank take Ithaca dollars? IMF, maybe?

Customer: Well, I don’t know about all that. What about the hat?

Tsipras: You keep hat, my friend! (grabs CUSTOMER’s head and kisses it on the forehead) My genius! Increase money supply and devalue currency. Of course!

With that, Mr. Tsipras began to pack up his hats. I noticed that the booth wasn’t there the next day. I suppose someone should text Angela Merkel that there’s trouble afoot, but isn’t it more fun to just watch those folks duke it out from this side of the pond? •

YourOPINIONS

Build Elder Housing Downtown

I am aware that there are elder individuals who are financially able to invest $200,000 or $300,000 to purchase a home.

They are not the majority here. To purchase a condominium at those prices certainly will not absolve the owner of that unit from payment of monthly fees and other monthly/annual costs affiliated with that condo.

As a life-long resident of the City of Ithaca, I can unqualifiedly say that $1,200 a month for rent will be much less than the monthly cost of living in my “owned home.”

Figure it out: Payments for mortgage, real estate taxes, maintenance, insurance, snowplowing, lawnmowing will disappear in my future (hopefully) rental unit.

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located is primarily residential, formerly the home of Ithaca College, non-commercial.

I am offended by the thought that a new structure at that lovely site will contain commercial and retail establishments which I feel will detract from which will be for many of us, our final home in the City of Ithaca. We need those apartments.

–Aurora Rubens Valenti (age 79), Ithaca

The New Roots Experience

This is the story about two boys. It’s not a spreadsheet crammed with numbers and statistics. It’s not a propaganda report selling an agenda. It’s just a story about two boys and their triumph over numbers and statistics.

New Businesses

New Addition to Press Bay Alley

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hen John Guttridge, a native Ithacan, purchased a 25,000square foot building formerly owned by the Ithaca Journal along Green and Geneva streets a few years ago, he had a “lot of big dreams about the cool stuff that we can do.” The “first brick in the wall” would be Life’s So Sweet, a chocolate shop.

Since then, unique shops such as Boxy Bikes, Amuse: Modern Cottage Industry gift shop, and Bramble, a herbal hub, have followed suit to create a fully blossomed micro-strip mall dubbed “Press Bay Alley.”

When I talked to Guttridge this time last year, Guttridge noted that filling the open store space that directly faces West Green Street was his top priority. Throughout this whole process, his team has envisioned the space becoming a café. He explained that a good cup of coffee “creates great foot traffic,” and will also offer the opportunity to set up an outdoor sitting space for residents to enjoy.

“We don’t want a crappy cup of coffee,” he said. “We’re looking for someone to bring a high quality coffee experience that has some of the attitude of some of the higher-end coffee places in town, but also creates a setting where customers can be comfortable and relax, and not need to know how to speak Italian to place an order.”

In May, Ian Armiger and Christopher Cowan answered Guttridge’s call by opening Press Café.

“Over a year ago,” Armiger recalled, “we started a conversation about starting a roasting business. We both had busy lives, things didn’t materialize, and we didn’t jump on top of it. Then my friend John asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to open a café in the area. I’ve been part of several café openings—I’m an electrician in the area. Christopher use to roast, and we became good friends years ago. So I mentioned the idea of opening up a café to him, and we ultimately decided to go for it.”

When I walked into Press Café for the first time, I was struck by how simple it was. There are two tables, each with two chairs; a counter for cream, sugar, straws and lids; a main counter where you place an order; a menu with the basics: coffee, espresso, cold brew, tea; a showcase with a few different pastry options. And, well, that is pretty much it. There are no bells and whistles.

That, explained Armiger, was the vision.

“We get the question of ‘What are you trying to do that’s different?’ a lot,” he said. “It always throws me for a loop a bit, because that was never really a thing in the forefront of my mind for this vision.

We shared a vision for a minimalist place.

We don’t want to be busy; we don’t want to have knickknacks and gizmos on the counter, for instance. We want to be very clean, very aesthetically pleasing and have a focus on excellence. We have a few pastries, and they’re really good. All of the coffee drinks have attention to detail.

So I never had a vision for being notably different as much as just doing what we do really well.”

Added Cowan: “To start with, this space—Press Bay Alley—was just a beautiful space. It’s modern; it’s bright.

So as far as the build-out and stuff, we went with something that would fit what was already here. We’re excited about the minimal look and feel.”

Cowan’s roasting education came from his time at Gimme! Coffee, where he worked for three years seven years ago, and apprenticed under master roaster John Gant. Cowan said he wants Press Café to bring different, unique coffee experiences to its customers.

“As far as the business itself, and coffee,” he said, “we want to be a place where the community can experience coffee from different places. Our goal is to be a multi-roast café. Currently we carry youropinions contin u ed from page 6

Once upon a time in the small village of Lansing, there were two brothers who were so different, no one even knew they were related. Elder son was a giant over 6 feet tall who, despite his strength and grand size, did not enjoy sports. He was gentle and sensitive. He liked to hold soft critters and sit in the woods, listening to the quiet song of the forest. Second son was more concentrated and compact, like a firecracker. He loved to perform plays and sword fight. His heart wheeled free and his passion for life was contagious.

They were enrolled at The Best School, but with the turn of each year, elder son became more despondent, more melancholy. Second son would start each year full of hopeful fire and, somehow, get lost and alone in the second half. Elder son would determine the class curve in mathematics. Second son could draw and write with such creative prowess, colors changed at his command! But their grades sank somewhere between ambivalence and mediocrity, with the occasional nosedive into abandonment and despair. The Tests showed all was well. The Tests determined they were on the Right Track. The Tests proved everything was as it should be.

Yet they would beg to stay home. Elder son would make himself physically sick with anxiety. He would close his door and cry. Second son would panic and isolate himself or lash out, scorching the walls with his ire. He learned to lie.

When the High School Fairy Counselor suggested a special, different place for Elder son … he did not hesitate.

Elder son, with a mature reservation, shadowed this special, different place and was embraced wholly, without discrimination or judgment. The students were kind and accepting. The teachers

Wood Burl Coffee from Dayton, Ohio, which is roasted by Brett Barker. He lived in Ithaca at one point, and had mutual friends. He pointed me in this direction.

Right now, we’re looking at other roasters, looking for other coffees to showcase in our café.” [end print version] “As far as what we’re looking for in the coffees we serve,” he continued, “what I like to see is a coffee to paint a picture. I want people to walk away with an experience of luxury. Our baristas are trained to take the coffee and extract flavor profiles that are unique. That’s the thing you’re looking for with specialty coffee. You’re not looking for everything to taste the same. You’re looking for unique characteristics of the coffee’s origin.”

In addition to offering a state-of-theart coffee experience, Press Café also wants to give its customers the option to get something to complement their beverage of choice by way of a baked good.

“Our food items are sourced locally, we have a local baker,” Cowan explained.

“Currently we’re carrying things baked by this woman named Audra. I’m very pleased with the pastries we have in our were vibrant and professional. The staff was effusive and diligently impassioned to cultivate each child’s unique success story.

At this special, different place, Elder son grew taller and shown brighter than ever under the nurturing attentiveness of its mentor staff. So much did Elder son enjoy his new experience that Second son did not hesitate to enroll when he graduated his last year of middle school.

Both sons have far surpassed any expectation set for their education. They continue to excel according to The Tests, but their grades have never been higher.

They complete assignments. They never beg to stay home. Elder son has friends.

He is an Ultimate Frisbee Champion. He is a farmer and scientist. He is a math tutor.

He is College Preparatory! Second son is a chef and patissier. He is a kiln builder. He is an artist. He is a poet. He is a speaker of Spanish. He loves school.

That would be enough for many promising hearts. That would be the end of this tale.

But, for some …. they want more.

They have a powerful ache to see their child at his or her absolute happiest. There is a drive within them to recapture a lost joy for learning and experiencing new things that they lost somewhere down their own lonely path. For those aspiring hopefuls who hunger for something enormous out of life, there is a special, different place. It’s called New Roots Charter School!

Legend has it, in fact, that on one balmy spring time Monday when there was no school in session… both Elder and Second son could still be found voluntarily roaming the halls of New Roots with their teachers and friends.

What a tall tale, you say? ... And this is but the beginning of their story!

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ithaca com We got this comment in response to an article on the county sheriff’s body cam policy when it appeared on line. It is on page 3 of this issue: All the rules are illegal...the public was shut out as the elected officials were not part of any crafting of these ridiculous rules..LGBTQ and black residents in particular wanted cameras on cops to address criminal behavior by COPS . Steven Morracco, the cop who was sued for beating a lesbian while handcuffed will now have a camera and he can turn it off when he wants to brutalize another woman, family and target lesbians...how does that help us “Sheriff”? Not informing the public THEY are being taped is illegal and entrapment.. why don’t you knwo the law “Sheriff”? Lansing, Robison and Chief Barber keeping saying “we are transparent” this is evidence they are obviously lying becuase the entire crafting was all theirs input NONE of ours. The film is NOT going to be released and they will not tell people they are being filmed. how is any of that transparent? I am not paying for this gear unless all cops are required to use it for the entire shift and at all times, not at the abusers discretion! I was filmed every moment of the day when I was a corrections officer and I had NO objection and it made for better, safer environment.If I wanted an informants info. they wrote it or I got it while their identity could be concealed. these rules are not acceptable and I encourage STRONGLY the public to DEMAND hearings and be able to craft these rules.We have some VERY bad cops and these cameras were to address their behavior.. Legislators are not doing that and this community lives in fear especially of the Sheriffs Dept. Why is any of that acceptable to legislators who have been told this for over 2 years? They do not represent terrified people when they continue being silent about matters and what is happening to us. SAY NO please!

– Joanne Cipolla-Dennis We got a lot of mail pro and con about an article on yurts. They do not fit into the International Building Code and have been widely prohibited: Yurts are entirely safe and reasonable residences. I have lived in one for 20 years. In extreme weather it resists wind and damaging hail better than many “conventional” structures. While other homes near me were losing shingles or roofs my yurt simply “breathes” with the walls flexing so they do not break. It is a mode of construction that conventional minded folks can’t quite understand and engineers don’t have a box it can fit into. The code as written does not adequately address yurt construction if it is being used to deny construction. A yurt is safer than a house in most instances. Properly fitted it is warm and comfortable and as safe from fire and weather as any other. Maybe even a bit better than really. Building codes are supposed to be designed to prevent unsafe structures from being built in general but too often they are used by inspectors and towns and villages to exert undue control and influence over how someone else would prefer to live. In the case of Yurts there is no slippery slope leading to one family houses being built in front yards or general abandonment of the code or any other silly notion. In my town they initially permitted my yurt as a seasonal structure/ outbuilding for purposes of having some kind of permit they could issue. The real issue is officious and ignorant officials who simply don’t want to accommodate a perfectly reasonable style of shelter.

Perhaps instead of denying permit they should look into towns that have accommodated yurt living without issue there are lots and lots who have.

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The Cayuga Waterfront Trail is open!

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lanning for the Cayuga Waterfront Trail began at about the turn of the millennium during the Alan Cohen administration, which at this point is sort of like the Iron Age of Ithaca history. It is now possible to walk and bike the entire length of the trail from the visitors’ center on the east end of the lake to Cass Park on the west end. The official opening is the first week of August.

Jean McPheeters, who recently retired as president of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, said there were three basic reasons that her organization and its constituents were interested in supporting the project. “First, we could see the linkages to tourism,” she said. “People were showing up at the visitors’ center and asking, ‘Where’s the lake? The configuration of the highways here just prevents people from getting to the lake, unless they go to Stewart Park or a few other places.

They wanted to be able to walk along the lakefront.”

McPheeters added that the chamber members were aware that a walkable community is a healthier community and a more enjoyable one, which is good for business.

was then called Trowbridge and Wolfe).

Finally, the building of the trail was going to encourage the development of new “I was sort of the trail guy at Trowbridge and Wolfe,” Manning said. “I went out on businesses in the area along the waterfront. my own in 2000, but kept it as my goal to If the water was more accessible, then it do this trail as a consulting job.” The City would attract more commerce, like boat of Ithaca hired Manning to carry forward rental businesses and dockside restaurants. the project, which at that time meant “The first two phases that were built conducting a feasibility study for Phase I. were mostly on city owned land,” said the “In the early 1970s a fitness trail had former chamber president, “so there wasn’t been built in Cass Park, but it was only a lot of opportunity to build businesses about 6 feet wide,” Manning said. “The there, but in the middle portion there is state funded us to rebuild that, but I could a lot of private land, so there are more see that to complete opportunity for the whole project it businesses.”

People were showing up at the was going to have to Phase I of the visitors’ center and asking, be a public/private trail is at the west side partnership.” of the lake in Cass ‘Where’s the lake?’

While at Park, while Phase a professional III is at on the east conference Manning met the president of side, extending from the visitors’ center on the Olean chamber of commerce, who was East Shore Drive through Stewart Park to an avid biker and walker. The chamber the farmers market at Steamboat Landing. president had been inspired by a fitness trail Phase II was delayed because of some private landowners did not immediately see in Rhode Island that his son had told him about. Manning is originally from Rhode the benefit of the trail and refused to grant Island and checked out the trail himself. right of way through their parcels.

The landscape architect was then impressed Rick Manning is a landscape architect. by how the chamber president went about When the trail planning process began in raising money for his local trail in Olean, the late 1990s he was working for the firm a much smaller city than Ithaca albeit also Trowbridge, Wolfe, and Michaels (which

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a college town (home to St. Bonaventure University).

“I thought his approach to fundraising was pretty cool,” said Manning. “He knew how to get money from non-governmental sources.” Manning wasted little time in telling McPheeters about her opposite number in western New York and his trail fundraising technique.

“She got it,” he said, “and she has a lot of energy.”

McPheeters also knew Joanne Florino, who, when all this began, was at the Park Foundation, and eventually led the Triad Foundation. Both local foundations went on to be generous supports of the trail project.

Phase I, the portion in Cass Park, went forward relatively smoothly, taking only about two years to go from planning to construction in 2002 and early 2003.

According to Manning, it was built by city public works crews at night and on weekends.

“The grant for Phase II was received before we finished with Phase I,” said Manning. “That was for $450,000 for the part between Cass Park and farmers market.” Manning admitted to having been surprised at the reaction of the private

support, the city got support for the Route landowners along the planned path of 13 crossings at Dey and First streets, which Phase II. “I guess we were a little naïve,” are tied into all this.” he said. “We went into this thinking that The recent Form Ithaca charette, everyone would really be excited about the run by Rob Steuteville of Better Cities & idea.”

They weren’t. Several landowners could Towns and the STREAM Collaborative, focused in part on the portion of the see no benefit at all in having a bike trail city between Route 13 and the lake from go across or past their properties. “All the Cascadilla Creek to the Cayuga Inlet. landowners knew [about the trail planning They recognized Route 13 as a barrier to process],” said Manning, “but I guess they further development of the neighborhood thought it wouldn’t happen. But then and, in addition the money came, to narrowing the and they had real crossings (which concerns.” is now underway), They were recommended excited in concept, re-designing the said Tim Logue, a highway to make traffic engineer for it less forbidding the City of Ithaca for pedestrians and who worked closely bicyclists to cross. with Manning Although the new to develop the neighborhood has waterfront trail. not yet been built, According to Logue, the waterfront trail the owner of André will very soon be Petroleum stated easier to get to via at several public Dey and First streets. meetings and in “We had the writing that he was money for Phase II,” concerned about Manning said of the terrorists using the 2008-2010 period, trail to get close to “but we couldn’t get his stored propane past the land thing. and about the Then the DOT careless flicking of P r i vat e d o n at i o n s pa i d f o r [state Department cigarettes by other t r a i l A m e n t i e s . ( P h o t o : B i l l of Transportation] trail users.

C h a i s s o n) offered to take care Logue felt that of it. It’s a really Puddledockers, a complicated process, kayak rental business but they have a whole department that does whose property is bisected by the trail, it routinely. But it was unusual for them to had legitimate concerns. He noted that do it for a trail, and it still took three or four their business has grown since planning years to do it.” for Phase II began and that the city is The money for property acquisition working hard to minimize the disruption was not included in the budget of the to Puddledockers, but that during government grants because the planners construction that has been difficult. had naively assumed the landowners would Around 2004 and 2005 the discussion be happy to donate the rights-of-way. It about rights-of-way “got ugly,” according therefore had to be raised from private to Manning. The city government tried sources. Manning gave a lot of credit to to using eminent domain, but they were McPheeters and D’Aragon for keeping not able to successfully carry it through. the profile of the project high through the Manning was reluctant to skip over Phase prolonged period of time necessary to raise II and go on to Phase III because it would the money. mean having two unconnected portions of The Tompkins County Chamber the trail complete for an unknown period of Commerce Foundation is a 501 (c) of time.

3 organization that is affiliated with the In 2006, with the help of Fernando chamber of commerce (which is a 501 (c) 6 D’Aragon at the Tompkins County organization and pays taxes and cannot Transportation Council, the Cayuga Waterfront Trail project received $1.2 million from the federal Department of Transportation grant program called “T21.” When you are trying to get a federal grant, it is helpful to have federal connections. Dan Lamb, an assistant to then-Rep. Maurice Hinchey, worked very hard, according to Manning, to secure the transportation grant for the Ithaca trail.

The trail contingent reluctantly went forward with Phase III, while haggling over Phase II continued. “The design work [for Phase III] was done by 2008,” said Manning, “and the construction was done in 2010. In the meantime, with our

accept tax-deductible gifts).

McPheeters began her fundraising efforts by starting with larger businesses, like Tompkins Trust Company (which, like the chamber, has a not-for-profit affiliate called the Legacy Foundation), but then continued reaching out to smaller businesses and eventually to individuals.

“We were fundraising for amenities, like the benches and the features at the trailheads,” said McPheeters. “But private donations were also important because some of the grants that we were getting required private matches.”

While the DOT was instrumental in acquiring private land to complete the trail, its depot on the waterfront is something that McPheeters and Manning would like to see moved. McPheeters would like it to move somewhere else so that the land can return to the tax rolls and businesses could be developed on the site (which covers several acres) that would use the waterfront location to its best advantage. McPheeters said that the county planning office has gotten money from the state economic development office to come up with a plan for this site, which has a commanding view of the mouth of the flood control channel and Cayuga Inlet, South and West hills, and the west shore of Cayuga Lake.

The DOT has actually acquired a parcel of land in Dryden where it could move, but because the transition would cost money, the department seems in no hurry to leave its present site.

In the end, design, rights-of-way acquistion, construction and postconstruction cost under $500,000 for Phase I, $2.94 million of Phase II, and $1.3 million for Phase III, a total of $4.75 million.

The trail runs between the DOT depot and the water’s edge, a place where very few members of the public have ever stood before. A much more visible piece of the trail is the crossing that it shares with Route 96 over the flood control channel at the base of West Hill.

Manning said that the trail took one half of a 14-foot lane of traffic away. The idea, he said, was proposed by avid local biker Dave Nutter. The area had been a right-turn lane, but it was often used by driver to merge left.

The existing arrangement is not the permanent one. For one thing, the street will be re-lined to create two 11-foot lanes for automobiles and two 4-foot bike lanes.

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“There shouldn’t be much impact,” said Logue, the city traffic engineer, “because two lanes have to turn into one and this just forces the merge to be earlier. There actually may be some benefit because people used to race down the right[-turn] lane and then merge quickly.” He admitted that the stretch of Route 96 between the intersection with Taughannock Blvd. and Cliff Street was still complicated.

“We set up experiments with barrels there twice,” Logue said. “We didn’t find any significant impact [from giving the rightturn lane to the waterfront trail], and the DOT agreed with us.”

“We looked at the idea of putting in a bridge,” said Manning, “but it would have cost something like $3 million.” This is nearly as much as the entire three phases of the trail project together.

Phase II, which will complete the trail, cost $2.5 million all together. The city (and therefore the city taxpayers) paid only 20 percent of that, with the rest paid for through federal grants.

It was actually Logue’s job to keep track of all the finances and the trail did cost more than originally expected. “Rick didn’t expect to have pay for property,” said Logue of Manning, “ and that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The design costs were higher in some places. In places where you have a permanent easement, you need to make you stay in there.”

The bridge over the Cayuga Inlet at West Buffalo Street, which was lowered onto its concrete abutments on July 13, had been costed out 10 years ago and, of course, cost more to manufacture and transport now.

The money that was raised privately, as opposed to government grants, was completely separate and under the aegis of the chamber of commerce, not Logue.

Those funds have been going to pay for trail amenties and Manning said that the Cayuga Waterfront Trail has more amenities than some.

“If you go from one end of the trail to the other and read the interpretive signs,” said Manning, “you can learn a fair amount about the history of the Ithaca watefront.”

The trail, he said, “means that everyone can be part of the waterfront without having to own a boat.” •

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Rick Kuhar Will Hang up His Cleats This Year

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have been a student of the game of baseball for 50 years. I have played in a few hundred games, watched a few hundred more, and, as they say, “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise,” I’ll see many more.

I love the game for the skill it requires, for the mental and physical toughness it can require, and most of all, for the relationships it can cultivate. There are times when I cannot for the life of me remember why I entered a room, but I can recall vividly the two home runs Wally Espe hit in our Little League All Star game in 1968.

I am fortunate to have built so many relationships as a player, coach, parent and journalist, and I really hope the young players in the Ithaca Babe Ruth baseball program know how fortunate they are to be coached by Rick Kuhar. Rick is wrapping up his coaching career after this year, and his will be big cleats to fill.

I have known Rick for many years, but when he mentored my daughter in Babe Ruth softball a few years ago I got an insider’s view of a truly exceptional coach. He was tireless, he was engaged, and his post-game emails were often five paragraphs long—going into great detail, praising virtually every kid on the team and spreading positivity, optimism and gratitude.

I went to the Babe Ruth field at Cass Park on Sunday to watch the Ithaca team take the diamond against a team

displeasure would be dealt with in a way that would make the player feel educated, empowered and valued.

I eavesdropped on a few of the bench conversations, and I heard statements like, “What did he throw you on that 0-2 count?” and “They seem to be trying to steal our signs, so let’s change them.”

Comments like that are not usually heard among 15 and 16 year old players. These

from Pennsylvania, and I watched two games with another longtime friend.

Steve Saggese’s son plays on the team, and he told me, “I reminded Anthony how fortunate he is to have spent several years being coached by two really excellent coaches—Mark Albanese at Immaculate Conception and Rick Kuhar.” Steve added, “I was Rick’s assistant coach for many years, and it was a great experience.”

As we watched the Richie batting with Rick Kuhar coaching at third base. (Provided) first game, I saw two plays that resulted in typical Rick Kuhar responses. On the first play, Ithaca’s first baseman fielded guys had their heads in the game, and a ground ball halfway up the line with a were well aware that by being a step ahead runner on third, and rather than run back of the competition emotionally as well as to the bag, he kept moving forward to physically, they would put themselves in a tag the batter, thus holding the runner on better position to win. third. Kuhar yelled out, “Great play Ryan!

And win they did… Twice. I That is exactly what we talked about! had another conversation with a guy Way to have your head in the game and named Greg Shelley, who also has a execute!” son on the team. Greg is a professor The next inning, Ithaca got an of Sports Psychology at Ithaca College opponent in a rundown, ran the sequence and a consultant in Team Building and well at first, but then threw the ball away.

Leadership, and I said to him, “Isn’t it Rick turned to his assistant and said, out of great to see a youth coach inject so much earshot of everyone else, “We’ll talk about positivity into the experience?” Greg that when they come in.” As always, his replied, “It sure is … I’ll tell you, I do a lot praise was on full public display, and his of speaking engagements every year, and

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I try to get coaches to understand how important that component is, and I meet a lot of Division 1 coaches that don’t get it like Rick gets it.”

Rick’s son, Richie Kuhar, will take his advanced game beyond the Babe Ruth level next year, and Rick will take some time off. Rick, I have a suggestion: Pick Greg’s brain on how to become a coaching consultant as a side gig. Get out there.

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pastry case right now. She uses local ingredients. We have scones with locally harvested raspberries, and a lot of other local produce goes into most of what we have. Everything we have is really good.

We’re excited about our selection.”

If coffee was step one, and pastries were step two, the last component to the Press Café vision would be art. With some art already on display, Armiger hopes Press Café becomes a hot spot for local artists to showcase their work, and for people to go see their work.

“I have an idea for our website,” Armiger said, “that will have profiles for every artist that has put their art in our café. Then I want an ‘up and coming’ section that will show the artists that will soon be displayed in the café. I like the idea of having the space be recognized as a real venue for local arts.”

Armiger and Cowan hope that combination of great coffee, tasty treats, and must-see art make Press Café a true downtown Ithaca destination.

“Our goal is to be a multi-roast café and add variety to the coffee scene in Ithaca,” Cowan said. “Gimme! Coffee did a great job of laying the groundwork for the coffee community here. We’re excited to be part of that. They’ve set the bar pretty high.” • —Michael

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Ithaca Public Education Initiative accepts proposals for multi-disciplinary projects

he Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI), thanks to its newest grant program, Connecting Classrooms Grants, is awarding more money—and impacting more classrooms—than it ever has before.

The Connecting Classrooms Grants program was launched in fall 2014, and IPEI is currently fielding applications for its second cycle through Oct. 15. Last year, five grants totaling $34,950 were awarded to Ithaca City School District (ICSD) educators. Included in those grants were “What’s our Role? Building Community and Understanding our Local Environment: South Hill and Beverly J. Martin Elementary Schools’ Ecosystem Investigation” and Enfield Elementary School’s “Citizen Scientist Action Project,” which was led by 10 teachers from four buildings and “Connecting all Students through Sustainable Agriculture.” The latter grant is led by Carlan Gray, Ithaca High School (IHS) Science, Scott Breigle, IHS Technology, and Karen Kiechle, IHS Special Education. It included developing a high tunnel (for growing plants) at Ithaca High that will support work-based learning necessary for the new CDOC (Career Development and Occupational Studies) graduation credential, a long-term science elective in Sustainable Agriculture, and a projectbased curriculum for technology classes, weaving classrooms and teachers into their quest to build creative curriculums that will evolve alongside new teaching regiments.

IPEI Assistant to the Director Julie Langenbacher explained how the organization’s grant programming is continuing to grow, as Connecting Classrooms Grants joins existing programs, including Teacher Grants, Red and Gold Grants, and Fine Arts Booster Group Mini-Grants.

“In the past [knowing how many grants, and what type of grants were going to be awarded every year] was definitely something we could predict more,” she said, “but now that isn’t the case. Our grant programs were founded in 1996 in response to teachers’ needs. IPEI’s mission all along has been to connect the community with the classroom to enhance curriculum. Our teacher grants have grown to the point where they can be as high as $1,500.

By Michael Nocella

Teacher Karen Kiechle (center) with two students in front of completed high tunnel at Ithac High School.

(Photo: Michael Nocella)

“What we’ve found in our almost 20 years,” Langenbacher continued, “is that other needs have arisen. So the Red and Gold grants started in 2004, which was again in response to teachers’ needs. They had pop up projects, or needs that feel outside the guidelines [for other grants].

There were some material needs, some pilot programs, things like that. So we started the Red and Gold grants to address those needs. Those grants go up to $500, and we award more of those grants than anything else.”

Connecting Classrooms Grants has allowed IPEI to award grants that address needs that their previous grants could simply not, Langenbacher added.

“In this past year,” she said, “in response to what we were hearing from teachers in the classroom, we developed our newest program, which is the Connecting Classrooms grants. These are grants that are designed for multiple classrooms, either within a school, or a couple schools, or even district-wide at a particular grade level. Allowing teachers to work together to develop curriculum that’s sustainable and long-lasting is our goal, so we introduced that program this year, and we’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of interest in it.”

IPEI initiated Connecting Classrooms Grants using funds it received from generous community members who

donated to its Our Children * Our Schools * Our Future campaign, which was launching in 2011. The newest grant program aims to build on IPEI’s successful

models for encouraging and supporting innovative teaching and deeper learning, IPEI Executive Director Christine Sanchirico said.

“Our intent,” she said, “is to be the catalyst for ICSD staff to seek and develop innovative collaborative partnerships between teachers within a school, across grade levels and or between schools. It’s about working together. This is really our guiding principle for [Connecting Classrooms Grants].”

That is the goal for all of IPEI’s grant programs, but the sheer monetary flexibility of the Connecting Classrooms Grants gives ICSD teachers a much larger scale for their proposals, added Langenbacher.

“We found there is the need for connecting classrooms,” she said, “but there still is a need for our other grants.

For instance, our Red and Gold grant program—at least two of the grants from that program last year involved teachers across a grade level in a school where they use a $500 grant to connect a curricular unit that all the students could use to have a common experience. So we’re seeing the continued on page 12

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n Sunday, when many people were busy cleaning up Fourth of July parties, staff at Lions Camp Badger gathered to welcome in this year’s first group of campers.

Located in the hills of Spencer, Camp Badger has been around in some form since the 1940s. It began in as a 12-student summer speech program for students with hearing difficulties.

In 1947 speech therapist Ed Badger, Jones’s college roommate, joined the camp staff and then in 1972 he purchased land in Vermont, which he traded with the federal government to acquire the camp property. In 1974, the Lions got involved and in 1980, Badger sold the camp to the Lions, who own it today.

In the 2000s, the camp shifted its focus to special needs based on the types of programs the state would support.

Erica Lilly, the camp director, said that in the current iteration of the camp, “The goal is respite for families who care for special-needs children as well as an opportunity for the campers to gain new experiences. We bring in a lot of special groups, nature centers, musical groups, and the DEC [state Department of Environmental Conservation]. The purpose is to give them new experiences.

We work on social skills, personal hygiene, building friendships, some job skills and we just give them a lot of opportunities to just be kids—to just come and have fun in a no-judgment zone.”

The program that began on Monday is a two-week camp that runs through July 18. That program is geared toward ages 14 to 26, but after that—from July 19 to 24—is a one-week program geared toward younger campers in the age-8-to-13 range.

Although the camp sets its capacity at 40 campers, this year there were so many sign-ups that they had to turn some people away, which means that next year it’s possible they’ll offer two two-week camps in addition to the one-week camp.

While residential camps can be pricey, Lilly said that there are grants and other funding options available and the Lions Club often sponsors campers as well.

The camps only take up a few weeks of the year, though, and for the rest of the season the facility is available for rental.

Available for rental is a swimming pool, a pavilion, a lodge with a commercial kitchen and seating for 150, a lake house, tent sites, an RV site, rustic cabins, a

Camp Badger campers in 2014. (Provided)

residence hall, and houses. Lilly said, “We can only run early spring through late fall.

Most of our buildings are not winterized.

That is a goal, someday we’d like to be operating that way.” § Teachergrants contin u ed from page 11

need for that kind of collaborative work between teachers, but it might be at the $500 level or it might be a $1,500 level, or it might be at the Connecting Classrooms grant level.”

No matter the dollar amount of a grant, it is clear IPEI is continuing to play a huge role in improving the education experience of ICSD teachers and students. The organization could not continue to make that kind of impact, and progress, without the help of its community members. For those interested in contributing, or learning more about contributing, IPEI’s website (www.ipei. org) includes details on all of its grants, activities and opportunities. Langenbacher said IPEI is proud of how much it is able to complement the already strong curriculum in Ithaca.

“I think we have always been vital. I think we have seen in the past few years that what we’re hearing from teachers is that the role we’re playing now is giving them the resources to develop curriculum modules around the new Common Core standards, and other variables. For core curriculum our grants are not about the fluff – the field trips, the extracurriculars – but now, more than ever, we are supporting teachers who are trying to figure out how to teach things in a new way.” §

Two Painters Brighten Galley Space with Intense Work

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n some alternate cultural universe, the State of the Art Gallery’s July exhibition would be the local artistic event of the summer.

Featuring SOAG stalwarts Leslie K. Brill and Diane W. Newton, “Engaging the Edges” lives up to its title in two senses: both painters mind the margins of their picture-rectangles while also exploring the boundaries of their personal styles. Featuring Brill’s oil and acrylic paintings as well as Newton’s pastels, the show is uncommonly rich and multi-faceted and filled with both highly accomplished work and work that tests the limits of that accomplishment.

Leslie Brill (Photo Brian Arnold)

Both artists live and work between cities, and this transient life informs the character and range of their work. Brill and Newton met at the gallery in 2008: Brill a new arrival from New York City and Newton established at the gallery but already transitioning to Boston where she now spends most of her time. The two artists have become fast friends, meeting—and occasionally working together—in Boston.

Sadly, this will be Brill’s final show at the gallery as she is moving once again, this time to Philadelphia.

Newton is best known for her quietly

colored, meticulously realistic pastels of natural and man-made environments—often overtly or implicitly seen from the road. (The artist describes them as drawings, but they are best thought of as paintings.) Done from photographs, her landscapes nevertheless have a material richness and feeling for concrete location that transcends photorealism. She builds up her pastels with rich layers of color and material that serve as an analogy for the complicated personal and topographical meanings that she finds in her sites.

She is as likely to present the viewer with a parking lot as a beautifully forested hillside. Looking at her work, you get some sense of how these things fit together to make a world.

In the past couple or so years, Newton has been experimenting, still on paper, with more abstract and expressionistic approaches.

Using charcoal and pastel as well as collage and monoprint, she pays homage to the Abstract Expressionism that influenced her in her youth. Though unlikely to ever become her major work, the best of these are convincing enough to accompany her landscapes here.

Three of Newton’s small square abstractions have been hung stacked atop each other in a column. The top two—From Our JP Session and At Arms Length—are the most compelling, densely worked with charcoal and pastel.

Alamogordo is Here also incorporates a slicedup road map featuring Western states as well as a wrapper for disposable chopsticks.

Done in raw, smudgy charcoal lines Intrusions/2015 is the most memorable of her experiments in abstraction here with its Cubistlike combination of geometric and vaguely figural forms.

Still, it is the artist’s realist landscapes that command the show with their virtuosity and challenge.

Newton’s neighborhood in the South End of Boston makes for a fascinating subject with its contrasts of new and old as well as intensive gentrification against stubborn poverty. (It also houses a gallery scene that has boomed tremendously in recent decades.) On the Way to the Pine—a memorable image, not in this exhibit—showed a figure on a desolate trek to the Pine Street Inn, a well-known homeless shelter. Two pastels in this show also tell a narrative if you know what you’re looking at.

Dominated by a nearly empty parking lot that fills the foreground, Late Afternoon at Traveler & Albany is an impressive example of her humane but unsentimental realism.

Underneath a delicate sky of pale pink and blue, the lot recedes into middle distance: cloudy amorphous gray marked with white lines. Bursts of dull dark green trees obscure the distant urban landscape: an elevated

Diane Newton (Photo Provided)

highway coming in on the left, a warehousetype structure in the middle, weird little towers poking upwards to the right. A balcony dangles oddly from the upper right corner while a patch of scrawny vegetation juts up from the corner below.

According to Newton, the lot has been torn down, now replaced by condominiums.

Nearly abstract—but in a way closely related to the artist’s usual idiom—Disruption depicts the rude interregnum, a close-up of a dirt lot scarred with cryptic tracks and a few rocks here and there in the foreground. The viewer’s gaze tilts down; there a sense of perspective but no horizon line. The result is an ambiguity of scale: a space in front of us that could be modest or vast. The sense of physical presence is intense, grainy and blended color fills the space: gray, beige, eggshell, hints of red-brown.

The handmade paper, given to the artist, adds to the sense of roughness, particularly with its irregular bottom edge.

Last Day in Gloucester nods in the direction of personal anecdote—according to the artist, the scene recollects a final meeting continued on page 20

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Artist displays wide ranging Playfulness

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looms over several brushstrokes of white paint, is surrounded by more stuffed he warm cocoon of childhood yellow felt shapes much like the arrows, mixed with the unrestrained except these are playfully positioned freedom of creative expression clouds. They float there, obvious in shape that comes with that time epitomizes and yet abstract in use, simply existing the collection of work artist Mary on the wall with an air of effortless Roberts produced in recent years and is contentment. now exhibiting at the Community Arts A standout of the show is a ceramic Partnership (CAP) Artspace in Center work Roberts created in 2012 as part Ithaca. The show is entitled In Flight, a title whose meaning works two-fold.

Hand drawn airplanes and clouds populate the space, alluding to flight in a literal sense, but there are sheep as well, and cardboard Mary Roberts with new work (Photo Brian Arnold) and paint starbursts.

Materials of an installation while in residence at vary from ripped open envelopes to Guldagergaard International Ceramic paper bags to a map of northwest Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark.

Africa taken from a copy of National The piece is a gray sheep, carefully Geographic. Animals are constructed in sculpted but minimalistic and organic. clay or drawn with pastel or crayon or filled in like a collage. In other words, the Several mounds in various sizes encircle the sheep like halved clouds dyed yellow “flight” of the collection also implies the term in a more abstract, imaginary sense. and floating there, lightly. Three blue, rectangular-like shapes, formed only by “My goal for this project was to outlines made with clay, lean against the experiment and have as much fun as possible,” Roberts wrote in her statement. yellow mounds, adding extra color to the scene and triggering a deep curiosity for “I found this process to be incredibly their significance. The piece as a whole liberating. I felt like all of a sudden there is brightly colored. It’s simple, childlike, were no rules or limit to what I could lovely. It beckons you to enter into its create. I was free to explore, and take as world and take in the wonderment that many risks as possible.”

The exhibition is mixed media to say lies in its wake.

In Flight is unquestionably the least. Viewers are met at the start of whimsical, offering playfulness as the show with bright yellow felt arrows, a means of breaking through the stuffed then stitched closed with black embroidery floss. They point you both to sometimes stifling, all too often stodgy the rest of the art and to Roberts’ website, seriousness many associate with the art world. It bombards itself back in time whose URL is written in marker and underlined by a row of hearts. One sheep to a younger mental state of awareness where everything is possible and creation in the show is a white outline painted is key. Roberts knows her work is childonto brown paper; another is elongated like, but in making it so, she enters into and cut out from cardboard. Any a realm similar to that inhabited by the airplanes in a piece are simple outlines likes of artists such as Keith Haring, painted white and exhibited with playful Cy Twombly, and, more recently, Joe repetition, whether the planes are flying toward a half white cloud or presented in Bradley, whose works needn’t always be pairs against a background that’s bright continued on page 18 pink. Another sheep, one whose outline

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Morbid Visions

The Universe of a Poet’s Mind

By Bil l C h ai s son This collection is perhaps notable for its near lack of historical references. “The Piéta in Reverse” is a startling exception with its reference to a father’s service in Vietnam and “Hubris” records the poet’s experience of Hurricane Bonnie in 1998.

There are scattered references to cultural touchstones like Bert and Ernie, Bed, Bath & Beyond, and the Internet, but otherwise Moore’s world is refreshingly free of the media salad that seems to be the matrix of the imagination of some young poets.

Moore’s collection includes prose poems that are essentially stream of

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Moore’s repeated contemplation of her childhood often includes flashes of her present, and it is plain that the past has greatly influenced this present. Her mother is depicted fervently religious, desperately unhappy, and full of eccentric ideas about childrearing. In “Red,” the first poem in the collection we are told: “My mother and I, little girls / decades apart, keep walking outside of ourselves to get away.”

In “My Father Wishes for Death,” Moore depicts her father as principled and, like her mother, desperately unhappy.

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Moore regularly presents intensely personal connections that may or may not make sense to others. She insists, for example, that there is some sort of symbolic syllogistic relationship to be found when you note that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel, a graveyard is next to a church, and a little girl will put her finger into a nearby flame, “... it’s about wanting to be the one person that death missed.”

Well, no. It’s about being bummed out and thinking about death a lot. Moore may be recalling the connections that her mind made as a child. Many people think children are wise in this way. Wordsworth did, of course, but some people do not. This is definitely poetry for the people who do. •

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In the poem that gives the book its title a mother figure is referred to only as “the woman.” This woman is definitely keeping her distance from the little girl in the narrative who is curious about speaking in tongues and has also cut her finger. The woman refuses to share a description of her passionate religious experience and refuses to allow a little girl to call a cut a “boo-boo.”

The miserable outlooks that colored her childhood make for some unhappy adult relationships. “A Skeptic Looks up the Brooklyn Bridge, Shivers” is an extended look back at a moment in a relationship with “the man I no longer trust,” a theme that is repeated elsewhere. During a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, the poet and her former lover imagine dropping a purse into traffic and causing car accidents.

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fter you finish reading the poems that make up Devon Moore’s collection Apology of a Girl Who is Told She is Going to Hell you will perhaps find yourself hoping that the writing of them was a catharsis for the poet. These are confessional and many of them are mordant, displaying a fascinating comfort with proximity to death, dying, and decay.

Moore is a romantic, but she is on the descending arc of Romanticism well along the path to Decadence. She shares more with Swinburne and Rossetti than she does with Keats and Shelley.

Although this bent is expressed in virtually every poem, it is made explicit in “Swans and Geese”:

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The Instructing Nun

Nowhere to hide in Comical Religious Onslaught

By Barbara Ad am s

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so authentic in look, demeanor, quickness ver wanted to turn back the clock and dry humor that I wanted to believe she and be a kid again? Just enroll was a nun (she certainly reincarnated one in catechism classes for adults I’d known). But no, Nonie Newton-Riley is at St. Bruno’s Catholic Church—you’ll a wonderful Irish-Catholic performer who, be instantly transported to your grade among other roles, has been touring the school days, because the teacher—a sharp, omniscient, and wryly humorous nun—will country for 13 years in the sister series. Her strength and self-confidence will remind whip you into student shape. some women why we if we couldn’t grow So to speak. Corporal punishment is up to be a princess, we definitely wanted to now just a pleasant memory for this sister, become a nun. but words can still command, shame, Both on script and ad-libbing, her and expose. They can also enlighten and Sister is persuasively in control and on inspire, and in the case of the one-woman task, retaining her individual personality show, Late Night Catechism, currently at even as she relishes the Auburn Public her instructional role.

Theater, they’ll We’re schooled in absolutely make pre- and post-Vatican you laugh—guiltily, II beliefs, as Sister maybe, but often. acknowledges the The Catholic church has changed. comedy show, We review a list of one of a series saints, some of whom that Chicagoans should be demoted, Vicki Quade and and discuss whether Maripat Donovan they’re eligible to have authored, remain in the holy combines roster. Limbo, where narrative, standunbaptized babies up comedy, once lingered, is given and audience its due. participation.

It’s clear Sister is You know going nostalgic for the old in that you may ways, but she’s also well be called got a mind of her on, and people own (just listen for seem delighted by her thoughts on nuns that. One woman Nonie Newton-Riley as Sister (Photo Provided) over priests). She also confessed later, in welcomes questions the ladies’ room, from her “students,” to exaggerating and, on the night I attended, provided a her role as class snitch; the show brings out thoughtful answer on whether one could be both the actor and the rebellious kid in all both gay and Catholic. of us.

Sister’s “instruction” is continuously Well, almost all of us—the night I entertaining, from sarcastic putdowns of saw the performance, at least two hulking students (a mocking “boohoo”) to clever grown men were cowering under Sister’s questions. Timorous and small-voiced, they wordplay (St. Teresa of Avila becomes “the one with the headaches—St. Teresa seemed to have turned 6 years old again.

Because when this sister hears you speaking of Advil”). But what’s unique here is that unlike shows that satirize or spoof nuns, out of turn and fiercely tells you to “zip Late Night Catechism presents religious it!”—you do. humor from the adherents’ perspective.

Of course you don’t have to share As a result, we feel entitled to laugh a Catholic upbringing to appreciate the (ok, with some guilt; Catholics can’t humor, though it helps. The setting is a escape it) because we’re complicit, not worn schoolroom circa early 1960s—a dreary brownish space, chalkboard with the disrespectful—a curiously satisfying insidership. For one highly amusing Palmer Method alphabet above it, religious statues about, and the ubiquitous holy cards evening, we’re all honorary Catholics. • Late Night Catechism, by Vicki Quade with which Sister rewards a good answer. & Maripat Donovan. Starring Nonie The only hint that we’re in the present is Newton-Riley. At Auburn Public Theater the portraits of Pope Francis and President (part of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Obama—right up in the place of honor Festival). Through Aug. 8. alongside the favored JFK (God is very Barbara Adams, a regional arts Irish, we learn). journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

The instructing nun, in full habit, is

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Gothic Laughs

Holmes and crew ham it up in classic tale

By Ros s Ha ars ta d The Hound of the Baskervilles adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson; Hangar Theatre through July 25

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ir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles was intended as a gothic thriller. Only as he got going on it, he decided to put Sherlock Holmes in the mix. In any case, it’s meant to raise the hairs on the back of your neck.

At the start of the performance at the Hangar, on the elegant Victorian proscenium provided by David L. Arsenault (luscious red velvet curtain and footlights), it appears spookery will dominate, as the fog rolls in, the curtains part and Sir Charles Baskerville (Steve Pacek) rushes in, walking stick plunging, circling around to collapse in shivery cold light (courtesy of Matthew Richards) as the howls rise in Sean Hagerty’s clever sound design and a projection of a red-eyed hound flashes on the backcloth.

Ah, but! Actor Bruce Warren hurries on, and calls for houselights as Pacek looks on in disbelief. Actor Dan Domingues,

in a dressing gown, pops out, in a bit of pique that the show is already in shambles.

Warren then warns the audience about the ghoulish acts about to occur.

So, unlike last season’s Around the World in 80 Days, this 3-actor Edwardian adventure is going to be less about imaginative storytelling than actorish antics, more spoofery than spookery.

Canny and Nicholson’s script was developed with and for Nicholson’s small touring British comedy troupe, Peepolykus, who describe their style as “an exhilarating collision of anarchic verbal slapstick, visual surprises, absurd scenarios and sublimely ridiculous comic performances.” This Hound locates its raison d’etre firmly in the long history of burlesque and travesty that led to the English Pantomime in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as American vaudeville and burlesque in the 20th. Indeed it goes back to Shakespeare complaining about the clowns in Hamlet. The burlesque/ travesty always features at least one man in drag, and parodies of popular theater works.

The fluttering between actor-selves

and roles feels most like the Reduced Shakespeare Company.

As with that troupe, the play depends most on a series of sight gags, verbal play (particularly excruciating puns) and lightning changes in character and costume. (In the last, this production is richly furnished by costumer Jeni Schaefer with suits, gowns, waistcoats, capes and other bric-a-brac, sumptuously detailed.)

Dan Dominques as Sherlock Holmes (Photo Provided) Mark Shanahan, on his seventh outing Pacek plays stalwart to the hilt as directing this burlesque, the hapless Sir Henry Baskerville, giving gives it pace and shine. As Sherlock et al., the role just enough emotional heft to Domingues has the most to do: in addition periodically re-anchor us in the mystery. to the iconic Holmes (here pricked for his Energy and physical pliability are his vanity), he essays the butler Barrymore calling card here. He also turns in a delish (all Scottish obstreperousness with an Abe Dr. Mortimer (sideburns attached to the Lincoln beard), Mrs. Barrymore (sobs glasses), a nearly incomprehensible Scots descending to greater sobs), the raffish and possibly sinister Stapleton (with a wheezing farmer, and a miffed cabbie.

Warren doubles once (as another voice and eyepatch), the delicate and Scots farmer), mainly holding center as the exotic Cecile Stapleton (flamenco, tango, affable and much put-upon Watson. Nary a a mantilla, brocade, and a slight Castillan false step. lisp), a train conductor, and Sherlock as a The best sequence is an act one speedHermit. thru in act two that spins out of control.

Dominques plays with a swashing The major problem with the script is it style, a precise gestural language, and a bit splits itself between storytelling and actorof grandeur. That Cecile is the best of his creations (over Sherlock) has as much to do gags and fails to build suspense in either direction. • with the playwriting.

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Squeeze Into The Wedge

Four Directors Highlight Experimental Night

By Ru dy G e rson

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Add to the litany of facts that prove these skeptics wrong the Drama League Directors Project, a summerlong residency for mid-career theater directors that is industry-recognized as the premiere program for directors on track to launch their artistic practice to a critical new height. Boasting several high-powered alumni, notable past fellows include: Sam Gold (2015 Tony Award

winner), Michael Mayer (2007 Tony Award winner), and Anne Kauffmann (Obie Award winner), among many others.

This year, three directors—Paul Bedard, Aneesha Kudtarkar, and Austin Regan—come from New York City, and the fourth, Dan Rogers, is based in Providence, Rhode Island, where he recently graduated from Brown/Trinity’s Directing MFA program. They come from varied artistic backgrounds; one fellow focuses on devised work, another on the classics, and a third is presently an artistic director.

While projects wait for them upon

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their return to their respective cities come the fall, the four hold a fair share of responsibilities while in Ithaca. They each direct one of the main stage kids’ shows at the Hangar Theatre, and individually work closely alongside the Hangar’s creative team to produce a 4-part experimental latenight theater series: The Wedge.

Drawing its name from its original “stage”/ performances took place in narrow triangular space in the lobby. The Wedge places a premium on intimacy and accessibility.

All shows are free, but it’s remained one of Ithaca’s best-kept secrets since shows started in 1983.

Nonetheless, The Wedge persists with a sizeable fan base. The loyal cult following returns annually to witness the raw humility of highintensity hour-long theater, perhaps because Stainslaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Photo Provided) The Wedge is such a cozy space: an open-air tent attached to the outside to entertain. A train hijack, multiple super wall of a building that invites the buzzes villains, and Einstein’s theory of relativity: and chirps of the surrounding woods what more could you ask of in a late-night to insert a mystical depth to the already show? enchanting performances.

If you’ve never been to The Wedge, Moreover, the four directors have spend an evening in the intimate space to been awarded the freedom to stage their observe eager performers take the stage in shows without restriction. In his direction this melodramatic adventure, comfortable of The Trojan Women, Austin Regan chose under the warmth of a blanket or two. In to create a traverse stage, where one half true Ithaca summer-time style, pack the of the audience faces the other. While The tent, bring a blanket, and see off these four Infernal Machine, directed by Paul Bedard, directors with a night guaranteed to leave had the audience with their backs toward you feeling invigorated. • The Hangar, Aneesha Kudtarkar chose the opposite in her direction of Mud. In speaking with the fellows, each ‘Roberts’ expressed a gratitude for the mobility contin u ed from page 14 and artistic experimentation granted by the fellowship, which (according to the fellows) promotes the ingenuity and flexibility necessary to succeed as a theater polished and who are unafraid to artist today. play with shapes, lines, and simple forms The educational component of the that can sometimes appear reminiscent of program should not be overlooked. The childhood. This does not mean Roberts’ fellows each teach a summer class to work contains the same deeply political a group of actors who are part of The semiology as Haring or the often startling, Hangar Lab Company, a summer-long frequently overwhelming psychosis of training intensive for young theater artists. Twombly’s scribblings, but she shares In keeping with the rounded teaching with them an awareness of her break from environment, The Wedge series and the realism and “adult”-accepted levels of kids’ shows are both cast from this pool seriousness in her representations, a break of young actors, helping directors grow that could potentially leave close-minded not only as artists, but also as teachers. viewers to question her art.

The Hangar’s summer programming But seeing In Flight is an experience retains the educational integrity and both enjoyable and invigoratingly intergenerational mentorship necessary to inspiring for those who choose to view make theater a thriving aspect of today’s it. The child-like quirkiness of the art is arts and culture. intoxicating in the best of ways. I look Come see The Hangar’s Hound of forward to seeing where Mary Roberts’ the Baskervilles, then stay after the show mind wanders next, what other concepts, to witness The Crazy Locomotive by colors, and experiments will emerge. • Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, which opens In Flight will be on display at CAP at 10 p.m. on Thursday, July 23. This final Artspace, 171 The Commons, until July 31. installment of The Wedge series promises Don’t miss out.

music

Aural Madness

Festival Highlights The Extremity of Sound

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton School’s Out & Ithaca Underground present One Fest - Ithaca, IU’’s new annual festival of metal, grind, and hardcore. Saturday, July 25, 12 p.m. – 11 p.m., The Haunt

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he city of Ithaca has a wide variety of music festivals each year. Here’s hoping the first annual One Fest Ithaca, an all-ages metal and hardcore festival at The Haunt, featuring local and regional extreme bands, is one that sticks around for a long time. For metal heads, metal festivals represent a time of joy, happiness, agelessness, and unrelenting power, a place where teenagers and adults co-exist in perpetual timelessness.

Luckily, Ithaca is blessed with a collective group of individuals known as the Ithaca Underground, who make it their business to enlighten and bring great music to the Tompkins County masses. An annual metal festival not only colors a city’s music scene, it highlights an area’s youthful spirit, urban edginess, and progressive drive.

One Fest is an underground music

taking the stance that great music needs a space for everyone, regardless of age. “A person can't grow fully if you're told you can't participate until you're 18 or over”, Crumrine said. “All-day events like One Fest are especially crucial, giving young people the opportunity to interact with a plethora of bands on the rise, and to see the value of underground music efforts.”

Local community groups and organizations seem to agree. Crumrine said, “IU has also been awarded grants from the Community Arts Partnership, the Community Foundation, and most recently the Tompkins County Tourism Program to assist in presenting community-based underground music.”

One Fest is a chance to see all of this hard work and community-action come together in an impressive way.

The festival features 14 bands in a wide range of metal and hardcore subgenres. From grindcore, death metal, doom, and noise, to sludge, thrash, power violence, and progressive metal, the full bill does an excellent job showcasing the growth of heavy metal and punk

claustrophobic mix of grind, power blasts of grind, that one can easily find violence, and lethal hardcore assault. If themselves barreled from one end of the you blink you might miss these guys, with dance floor to the other, as if caught in a songs clicking in around the minutepowerful oceanic tide. Also on the bill are or-less mark. Ditto for Syracuse's Dialysis, playing eighth, who mix old school thrash with contemporary grindcore, showering listeners with quick and lethal headbangers.

Up next is Ithaca's Twin Lords, who showcase an aggressive, technical, full-bodied brand of bass and drum progressive doom.

Syracuse's Bleak, a frequent visitor to Ithaca, violate ears with a death metal-influenced hardcore that'll conjure feelings of the prince of the underworld himself. Creator/ Destroyer bring their well-honed style of D-Beat, aural madness, and airy Texas menace. From Long Island Avery Galek and Cameron Myers of Doubt (Photo Provided) come technical-avant-garde death metal masters Artificial Brain.

Headlining the festival is Belfast, Pennsylvania's Full of Hell.

Syracuse's Crucial Macabre, Binghamton's An appropriate representation of all Media Limits, Providence, Rhode Island's the aforementioned bands' varying F***ing Invincible, and New London, styles, this band is rooted in lighting Connecticut's Empty Vessels. fast hardcore and experimental noise.

One Fest offers an incredible Their substance changes so quickly showcase of bands and a look inside the with yelps of black metal, shards of work and outreach of an inspirational notmenacing power electronics, and esoteric for-profit collective. Don't miss out. •

Dan Alex Rivera of Twin Lords (Photo Provided)

festival created in Texas, by part-time Ithaca resident and musician Jesse Fuentes, drummer and vocalist of the band Creator/Destroyer. The festival takes place in Dallas and is a three-day affair. One of Fuentes' goals has been to start similar festivals all over the country.

Working with Ithaca Underground board president Bubba Crumrine, and with the help of a board and volunteer base of over 50 local individuals, it's now arrived here in Ithaca.

The festival is an all-ages affair

throughout the last 30 years.

Ithaca-based duo Doubt opens the festival, plowing their way through instrumental doom and contemplative sludge. Moravia's Nil Existence follows, melting faces with their punishing brand of technical, abrasive, old school death metal in the vein of Immolation and Nile.

Ithaca's King Sized Pegasus, slotted fourth, wear their Black Flag and Minor Threat hearts on their sleeves, and stomp around like it's Southern Cali 1982. Binghamton's Street Feet, up sixth, brutalize with their

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with a friend who later died. If the image itself is a mourning, it’s a characteristically oblique one, tinged with plaintiveness for sure, but in a familiar vein.

We see the view from her friend’s porch, a modest winter scene in the small Massachusetts city. In the middle, a narrow road tapers into the distance. The blackness of the road merges with the piles of dirty snow. Three houses—each with a distinct personality—gather around, as do trees and a telephone line, arrayed without clear hierarchy. A red triangle—the side of a roof—points in from the left edge like an arrow. The pale blue and blue-gray of the sky gives way in small patches to the black

of the paper: a strategy she uses elsewhere here as well to infuse her fussy realism with an unexpected rawness.

Composed on two conjoined sheets, Marshland/Gloucester demonstrates Newton’s ability to evoke vast panoramas in works of fairly modest scale. (The piece is 22 x 60 inches, a typical size.) The scene plays with dramatic contrasts of near and far. A spill of water dominates the foreground of the sheet on the left, but recedes into distance on the right.

Conversely, what appears as distant forested hills on the first sheet seems to bend its cluster of vegetation insistently towards our feet in the second. Here and elsewhere, Newton weaves space around itself in ways that encapture the attentive viewer.

Done in a private studio in Rome,

Brill’s large acrylic on paper paintings defy the artist’s genteel image with their brusque expressionism.

Three of these here are homages to the late American photographer Francesca Woodman, who committed suicide in 1981 at age 22. Woodman is known for her images of female nudes—often self-portraits. Influenced by early 20thcentury movements such as Futurism and Surrealism, she sought to subject the human body to provocative distortions.

Movement and long exposures created uncanny blurring of faces, limbs, whole bodies. Heads were often cropped or obscured. Her interiors were dilapidated, ruins.

Brill’s headless nude torsos are more obviously indebted to the abstract expressionist “Women” of Willem de

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Kooning, filled with eloquently coarse brushwork that threatens to submerge her recognizable female torsos in a flood of painterly bravado. (Woodman’s croppings and “painterly” blurs are polite and stagelike in comparison.) With the works done on the wall, insouciant vertical drips create an contrasting accent, a passive acquiescence to gravity in contrast to the forceful gestures.

Accented with rapid black lines, warm sandy colors fill up Torso #1. The central figure stands stiffly upright, posed in precise symmetry and stained in drips.

Sketchy suggestions of another figure carve out space to her left. Torso #2 is black, with grays both highlighting her body and composing the background. Twins is perhaps the most interesting of the series here, with the two grayish figures nearly identical but posed in subtly distinct ways.

The smaller Portrait combines charcoal and acrylic making explicit these paintings’ roots in the practice of figure drawing.

Dialogue with Rembrandt’s Elephant echoes the work of the contemporary figurative expressionist Susan Rothenberg, well known for paintings of horses silhouetted against brushy abstract backdrops. Brill’s elephant stands in profile, facing right—dark gray against lighter grays.

Like Newton, if less pointedly so, Brill is still the most effective in her most familiar mode: in her case a more quietly painterly—often ethereal—oil landscapes that recall somewhat the French postimpressionist Pierre Bonnard and the contemporary landscapist Wolf Kahn.

On close inspection, the two barren tree trunks that meet at the bottom in Junction appear decidedly anthropomorphic, with the “figure” on the left jauntily sporting arms and buttocks, (The scrim of fine branches that cover the whole area can even be thought of as hair.) The piece stands out amid her other oils here for its sharp distinction between foreground and background—in a way closer to portraiture than any of her other work here.

Also striking about Junction is Brill’s insinuation of unexpected, even lurid colors into the grayish mien of her trunks: pink, turquoise, purple—little flecks like pieces of confetti.

Others of Brill’s oils push her impressionistic style to the edge of recognizability. The flurry of form dissolving brushstrokes that covers the tall upright Where’s There? make it a sister to Newton’s Disruption in its ambiguity of place, if more delicate in feel. Everything appears fading to gray: the mottled cool gray of the land meeting the warm lighter gray of the sky—and the latter seemingly reflected in a small pool below.

It is rare to see a two-person exhibit of local art as compelling as “Engaging the Edges.” The two artists seem to be dancing around each other: sometimes close, sometimes pointedly contrasting. It’s the sort of show that engages us through its contrasts and imperfections. The diversions into expressionism—Brill’s are markedly better—can feel a bit gratuitous but ultimately everything seems to pull together in a sort of awkward union. •

Music bars/clubs/cafés

7/22 Wednesday

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Cages, Pas Musique, OBody, Weirding Module | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Avant-Garde, Post-Rock, Experimental Folk, Sound Collage, Visual, Ambient, Alt-Country, Noise, Electronics.

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Pasty White & Double Wide | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Hickories Park Supts Office, RR 17 Box C, Owego | Rockabilly, Rock, Blues. Part of the Concerts in the Park series.

The Wandering Klezmorim | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM | Hoopes Park, , Auburn | Free Summer Folk Arts Performance.

Klezmer, Jewish dance music with roots

in Eastern Europe, New York’s Lower East Side, and the Middle East.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | -

7/23 Thursday

Crater and the Catalyst, The Imperials | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Experimental, Punk, Math Rock, Progressive, Indie, Post-Rock.

Craig Marshall | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Americana, Indie Pop, Rock.

Stark Nights | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | A rotating set of musicians anchored

by Michael Stark. This week: MSZM. An intimate duo set, performing a collection of songs Stark wrote for acoustic piano, vintage bass pedals, drums, and the spirit evoked between Michael and Zaun making music together.

Ithaca Concert band | 7:00 PM | The Horizons, N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Rossini’s William Tell Overture, the Italian folk song Italian Rhapsody, Highlights from the Music Man, written

by Meredith Wilson, and The Stars and Stripes Forever, are included.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

Rick Iacovelli & Tom Brown | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Calaboose Grille, Corner of Court & Main, Owego | Acoustic Rock. Part of Calaboose Jailbreak Clambake.

7/24 Friday

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Psychedelic, Punk, Progressive Rock, Rock.

Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers | 10:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Delta Blues, Soul, Funk, Reggae.

Conehead Buddha | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Latin, Funk, Ska, Jam, Rock, Progressive.

Sonic Nomad Project by Astro Hawk | 8:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | DJ Astro Hawk presents an experiment in creative travel using sound and music to engage the travel experience and to give back to the communities that were experienced on global adventures over the past 8 years. Sound Design, Collage, Ambient, Trance, Electronic.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110.

Ironwood | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Country, Blues, Rock.

Pat Kane & West O Clare | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Irish, Folk, Celtic, Old-Time.

Dean Gobel: Spencer’s Music in

the Park | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Nicolas Park, , Spencer | Old-Time, Bluegrass, Folk, Americana.

Richman & The Poor Boys | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Rock, Jazz, Blues, Country.

Melon Brothers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Rock, Covers.

Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Blues.

Long John and the Tights | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old Time, Southern Appalachian Mountain music from around 1920 - 1940, Celtic, Bluegrass, Northern Square & Contra-Dance.

7/25 Saturday

Rub a Dub with JSan, Elliot Martin & Co. | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Classic Reggae and Dub cuts from members of John Brown’s Body.

Radio London | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Classic 1960’s Rock and Roll, Covers, Rock.

The Ilium Works | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Blues, Folk, Americana, Punk, Rockabilly, Grunge.

Hippiefest: Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Rick Derringer, Loving Spoonful, Badfinger | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Rock, Hard Rock, Jazz-Fusion, Pop, Folk, Blue-Eyed Soul. 60’s and 70’s.

Tink Bennet and Tailor Made | 7:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Country, Rock, Blues.

Hot Biscuits | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM |

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Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Pop, Traditional Country, Jazz, Blues, Eclectic.

Last Call | 6:00 PM | Trout Ponds Park, Elm Street, Newark Valley | Classic Rock.

ONE FEST: Ithaca | 12:00 PM-11:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Full Of Hell, Artificial Brain, Creator|Destroyer, Bleak, Fucking Invincible, Twin Lords, Dialysis, and more. Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, Doom, Sludge, Thrash, Noise.

7/26 Sunday

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

Long John and the Tights: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 PM- | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Old-time, Southern Appalachian Mountain Music from around 1920 1940, Celtic, Bluegrass, and Northern Square & Contra-Dance. North America’s longest running live folk concert broadcast.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

Ron Riddle and the Riddlers | 7:00 PM | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Jazz, Progressive.

Mike Hansen | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Banjo, Old-Time, Bluegrass.

Joe Hill Lives - Fight for Tompkins Living Wage: Magpie, George Mann, and special Guests | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This concert is part of a national concert tour honoring the centenary of famous Wobbly/IWW singer/songwriter Joe Hill’s execution, and will feature classic Labor and Folk Songs. The concert is a Benefit that will support the TCWC’s campaign to Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage for ALL people in Tompkins County!

B.D. Lenz | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Guitarist.

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Jazz, New Orleans R&B, Jazz fusion, Second Line, Funk, Soul, Jam. Dryden Music Series | 6:30 PM- | Dryden VFW, Rt. 13, Dryden | Wednesday Wing Nights at the VFM with live music.

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Stone Cold Miracle, Son Little, CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Soul, Funk, Groove, Future Soul, Gospel.

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Broadway Night with Boston soprano Jean Danton and Nancy James | 7:30 PM | Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson St, Auburn | www. jeandanton.com for information about the artists Songs for a Summer Night: CRS Barn Studio | 7:30 PM | CRS Barn

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PM-5:00 PM | Crow’s Nest Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Let’s get together and sing. We’re looking for people in the Ithaca area who want to get together to lead a folk song, and join in on others’ songs. We’ll welcome traditional ballads, chanteys, & songs, as well as contemporary songs with traditional roots. Bring your acoustic instrument or sing solo.

Ben Miller | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Jazz piano.

The Destination | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM | Agava, Ithaca | Benefit party for Just Be Cause, Non-For Profit Development Center | R&B, Latin, Swing, Funk, Disco

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Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Artistic directors Steven Stull and Jeanne Goddard will kick off the silver anniversary season with Songs for a Summer Night: An Evening of Arias and Duets, with performances Friday through Sunday, July 24, 25, and 26 at 7:30PM. The varied program includes operatic favorites from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini, and popular songs and duets from musical theatre.

Mutron Warriors | 7:00 PM- | Arts Quad, Cornell University, | Rain location: Uris Auditorium.

7/25 Saturday

Breaking Waves: Women SingerSongwriters of the 60’s and 70’s | 8:00 PM- | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The program will include all of Joni Mitchell’s evocative album Court and Spark, as well as songs by Laura Nyro and Janis Ian. Songs for a Summer Night | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | CRS Barn Studio celebrates its 25th season with music and dance events.

Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series: The Destination | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath house stage, Trumansburg | K-Rockathon Festival: Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, In This

Moment | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Chevy Court at the NYS Fairgrounds, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, In This Moment, Trapt, Adelita’s Way, We Are Harlot, Nothing More, Revolve, Sons of Texas, Fit For Rivals, Shaman’s Harvest. Hard Rock, Alternative Metal, Metalcore, Gothic Metal, Groove Metal, Post Grunge.

Road, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Gospel inspired vocals.

7/26 Sunday

Amy | A documentary on the late Singer-Songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. | 128 mins R | Infinitely Polar Bear | A manicdepressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don’t make the overwhelming task any easier. | 90 mins R | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | A teenage filmmaker befriends a classmate with cancer and his life is forever changed. | 104 mins PG-13 | Tangerine | A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. Directed by Sean Baker. | 88 mins R | Mr. Holmes | An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Ian McKellen stars. | 104 mins PG |

Songs for a Summer Night | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | CRS Barn Studio celebrates its 25th season with music and dance events.

7/28 Tuesday

Trampled By Turtles | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Indie Folk, Alternative Country, Bluegrass.

Matt and Shannon Heaton | 7:30 PM- | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | With engaging stage presence, masterfully crafted songs, and sweet harmonies, Boston-based Matt and Shannon Heaton offer updated and traditional Irish tunes and songs with unapologetic American roots influences.

Stone Cold Miracle | 6:30 PM- | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung

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Ithaca Farmers Market, Friday, July 24, 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Art collectors and enthusiasts will have a unique opportunity to “See it Live,” and “Buy it Local” at this 25th Annual Artist Market.

The event features over 88 booths filled with art from local and regional artists and crafts people. Local food, wine, craft beer, and live music will be available all market long. Don’t miss out on the amazing day!

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Ant Man (3D) | Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. | 117 mins PG-13 | Pixels (3D) | When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. | 105 mins PG-13 | Trainwreck | Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy. | 125 mins R | Magic Mike XXL | It’s been 3 years since Mike Lane’s retirement from stripping. When his old friends and co-workers arrive in town he can’t resist the temptation of his old career.

Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

Late Night Catechism | Auburn Public

Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Catechism is an uproariously funny play that takes the audience back to their Catholic school youth. Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett.

For tickets and showimes www. auburnpublictheater.org Saturday Night Fever | 7/22 Wednesday, 7/23 through 7/28 Tuesday | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | The story centers on Tony Manero, a Brooklyn youth whose weekend is spent at the local dance hangout. There he escapes into the admiration of the crowd, a growing relationship and the pulse of the beat that enables him to forget the realities of his life, his dead-end job and his gang of deadbeat friends. For tickets and showtimes fingerlakesmtf.com The Addams Family | 7/22 Wednesday through 7/25 Saturday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Gomez and Morticia Addams are just your everyday, normal parents who love their children as every parent does.

But teenage daughter Wednesday is about to rock their world. She’s fallen in love with a “normal” boy and he and his parents are coming to dinner!

For tickets and showtimes www. cortlandrep.org Woody Guthrie’s American Song | 7/23 Thursday through 7/26 Sunday| Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | For tickets and showtimes www.chenangorivertheatre.org The Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Rd, Ithaca | Henry IV, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. July 9-26, 2015 at Cornell Plantations. Tickets on sale now! Henry IV: Banish All The World, July 9, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25 at 6 pm. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, July 10, 12, 16, 18, 24, 26 at 6 pm. Tickets and Information http://ithacashakespeare.org The Hound of the Baskervilles | 7/23 Thursday through Saturday 7/25 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | An ancient family curse, a desolate moor, a spectral hound, and a deranged killer on the loose. The game is afoot! Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson star! Runs July 16 through July 25. For tickets, hangartheater,org, 607-272-2787

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

SOnic Nomad Project by Astro Hawk, Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, Friday, July 24, 8:30 p.m.

Local DJ and dance producer Astro Hawk presents a unique experiment in creative travel, using sound and music to engage the travel experience with collections of soundscapes recorded in dynamic places from all over the world. The event aims to inspire and raise awareness and funds for various NGO’s. The talented DJ is sure to blow minds on this awesome night! Come out and dance!

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Testament of Youth | A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - A story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times. | 129 mins PG-13 |

| 115 mins R | Spy | CIA Analyst Susan Cooper is forced into her first real field work and trys to save and revenge her fellow agents. | 115 mins R | Jurassic World (3D) | Visitors at the famed theme park run wild when the genetically engineered Indominus Rex and other dinosaurs go on a rampage. | 124 mins PG-13 | Ted 2 | Buddies John (Wahlberg) and Ted (MacFarlane) encounter trouble when the law decides Ted to be a piece of property and not a person. They promptly seek justice with the help from a legendary Civil Rights attorney. | 115 mins R | Terminator Genisys (3D) | When John Conor sends Kyle Reese back to the year 1984 to protect his mother, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline.

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as a Terminator guardian. | 122 mins PG-13 | Self/Less | A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem. | 116 mins PG-13 | Paper Towns | A young man and his friends embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door. | 109 mins PG-13 | Inside Out | Disney Pixar’s new film about a Midwestern girl whose life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. | 102 mins PG | Minions (3D) | Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.| 91 mins PG | The Gallows | 20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone. | 81 mins R |

Over the Moon | 8:00 PM, 7/24 Friday, 7/25 Saturday | Tiahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine St, Owego | Not everything is what it seems in the magically musical story-book land of Hanoveria (with lyrics by Jodi Picoult).

Romance is not all it’s cracked up to be, and the town is ruled by a queen so consumed with power that she plotted against her own brother to get the throne.

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Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Band | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St, Dryden | Rehearsals for Band. Concert will be Sunday, August 9, 3 p.m.

Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 7/23 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 7/24 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

Rehearsals for the Dryden Area Intergenerational Chorus | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/27 Monday | Dryden United Methodist Church, 2 North St,

Dryden | Rehearsals for Chorus group.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM-, 7/28 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Complex Reasonable Accommodations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/28 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Mayor Svante Myrick will welcome attendees and kick off this very special event! John Thompson, Jr., from EEOC will be speaking about upcoming initiatives, charge information and analysis, updates to regulations and his agency’s FREE business services for employers. Shammi Carr will be presenting on Complex Reasonable Accommodation.

Learning American Sign Language II (ASL II) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | American Sign Language (ASL) is a useful and fun means of communication, and many signs can be easy to learn. ASL is used by people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, have difficulty speaking, or are non-verbal, as well as interpreters, family and friends, human service professionals, and people who want to be able to communicate with someone who uses ASL. Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 7/24 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/27 Monday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two

hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www. paintnite.com.

Special Events Broome County Fair | 7/22 Wednesday through 7/26 Sunday | Broome County Fairgrounds, 51 Grand Stand Blvd, Whitney Point | Call (607) 692-4149 or see www.broomecountyfairny.com Hector Fireman’s Fair | 7/23 Thursday through 7/25 Saturday | Hector-LoganValois Fireman’s Field, Rt. 414, Hector | St. Mary’s Festival | 5:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/24 Friday, 12:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/25 Saturday | St. Mary’s Church, Center Street, Waterloo | Enjoy nightly entertainment, free admission, free entertainment, nightly dinners & ale carte, children’s games, horse riding, and gambling. Rain or shine, under tents.

Ithaca High School 60th Class Reunion| 7/24 Friday through 7/26 Sunday | Ramada Inn, 2310 N Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | IHS class of 1955 will be having its 60th Reuinon.

For more information call Joan Barber, 273-7850, or Pete Rogers, 273-3064.

Schuyler County Youth Showcase | 7/24 Friday through 7/26 Sunday | Montour Falls, Montour Falls | Glenora Wine Cellars U.S. Vintage Grand Prix | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/24 Friday through 7/26 Sunday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Among the largest vintage racing events in the nation, historic race cars from almost every era return to Watkins Glen International to celebrate its legendary history.

Skaneateles Antique And Classic Boat Show | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/24 Friday through 7/26 Sunday | Skaneateles Lakefront, Skaneateles | Activities include: 3 concerts, boat parade (3 p.m. Saturday), kids activities on Saturday, shopping, huge raffle, and more. The Syracuse Model Boat Club will have boats on display, and the Skaneateles Historical Society will be hosting historic tours of the Village on Saturday and Sunday.

4th Annual Finger Lakes Cheese Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/25 Saturday | Sunset View Creamery, 4970 County Road 14, Odessa | flcheesetrail. com Dryden Lake Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/25 Saturday | Dryden Lake Park, West Lake Road, Dryden |

The band Crater and the Catlayst play The Haunt Thursday 7/23 at 9 PM. (Photo Provided) Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-, 7/25 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | 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.

Blueberry and Books Festival | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 7/25 Saturday | The Berkshire Library, Fire Station, and Community Hall, Rt. 38 and Jewett Hill Road, Berkshire | Bob Connelly will appraise antiques beginning a noon. 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.

50-Mile Garage Sale | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/25 Saturday | Residences on Rt. 90 from Homer to Montezuma hold a 2 day garage sale. For more information call 607 753-8463.

Sterling Renaissance Festival | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/25 Saturday | Sterling Renaissance Festival, Fraden Rd, Sterling | Pirate Invasion Weekend

Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 7/27 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 7/28 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Agriculture Committee | 7:00 PM, 7/28 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 7/28 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

Health & Wellness Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | NY, , | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www.foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Women Rollers announces their roller derby style workout program. New or returning skaters of any level are welcome. Trainers are members of the Ithaca League of Women Rollers.

Open to men and women 18+. For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every

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The Haunt, Saturday, July 25, 12:00 p.m.

The Nines, Friday, July 24, 10:00 p.m.

Casting long and colorful vibrations throughout Central New York and beyond, this psychedelic and garage band mixes experimental and progressive music with throwback 60’s and 70’s low-fi. Guitar solos from Kim Draheim move into the nexus regions as the band brings a real working-man’s vibe that reonates with the full spectrum of Rock music since the 1960’s.

Expect covers, originals, and wicked shredding!

week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 7/22 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Facilitated by Liz Constable and Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Amy Scott, and supported by Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Emily Papperman. Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433.

Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 7/22 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | This group meets

The first annual One Fest here in Ithaca brings a plethora of bone crushing, mind bending, double bass ripping, Metal and Hardcore bands together for one amazing day. Death metal, grindcore, thrash, and doom are all well represented, as is the local Ithaca metal scene, with Twin Lords, King Sized Pegasus, and Doubt, all playing sets. Don’t miss out!

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several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/23 Thursday, 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 7/27 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Writing Practice as Self-Inquiry | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 7/25 Saturday | 108 S Albany St, 108 S Albany St, Ithaca | Leslie Ihde is forming an ongoing group to run alternate Saturdays.

Members will learn to write poetry and short prose inspired by their own perceptions. The goal of the group will be to encourage self-discovery first, and good writing second. Friendly group discussions will be facilitated.

No experience necessary. Beginning and experienced writers are welcome.

For more information see http:// www.spiritualself-inquiry.com or call 607-754-1303.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 7/26 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/27 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous 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.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 7/28 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604

Books Chelsea Tadeyeske, Kellie Nadler, & Meg Prichard | 5:00 PM, 7/24 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Three amazing poets share their poetry that explores the modern female experience.

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Thirty-seven years ago, I was on vacation in Mystic, Connecticut with my family. I saw the double LP soundtrack for the Peter Frampton-Bee Gees musical Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and decided I had to have it. We didn’t have a turntable in our cabin, and I must have spent hours looking at it, opening the gatefold and gazing at the pictures of Frampton et al. Then I saw the movie, which Newsweek’s David Ansen called “a film with a dangerous resemblance to wallpaper.”

That might have been the first time I bought the hype, but all I remember is sitting in the back seat of the family car with a double LP that I never wanted to hear. (Except for Aerosmith’s cover of “Come Together”. The rest is monkey junk.

Trust me.) Ever wonder why you never see that movie on TV? There’s a reason …

One of my vices is collecting T-shirts with Marvel and DC characters, and I must have caught Marvel malaria when I sprang for an Ant-Man shirt two weeks before the Ant-Man movie. Then I saw the movie, and ever since I’ve been thinking about Peter Frampton and a cast of fleabags poncing around on a cheesy

Devon J. Moore, Gina Keicher, and Caitlin Hayes | 6:00 PM-, 7/25 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors read from their latest works.

Sasha Lilley | 2:00 PM, 7/25 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author and radio broadcaster will be discussing her books Capital and its Discontents and Catastrophism.

Art See it Live, Buy it Local: 25th Annual Ithaca Artist Market | 2:00 PM-8:00 PM, 7/24 Friday | Ithaca Farmers Market, 545 3rd Street, Ithaca | Over 75 established visual artists have been juried into the Ithaca Artist Market to showcase and sell some of the best art in the

Hollywood back lot.

I’m writing this before the box office results are in, but I predict that Ant-Man, or as I’m calling it, Honey, I Shrunk Paul Rudd or The Incredibly Boring Shrinking Schnook, is that it may be the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that will have audiences say, “No thanks.” And once word gets out from those who gave it a chance … well, if they had led with this instead of Iron Man back in 2008, we wouldn’t be stuck with two lousy Thor movies.

At least I can give the makers of the film credit for knowing that the central premise is pretty ridiculous, and so AntMan is the Marvel movie with comedy as its home plate. But the story feels stale, shrink-wrapped and dumbed down, like the first two Fantastic Four movies.

Only about half the humor hits, which is surprising given that director Peyton Reed has done fantastically funny work on Mr. Show and the features Bring It On and Down With Love.

region. Visitors to the market will have the unique opportunity to meet and talk with all these artists in one place and to buy works of all shapes, sizes, and disciplines: paintings, prints, photographs, functional work, sculpture, collage, fiber art, furniture, jewelry, and digital work. Prices range from $5 to $1,500 (something for everyone), and attendance to the market is free!

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This local and hard-charging Americana band mixes dynamic edge with rockabilly, country-blues, folk, and rock, all the while playing with a clear punk attitude. Violins mix with banjos and rock riffs and the result is a unique and contemporary take on the history and soul of American music. Catch this young band in action!

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almost see someone flipping a switch as he clicks into all the dumb baddie clichés and basically rips off the third act of Joe Dante’s Innerspace, a much better movie about shrinkage.

At the end, a title appears announcing, “Ant-Man will return.” It feels more like a threat than a treat.

Even worse, it feels like a contractual obligation. Anyone wanna buy a 1978 vinyl copy of the soundtrack of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and a slightly used Ant-Man T-shirt? •

State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Engaging The Edges, Leslie K. Brill, Diane W. Newton, Paintings and Illustrations | Runs July 1 through August 2 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Eric Draper and Peter Thompson, Abstract Paintings and Black and White Photography. July 1 through end of August| www. wafflefrolicking.com Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | Lea Freni, Mixed Media, Fashion Design.

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he house at 256 Floral Avenue is placed up on a small rise excavated out of the base of West Hill, and it looks over the road to the flood control channel beyond. From your side yard or your front porch you would be looking out at racing sculls pulling by and Canada geese raising their goslings.

The structure has the look and feel of a summer cottage, both inside and out. It appears to have originally been a twostory single-gabled home that then had a one-story gable and adjacent porches added on to it.

To get to the front door you enter the side of the enclosed three-season porch.

This area includes built-in storage bins to make up for the lack of a garage. The porch traverses the entire front of the house and wraps part way around the south side.

You enter a living room that likewise traverses the entire front of the house. The floor has been covered with wood laminate, and the fireplace hearth has been faced with marble. The fireplace is wood burning.

The rear of the house includes a large kitchen with abundant counter space. A back door enters what may have once been a porch but is now enclosed to be working space for the kitchen. It includes a half bath, an alcove for the laundry machines, and cabinets and counter space.

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There is a wide pass-through over the sink that looks in on an eating area.

The stairs to the second floor are between this eating area and the living room. Upstairs there are three bedrooms.

The two in the front of the house are small, but are full of light and overlook the water.

They have wall-to-wall carpeting.

The rear bedroom is larger and includes a set of built-in bookshelves. It looks out onto the shady hillside in back of the house. This room has a wood laminate floor.

The full bathroom is shared by all the bedrooms. It is actually quite large and includes a tub/shower and two commodes At A Glance Price: $160,000 Location: 256 Floral Avenue,

City of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools Cayuga Heights Elementary MLS#: 301282 Contact: Kathy Hopkins, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, Audrey Edelman Realty USA; kathy@homeinithaca.com Phone: (607) 220-5347 (cell) Website: www.aedelman.com

256 Floral Avenue, Ithaca (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

installed side by side to create a surprisingly convincing double sink. The bath is floored with the same Mediterranean style ceramic tile has is found in the kitchen.

Although the house was originally built in 1890, it was entirely renovated in 1989 and the appliances in the kitchen certainly date from more recently than that.

The exterior has been covered with vinyl clapboard, which is in good shape for being 25 years old.

The neighborhood is part of the West End more than West Hill, and the West End is presently turning into a sort of happening place with condominiums going

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Island Fitness and several bars and restaurants are already within walking distance and more are planned.

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(607) 280-4729

NYS Auto Inspection

Independence Cleaners Corp

Professional Oriental Dancer

RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL

Teaching youth preservation trade skills

Steve@reallifeceremonies.com

www.HistoricIthaca.org

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In the Triphammer Market Place

607-227-3025 or 607-220-8739

607-379-6210

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Janitorial Service * Floor/Carpet

607-351-0640

Real Life Ceremonies with ceremonies like no other.

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607-898-2048

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