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ast week, the Northern District Court of New York ruled the majority of claims in a federal lawsuit against the Ithaca Police Department for LGBT-based workplace discrimination will not be dismissed.

Sarah Crews, an Ithaca police officer working for the department for more than 15 years, filed a federal discrimination suit in February 2017 against IPD in an unprecedented case in the department regarding gender nonconformity.

She seeks $5 million in damages stemming from claims the department discriminated against her based on her gender identity and sexual orientation, and that they retaliated against her when she complained. Crews is a lesbian, identifies as gender non-conforming and says that the police department’s default policy to have her search female suspects more than her male counterparts puts her at risk. This is because some complained they felt sexually violated having her, a masculine-looking lesbian, pat them down. According to Crews’ federal lawsuit, one female prisoner in 2011 allegedly harassed Crews and suggested she would falsify sexual harassment allegations against Crews, saying, “Hey big gay woman, you want some of this? I’m gonna make it up that you did something to me.”

Crews then started expressing her concerns to her superiors.

In June, the City of Ithaca filed a motion to dismiss Crews’ lawsuit against the Ithaca Police Department. One of the city’s eight arguments for dismissal – that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which covers employment-based discrimination, does not include sexual orientation – is surprising, given Ithaca’s generally liberal nature as well as its own employment policy, which recognizes employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as well as New York state law.

Whether or not Title VII of the continued on page 4

ART S & E N T E RTAINME N T Tompkins County

Locals Set On A Mission Of Healing

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riving around the outskirts of Puerto Rico’s capital city of San Juan, Maria Klemperer-Johnson, Julie K itson, Rebeka h Carpenter, Christina Alario, Christa Shopis and Melissa Galliher were hit with waves of different emotions, each absorbing the desolation of their surroundings a bit differently.

There was a lot to take in.

Some parts were beautiful and hopeful, with sections of rich foliage having regrown and beginning to once again thrive. Other parts were bittersweet, like the group of children gleefully playing soccer in a field next to where a now-collapsed soccer stadium used to stand. Others still were profoundly saddening: leveled community centers sit next to shuttered buildings, some of the

many visions of rank poverty and destruction wrought by Hurricane Maria that now populate every corner of the island.

Each member of the group, organized under the Hammerstone School: Carpentr y for Women, is professionally involved in trades in Ithaca: KlempererJohnson is a general contractor, Kitson is a construction manager, Carpenter owns Finger Lakes Renewables, Alario is a carpenter, Shopis is an engineer at Taitem and Galliher is an owner of sheetrock painting business Stellar Finishes. They went to Puerto Rico earlier this year looking to help a desperate situation on the island, even as the United States’ federal administration seemed to wash its hands of their plight in the months since the hurricane came through.

Their first trip was consumed by focusing on one project: fixing the house of Pucha, an older Puerto Rican woman displaced to her brother’s house after the damage inflicted on her home in Gurabo just southeast of San Juan.

Her home had never received one

T a k e ▶ Sweet Melissa’s has expanded to Press Bay Alley and will be holding its grand opening this Saturday, March 31 from 12 until 3 p.m., one of a wave of new businesses coming to the alley in the coming months. Food will be provided by On The Street Pitas as well as Fittnell Farms Catering.

This will be the store’s first yearround location, though they will still retain their warm-weather space in Shortstop Deli. The store will feature ice cream and

Rebekah Carpenter (Left) speaks to a volunteer in Puerto Rico.

of the FEMA-distributed blue tarps, serving as makeshift roofs, and so had experienced months of routine, unprotected rainfall.

Finally equipped with a new roof, its walls were still left moldy, its electricity tragically dangerous (“The only reason it didn’t burn down is because nobody was there,” Carpenter said), and its framing rotted. They set to work demolishing and building it back up, managing to get to the point where once they return (which they intend to do with the help of crowdfunding donations) they can finish Pucha’s house repairs in four or five days, according to Kitson.

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the fear of incarceration. A group of musicians will line the room, surrounding a percussion section and playing two 45 minute sets of improvised noise, while a visual installation by filmmaker and visual artist Nils Hoover swallows the room. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. and the show begins at 9:00, and tickets are $5. The show is being supported by the Tompkins County Tourism Program and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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What is the BEST meal you’ve had in Ithaca?

“Venison Burger from Coltivare – Had to go well done though, I’m not a fan of deer blood.”

–Georgia Andreoi

Assessment Increase Sparks Frustration

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Medium rare.” “Gotta go with John Thomas. Sirloin. Medium rare.” ­–Erin Root

andlords throughout Tompkins County have had the pleasantries of their daily trip to the mailbox interrupted over the last several weeks with the arrival of their new property assessments, which overall have increased the most this year since 1989, according to area landlords and the Tompkins County Assessor’s Office.

Tompkins County Assessor Jay Franklin estimates that in

total, property value assessments went up about 10 percent in the City of Ithaca and five percent in places outside of it, like the Town of Ithaca or Lansing. Tompkins County’s total assessed value went up $440 million, or about 3.6 percent from last year, Franklin said.

Each year, the assessment department allows the market to inf luence what areas in the county to concentrate on, moni-

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ally comment on pending litigation.” But, he noted, “We in Ithaca know that it is important not to conflate gender non-conformity with sexual orientation; to do so is to ignore the different challenges facing these groups.”

What seems to be missing from the city’s response, however, is the intersectional nature of Crews’ identity, and that she made two separate claims because of discrimination felt in both areas.

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“We just had the most delicious pasta special at Simeons last night!” ­— Carly & Heidi

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Civil Rights Act covers sexual orientation is currently in dispute at a federal level. This is due to differences between the EEOC, which interprets Title VII as including sexual orientation, and the Trump administration, which holds the opposite reading. But in late February, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Title VII includes sexual orientationbased discrimination in the case of Zarda v. Altitude Express. U.S. district judge Mae D’Agostino, who presided in this case on Wednesday, cites Zarda as justification for Crews’ claim of sexual orientation discrimination.

In the city of Ithaca’s motion to dismiss Crews’ case, they also write that Crews “states no claim for gender non-conformity discrimination,” adding that Crews, “conflates the issues of gender and sexual orientation.”

When this reporter contacted the city for a response to their motion to dismiss, City Attorney Ari Levine wrote, “As a matter of policy, the City does not generh 2 8 – A p r i l 4 , 2 0 1 8

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U. S . D i s t r ic t Ju d ge M a e D’Agostino denied seven out of the eight claims in the city of Ithaca’s motion to dismiss Crews’ case and granted one of the city’s claims: She dismissed Crews’ hostile work environment claim. This means that the case can go forward with all of the other claims Crews brings forth against IPD, including a due process claim, discrimination based on sexual orientation as well as gender identity and expression, and that police search and seizure policies put her at risk.

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Tompkins Lays Out Development Targets For Feds

A toring where the most property sales are happening and using that to help determine where they should issue re-assessments. This year, that led them to focus on the City of Ithaca (excluding the Commons) and northeast Town of Ithaca, the Village of Cayuga Heights, Lansing and vacant properties throughout the county, along with a lesser concentration on places elsewhere as well.

The department also focused on apartments this year, he said, which have seen such intense appreciation over the last several years that they are basically on

s part of the United States Congress’ recent passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Tompkins County officials on Monday were presented with Tompkins County Area Development’s recommendations of several areas in the county deemed eligible to be declared “Opportunity Zones,” census tracts that are singled out for tax incentives under a new federal program that “encourages private investment in low-income urban and rural communities.”

The program creates a mechanism for investors to re-invest their unrealized capital gains into something called “Opportunity Funds,” which allows investors to temporarily defer any inclusion of certain realized gains in their gross income as long as they are quickly re-invested in a project within a qualified opportunity fund. The designations would be in place for 10 years and, though investors will receive varying

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D’Agostino also granted some of the city’s arguments to dismiss Crews’ claims against John Barber, who was the chief of police at the time of Crews’ filing. Crews’ legal defense argued the same eight claims against Barber. Specifically, Judge D’Agostino granted the claims related to Title VII because Title VII does not include individual culpability. However, she denied half of the city’s arguments to dismiss Crews’ claims against Barber in regards to human rights and equal protection claims, among others.

It is important to note that while Judge D’Agostino ruled mostly in favor of Crews in this motion to dismiss, she wrote a telling footnote at the end of the judgment. It reads, “Although the Court has denied the motion to dismiss as to most of the claims asserted, the Court has doubts as to the viability of the claims in response to a properly supported motion for summary judgment.”

In other words, the judge is not sure whether Crews will be able to win her case in court.

This footnote propelled Crews’ lawyer, Ed Kopko, to file a motion

to recuse Judge D’Agostino on Wednesday. In this motion, Kopko writes, “The Court’s needless, gratuitous comment in the footnote quoted above prompts doubts about the Court’s impartiality.” On Thursday, the city responded to this motion opposing Kopko’s recusal request.

The Ithaca community showed up in force on Friday to remember Ithaca’s youngest police officer, 10-year-old Colin Toland, who died last week after a lengthy battle with a rare brain disease.

(Photos: Casey Martin)

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Sa r a h Crews’ response

When asked how she felt about the news, Crews said, “My initial reaction? Cautious optimism. I think it’s too early to get enthusiastic about it. There’s plenty to litigate here. But the fact that the judge found enough merit in my claims to let the majority go ahead, this is a good thing. We’ll see what comes next.”

The next step for this case is an in person initial conference among both parties. This is scheduled for May 4 at 11 a.m. in Binghamton before Magistrate Judge David E. Peebles.

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High Stress Noted Among Local Emergency Responders

▶ The Commons’ Crane is our new favorite Ithaca fixture, becoming the latest casual downtown tourist attraction to delight picture-takers as they stroll down Ithaca’s main pedestrian causeway, temporarily over-taking Magic Man, Lou the Hot Dog Guy and…. the fountain?.

R On Saturday, hundreds of people gathered on the Commons as part of the nationwide March For Our Lives, a protest against gun violence put together by the survivors of a recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Pictured on the right are student activists from the group Students United at Ithaca High School, who recently spoke up in protest to the production of a play they felt promoted whitewashing. Their story is told in full on pages 8 and 9. (Photos: Casey Martin)

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Ithaca Competing For Grant To Fight Addiction At Home

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he City of Ithaca and local human services organizations are currently pursuing funding that would equip the city with an ambitious new health center aimed at battling the opioid crisis.

The majority of Ithaca’s proposal, submitted to the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayor’s Challenge competition, centers on establishing a “health-hub” of sorts, which would serve as a center for virtually anyone in the city overcome obstacles that haunt those whose family members or even themselves may be struggling with addiction. If the plan is successful, the center would be something that could “lay the groundwork” for the longdiscussed safe injection facility in Ithaca, in the words of Mayor Svante Myrick.

The idea would be fueled by a $5 million dollar grant from Bloomberg the city is competing against 34 other cities for, the competition counting cities from Philadelphia to Elk Grove, California in the running. Ithaca is the smallest city, population-wise, remaining in the competition.

The mayor said the overarching goal is to establish a system to help anyone in need at one central location, a “one-stop shop” as

it’s called in the proposal (though this language was objected to by members of the City Administration Committee as “trivializing”), where they can easily access resources that could foster a resolution to their situation.

Anyone for whom “things aren’t going well and need some help,” Myrick said, would be able to access the center. It would include washers and dr yers, showers, and even housing and employment services.

“Whether that help is Narcan to address overdoses, or whether that help is getting them into a treatment program, or just getting a prescription for a medicaid assisted treatment program,” Myrick said. “And nobody has this yet. But what would happen if a city had one place that anybody who was in trouble knew they could go 24/7?”

The field of competing cities was whittled down in late February, from 350 to 35 “Champion Cities.” Five cities will be declared winners, with four receiving $1 million and the first place finisher collecting $5 million. A team of Ithacans went to New York City last week, including local representatives from the Drug Policy Alliance and the Southern Tier AIDS Program, to

discuss their plans with officials from the Bloomberg organization. While both the Drug Policy Alliance and STAP had interest in being involved with the operation of the proposed center, it was announced on Wednesday that STAP will be the lead agency should the proposal come to fruition.

By making it into the second round of the Bloomberg competition, the city has already received $100,000, which will primarily be dedicated to modifying and improving the proposal.

Additionally, Bloomberg will be offering idea coaching for the next six months until the winner is selected. That coaching will hopefully assist with the development of the current idea, but also may help with ensuring the facility’s capability to support a safe injection facility, also known as safe consumption sites, if or when that is realized. Until that though, the rest of the center’s efforts could still move forward.

But without funding beyond the $100,000 currently in-hand, Myrick said the idea won’t be able to truly advance and the city will have to look elsewhere for funding. Parts are already in motion, continued on page 11

epresentatives from each of the towns of Tompkins County reviewed early figures of a study this week outlining the effectiveness of response for emergency medical services across the county, many of which have experienced declining staffing levels and strains on service.

The first study released since the formation of an Emergency Medical Ser vices Task Force meant to study the problem in October 2016, the data outlined the state of a number of key metrics from all 20 emergency response units across Tompkins County, including response times and call volume and, optimistically, will allow county officials to restructure the county’s emergency services in a more efficient way.

The project will be ambitious as, like many communities across the nation, Tompkins County’s EMS crisis has many prongs.

Many of its rural, volunteer-run fire and ambulance companies are seeing a declining number of volunteers, due to aging out and the massive time commitment, aligning with a greater national trend. At the same time, call volumes across the county are increasing, in part, to mental health and substance abuse issues not being sufficiently treated outside of the emergency rooms.

For those already involved in their departments, the process of recertification is also onerous, and in a survey of volunteers conducted by the study group, members of several departments described serious cultural issues, only exacerbating discontent in what is already an already highstress, low-paying field where paramedics can often find themselves working for more than one agency.

With limited numbers, emergency responders – who can’t ignore any 911 calls – find themselves stretched thin by these non-serious calls, which detracts resources that could be applied elsewhere.

▶ To the Hilton Canopy project for closing down Seneca Way for this week, totally obstructing the quickest discreet escape from Domino’s so nobody can see how much food you just ordered solo for take-out. And all just for water and sewer lines? Who needs those anyway?

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Any time sustainable development is brought up,questions of its affordability go hand in hand, especially with the incoming Green Building Policy being discussed. As our Facebook comments indicate, many people are concerned about the policy, so make some noise at a public info session at The Space at GreenStar from 5:30-7:30 on Wednesday. ▶ Top Stories On Ithaca. com This Week Are...

1) Parents, former staff allege conduct issues at Enfield

Elementary 2) Guns, and the people who love them 3) “She was wanted”: Remembering the life of Josie Berrios 4) Finger Lakes Thaw: Inside the all-over festival taking over Ithaca

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L ast Week ’s Q uestion : With strict gun laws already in place in N ew York S tate , would you support an outright ban on guns?

59.6 percent of respondents answered “No” 23.2 percent answered “No, but with more restrictions.” and 18.2 percent answered “Yes.”

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Why I Marched Last Weekend L ast weekend in Seneca Falls, I joined countless Americans in the March for Our Lives. The Finger Lakes is where my wife and I raised our daughter. But on my mind Saturday were the parents and daughters of some other families.

Six-year-old Ana Grace Márquez-Greene worked for days on a book of drawings. When she finished, she gave it a cover, stapled it, and wrote “Ana’s Flower Book — from Ana to Dad.” Then she left her playroom and headed for school, eager to share it with her dad at dinnertime.

She never did. Ana’s dad found the book later that night. By then, his daughter had been shot and killed along with 19 other children and 6 adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

In Colorado, 16-year-old Kelly Fleming was a lot like Ana Grace. She too was working on a book, and often visited her school library to write. On April 20, 1999, that’s where she was shot in the back and killed — at Columbine High School, in a mass shooting that killed 13 people and injured over 20 others.

In Florida, 14-year-old Cara Loughran had a passion for dancing. She was one of 17 people shot and killed at school in Parkland on Valentine’s Day. Shortly after Valentine’s Day, my own daughter called to say she’s engaged to be married.

Ana, Kelly, and Cara will never make that call.

Neither will Veronica Sullivan or Noah Grace

Holcombe. Veronica was six years old when she was shot and killed at a movie theater in which 12 people were killed and 70 others were injured.

Noah Grace, less than two-years-old, was one of 26 people shot and killed last year at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

Anyone who says mass gun violence is not a major public health and safety issue is simply out of touch with reality.

Let’s look at gun violence in schools alone: Since the Columbine shooting, nearly 200,000 students — from close to 200 primary and secondary schools — have experienced a shooting on campus.

It’s time to say, “Enough!” That’s what the March for Our Lives was about. And that’s why I was there — to thank students for speaking out, and to encourage them to keep fighting.

The time for sensible, practical action to reduce gun violence is long overdue.

And to those who want to point to the Constitutional right to bear arms, I say yes, let’s look at our Constitution. The preamble is clear: the Constitution’s central purpose is to “insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.”

Ana Márquez-Greene’s family deserved some domestic tranquility. Kelly Fleming and her classmates deserved someone to provide contin u ed on page 7

One Day, Pretty Soon N ovember 11, 2018… Good morning, folks. We’re taking you live to the Lockheed Martin Veterans’ Day Military Parade in Washington D.C., where we’ll be joining our hosts, Fox and Friends regulars Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade at the Fox News booth near the reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue. Steve?

DOOCY: Thanks, Jim! It is one hot one today here in the nation’s capital. Typical November weather! Just look at this crowd.

The excitement here is just off the charts, and we are so lucky to have ringside seats.

From here in our our booth here we’ve got just a fantastic view of the reviewing stand and the president’s entourage.

KILMEADE: Do I see Field Marshal Kushner up there? He always looks so serious.

EARHARDT: Don’t y’all just love his new uniform? And Russian President Putin right next to him, bless his heart. He flew up just this morning from his dacha at Mar-a-Lago.

KILMEADE: So great. A few minutes ago, we saw the Republican Congressional delegation pass by. What a stirring tribute to the commander-in-chief. I tell you, President Trump was just beaming. I have

YourL etters The Governor’s Green Window Dressing

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arth Day is approaching, and with a declared Democratic challenger for the gubernatorial race, Governor Cuomo is certain to be honing his environmental message. He’ll remind us about plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent and a pledge to generate 50 percent of state electric power from renewables, both by 2030. He’ll certainly tell us to ignore what’s behind the curtain: the 650MW CPV gas power plant in Wawayanda, built under a shadow of corruption, and the 1100MW gas power plant Cricket Valley (CVE) being built in Dover. He’ll remind us he is suing states west of here for allowing their powerplant emissions to drift over NYS. He won’t mention that Cricket Valley is on the Connecticut border and will generate over 3 million metric tons per year of CO2, as well as particulates, and carcinogenic volatile organic compounds.

The governor will tell us that he has proposed 26 renewable projects across the state. (Did he announce this the minute Ms Nixon declared her candidacy?) While this is more than he’s managed to date, pull out your calculator and let’s do the numbers. If every one of these projects was a solar farm with 25MW nameplate capacity, they would generate (when the sun shone) 650MW of power. But since it rains, or is nighttime, or is cloudy, 85 percent of the time, all these plants together will be less than 100MW. That’s less than a seventeenth of the two big

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to believe that the synchronized group pander in front of the reviewing stand will be one of the highlights of the parade. Just a spectacular day.

EARHARDT: Well, you know, I also enjoyed the March of the Tariffs so much. I know there’s been some chitchat in the liberal media about whether they’re military or not, but I just love their costumes!

KILMEADE: Ainsley, it’s called a trade “war,” isn’t it? Democrats, am I right?

DOOCY: Brian, I hate to cut you off, but here come the Air Force’s F-35 fighters in a spectacular flyover. All I can say is ‘wow’.

KILMEADE: Just look at that. I count six planes, Steve. That’s over a billion dollars overhead right now!

DOOCY: (shouting) Beautiful! How great is this!?

EARHARDT: Oh, my. Can y’all zoom in on this float coming up? I read about this. It’s a birthday cake for the war in Afghanistan! 17 years old last month! Brian, don’t you have a 17-year-old at home?

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gas power plants coming online.

According to their website, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) “promotes energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources.” Their mission is to “advance innovative energy solutions.” They are currently running a competition to encourage municipalities to establish microgrids. In case Governor Cuomo doesn’t explain this clearly, bear with me.

A microgrid is a local grid – perhaps made up of solar, battery, hydro, and gasfired components – that can operate in “island mode” if necessary, keeping the hospital and area residences powered up when the main grid goes down. Note that reliability is not a problem everywhere and these proposals are not for diesel generators to run just when the grid goes down. If you dig through the stage 2 winners, each of whom gets $1M, looking for innovative energy solutions and renewable deployment, you’re in for a surprise. Omitting Syracuse’s garbage incinerator, and adjusting the others for the capacity factors of wind, solar, and hydro, NYSERDA is handing out tens of millions of dollars for “microgrids” that will be powered about 98 percent by gas turbines and which will be running about 100 percent of the time. NYSERDA’s long-term plan is to put thousands of small gas-fired turbines in communities across the state.

It could be we misunderstood what Cuomo meant when he said he’d be “doubling down” on importing fracked gas. Perhaps for Earth Day, Governor Cuomo will explain how much gas we’ll need to pipe in

whole thing’s made of green flowers.

KILMEADE: Those are thousand dollar bills, Steve, folded into flower shapes using the ancient art of origami. Painstaking work.

DOOCY: That must have taken so long to put together. Just gorgeous.

KILMEADE: Wait until you see what they did with the ballistic missiles! They should be along toward the end of the parade this afternoon.

EARHARDT: My stars. Speaking of currency, who is this group handing out money to the children in the crowd? Don’t y’all just love their uniforms? I can’t really tell who they are. Are they defense contractors?

DOOCY: Not exactly. That’s actually the honor guard from the Legion of Lobbyists. Dark suits and flag lapel pins. Classic.

Really top people.

KILMEADE: Hey, get a look at the reviewing stand, guys. Could we get a shot of this? Secretary of War Bolton’s moustache is blowing in the breeze as he salutes the men and women of the United States’ armed services and associated industries.

What an iconic moment.

EARHARDT: No greater military force in the world, Brian. And, I might add, no force more fiercely loyal to the gender identity on their birth certificates.

DOOCY: What a great day! We can all be proud. This is what it’s all about.

KILMEADE: It certainly is, Steve. It certainly is.

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from PA to fuel all these gas-fired power plants, and where we’ll run the pipelines. I can’t wait to hear the governor’s Earth Day speech. Can you?

–Dennis Higgins Otego, NY

The Arts Needs Your Help

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he Tompkins County Legislature has cut funding for a number of local arts and culture organizations including the Hangar Theater, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Museum of the Earth, the Ithaca Shakespeare Company, the History Center, and the Cayuga Nature Center. The State Theater funding was cut, but has been partially restored.

The County funding for these organizations comes through hotel room tax revenue. That funding source grows by large amounts every year – a 13% increase in 2017 alone. Yet the average allocation to individual arts organizations from this fund is at a 10 year low.

These small, not-for-profit institutions struggle with their budgets and missions to provide excellence in entertainment, education, artistic expression, and community service to Tompkins County residents and visitors. However, funding is being cut to them to fund new endeavors, and because of ever-increasing administrative fees taken by other organizations. Yet, there is still plenty of money from hotel tax revenue to fully fund all the requests from local arts and culture organizations if the County Legislature would simply allocate the money.

Much more information is available at restoreartsfundingithaca.godaddysites. com.

If you want to see our local arts and culture organizations supported at an appropriate level, say so in an email to legislature@tompkins-co.org, or come to the County Legislature meeting on Tuesday April 3 at 5:30. p.m.

–Dan Klein Tompkins County Legislature District 7

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly.

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’m disturbed by the tone deafness and apparent bias of your publishing of the March 21st article “Guns, And the People who Love Them” by Nick Reynolds. This article appearing in the midst of a national conversation about an epidemic of gun violence (that is duplicated in no other country on the planet), three days before the March For Our Lives protest and following the tragic gun violence events which have occurred an average of once each week in 2018 alone.

I’m curious whether you intended the article as an op-ed piece or whether perhaps you had originally intended for it to appear in the local business section of the paper. In the article, the gun shop owner is described in the most positive of terms and is encouraged to make the (familiar NRA) talking points; “a gun in the hand is always gonna be better than the police department on the phone” (as though statistics don’t show that the risk of being a victim of gun violence increases with ownership), “Bad people who want guns will always be able to get them” (as though there is such a thing as illegal gun manufacturers and that an industry which has produced enough firearms for each man, woman and child in the U.S. is somehow not responsible for their availability), “the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (despite this rarely ever occurring), and encouraged by the interviewer to expound on the virtues of the AR-15

(which is the gun that was used in Newtown CT, San Bernardino CA, Orlando FL, Las Vegas NV, Sutherland Springs TX and in Parkland FL.) I find the article irresponsible.

–Carl Ostendarp Ithaca, NY

Editor’s Response: Irresponsible journalism would be covering one side of the gun violence debate in our backyard, as so many others did, and NOT talk to the people who sell literally dozens of these guns every year. You can decide whether or not for yourself if their perspective is valid. We simply decided to get out of our bubble so our readers wouldn’t have to.

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for their common defense. The Parkland students and teachers deserved promotion of their general welfare. And by rallying last weekend, people across the country demanded action to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.

The March for Our Lives movement has already made a difference. For years, Congress refused to let the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) conduct research on gun violence. That just changed — the day before the nationwide rally. On the same day, the the Justice Department proposed to ban bump stocks.

Both changes on the eve of the march. After years of inaction. Just a coincidence? Absolutely not.

But much more is needed. Congress gave the CDC the OK to do gun violence research. Yet, in a $1.3 trillion dollar spending bill, how much did it put toward that research? Nothing. And the Justice Department reversal on bump stocks is only a proposal — from an administration known for changing course.

We also need immediate action on what the nonpartisan group organized by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords calls “nine legal and lethal devices” that could be the next bump stocks.

And we’re long overdue for a comprehensive system of background checks. Bipartisan bills on this have stalled in Congress for years.

That’s why we also need a new Congress.

Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY23) — a sponsor of a bill to overturn New York’s SAFE Act — says he worries that people often “run to the gun control issue” after a mass shooting.

Instead, Reed tends to follow such shootings by reaffirming he’s a “firm believer” in the right to bear arms — and that he’ll “fight for the Second Amendment.”

We need to replace Tom Reed and his colleagues with people who’ll fight for the reasons we have a Constitution — people who’ll fight for us.

In my recent run for Congress, I pushed hard for action to curb gun violence. I’m convinced it can be done in a way that works within the Constitution, recognizes the Second Amendment, and respects the rights of hunters and other citizens. But I’m also worried that such action might not come from candidates who approach the issue of gun violence “as cautiously as an AR-15” (Robert Lynch, ithaca.com, March 14) — and take little comfort from watching some call for repeal of the SAFE Act. The solution? All of us must continue to push for steps that reduce gun violence — and for representatives that take a solid stand on this issue.

In addition to Gabby Giffords’ group, Gifford. org, there’s another organization doing great work on this problem: Moms Demand Action.

I urge concerned citizens to get involved with both groups.

People often say we get the government we deserve. That’s not true. We get the government we demand. Keep demanding.

Charles Whalen is a former CBO economist, parent and concerned citizen living in Geneva. He is a former Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd District.

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Week O f 3/18-3/24 B y Vaughn G olden Barbara L ifton &Tom O’M ara While your budget was being broken last week, so were the legislative hopes and dreams of state legislature members, as what’s becoming a “clean” budget makes its way through Albany.

Along the way last week lawmakers pulled out a number of “riders,” legislation really having no business in a budget, but added to sweeten or sour the deal to get it across the finish line. The latest word before the Ithaca Times goes to press indicates the highest-ranking members of each chamber and the Governor have gathered to ultimately craft the final bill before it seeks the formal approval of both houses and the Governor.

Few non-budget specific items remain on the negotiating table. A provision to establish online voter registration is probably the most favored to make it into the final bill. Also, legislation to codify new rules about sexual assault and harassment for all branches of the state government and contractors should also make it to the finish line. Most of the hopeful legislative initiatives have been crumbled up in a ball and thrown in the wastebasket, at least for the omnibus. All firearms and school safety legislation has been pulled from the language. The Child Victims Act, a bill that would lengthen statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases is also said to likely not be included. Hang-ups on the budget negotiations at this point likely include school funding levels (historically a major sticking point for Assemblywoman Lifton), New York City congestion pricing, funding for the New York City Housing Authority and the state’s tax code. Legislators have until 11:59:59 PM on Saturday to get a budget passed.

Tom R eed 535 people in Washington jumped through an extraordinary number of hoops last week in order to pass a spending deal. After five previous failed attempts, lawmakers were determined to fully fund the government. The leadership of both houses released the colossal 2,232-page bill itself Wednesday, giving House members less than a day to look at the text before bringing it to a vote on Thursday afternoon. It almost died on the House floor, passing by a razor’s edge 211207 on a procedure vote agreeing to the rules surrounding the bill. Reed voted in favor of bringing the bill forward, but ultimately voted against the actual passage of the omnibus citing his concerns about its level of spending.

“This type of spending is just not sustainable,” Reed told a press call this week. “and I did not want to be complicit with this debt crisis that I do believe is going off as we speak.”

When asked if he had any inclination as to why Senator Gillibrand’s language on stemming sexual harassment within Congress had been removed from the omnibus, Reed said he wasn’t exactly sure a would “defer to leadership,” but agreed the issue should be addressed in standalone legislation. On Monday’s press call, Reed who has planted his stance on the second amendment firmly in the wake of calls for gun control, fielded questions on last weekend’s “March for Our Lives” protests.

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“This Time Feels Different” IHS’ new musical, ‘Hairspray’ hopes to leave an enduring impression.

By Nick Reynolds

Joey Steinhagen (Photo: Casey Martin)

“Seaweed: And this young lady right here, is Penny Pingleton.

Penny Pingleton: I’m very pleased and scared to be here.

Motormouth Maybelle: Now, honey, we got more reason to be scared on your street.”

–’Hairspray,’ 1988

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t’s a gorgeous Friday afternoon in early spring outside but, in a room buried deep in Ithaca High School’s Performing Arts Center, there are only black walls, black chairs and imaginary prison bars, lit up from the piercing electricity of Director Joey Steinhagen’s gaze as he looks up from his iPad, calling for another run-through of the scene playing out before him.

It’s the last day before spring break and among the high school-aged cast, there’s a sort of absent-mindedness that tends to set in from too many hours spent inside the uninspiring void of a Black Box Theater. Some of the students, when not engaged, are texting with the hand not holding their copy of the script and with a flubbed line, the group of six find themselves cracking up, diverging for a second before Steinhagen pulls them back to attention.

The young actress creaks open an imaginary door, looking back at the group behind the imaginary bars of the “Big Dollhouse,” delivering her line with a snark that strikes the listener as less than inspired.

“Hold on,” Steinhagen stops her. “You’re saying it too fast. You want to slow it down, and put more emphasis on the word is. You’re

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trying to throw it back at her, and the slower you say it, the worse she’ll feel,” he said, gesturing to the girl standing in as the jail guard.

The girl steps back into the cell, strutting out and then, delivering her line: “Recess is over,” she says with a sneer. “Time to pay your debt to society.” She struts out slowly, deliberately: “Please keep in mind,” she looks back, a touch of venom in her voice, “tipping is permitted.”

One of the girls speaks up. “That’s not what the stage directions say,” she says, only for Steinhagen, with gusto, to fire back: “I don’t care what the stage directions say!” he says.

“We’re not doing that play!”

Steinhagen, founder and director of local youth theater troupe Running To Places, is a busy man. Heavily steeped in his art both as a director of youth and adults alike, Steinhagen is responsible for directing approximately five youth productions for the stage every year, on top of his work in just about every other area of the theater imaginable.

“I have iron in a lot of fires right now,” he said in a recent phone interview in a brief break in rehearsals, one of the few that come in the grueling eight-hour rehearsal schedule he’s currently written himself. “The last thing I was looking for was more work.”

Then again, Steinhagen isn’t working on your typical summer special.

In February, Ithaca High School – in a highly publicized move – decided to pull its production of ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ a choice made after massive community outcry over its casting and years of

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perceived racial disparities inspired weeks of of teenage dancing fanatic Tracy Turnblad, protest and debate that attracted national at- who auditions for (and wins) a spot on “The tention. The student-led group who inspired Corny Collins Show,” a nod to the popular the move, Students United, were adamant the 1960s Baltimore dance program, “The Budshow go on and, told there was not enough dy Deane Show” that, every Monday, would time for them to cast and piece together a new step away from its whites-only audience for show, looked for someone to prove the doubt- its weekly “Negro Night,” which would cater ers wrong. So they called former IHS theater only to black audiences. In the film, Turnblad director Steinhagen, a man whose team – mu- becomes an overnight celebrity, her status sic director Jeremy Pletter and making her a trendsetter she When we choreographer Harmony Mabegins to believe is powerembrace lone – have a habit of scoffing at ful enough to topple Corny’s complexity, we deadlines. reigning dance queen and have to slow The community reeling from bring racial integration to down, and put a controversy that inf lamed the show. conversations on race and drew ourselves in other This Hollywood ending, trolls like sharks, Steinhagen however, didn’t happen in people’s shoes in and his crew were handed an order to challenge real life and the show, to opportunity to make history. our own ideas. It’s avoid integrating, was canLuckily, they had a template to celled. But this spring, some a big ask.” draw from: a campy, large-enat Ithaca High School are semble production based off an obscure story starting to believe that such an ending really of racial discrimination in 1960s Baltimore. is possible and that their leap of faith, and the “If I was going to come back and do this, I commitment of the students involved, might wasn’t going to put on ‘Hello Dolly,’” he said. motivate the type of change that have gone un“It had to be ‘Hairspray.’ I wanted to put our heeded for decades. finger on this issue and not skirt around it and pretend this didn’t happen. And this is such “The future’s got a million roads for you to a singular example about a group of students choose, but you’ll walk a little taller in some who identify an issue and come around in high heel shoes.” friendship and in love to tear down the walls –The Dynamites that divide them. That’s the message we wanted to send with this show.”

When the letters to the editor were first Making its debut onscreen in 1988 and published online, Ella Ellis found herself later, on Broadway, ‘Hairspray’ is the story caught off-guard.

Involved with the drama program at Ithaca High School nearly six years, she had long been typecast as the comic relief in many of the productions on the IHS stage. But with the announcement of that spring’s play, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ and her attainment of the lead role as Esmerelda, Ellis felt she had finally received affirmation of her talents and years of hard work: a leading role as a strong female protagonist that would allow her to exhibit the full palette of her artistic talents.

At first, it wasn’t clear that opposition to the casting of Hunchback of Notre Dame was a viewpoint shared by many, just one or two students. With a policy of colorblind casting at Ithaca High School, some began to see the drama as being fuelled by a few students upset they weren’t given the role they wanted, using race as their argument. Students – mostly white – would come up to Ellis in the hallway with assurances that the perspective on race wasn’t as significant as stated and Ellis, was overwhelmed. She said she felt reluctantly thrust into the spotlight, summed up in the debate as a symbol of whiteness in a larger conversation on institutional racism and in particular, the whitewashing of a role where race was crucial to the narrative, “I didn’t consider myself ‘woke’ at that point, so I didn’t really see it as much of an issue,” she said.

Then, with the debate at a head, the school board meeting happened. For 89 minutes, members of the community, actors and alumni of all races and students sat at the microphone, sharing their support for the cause Students United – Ellis’ friends and peers – had inspired and to end the play, many in the room not even realizing that there was the girl sitting in the crowd who had been picked for the role.

And then she stood up.

enough to truly understand what was driving the effort. And like most systemic issues that aren’t fully understood, that divide – those who understood and those who did not – tends to pit those fighting for limited opportunities against each other.

In this case, years of neglect to the issues simmering in the community had left one side blind.

“I thought I was going to get up there and say something like ‘the show needs to go on,’ and ‘let’s come to a compromise,’” she said.

“And I’m sitting there and hearing all these stories, and suddenly realized exactly why the show couldn’t go on, and that I couldn’t let this show be whitewashed. And it didn’t click until that point.”

What she found was she, like most of the community, had lacked significant context on the depth of the disenfranchisement many students were feeling at the time, not informed

dyed blonde hair and Ukranian/Jewish heritage – as this symbolic epitome of whiteness, this very Aryan figure being robbed of her role when in fact, the issues were far more complex than the headlines had dulled it down to.

“I’m a very liberal person, I consider myself a feminist, I own a pussy hat,” she laughed. “So to be held up as a symbol of white supremacy is the last thing I want done to me. I never received threats or anything, but it was still very hard to hear this was happening, that I was being used as a champion figure to attack Stu-

“Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don’t remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin’ at you from a never ending parade of stupid.”

–Motormouth Maybelle In business, the law of unintended consequences dictates that actions of people — and especially of government — always have effects that are unanticipated than what a group had set out to achieve. When the world’s fringes responded with hate, hoping to discourage the students of Ithaca High School, they unintentionally helped pull a community together.

The momentum behind Students United’s message may never have picked up had it not been for social media, which gave the students a massive platform that allowed them to bridge their classmates with the greater community and interested observers across the country.

But what it also offered was a portal allowing the unnerving presence of far-right trolls that brought an entire world into this small community and with it, threats levied toward the students. Ironically, the entry of these trolls, anti-semites and actual racists was actually what helped to bring the community together, Ellis said, bringing even the most hesitant members of the cast around to the idea that the play needed to be changed. They did so by polarizing the debate, casting Ella – with her

dents United and their families.”

“I think I’ve kind of been in a bubble... thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It’s not. People like me are gonna have to get up off their fathers’ laps and go out and fight for it.”

–Tracy Turnblad Then again, the simplistic reaction – the sheer rejection of new ideas – was only to be expected. Ellis’ father, a therapist by trade, noted that children, from a very young age, tend to select their playmates based on who looks like them. But in our larger society, he said, there are other various cultural overlays we live within, and because of the divisions that often go unexplained, it gets harder and harder for kids to understand where that innocent, self-selecting form of choosing who you want to play with turns into active prejudice and bigotry.

The obstacle, he said, lies not with the children to solve these problems: it’s about the adults being properly equipped to lead and facilitate these conversations with impressionable youth who at that stage in their life, are equipped and willing to engage in conversations about race, free of the years of preconditioning and indoctrination under their society’s given role for them.

The example set by this year’s protest, he said, could hopefully offer the enduring lessons and transformative change that the student-led movements before them had failed to accomplish. But those students, in numerous interviews, all felt the wave they had inspired has moved students from the class of 2018 down to the middle school, who they trust will maintain the momentum of the movement Students

United had inspired across more than just the theater.

“Talking about race is complex,” Ellis said. “We as a society tend to prefer simplicity. People are busy, and humans try to avoid what’s painful, and that’s what creates conversation around the things that are important.

When we embrace complexity, we have to slow down, and put ourselves in other people’s shoes in order to challenge our own ideas. It’s a big ask.”

“[to Edna, as she resists the urge to jump onto the stage and dance] Do it now! Or forever wish you had!”

–Wilbur Turnblad At first, Steinhagen was concerned with casting.

Already doubted by some in the administration who, initially, said mounting a new play on such short notice would be impossible, he often heard from parents and others in the school that while staging a new play is what should be done, their crazy idea might not work, or “that we wouldn’t be able to cast it.”

“We had that faith,” Steinhagen said, “but also the concern that if we opened the doors, that people might not walk through them.”

And so the students, and their new director, decided to fight for it.

The group did an insane amount of outreach, from reaching out through various religious organizations, to organizations like Southside and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center. Steinhagen himself even walked through the cafeteria, handing out fliers to anyone who would take one. The call? Literally anyone: no experience or audition required.

“We wanted to spread the word that we literally wanted everyone,” he said.

And everyone they received: the day of auditions, more than 60 kids showed up, approximately 40 percent of whom were students of color. Many of them had never acted in a play at Ithaca High School before. Most were inspired because of the work of people like Steinhagen and Students United.

Everyone for a while had been telling Zhyana Masker, a Sophomore on the cheerleading squad, said that for years she had been yearning for a chance to get her voice out but, in all her years at IHS, never saw the opportunity for fear of being judged.

But this year, she saw somet hing dif ferent: a chance to be included, a nd to do so free of judgement. Urged a long by her cousin Ty – a senior taking his first dive into acting – the pair are finally getting involved in something that had for so long, never seemed like an option.

“I was feeling so trapped and I felt like I couldn’t do anything, because I was going to be judged,” said Masker. “But they don’t judge you here. It’s like we all understand each other. We all feel so connected in ways you never thought we’d feel connected.” contin u ed on pg. 17

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cultural barriers in Puerto Rico, which dictate that those jobs would be handled almost exclusively by men – something not uncommon in America too, the group said, where trades are still a male-dominated field. As is often found, though, Klemperer-Johnson said they were discouraged by others prior to the trip that they would find no interest. The truth was quite the opposite: they ended up teaching one threehour session with around 40 women attending, and demand was so high they had to create a waitlist. Somewhat surprisingly to them, Puerto Rican men were welcoming and receptive of their presence as well. As the island’s residents have watched their plight fade from the headlines, they’ve become desperate not only to receive help but to learn the skills necessary to help themselves.

Upon their return to the country, the group aims to hold a two-day workshop (up from their previous three-hour session) to cater to demand for the class. Here lies the crux of the mission: whenever Hammerstone is no longer able to travel down to help, they want to plant the seeds of change among the community to help women become, and more importantly stay, involved with building, repairing, fixing, and the rehabilitation effort at large. As women who have secured professional careers in the field, they each felt their message resonated more with their students.

“Our vision is there’s a handoff,” Kitson said.

“Right now, we have certain skills that we are looking to share with them, teach them so the women can go and do them themselves.”

They chose Puerto Rico for a rather simple reason: even after the widespread damage

inflicted by last year’s hurricane season, it seems like the place that needs the most help. It’s hard to argue with their conclusion. KlempererJohnson said she was frustrated by the system of dependency she felt the United States had nurtured with Puerto Rico, only to abandon the island in its time of greatest need.

Now a full 6 months after Hurricane Maria made landfall, the island is still staggering towards recovery, with a recovery effort that can at times seem insurmountable, exacerbated by a dwindling workforce due to an ongoing population exodus to the mainland United States.

Some can’t even start their rebuilding efforts while they wait for insurance adjusters to assess the damage to their property, all the while dealing with failing or failed access to running water and electricity.

With one excursion under their belt, the women now know what they want to accomplish when they make their way down there again: finishing Pucha’s home, teaching the extended workshops and finding more specific projects. But getting back to Puerto Rico is the next challenge: the team wants to raise $50,000 via GoFundMe, which they estimate gives them enough funding to make a second trip and solidify a third as well. As the group worked, their initial emotions gave way to a sense of optimism. There’s still months and years of work to be done, but observing the will-power of the people there, they know they can contribute just as much back.

“I came away with hope, empowerment, inspiration, and I think we all did somewhat,” Alario said. “There’s a desire for the island to be fixed, there’s a desire for women to be more involved in that [...] There’s hope.”

–Matt Butler

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benefits, the maximum benefits would accrue on investments made for a period of ten years or more.

“We look forward to working with governors to implement this important provision that will encourage private investments in communities that need it the most,” said Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, in a news release.

“The resulting benefits will be jobs and economic growth to move these communities forward and provide a brighter future.”

Given the criteria laid out by the federal government, TCAD isolated 16 census tracts in Tompkins County included among the 2,051 eligible tracts within New York State. However, given an allocation of just 513 tracts to recommend to the federal government for inclusion in the program, TCAD – after consulting numerous planners and other officials in Tompkins County – plans to propose just six in advance of the government’s April 20th deadline. Most of those, according to a March 21 memo from the County’s Department of Planning and Sustainability, will be focused in the City and Town of Ithaca. According to the memo, in order for a project to be likely for selection by the governor, several criteria need to be in place for consideration: beyond being low income, targeted census tracts should also contain projects that are shovel-ready or already deep in the project review process; have already attracted investment from the state or private sector, have access to technological innovation or will be affected by housing speculation, and areas that need more investment to “reach the next stage.”

Tompkins County – and Ithaca in particular – has plenty of these, aided by the universities,

already booming local investment and a low income rate driven down largely by the massive student population. Optimistically hoping for the approval of three of their recommendations, TCAD recommended these six census tracts for the governor’s consideration, Other qualified sites in the city included Collegetown, Cornell’s campus, Fall Creek and Ithaca College. Newfield, Enfield, Caroline and Danby were also listed as eligible for the program, however, due to the limited infrastructure on the sites, they weren’t included in the application.

Asked by County Legislature Chair Martha Robertson why the rural zones weren’t seriously considered and whether or not the tax incentives would be substantial enough to encourage serious investment in less-than-attractive investment areas, TCAD Director Michael Stamm put it simply: these proposals needed to be able to be competitive for developers on a national scale, and be able to offer a serious bid for private developers to put their money down and, in theory, create jobs.

“You could put an O-Zone tract into a corn field in Tioga County,” said Stamm, “but you’re not going to get much economic development.”

The legislature will not be able to vote on these measures (the Planning Department submitted their recommendations for an endorsement, rather than a resolution) and the proposal will be submitted to the state on April 20th, after which, Stamm joked, the Trump Administration is expected to accept Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposals with “full confidence.”

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the same reassessment schedule as City of Ithaca residences, which is currently every two years.

“It’s not a secret that market values within Tompkins County are increasing,” Franklin said. “We have such a low supply of for-sale housing, while there’s still such high demand and interest rates are favorable. It’s just basic economics. High demand and low supply is going to drive up prices.”

Franklin cautioned against too much anxiety regarding the assessments. There’s still time for the informal review process to take place, in which property owners can appeal their property’s assessed value with the department.

There’s also more information to be gathered about some of the county’s larger development projects, which could impact final numbers: Franklin said his team was only able to estimate a certain amount about the progress of projects like the Maplewood Apartments redevelopment in the Town of Ithaca, or the City Centre or Harold’s Square project in the city’s downtown, and while considering tax abatements, those estimations could become clearer in the coming weeks and months before the assessments are finalized.

“At this point in time, there’s nothing to get frustrated about or to get up in arms about,” Franklin said. “This is just a preliminary assessment roll, according to the best information that we have available [...] If we start hearing more people come and complain about the numbers in a particular area, then we’ll go and review that area.”

With two weeks still to go in the appeal window, Franklin said they have received 592 com-

plaints so far, which isn’t inordinately high for his Newfield properties – a four-unit apartthis point in the process. The average percentage ment – saw its assessment jump $10,000 this of assessments that are appealed annually is year. Meanwhile, the neighbors of that property, 10.77 percent over the last 10 years, which equals who own a single-family home and do not rent 1,159 anticipated reviews. The last day to file an it out, have only seen their property value rise appeal is April 6, 2018. $5,000 total over the last several years. There’s Though it apparently has not yet manifested certain differences there, most prominently that in a high appeal yield, area landlords are having McIlroy’s four-unit structure meets the criteria a strong reaction privately to the new assess- of a commercial property, but he claims the ments. age, condition and square footage of the two are “Everybody’s freaking out,” said Brian McIl- similar and he feels its an indicator of inequity roy, the president of the Landlords Associa- in the process, something he feels has been prestion of Tompkins County (LATC). He said the ent for years. organization’s listserv has been overrun the last Franklin denied that landlords are being sinseveral weeks as landlords around the county gled out, or at least not for that reason. He said receive their new assessments. that perception might stem from the assessment The assessment increases are significant, yet department’s natural process. That process, whether the landlords’ fear is warranted cannot unsurprisingly, has led them to look where value be known for sure yet. The potential increase is increasing, and in the last several years that in property taxes won’t be actually known for sector has been in rentals. months; the school districts will determine their Just how strong the market is for rentals is a tax levies around September, with municipali- subject of some debate, and the increase could ties following in the subsequent months. If those potentially have implications on the county’s levies stay the same, property tax payments will favorite topic: affordable housing. The natural probably stay within a nominal increase. But flow of money is for landlords to recoup some McIlroy, a municipal bookkeeper by trade, said of their tax expenses via rent raises, and if those that’s an unlikely proposition. With this much expenses increase rent normally increases in Georgia@ithacatimes.com 607-277-7000 x220landlords in a difmore money in the tax base, either someone’s kind, McIlroy said.

This puts school district, county, or local municipality ficult position, though, because of what McIlroy Newspaper: is going to take advantage of the extra oppor- said is a “softening market.” With more empty tunity. McIlroy said his main point of conten- apartments now than landlords are accustomed tion is his perception that landlords are being to seeing over the last few years, increasing rent unfairly targeted for increases on their rental could be the difference between filling a unit properties, as well as the assessment depart- and having it sit dormant. ment being behind the actual current market.

He’s realistic, and said he knows property values Read more online at Ithaca.com are going to normally increase, especially in a place like Tompkins County, but it’s the amount –Matt Butler that troubles him. He said after consulting the county’s property database, he noticed one of

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such as the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, which Myrick said would hopefully serve as a funnel to the health-hub if it is established. After months of community discussion among the public and elected officials, the plan looks poised to be implemented in the near future, as Myrick confirmed all the concerned parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding regarding the program. Other aspects will stall, however, without the help of Bloomberg.

The safe injection site became the flash-point of Myrick’s Plan Ithaca, despite only being one initiative in a larger drug strategy motivated by harm reduction. Ithaca grabbed national headlines as one of the potential early adopters of a drug crisis solution that has now, almost two years later, been introduced in Seattle and Philadelphia, with more locations possibly on the horizon. In the meantime, the effort for a safe injection site in Ithaca has made minimal tangible headway; the plan’s progress is hampered by law and won’t be able to move forward until legislative action by the New York State government.

If, or when, that does happen, he said having this facility in place would allow for a quicker Client: implementation of that proposal which would be more wholly effective as well, providing some infrastructure to enable the facility to offer services for a wide swath of people, not just those dealing with drug addiction. “[It] lays the groundwork and makes sure that it’s not a standalone service, that it’s swaddled in everything you need for a safe injection site to actually be a pathway to recovery,” Myrick said.

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aligned on Saturday…

I worked at Cornell Athletics when Paletta suited up for the Big Red, and the Class of ’87 Tri-Captain now has three daughters playing Division 1 lacrosse. Natalie and Grace both suit up for Cornell, while Carolyn plays at Brown. Steve and his brother own a construction company in New York City (working on underground infrastructure), and the Civil Engineering major has been fortunate enough

to carve out some time in his schedule to take over a girls’ lacrosse team from Stamford, Connecticut. “I have always dreamed about coaching lacrosse, and now I am able to do it.” He added, “I told them that I would need some flexibility because I have three daughters playing collegiate lacrosse, and they have been very accommodating.”

I also spoke to B.J. Bliss, Ithaca High’s first-year coach, and he said “This scrimmage,

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luncheon and campus tour was set up by the previous coach (Lyn Reitenbach), and bringing in a team that is very inexperienced, and showing them what it’s like to have a strong program with parental and community support is a way for us to continue to grow the game.” Paletta concurred, saying “Many of our girls have never played outside of the state, and some have just started playing.

Having them see what a strong developmental program can do is very helpful, and the opportunity to tour some of the campus and let them see a D-1 game is a very eye-opening experience for them. Everything about it has been enlightening.”

The luncheon (held at Cornell) featured a lot of parents in attendance, and Mark Campagnolo of Ciao and the generous folks at DiBella’s put on quite a feast. Paletta gave a nice “thank you” speech, and it was clear that he enjoyed the opportunity to bring two such important pieces of his life together.

As Paletta spoke, both teams wore t-shirts in support of the students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, and then Steve presented a check for $1,000 for Lacrosse for Literacy, a new program started by the Ithaca High program.

Jeff Hall – the marketing guy at Cornell Athletics – told me, “My daughter, Maddie, plays for Ithaca High, and it’s important for these players to do things ‘outside the lines,’ to tie in with the community and build relationships off the field.”

Some former Cornell players were there, like Brian Lasda, whose daughter, Jamie, plays for the Little Red, and Riley McDonald, who played on the legendary Big Red teams that won a record 42 straight games from 1976-78.

McDonald is helping Paletta take the Stamford program to the next level, and it’s always fun to see these guys – now in their 50’s and 60’s – stepping into Schoelkopf Stadium, letting the memories sweep over them.

If the name Steve Paletta sounds familiar, it might be because he was the winner of Oprah Winfrey’s philanthropy reality show, “The Big Give” in 2008. He took half of his million dollar prize and used it to launch GiveBack, an organization which allows people to easily start their own personal foundation. In short, a GiveBack user can donate directly to his or her foundation with a tax-deductible gift and give away the money to an accredited charity whenever they want. Or, when someone with a GiveBack account makes a purchase from one of the 450 participating national companies, that company will donate a percentage of the sale back to the person’s foundation account.

(Details can be found at www.givebackfoundation.org) I asked Paletta if “paying it forward” applied to his budding coaching career as well as his philanthropic endeavors, and he replied, “As a player, I got to be around Richie Moran, one of the greatest coaches ever. I hope it rubs off.”

The Cherry adapts an Edgar Allan Poe film

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man travels across the U.S. to visit a friend, after receiving a distressing letter from him detailing a self-diagnosed disease. Upon arrival, the threads of the story begin to unravel, revealing themes of mental illness and suspense — before the supernatural begins to set in.

The Fall of the House of Usher, one of the many pieces written by American author Edgar Allan Poe, sets the stage for the 1928 French silent film, La Chute de la maison Usher. Combining elements from this story and other Poe pieces — such as The Oval Portrait — the film paints a backdrop for a live score, using song to intensify the theme of the movie.

And The Cherry Artspace brings La Chute de la maison Usher to Ithaca, with live score by Ithaca artists Anna Coogan and two-piece band Czar.

House of Usher, a multimedia performance, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday March 30–31 at The Cherry Artspace. The show merges film, music and a theatrical stage set together in order to bring the French classic to life. The music featured in the show combines percussion, synthesizers, operatic vocals and more to bring this film into the 21st century while still maintaining artistic vibes from the 1920s.

Coogan wrote the score for the film back in 2015, performing it live for the first time during the Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival. While the piece worked as a straight live score, Coogan said she looked to do more with the piece, combining more theatrical elements with the film and music. But in 2015, there wasn’t a venue in Ithaca that would be able to host a multimedia show — until The Cherry was built.

“I was like, ‘Show me a theater, and then we’ll talk,’ and sure enough, they did,” Coogan said. “[The Cherry’s team] built a theater, so I’ve been working with [Artistic Director] Sam Buggeln these last couple of months on preparing this piece. The music is more or less the same from 2015; there’s all sorts of other elements, including foley, which is sort of radio sound effects.”

And then the show quickly came together, in as quickly as a matter of a couple of weeks, Coogan said. She said she visited The Cherry to check on the set, and one day the stage would be built and the next the modular stage pieces would be ready for production. Then comes the full-band rehearsal — something taking place the week of the show — before the two-day production Friday and Saturday.

Coogan describes La Chute de la maison Usher as a “whirlwind of a bunch of different Edgar Allan Poe pieces,” something she didn’t catch on her first view of the film. Being aware

Anna Coogan and Czar’s performance from Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival in 2015. (Photo provided)

that the movie combines stories outside of The Fall of the House of Usher, her, Czar and the rest of the creative team reference other Poe stories throughout the production.

Along with the Poe pieces, Coogan draws upon her history as a musician in this show as well: trained as a vocalist and opera singer, Coogan adds strong operatic vocals to the score. While opera hasn’t been something she’s worked with in a while, Coogan said she enjoyed getting reacquainted with the artform — adding to the spooky tone of the film.

The score itself, while using old sounds like opera vocals, is primarily a modern take. Coogan and Czar use synthesizers, electric guitar, foley sounds and other modern instruments to craft a score that would not be possible to hear in 1928. She said this allows the film to enter the minds and eyes of the modern audience: adapting the art for the viewers of today.

“I think the combination of electric guitars, synthesizers and vocals is too cool to walk away from,” Coogan said. “Bringing your take on an old film is really important. It’s really interesting for modern audiences.” • M a rc h

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More than a Quick Meal

Taste of Thai Express offers flavor and variety

By He nr y Stark

Employees Grace Fuller and Francis Lee hold up a Taste of Thai takeout bag.

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The interior of Taste of Thai. (Photo: Casey Martin)

hen Taste of Thai Express first opened on Meadow Street I routinely passed it by thinking it was either a grab-and-go establishment or one where you’d call in an order and then drop by later to pick it up. What else could the “Express” mean?

I have subsequently learned that it’s a sit-down restaurant serving a broad assortment of quasi-aut hentic, wellseasoned Thai food that happens to have been given a misleading name.

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courses are brought to the table simultaneously so that the flavors and textures of the dishes can complement each other.)

If you appreciate value and variety you might opt for the Set Menu at lunch.

There are two course (appetizer and main) options for $12 and $14 and a three course (add a dessert) choice for an additional $3. The difference in the two course price is based on your choice of an add-on: shrimp and seafood are $2 more than chicken, pork, beef, tofu, vegetable, or mock chicken. Portion sizes are generous.

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some of the excess noodles and dipped the shrimp in the accompanying chili sauce. Another appetizer I have tried is their Chicken Wings – three large wings that are split and served on a sad looking leaf of wilted lettuce. My server told me I had a choice of how “hot” I wanted them, so I asked for the wings to not be spicy, and they arrived exactly as ordered: not spicy. They were well cooked and tasty, though I would have been happier with a different ratio of bread crumb coating to chicken, i.e. less bread crumbs. Since the wings were just a bit dry, I inquired if there were any dipping sauces but was told there aren’t any.

As in many Thai restaurants there are two soups: Tom Kha, a creamy coconut base loaded with thickly sliced mushrooms and a variety of Thai herbs; and Tom Yum, a hot (it’s not very spicy) and sour (it’s not very sour) based broth with a variety of vegetables. As an add-on, which is included, I usually order more vegetables. I tend not to order chicken as an add-on at Taste of Thai Express because I have often found the thin slices overcooked with a rubbery texture and, as an alternative, the vegetables here are exceptional: thickly sliced and cooked a perfect al dente. Both soups are robust and tasty and I have often ordered them by the pot as a full meal.

With the set meal, there is an extensive variety of choices for your entrée. The Thai staple of Pad Thai is well cooked and comes with the standard ingredients of rice noodles, tofu, egg, bean sprouts, and crushed peanuts with a hint of lime.

It’s a good fall back dish for people trying Thai food for the first time. Included in the Asian Style Wok Stir-Fry section I like Ginger Delight, which is a hearty stew with ginger strips, perfumed shitake mushrooms, and black fungus. If you like nuts, the

Cashew Stir-Fry is tasty with large pieces of vegetables perfectly cooked.

On the other hand I find the sauce that comes with Spinach & Peanut Sauce a bit too sweet.

The dinner menu is almost identical to the lunch menu except the entrées come in larger portions and are priced $3 to $4 higher.

Chopsticks are not usually offered at a Thai restaurant (although Thais use them occasionally; they normally use a fork to push food onto a spoon, which is then utilized to carry the food to the mouth) and there are no salt or pepper shakers anywhere in sight.

This restaurant does not have a liquor license. As an alternative to alcohol, there’s a separate tea menu with four herbal caffeine free items plus three black teas, four green tea options, and two loose leaf pot choices. I always order a glass of Thai iced tea. It comes in a large glass, and I enjoy inserting a straw through the layer of cream at the top.

The interior of the restaurant is strictly functional with an open dining area framed by large windows offering a view of traffic moving north on Meadow Street.

The parking area can be limited during peak periods.

After I learned to get past the “Express” in the name, I’ve stopped at Taste of Thai Express often and so far, have never been disappointed. •

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Comedian and musician Demetri Martin in Ithaca

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Demetri Martin on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. (Photo provided)

emetri Martin is a stand-up comic with a penchant for guitar picking and cartooning. He’s best known for his contributions to “The Daily Show” and his Comedy Central sketch show “Important Things With Demetri Mar-

tin”. He’s also starred in the films Taking Woodstock and Contagion, and he recently wrote, directed and produced his first film, Dean. Martin will bring his multilayered deadpan comedy — when you know how much he loves Steven Wright, it

all makes sense — to the State Theater on Friday, March 30.

Martin spoke to the Ithaca Times about his show, working for Netf lix and freedom.

Ithaca Times: I know better than to ask comedians to tell me their jokes, but can you talk about the show you’re doing?

Demetri Martin: Yeah. I just shot a special for Netflix that’ll come out sometime this spring. This is kind of that tour, with a little bit of new material that I’m developing. So it’s a fairly polished set of a new hour of material, with — I usually put new stuff in the middle of the set, as I start to build toward the next special, or whatever it’s going to be. It’s mostly one-liners, but I have some drawings, and I play the guitar a little bit in the show.

There’s a couple little stories, so it’s kinda what I usually do, but it’s got a little more to it because of the stories that I tell. But mostly I’m a joke teller and I don’t have a whole big autobiographical story kind of set. It’s mostly jokes.

IT: I’ve talked to other comics who produce for Netflix. What’s your experience been like?

DM: It’s been good so far. I’m grateful that I got to do a second special for them; I did one that came out in 2015 [Demetri Martin Live at the Time] and this is my second one. They’re cool, it’s nice because you can go in the edit if you want to — I guess every comic works differently. I like being involved and putting the thing together after I’ve shot it. Their notes, in my experience, have always been really

sensible and the people who run the standup division are real comedy fans. You know, it’s nice, they have a lot of experience with stand-up, and they like standups. It seems like an obvious thing to say, but that’s not always the case, so it’s nice.

IT: I can’t think of any other performer that’s had so much freedom.

DM: Yeah, I feel lucky that I’ve been kind of slow and steady. I’m not like the biggest act out there and I’m not super-rich or anything, but yeah, I make a living, and I think the trade-off is that I mostly get to do what I want to do, without compromising too much. Maybe to a fault because, you know, maybe I’d be more successful, but I can’t complain. I feel like, for me, probably the luckiest thing is that the people that come to my shows, they usually get really good crowds, like, people that I like. And the times I meet people after shows, they tend to be people I would spend time with. I’m sure if I lived in that city or town there’d be – you know what I mean? Like, what you put out there is kind of what you get back. Show business is weird because if you’re lucky enough to make a living doing it, the freedom that you have, often creatively, the flip side of it is, it’s just a burden of having to generate work for yourself. You know, book the dates or write scripts or whatever it is. The nice thing, if you get on a sitcom, you have a job, okay, cool, that’s where I go to work.

But for me, it’s like, kind of like running your own little business. You have to just stay on top of it. •

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easy task, but when you have five people pulling inspiration from so many different places, it can be a challenge to make it all come together smoothly. Noon Fifteen took on this challenge artfully with their debut EP “Volume 1” which was released in December. Everyone agreed that the release of the EP was their biggest milestone to date, but each added that this is only the beginning. You can listen to the 6 song EP on noonfifteen.com, iTunes, Spotif y, and Bandcamp among other

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Noon Fifteen performs at The Range

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here’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be periodical.” — John Mayer As I was searching for the right words to start this article, I stumbled across this quote that put it perfectly. Soul music is a genre that reaches through the speakers and hits you deep down. It speaks to the human spirit we all share in a primal way, which is why the genre has had such long standing success and the all time greats like James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin, among many others, are still widely listened to today after decades.

Noon Fifteen is a progressive soul band from Ithaca that hopes to blaze their own trail in the soul scene. The five-piece band consists of frontwoman Mandy Goldman on vocals and guitar, Samuel Lupowitz on keyboards, Joe Massa on guitar, Harry Nichols on bass, and Phil Shay on drums.

Lupowitz and Nichols also provide vocals as well. They pull inspiration from a myriad of different influences including “1960s California and Liverpool, 1970s Memphis and New Orleans, and DIY ethos of the internet-powered music scene”, as their website (noonfifteen.com) puts it.

Formed in Early 2016, Noon Fifteen is a prime example of what happens when you make the best of a bad situation. Everyone was already involved in the music scene through other shared projects. Joe and Mandy played in one of Sam’s former bands, and Harry would frequently bor-

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row Sam for his own project. When the two projects came to end near the same time, it only made sense to create a group from the pieces. With the addition of Phil Shay, they come together as Noon Fifteen.

Their mission is to create vocal heavy songs that focus on songwriting and rich vocal harmonies, in unique yet relatable song structures.

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platforms. You can also subscribe to their YouTube channel as they are releasing “inthe-studio” videos for each of the songs they recorded. However they suggest you come and pick up a physical copy of the EP at their upcoming show at The Range on March 31st with “The Phryg”.

The music writing process has always seemed like a magic trick to me, especially

for bands. You take a group of different musicians, each with their own taste in music, style of playing, and life experiences, and you combine them all to somehow come out with original music that people want to hear. Fortunately for us, Noon Fifteen has gone out of their way to share their music writing process with us with their podcast which is available on their website, and most podcast platforms.

Lupowitz is the mastermind behind this out-of-the-box way of sharing their music and the story behind it. When I asked him what drove him to this idea he replied, “I like to make the music-making process very transparent. We live in a time when music is more accessible than it’s ever been, which is wonderful, but it can start to feel like songs are just sort of these omnipresent products that you can call forth with the touch of a button. I’ve always been as fascinated with the craft behind songwriting, playing, and recording, as I am with the music itself, and the podcast was a fun way to connect that process to the end result for the listener -- plus you get a sense of the band camaraderie.”

Goldman also added, “We also wanted to cater to other musicians like ourselves, who are fascinated by the craft and the process. We all learn something every time we hear about the process of our fellow artists, and I think we even learned about each other and our music more in making it.”

Noon Fifteen is another prime example of talented original musicians that help make our music scene so special. They’ve only starting creating their own brand of progressive soul music, but already their sound makes you want to listen again and again. With the added bonus of insight into the meaning and process of writing those songs, you seem to be able to connect to the music that much more. Make sure to check out the podcast and see them at The Range on March 31st to see what I mean. •

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“I feel like with this play, the friendships that I’ve made are going to last longer,” said Eavina Barrett, a Junior in her fourth production at IHS. “I think it’s a great learning experience… every line I say, Joey will always break down and show me the power in each word.

I’ve never thought about the play that way in any other production I’ve seen of ‘Hairspray.’”

The dynamic the casting crew created, Pletter said, had the intended effect.

“If you want different kids, you’ve got to go find them, you have to really go get them,” said Pletter. “And we did. Almost every single person of color to show up for auditions who had never shown up before, remembered seeing the movie as a kid and remembering that, in that movie, were people that looked just like them.

For us, it was a matter of knowing that ‘if you build it, they will come.’”

And they had help to facilitate it all: People have donated food, lighting, even costume design and the online data processing needed to handle the ticket sales.

And leading up to t he performance, Steinhagen has added a fourth show to their weekend run, in anticipation of a massive influx in demand from the community.

“It’s an ensemble art. It takes a village of people all pulling in the same direction to create a piece of art. To be a part of something that just has this deeper, social meaning to it… it’s been a privilege.”

“Velma, isn’t this where it’s all heading anyway? Now you can fight it, or you can rock out to it!”

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The problem the students are grappling with today should have perhaps, been addressed years ago, as old voices left and new ones, handed the weight of institutional prejudice long unabated, were ignored. You could say the cycle

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late-’90s, when that production of The Wiz was put on as the salve of another wound in the school’s artistic community. The themes addressed in ‘Hairspray’ this year mirror what the kids are going through in real life: integration, better representation, and students leading the way. And among those along for the ride, they feel something is different about this time around.

“It feels like there is something greater happening in our culture,” said Steinhagen. “This time feels like we won’t be satisfied ever going back, and there’s an entire generation of students who refuse to go back to a place where they aren’t going to be heard and seen.”

At tending a recent rehea rsa l, t he harmony among the cast hardly seems superficial. The dance steps may not fall in unison, but they’re always together, always landed with a smile. Seniors joke w it h freshman, and when t he music starts, they all erupt with the same groove.

For all their hard work (even Steinhagen lauds the progress the inexperienced group has made over the past several weeks), one may reflexively say that their journey, as difficult as it was, will all be rewarded on opening night.

But that’s not the point, said Pletter.

“I have never, in my life, been a performance guy,” he said. “I don’t do this for performances. I don’t even like performances that much. I stood right here, last night, with a few of the women of color for this show, and every single one of them said ‘this show has changed my life. Now, when I look at the theater, I see that there’s a place for me.’ That is why we do it.”

“If we teach them how to do theater, we’ve failed,” he continued. “We teach them how to be people. For the community, if you’re worried about the future or whatever issue is out there, all I can say to them is to trust the kids the way we do.

Because they always come through.” •

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Music 3/28 Wednesday Jesse Collins Quartet | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Monks on the Commons, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca | (Jazz) Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

The Electrozone: You Were Always My Favorite | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands,

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Spencer and Rains | Thursday, March 29, 18 | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale The Neighbors | 8:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | Sophistafunk | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Funk, Hip-hop)

3/30 Friday

Small Tattoo with Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Felicia’s Atomic Brewhouse and Bakery, 45 E Main St, Trumansburg | (Old Time) Rachel Beverly | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca | Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Free Music Happy Hour | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Check thedockithaca.com for band schedule) Bad Alibi | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Classic Rock) Tenzin Chopak | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Roots, Progressive chamber folk, World beat rock, Improvisational) Lunar Landings #3: B33T JU1C3 and Smaxkult | 8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Sacred Root Kava

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The Phryg, Noon Fifteen | 9:00 PM,

Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

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Bound for Glory | 8:30 PM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Bound for Glory’s weekly live show.

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Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, April 3, 18 | The Dock, 415

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Mike Doughty | 8:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer |

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GoGone | 6:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Ampersand Project | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | Sissy Brown | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | (Folk) Contra, Square & Circle Dance with the NO’Shanigans | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | All ages are invited to enjoy our big wooden dance floor, refreshments, good company and music that is great for dancing and great for listening.

The Fly Rods | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Rock) Driftwood | 9:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 522 Main St., Apalachin | (Folk, Punk, Rock)

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Saturday, March 31, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Progressive rock) Alex & Reid | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | (Folk, Blues) Head Band, Johnny Dowd | 10:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca |

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Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road,

Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, April 3, 18 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz)Â I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, April 3, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv)

| Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | An enthusiastic advocate of new and seldom played music, his eclectic repertoire combines works by the great masters with those of lesserknown composers.

Naked Noise 9 | 9:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | The ensemble will perform two 45 minute sets of improvised drone and noise. Participants are encouraged to explore the ring around the space for a unique auditory experience with

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A Short Film About Love | 5:30 PM-8:15 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In this film set during the social unrest of 1980s Poland, attorney Antek Zyro (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) dies in a car accident.

His translator wife, Ursula (Grazyna Szapolowska), tries to continue her own work, raise the couple’s son and refrain from dwelling on the loss of her husband, but she finds that grief is inescapable.

Cornell Cinema Studies in Natural Magic | 7:15 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | This program celebrating the 50th anniversary of San Francisco-based experimental film distributor Canyon Cinema offers an eclectic survey of the natural and built environment featuring new and rarely screened work by 14 artists, including Peter Hutton, Charlotte Pryce, David Gatten, Standish Lawder, and Betzy Bromberg.

The Other Side of Hope | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Willard

Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Displaced Syrian Khaled lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Wikström leaves behind his wife and job and buys an unprofitable seafood restaurant. Also showing March 30 at 9:15 p.m.

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy | 9:15 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | From urban Edinburgh and Glasgow to the South of France and New England, each environment he encounters becomes a fresh kaleidoscopic canvas for his art.

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Friday, 3/30 to Thursday, 4/05. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times Flower |A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. | 90 mins R The Death of Stalin | Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death. | 107 mins R The Party |Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive it becomes clear that not everything is going

to go down as smoothly as the red wine. | 77 mins R The Young Karl Marx |The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London. | 118 mins A Fantastic Woman | Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. | 104 mins R Thoroughbreds | Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost. | 92 mins R The Shape of Water | In a 1960s research facility, Elisa, a mute janitor, forms a relationship with a mysterious aquatic creature. | 123 mins R Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 3/28 , to Tuesday, 4/03. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Ready Player One | When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases

a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. | 140 min PG-13s Best F(r)iends | When a drifter befriends a quirky mortician, an unlikely business partnership is formed. Paranoia soon develops, however, and both men are forced to come to terms with the fragility of friendship and loyalty. | 99 mins Unsane | A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion? | 98 mins R Sherlock Gnomes | Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments. | 86 mins PG Pacific Rim: Uprising | Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. | 111 mins PG-13 Midnight Sun | A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the

Stage Sense and Sensibility | Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Ithaca College Clark Theatre, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | This theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was written by Ithaca College alumna Kate Hamill. This production brings out the absurdity of 19th-century England’s gossip-driven society as the Dashwood sisters deal with the challenges of finding love amid the constraints of social class.

Kinky Boots | 7:30 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | The Innocence of Experience: Fanny Seward in Her Own Words | Thursday, March 29, 18 | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Step back in time with Fanny Seward, the youngest daughter of the famous Auburnian William Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. Based on the diaries kept by Fanny during the Civil War era, this one-act play reveals an American girl living through an extraordinary time.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Lord, Is It I? | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Lansing United Methodist Church, 36 Brickyard Rd, Lansing | This imaginative drama based on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting of The Last Supper will be presented on Maundy Thursday.

Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The bi-weekly drag show with The House of Merlot.

The Baltimore Waltz | Friday, March 30, 18 | Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University, Syracuse | Demetri Martin: Let’s Get Awkward Tour | 7:00 PM-, Friday, March 30, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | The Wedding Singer | 8:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Vet Players, a student-run organization at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and the only musical theatre troupe at a veterinary school in the United States, will perform The Wedding Singer.

Athena Merlot’s Resurrected

Athena Merlot’s Resurrected Birthday Drag Show,

Press Bay Alley, Ithaca Saturday, March 31, 12–3 p.m.

The Range, Ithaca Sunday, April 1, 9 p.m.

Come celebrate the Grand Opening of Sweet Melissa’s in Press Bay Alley. The ice cream season ice cream shop next to Shortstop now has a permanent location in Press Bay Alley, joining the creative and collaborative alley of Ithaca

The House of Merlot’s Drag Mother, Athena Merlot, is another year older! Not that her hip pads are sagging. She’s just as perky as ever and ready to celebrate with some of her favorite queens.

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sunlight. | 91 mins PG-13 I Can Only Imagine | The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe’s beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness. | 110 mins PG The Strangers: Prey at Night | A family staying in a secluded mobile home park for the night are visited by three masked psychopaths, to test their every limit. | 85 mins R Love, Simon | Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. |109 mins PG-13 Tomb Raider | Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. |118 mins PG-13 Annihilation | A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don’t apply. | 115 mins R Game Night | A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. | 100 mins R Red Sparrow | Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations. | 139 mins R Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13 Peter Rabbit | Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer’s vegetable garden. | 95 mins PG Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | 119 mins PG-13

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Birthday Drag Show | 9:00 PM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The House of Merlot’s Drag Mother, Athena Merlot, is another year older! Not that her hip pads are sagging. She’s just as perky as ever and ready to celebrate with some of her favorite queens.

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Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Crossroads Bar And Grill, 3120 N Triphammer Rd, Lansing | Host: Norma H, RSVP: spicechick2@verizon.net.

Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing.

Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball.wordpress.com/ Community Beautification Trainings | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Join the Beautification Brigade and take care of public flower plantings in Ithaca. Have fun, learn gardening techniques, and help keep Ithaca gorgeous. No experience required.

Pint and Paint Night | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | A variety of our craft beer and food will be available for purchase, all of which you can enjoy while unleashing your inner Picasso and taking in panoramic views of Seneca Lake.

Easter Bake Sale | 7:00 AM-12:00

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Capturing and Sharing Our Community Stories Workshop | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Attendees will have the opportunity to hear and engage with our panel of guest speakers including Brad Edmondson, noted local author and oral history consultant, Julia Corrice, Digital Services Librarian from the South Central Regional Library Council, and Elizabeth Bergman from the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute.

Blue Moon Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | At this fire ceremony we will be celebrating Coming into Balance, and we’ll be gifting the Creator Rites of the

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Teen-Only Gaming Sessions | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, April 2, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming sessions. Use our space to play your favorite board games, tabletop RPGs and collectible card games.

Books Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The Southworth Library presents an adult reading and

From left: Scott Dawson as Payne Showers, Katie Davis as Maggie La Rue, and Christopher Manly as Richard in the production of ‘Artifice.’ (Photo provided)

discussion series to explore civic disengagement, social connections and community revival.

Reading & Discussion Program for Adults on James Baldwin’s America | Tuesday, April 3, 18 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Participants will come together over the course of six sessions to discuss a variety of thematically linked texts with Eric Acree, Director of the Africana Library, Cornell University, who will be joined by Kimerly Cornish, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Office of Human Rights, and Marquis Bey, Ph. D. Candidate, Cornell University.

Health Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session.

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his death causes his work to exponentially grow in value — but is he actually dead? Just as two elites from the city venture to Maggie’s home to view the collection, Payne Showers comes home.

And so the comedy unfolds.

The Encore Players’ production of Artifice is directed

by Anne Bialke and Ashley Manning, with showtimes at 8 p.m.

April 20, 21, 27 and 28, and matinee performances April 22 and 29 at 2 p.m. They will perform at the Hidden Falls Barn in Interlaken. •

he Encore Players Community Theatre in Trumansburg returns to the spring stage with a bang, performing comedy/farce pieces, beginning with Artifice.

Written by playwright Anne Flanagan, this show merges relationships, near disaster, intrigue and art together. Flanagan has won the Reva Shiner Award, the McLaren Memorial Comedy Award, and the Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Award for her works.

A familiar backdrop sets the stage for Artifice: a farmhouse in upstate New York, which doubles as the country home for gallery owner Maggie La Rue. After the death of her husband — popular artist Payne Showers — Maggie fell into debt, with her only option being to auction Payne’s paintings to avoid bankruptcy. Lucky for her,

Community School of Music and Arts, Ithaca Saturday, March 31, 8 p.m.

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Tai Chi for Arthritis | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Basic class (falling prevention course) Monday & Wednesday 1-2 pm at Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street. Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Start your weekend off with our intermediate vinyasa flow yoga class, bringing together vinyasa flow yoga and energizing breathing to generate and sustain energy, clarity, and radiance Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00

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Spring Field Ornithology | 6:30 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Cornell

Sense and Sensibility, Ithaca College March 27–31

This theatrical adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was written by Ithaca College alumna Kate Hamill. This production brings out the absurdity of 19th-century England’s gossip-driven society as the Dashwood sisters deal with the challenges of finding love amid the constraints of social class.

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PM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice.

24 Forms Tai Chi (Yang style) | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, April 2, 18 | , , | Monday & Wednesday 2-3 pm at Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street. Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, April 2, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858.

Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM-12:45 PM, Tuesday, April 3, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens.

No experience necessary!

Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Ornithologist Kevin McGowan will deliver a talk on the birds of the Cayuga Lake Basin, followed at 7:30 p.m. by course instructor Dr. Steve Kress, who will talk about how to identify birds and which birds you might see in the Finger Lakes region.

Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, April 1, 18 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about exoskeletons, butterflies, skin and skulls, whooping cranes and much more. Visit www.cayuganaturecenter. org for details.

Learning Writing Through Rough Spots | Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Writing can help to create clarity about challenging situations. Registration for spring classes/more info: www.

WritingRoomWorkshops. Classes offered at various times and locations.

Reppy Institute Seminar: Nuclear Revolutions: How States Use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker: Mark Bell, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota. Brown bag seminar luncheon. Wheelchair accessible; hearing assistance is available with advance notification.

Genealogy Skill Building Workshop by Susan Nixson | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Susan Nixson holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, and she started a genealogy services business, Charting Origins, in 2017. She is a currently a volunteer archivist for the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca.

American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Meet the instructors, find out about course content, get tips from staff who have taken the class. ASL I class starts Thurs Mar 1, 6-8 pm, at FLIC. Blues Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM, Monday, April 2, 18 | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress

at McLallen St, Trumansburg | This workshop, led by TCFA’s Bill Gregg, will expand on topics covered in The Basics Of Blues Guitar series. This course is for guitarists who are familiar with basic blues chord progressions and the blues scales, but anyone familiar with beginning guitar playing could benefit. Please contact billgregg@ harmonic-resources.com.

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Kids Magic Tree House Adventures | Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Each month through June, we will read an exciting adventure and do activities from the fact finders.

Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate how to use tools, through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home.

One Year in Coal Harbor: STEAM Book Club | 3:45 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The STEAM Book Club is designed to encourage area students to improve their understanding of current core competencies through critical thinking and book-related activities.

Sciencenter Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate science processes through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home.

Children’s Art Fun | 11:00 AM-12:30 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This is a drop-in class, and children aged 3 to 6 and their caregivers are invited to celebrate spring by creating their own masterpieces. Stop by anytime to join the fun! For more information about this program, contact the Youth Services Department at 607 272-4557, extension 275.

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, March 29, 18 | Interlaken

Rachel Beverly will perform at Ithaca Bakery 6 p.m. Friday, March 30. (Photo provided)

Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project! Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, March 30, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months old are invited to Baby Storytime. Join us for books, music, movement and rhyming, along with early literacy tips for babies and their caregivers.

Community Easter Egg Hunt | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Bethel Grove Bible Church, 1763 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Join for a

fun, free event with all your favorite activities. All ages welcome. Egg hunt will be separated by age groups, and candy will be nut free.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Discover the world of science at Sciencenter Showtime! Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students.

Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, April 2, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident

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Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds,

Campus-wide, Ithaca College Friday, March 30, 8 p.m.

Corners Gallery, Ithaca Through March 31

Vet Players, a student-run organization at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and the only musical theatre troupe at a veterinary school in the United States, will perform The Wedding Singer.

This exhibit, Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds, features a mix of book arts, ceramics, paintings, relief prints, and paintings

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Maker’s March | Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Inns of Aurora, 391 Main Street, Aurora | Aurora is filled with and surrounded by passionate and talented makers herbalists, potters, painters, book artists, cocktail crafters and more.

Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape paintings by Annemiek Haralson. Ms. Haralson draws inspiration from local hikes, and hopes to convey her love of nature and the beauty around us in her paintings.

29th Annual Juried Photography Show | Thursday, March 29, 18 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | On exhibit are 76 photographs by photographers from NYC, Long Island, Rochester and the Ithaca area.

The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Friday, March 30, 18 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters and it examines themes such as gendered stereotypes, belief in night flying, shapeshifting, demonic pacts, and the witch epidemics that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.

New Wings and Shy Dinosaurs | Friday, March 30, 18 | Franklin Street Art Gallery, 209 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | From scientific illustrations to socially conscious, poetic, surreal and/or conceptual renderings, celebrate the habitats, as well as the birds, bees, and insects of the forests, lakes, streams, and marshes of the Finger Lakes Region and beyond.

Spotlight Exhibit | Friday, March 30, 18 | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring five artists working in a variety of mediums; clay, watercolor, and oil.

Urban Arts Crawl | Friday, March 30, 18 | Downtown Corning, , Corning | The Urban Arts Crawl celebrates the burgeoning, unique art scene

in historic Downtown Corning, each month presenting distinct artists, exhibitions and cultural experiences.

A self-guided, art-centric trail held on the final Friday of each month, The Crawl includes stops at internationally acclaimed museums, community art centers and independent galleries alike.

Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds | Saturday, March 31, 18 | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | This exhibit, Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds, features a mix of book arts, ceramics, paintings, relief prints, and paintings

by Mariann Loveland, Jenny Pope, Lin Price, Margaret Reed, Sylvia Taylor, and Teresa Yatsko. Exhibit on view March 6 - 31.

Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday, March 31, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape paintings by Annemiek Haralson.

Expanding View Project | Monday, April 2, 18 | Gimme Coffee, 506 W State St, Ithaca | Come view the beginning progression from inception of developing 12 residential acres in the nearby Town of Homer.

Many beautiful black and white photographs depicting the architects’ on site work. Stop in and learn how the art of dowsing successfully directed the location of the newly dug pond.

June Szabo: Earth Stories, Wood and Wire Sculpture | Tuesday, April 3, 18 | Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector |

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Guilford, CT needs 4 temporary workers 4/2/2018 to 11/1/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #128356. Diversified fruit and vegetable farm. General duties include: seeding, transplanting, writing labels for transplants, weeding, thinning, cultivating and pruning, less than 15% of the season; planting 15% of the season; harvesting, picking and packing by hand various crops such as leafy vegetables, legumes, squash, tomatoes, root crops, berries, apples, peaches and pears 70% of the season. Other duties including weeding,cutting, and arranging cut-flowers, use of hand tools, setting up, operating and/or repairing farm machinery and fencing. Ability to withstand prolonged exposure to variable weather conditions; also required to bend, stoop or stand for extended periods and lift and carry 50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed. The %’s listed are estimates. Workers may spend 0-100% of their time performing any of the activities listed

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Sharon, MA needs 4 temporary workers 4/1/2018 to 10/31/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply a Employment & Training Resources 275 Prospect s/t. Norwood, MA 781-769-4120 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10143394.

Work may include, but not limited to: Plant, cultivate and harvest various crops such as, vegetables, fruits,horticultural specialties and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, hoes, pruning shears, knives, and ladders tilling the soil, applying fertilizer,transplanting, weeding, thinning, pruning, applying pesticides,picking, cutting,cleaning sorting,packing,processing, and handling harvested products. May se up operate and repair farm machinery, repair fences and farm buildings, also may participate in irrigation activities. Work is usually performed outdoors,sometimes under hot or cold and/or wet conditions. Work requires workers to bend, stoop, lift and carry up to 50 lbs on a frequent basis.

Working off the ground at heights up to 20 ft using ladders or climbing. Requires 30 days experience in fruit and vegetable duties listed.

Harpers Farm & Garden LLC

Lancaster, MA needs 3 temporary workers 4/15/2018 to 11/15/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract Period. $12.83 per hr. Applicants apply at North Central Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10232829.

May perform any combination of tasks, in any type of weather conditions, related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetable crops, including but not limited to: driving, operating, adjusts, and maintains of farm machines, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating, irrigating, harvesting, grading, and packing. May use hand tools such as shovel and hoe, must be able to lift 50lbs. 1 months experience in vegetable duties listed is required.

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needed to merchandise Hallmark products at stores in and around the Spencer area. To apply, please visit: https://hallmark.candidatecare.com

SCHOOL NURSESUBSTITUTE Reposting

OCM BOCES has the need for substitute school nurses in the Cortland areas.

Successful candidate will administer medications & appropriate first aid in accordance with established rules & guidelines. Maintain student health records & medication logs. NYS license as a Registered Professional Nurse required. Send cover letter & resume to: OCM BOCES, Personnel/Recruitment Depart., PO Box 4754,Syracuse,NY 13221 by 04/05/18. For more info., visit: www.ocmboces.org EOE

Special Education Summer School

OCM BOCES has the need for the following summer school staff from 7/6/18 to 8/17/18: * Special Education Teachers, * Teachers of the Deaf * Speech Therapists, * Teaching Assistant/Interpreters, * Teaching Assistants, * Physical Therapists, * Occupational Therapists, * Occupational Therapy Assistants, * Physical Therapy Assistants, * School Nurses. Sites are at various locations through Onondaga and Cortland County.

Interested applicants apply online by 4/1/18 at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information regarding this Summer School posting,please visit our website at: www.ocmboces.org. EOE

Employment Stonefield Farm

Acton, MA needs 3 temporary workers 4/15/2018 to 11/10/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants apply at the North Central Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #10245815.

Work including but not limited to all tasks related to planting, cultivating,and processing of vegetable crops including the operation and maintenance of farm machinery. Work includes construction of trellises, repair of fences and farm buildings, and operation of irrigation equipment. Ability to withstand exposure to variable weather conditions. Workers are required to bend,stoop, reach or stand for extended periods and to lift and carry yp to 50 pounds on a frequent basis. 1 month experience required in work listed.

The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following: Building & Grounds Maintenance Worker: Currently, there is one vacancy.

Min Quals: Visit website. Salary: $16.89/ hr Application Deadline: 4/4/18. Deputy Director of Economic Development #64-164: Currently, there is one vacancy.

Min Quals: visit website. Salary: $68,910.

Exam Date: 6/9/18. Application Deadline: 4/26/18. City of Ithaca HR Dept.,108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 (607)2736539 www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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Winding Brook Turn Farm

is accepting applications for the following: Custodial Worker: Currently, there is one vacancy at GIAC. Salary: $14.34/ hr. Hours: 25 hr/wk. Application Deadline: 4/18/18. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850, (607)274-6539, www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

Winding Brook Turf Farm

Wethersfield, CT needs 3 temporary workers 4/2/2018 to 12/20/2018, work tools,supplies,equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order # 128368. One months experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after direction. Operate truck with flatbed trailer and forklift. Identify and report problems with equipment, paperwork or other related issues Verbally and in writing to dispatch and or shop. Fill out documentation accurately and in a timely manner. Must have valid corresponding commercial drivers license. Must be able to read maps.

Winding Brook Turf Farm

Wethersfield, CT needs 3 temporary workers 4/2/2018 to 12/20/2018, work tools,supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract.

Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #128379. One months experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after direction. Operate truck with flatbed trailer and forklift. Identify and report problems with equipment,paperwork or other related issues, verbally and in writing to dispatch and or shop. Fill out documentation accurately and in a timely manner Must have valid corresponding commercial drivers license. Must be able to read maps.

Wethersfield, CT needs 2 temporary workers 4/2/2018 to 12/20/2018, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $12.83 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263-6020.

Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #128372.

One months experience and working knowledge of the following areas and work unsupervised after directions.

Operate tillage equipment, tractor style harvester and forklift. Operate, set up and take down irrigation equipment. Apply chemicals under supervision. Stack sod on pallets, repair pallets. Identify and report problems with equipment, verbally and in writing to dispatch and to shop.

Perform simple maintenance. Drivers license is required.

Work Environment Health & Safety Assistant

F/T Provisional position available 4/23/18 with T-S-T BOCES Facilities Division.

Detailed Job posting on the BOCES website www.tstboces.org and Careerbuilder.com. Apply online by 4/10/18 at: www.tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca,NY 14850, (607)257-1551, Fax: (607)697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

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