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w s l i n e child outside due to drug activity in the area. He said, “That loss of quality of life has been happening in this community for some time.”

Myrick went on to say that there’s also a need for better prevention and treatment options, adding, “Law enforcement can’t do it alone but note this—without law enforcement we will make no progress.”

Chief of Police John Barber said that he thought the interagency operation put “a serious dent” in drug-related property crimes in the past year.

Although the law enforcement present at the press conference said that they couldn’t quantify the total dollar amount or weight of drugs seized, representatives from the District Attorney’s Office did say that the primary drug seized was heroin,

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thacans who wish to help plan and form the future of this city have many opportunities right now to help shape the collective vision for the future.

The city is moving this year into the more specific, neighborhood-based second stage of rewriting its comprehensive plan this year (see “City Comp Plan Reaches Draft Stage,” April 29 Ithaca Times), which will incorporate all the feedback it gets from residents. To support the fresh comprehensive plans of the city and Town of Ithaca, which finished its latest plan in 2014, the initiative Form Ithaca was created to “update land use regulations” to meet the comp plans’ goals.

Robert Steuteville of Better! Cities and Towns is the lead planner on the project, and he appeared with other planners before town board and the city Planning and Economic Development committee last week to invite everyone to a “charette” to be held the first week of June and present them findings gathered at a January workshop, other public interactions, and a bus tour with city and town stakeholder types.

“We really tried to look at the character of Ithaca to understand the whole range of types of development happening in the city and in the town,” Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative said at City Hall on May 13. “Shallow setbacks and larger lot coverage, these are things we’ve heard that people wouldn’t necessarily think about on their own, but when they look at the images, they prefer denser, more walkable neighborhoods.”

Shown pictures of locations in Ithaca, planners gauged the reactions of residents to different types of buildings: “That’s not what Ithaca looks like” was one reaction planners noted, Demarest said, and some folks had to be convinced that a picture was indeed taken here.

David West of Randall+West Planners told the town board he found through the workshop that “people really get Ithaca in a way that usually only planners think other planners understand.”

“Monoculture developments, independent strip retails, buildings with low lot coverage, on-street parking, those are all things that people rate low,” West said. “People are asking for a change, a new kind of neighborhood, which is really the old kind of neighborhood.”

Demarest and West both described Form Ithaca as an attempt to create a

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n Friday, May 15 local law enforcement agencies got together to announce the results of a 10month operation known as “#11 a.k.a Clean Sweep.” Eleven agencies worked together to identify 33 suspects that produced 21 arrests, for everything ranging from unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle to murder.

Sheriff Ken Lansing told the media, “About 2014 we were starting to realize … we were getting a rash of complaints in the community [asking], ‘What are you going to do about the drug problems in Tompkins County?’”

In response, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office, the Tompkins County District Attorney, the Ithaca Police Department, multiple New York State Police Sheriff Ken Lansing (Photo: Keri Blakinger) divisions, the New York State Division of Parole, the Cayuga Heights Police Department, the along with crack cocaine and marijuana.

Dryden Police Department, the Groton Here’s a rundown of who has been Police Department, and the Trumansburg arrested in this operation thus far: Police Department banded together to Rufus “Esso” Lomax, 39, of Dryden, identify individuals suspected of engaging who was arrested on a parole warrant in drug activity. and charged with one count of Criminal Mayor Svante Myrick said, “I know Possession of a Controlled Substance better than most the toll that drug use and in the Second Degree, an A Felony, and abuse can take on a family.” He recounted one count of Criminal Possession of a that at one of the recent “Coffee with the Mayor and Chief ” gatherings, he heard continued on page from a mother who was afraid to take her

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“ Go into endodontics.”

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“Keep in touch with your friends no matter where you move.”

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“Don’t sell yourself short. Look large and take a leap.”

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“Listen to your parents.”

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ow that tobacco use is nearly as unhip as one-party machine politics, smoke-filled back rooms are a thing of America’s political past. Back room consultations over coffee, however, are still alive and well, if the “Coffee with the Mayor & Chief ” meetings going on in Ithaca are any indication.

The difference between these meetings with Police Chief John Barber and Mayor Svante Myrick and the typical back room summit is that no one is summoned to attend. Anyone can come into the public space of the coffee shop, sit down, and have a chat with the leaders of their city and police department.

Two more of these sessions are scheduled this spring for the mornings of May 20 and 27 at the Gimme! Coffee on West State Street. Four have been held this spring, three at a local Dunkin’ Donuts.

Citizens attending these sessions might want to have a question or two prepared, since the meetings are not an entirely open affair. There is a sign-up system in place with a place to put one’s questions, so the mayor and chief can have one-on-one conversations with their constituents.

Though taking people in by ones or twos doesn’t quite capture the freeranging marketplace aesthetic of Athenian democracy to which some idealists might aspire, the measure of privacy—compared to speaking during privilege of the floor at a city council meeting—does allow people to speak a bit more freely about their issues.

For example, on the morning of May 13 a mother speaking with Barber and Myrick wondered how the city could provide more programs for teenagers.

She wasn’t excusing some “punk ass s**t” her youngster pulled that brought down trouble, but had looked around for mentorship programs to keep older, high school-aged youth, out of trouble and found little. Barber suggested some places she might go, and then Myrick answered her second question—“What are the city’s quality of life goals?”

“Security,” he said first, “so that people can walk down the street without fear.”

The second, Myrick said, was economic security/affordable housing—“I think we’re better than most cities on the first one, and we’re struggling with the second.”

Helen Kuveke, a West Ender, said that she was concerned about people she sees struggling to walk down the street on their own, under the influence of heroin or other substances.

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Helen Kuveke speaks with Chief John Barber and Mayor Svante Myrick. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

are no easy answers for an epidemic that’s gripped rural America for the past 20-plus years.

On the topic of affordable housing, city resident Sean Gannon suggested the city look into guaranteeing loans for housing sales, so “Grandma can get the money from a home, and the grandson can get a house he can afford.” The University of Pennsylvania operates a program in Philadelphia that works to get employees into homes in the city they can afford, Gannon told Barber and Myrick.

Arron Bound, a South Sider, came in to pay the IPD a compliment. He’d seen a street fight broken up by officers a few years ago, in a peaceful manner, and said that in his native Cleveland “they would’ve been thrown to the ground, and everybody would have been arrested.”

Bound did have a question for the chief: Why does the department buy so many SUVs, compared to sedans? Isn’t gas mileage an issue?

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“character code” for new development. The surveys have found eight “focus areas” for potential mixed-use development of lower or higher-density, including East Hill Plaza in the town. There, Cornell has floated the concept of developing that strip mall into something more like a neighborhood with apartment housing, retail, and better walking and bike connections to denser areas. Other focus areas include the Chain Works district, around the Cayuga Medical Center, and much of the western and southwestern city, including the waterfront.

At city hall Alderperson Ellen McCollister (D-3rd) did have a word of caution for planners’ enthusiasms for buildings that cover most of their lot, citing the deep setbacks for homes along Cayuga Street between Court Street and Cascadilla Creek.

“That’s an area with some of our most beautiful lots that people admire, one that’s almost an acre and one next to it

“Really, the mileage is comparable (with sedan cruisers),” Barber said. “They allow us to carry equipment, put a full cage in it, and they’ve got four-wheel-drive, which is really helpful.”

The long, morning lines at Gimme! had both the mayor and chief wondering whether that was just the line for java or if they had far more folks waiting to talk. On this morning, over two hours, they had had about 15 conversations. Some heavy issues were raised, and some were more of a hello and a chat. Betsy Herrington came by to say hello and give a hug to Myrick, and met Barber for the first time.

“About 1 out of 10 are coming to see me,” Barber said. “Well, no, for the record, let’s say two out of three.”

Remaining “Coffee with the Mayor & Chief ” sessions are from 9 to 11 a.m. on May 20 and 27, at Gimme! Coffee, 506 W. State St. • —Josh

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that’s stunning,” McCollister said. “It’s not necessarily how big the lot is but how the house fronts on the street. It’s important that lot size not trump everything else.”

As Form Ithaca moves forward, “there will be a lot of opportunity to take our work and analyze it and see if you like it in a very public way,” Steuteville told McCollister.

That public process will next happen during the upcoming charette—an intensive zoning session, the word coming from the late 19th century when French architecture students were said to be working “on the chariot” as they completed final project models after the school picked them up in a cart.

Ithaca’s next charette begins at 7:30 p.m. on June 3 with a kickoff session and will go through a public presentation at 5 p.m. on June 6, with further work sessions and open office hours to occur in between, with the center of operations at the Unitarian church.

For more information, visit FormIthaca.com. • —Josh

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he north rim of the Ithaca Falls gorge may soon be a space opened to public recreation.

Common Council will be voting at its June meeting on a proposal put forward by the city’s Natural Areas Commission to withhold the white house at 401 Lake Street and an adjoining 0.64-acre property from an auction to pay off delinquent taxes.

“Personally, I find it horrifying to think of selling that house and the property next to it. Who knows who might buy it and who might develop these two parcels,” Nancy Ramage told the Planning and Economic Development committee at their May 13 meeting. “I’m fervently hoping you’ll recommend to the whole of Common Council they save those areas and protect them.”

Joe McMahon, chair of the Natural Areas Commission, and Andy Zepp, head of the Finger Lakes Land Trust, echoed Ramage’s comments.

“We’re a bunch of ordinary citizens trying to preserve a spot that’s really valuable to us,” McMahon said. “You look around the nation, the state, you’re going to see a lot of places like this preserved by ordinary citizens, because people had the foresight to say this is a spot that should

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egislator Jim Dennis got into politics because of one too many trips to the grocery store. It was the 1970s, and Dennis was then an East Hill resident and a regular shopper at John Gutenberger’s IGA grocery store in Collegetown.

Dennis recounted, “[Former mayor] Ed Conley comes over to my house and says, ‘John Gutenberger says you’re a Democrat and you’re a good guy.’ He said, ‘Do you want to be an alderman?’”

Dennis quipped, “Is there a cure for it?”

Conley told him, “No it’s an elected office.

You get paid.” Upon learning that the pay was only $1,500 per year, Dennis said, “Well I’m certainly not going to do it for the money, Ed.” He did do it, though, and was appointed in 1974 to the remainder of a term after the prior alderman resigned.

Two months later he was elected to a term beginning in 1975. Dennis stayed in

Condemned house next to Fall Creek at the falls. (Photo: Brian Arnold)

not be developed.”

“We recently adopted Ithaca Falls as the logo for the brand ‘Ithaca is Gorges,’” Zepp said. “That is the view for 401 Lake Street. The mayor recently was held up as an example for sustainability in a NPR interview, with aspirations of being a goal city where its actions should be a model for the nation.”

A couple committee members expressed mild reservations about foregoing tax revenue from the properties—the total take for the city

is estimated to be $2,696 per year on assessments of $110,000 for the house and $55,800 on the wooded parcel—but letters and comments received were all in favor of withholding the space from auction.

“I’ve heard unanimously from people to retain these parcels as part of a natural area,” said Alderperson Josephine Martell (D-5th), who has acted as liaison to the NAC while this resolution was being written.

“The public discussion has been loud and clear.”

The committee recommended to council that the wooded piece be immediately added to the parkland district, which means more restrictions on the property, and will allow for a year of consideration about what to do with the house until next year’s tax

auction.

The undeveloped property is currently only occupied by an ad hoc target-shooting installation, complete with abandoned mattresses serving as a backstop.

Reached via email, Leah Houghton said that hearing of the property’s current condition saddened her, but was not a surprise. Her husband Jim Novack

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County, Dennis is originally from Waverly. Growing up in Tioga County in the ‘40s and ‘50s, Dennis already felt the pull of the Ithaca area. He said, “My family, we had a boat we’d keep at Taughannock Park, so from the time I was 5 years old we’d come through Ithaca every weekend over the summer and in high school I had teachers who were Cornell grads. So we were very fortunate to have the influence of the university.”

County Legislator Jim Dennis (Photo: Keri Blakinger) In 1960 Dennis graduated and moved onto college at SUNY office till the end of 1987, when he lost to Oswego. He skipped around and attended John Johnson.

Corning Community College, Elmira He said, “Pretty much the reason I College, and Penn State all during his lost in ’87 was because of Collegetown undergrad career. He confessed, “The development. I supported the first truth of the matter is I have a spotted development in Collegetown, and I academic career. I started [college] in supported Cornell coming across the bridge to Collegetown.”

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avid Cady took his own life in his home on Hornbrook Road in Danby, surrounded by dozens of police personnel and vehicles, while an armored Bobcat was tearing apart his house around him. While most people are interested in whether or not this police action was handled in the best possible way, former Tompkins County Undersheriff Derek Osborne seems mostly intent on making sure that he isn’t blamed for anything that happened on those cold days and night at the end of one year and the beginning of another.

On May 17 Osborne sent a ninepage single-spaced letter to all of the Tompkins County legislators that criticizes Sheriff Ken Lansing for “cowardly behavior,” failing to follow department regulations, and generally not running the sheriff ’s department as Osborne believes it should be run. In the letter he calls for the resignations of both Lansing and the new undersheriff (and former county legislator) Brian Robison.

He joined the department as a deputy sheriff in 2001 and retired earlier this year, ostensibly for health reasons.

Osborne came up with the department’s motto, “Honor, Pride, and Integrity,” and has it tattooed on his left shoulder. His nine-page letter is filled with citations of rules, regulations, and codes, forcefully giving the reader the impression that this is a person who thinks of himself as a “by the book” police officer.

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came in from Sgt. Vann that David Cady had a gun and had threatened to use it. Going by the book, he made the calls to put the SWAT team and CINT into action, and he was in command at the scene on Hornbrook Road for the first several hours of the standoff. The sheriff was not present because Osborne could not reach him at his residence in Danby. The former undersheriff writes at great length that Lansing did not follow department protocol to change the listing of his landline number when he moved from Ulysses to Danby. Osborne claims he had no idea how to contact the sheriff, so he simply left him a message on his cell phone.

This is all a red herring because, according to regulations, the sheriff does not have to be present. Nothing in the protocol requires it, and the sheriff is not trained in SWAT or CINT procedures.

Members of the public, however, have expressed outrage at the sheriff ’s absence, and Osborne appears to be seizing upon that fact to point the finger at his former boss.

“In my opinion,” Osborne writes, “the entire Hornbrook Road response was easily defendable based on the facts surrounding it, and the good work of those involved. It’s unfortunate that Sheriff Lansing’s words have to tarnish this good work.”

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Goodbye B.B.

By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

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.B. King, the legendary blues singer and guitarist, died on May 14 at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.

At age 22, King left his native Mississippi to work as a musician in Memphis. At 26, his “Three O’Clock Blues” was number one on the rhythm-and-blues charts.

King played countless thousands of shows in his career, sometimes upward of 350 a year. He continued performing through last October.

Last May, King led a nine-piece band at Ithaca’s State Theater. Dan Smalls produced the show and hired local guitarist Pat Burke to open.

Pat is my brother, and last Sunday we met to discuss B.B. King, his music, and the experience of playing with him.

Ithaca Times: I remember you didn’t get much lead time from Dan Smalls about this show.

Pat Burke: Yeah, I had about two weeks to get ready.

IT: I remember you telling me about it before you replied to him, and asking you, “There’s no chance you won’t do it, is there?”

PB: Right. You might have some trepidation, but you just don’t say no to something like this. I’d have Brian [Pat’s son, who plays fiddle] playing half the show with me, and that would add to the experience.

People know Brian as a guitarist, but he can really play those old-time blues sounds on fiddle. He told me that for weeks afterward, people stopped him on the street to talk about it.

It was also just a matter of honoring B.B. King. It was nice to able to do that while he was still with us. A lot of people are posting videos now, saying “The thrill is gone” and all that, but really, the tribute to a musician is to go to his show.

IT: It was a sold-out show, and a good audience.

PB: Yeah, they were quiet. They listened. I came out for a while to see, but it was nice to be backstage. That’s where I like to be anyway, but he had a really good group of people - maybe thirty. Seasoned professionals. It was very casual and comfortable.

The band played about ten minutes before he went out, so it was loud backstage, and I didn’t speak to him, but Brian and I

were by the curtain when he walked out, and he stopped and held up his hand in greeting and looked us in the eye. Five, six seconds or so, and it felt very extended and meaningful to me, B.B. King stopping on his way out to stage to make us feel we belonged.

There was a dedicated speaker backstage, so we could hear just him. He’d slowed a little, but he still had that signature sound, that intonation when bending a string that’s just his. The slowness added a little grit, which I actually liked.

His voice was still powerful. I noticed

B.B. King with Lucille (Photo: Jennifer Deutschmann)

how musical his voice is, even when speaking, when he introduced the band.

I got caught up in the cadences of it and realized how much it translates to his playing, which is very expressive and voicelike, all single notes and no chords, which is very unusual in blues.

IT: That single-note playing was maybe the most important bridge between blues and rock.

PB: You could mine B.B. King’s solos for stuff you could steal and get away with it. A generation of guys did, from Clapton on down. If you steal off Buddy Guy, it still sounds like Buddy Guy, but B.B. King’s stuff is adaptable.

IT: Thus his influence.

PB: You know, even people who don’t know blues know the name B.B. King. He’s like Muhammad Ali. People all over the world know who he is.

He did what every artist dreams of, playing to the end of his days. It’s one thing to watch videos and see a guy in his prime, but I’m happy I got to see him at age 89. I was in the presence of greatness. •

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This past Saturday night, a lightning strike caused community radio station WRFI’s transmitter to fail. The next 20 hours saw an amazing flurry of community support culminating in the station’s return to air by 7:30 Sunday evening.

Local radio stations have long cultivated a culture of mutual aid and this incident was no exception. Fellow broadcasters WVBR and WSKG jumped into the fray loaning a backup transmitter and other essential doodads. On Sunday, well over a dozen WRFI volunteers scurried across several counties, shuttling parts,

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he GreenStar Cooperative council has voted unanimously to reject the referendum to boycott Israeli products in its stores. The GreenStar council held its monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 12 with more than a dozen community members in attendance.

A lengthy executive session sent the members, waiting to hear if the referendum would be allowed to go to a vote, into the parking lot to wait while the council reviewed what the agenda referred to as “pending litigation” and a “review the legal opinions provided to them.”

The Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine presented the referendum the council. They asked that certain products, such as Sabra and Tribe hummus, be boycotted, and that the membership vote to discontinue carrying products until “changes occurs in the Israel-Palestinian conflict and are recognized by the United Nations.” They initiated the movement within GreenStar through the cooperative’s Food Justice movement.

When the public was allowed back into the meeting council, president 12th Moon read from a drafted proposal.

Council had reviewed the referendum itself and found that it was in order and complete.

The text of the referendum included four questions: 1. Shall Greenstar be required to halt the sale of all Israeli products and produce grown or produced in the Occupied West Bank in Israeli settlements, settlements, which are recognized as illegal under international law?

2. Shall GreenStar be required to halt the sale of all products manufactured by the Israeli Osem Group, or any or its subsidiaries, including Tribe Mediterranean Food products, until the United Nations recognizes that the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are no longer under Israeli military law or

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expertise and brawn. Terry Kelleher of WVBR, Mark Saia of WSKG, were essential in help WRFI secure replacement equipment. Curt Dunnam lent obscure testing equipment. Watkins Glen based WRFI volunteer Bob Fitzsimmons raced from a party with a ladder on his roof rack and grandson in tow and WRFI engineer Joseph Haefeli pulled out all the stops and threw the final switches.

It was a long 20 hours but by the end of the day, the community had it’s station back.

– Felix Titlebaum, General Manager, WRFI control?

3. Shall GreenStar be required to halt the sale of all products manufactured by the Israeli Strauss Group, or any or its subsidiaries, including Sabra Dipping Company products, until the United Nations recognizes that the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are no longer under Israeli military law or control?

4. Shall GreenStar be required to halt the sale of all Israeli products and produce until the United Nations recognizes that the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza are no longer under Israeli military law or control?

Based on the legal advice of two law firms not associated with the issue, one local and one from Philadelphia, it was clear that the referendum was in violation of two of only three bylaws that would have allowed the council to reject a referendum. A referendum has been rejected only three times previously.

Both attorneys had advised GreenStar that “substantial possibility or likely implementation of any of the actions offered by the referendum … would lead to potentially lengthy and expensive litigation and be judicially construed to be in violation of a provision of New York States Human Rights Law.” The law referenced is New York State Executive Law Article 15, which deals specifically with discrimination. The law states that, “It shall be an illegal unlawful discriminatory practice for any person to boycott … because of the race, creed, color, national origin … of such person, or of such person’s … business associates, suppliers or customers.”

The proposal also noted that GreenStar’s liability insurance carrier advised council to follow the advice of their attorney, “in order to preserve the Co-Ops right to maximum coverage.”

Council member Dan Hoffman, who is also an attorney, reiterated the concern for the legal ramifications of the referendum if it passed. He said, “I may not agree with the law against boycotts, but it is New York State law” He also noted that they had expended coop resources to secure these legal opinions and they should adhere to them. The sentiment in

space before, Melissa Cady has publicly accused the sheriff ’s deputies at the door on Dec. 30 of threatening to have social services take the Cady children away. The sheriff ’s department has not denied that deputies do employ this tactic, but they have also not confirmed that it was used in this instance. It would, however, explain a lot of the otherwise inexplicable exchanges that CINT negotiator Mike Gray had with Cady by phone and the extremity of Cady’s state.

The sheriff ’s department has not answered, when asked directly, the question of whether this threat was made.

It was never in any report made to the sheriff, and it is certainly not in Osborne’s letter.

The sheriff is an elected official. The undersheriff is not. Osborne appears to have no appreciation of this crucial difference. In interviews Lansing frequently makes reference to taking into consideration “what the people of this county expect.” It influenced his decision to not allow state police to storm the house at Hornbrook Road in a military-style assault.

Osborne, as the quote above shows, believes that if follow the rules, then everything is “defendable,” apparently regardless of the outcome (the suspect took his own life after failed negotiations).

Lansing, on the other hand, feels accountable to the public and had an extensive after-action report compiled and released to the public safety committee of the legislature and to the public. He is not so sure that everything is defendable. That is a good trait to have in an elected official and is a marked contrast in what we have been seeing in law enforcement around the country. • Drugbust

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Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a B Felony. The arrested netted more than 8 ounces of drugs.

Farida Gurbanova, 24, of Ithaca, who was arrested for two misdemeanors, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Criminal Impersonation in the Second Degree.

Sarah Monroe, 34, of Dryden, who was arrested on one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a B Felony.

Dennis “Life” Livingston, 36, of Queens, who was arrested on three counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, a B Felony; one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 4th Degree, a C Felony; one count of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony; and a misdemeanor paraphernalia charge.

LaRocke House, 35, of Ithaca, who pleaded guilty to one count of Criminal

Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony.

Brandon Peckham, 22, of Ithaca, who was arrested on one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Sell, a B Felony, and Attempted Burglary, an E Felony.

Whitley Taylor, 33, of Ithaca, who was arrested for Robbery in the 2nd Degree, a C Felony; Burglary in the First Degree, a B Felony; and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony.

Donald Lee, 32, of Dryden, who was arrested on Burglary in the 2nd Degree, a C Felony along with B and D Felony drug charges.

Brian Strong, 32, of Dryden, who was arrested for Burglary in the 2nd Degree, a C Felony, as well as B Felony Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree and an A Misdemeanor.

Christopher “Brownie” Brown, of Ulysses, who received five years in prison for Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree and for an Attempted Assault charge.

Gary “G” Kurbanov, 22, who was sentenced to three years in prison after being arrested for Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony, and Attempted Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 3rd Degree.

Jovan Monk, 30, of Ithaca, who was arrested on a felony drug charge that was later reduced to a misdemeanor.

Dan Yetsko, 30, of Ithaca, who was arrested on six counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, all B Felonies.

Brandon “B-Man” Whyte, 28, of Ithaca, who was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 5th Degree, a D Felony, and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony.

Corbin “CC” Whyte, 30, of Ithaca, who was arrested after fleeing from police and taken in on a parole warrant as well as charges of Criminal Mischief in the 2nd Degree, a D Felony, and Reckless Driving.

Lawrence Haskins, 59, of Ulysses, who was arrested on a Fugitive from Justice Warrant out of California.

Vincent “Millz” Bean, 20, of Rochester, who was arrested on a murder warrant out of Rochester and was subsequently turned over to Rochester Police Department.

Bruce Ferguson, 39, of Queens, who was arrested on Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony; two counts of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the 3rd Degree, and a marijuana charge.

Javon Delfyette, 30, of Brooklyn, who was arrested for one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Sell in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony.

Naquan Stevenson, 28, of Brooklyn, who was arrested for one count of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Sell in the 3rd Degree, a B Felony.

Angelo “True” LeGrand, 39, of Groton, who was arrested for a misdemeanor drug charge. •

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Nathan Lewis, an Iraq veteran who lives in Trumansburg, has seen the process of veterans finding ways to memorialize their fallen comrades firsthand. Through his work with Combat Paper Press, a publishing and papermaking project that organizes art and writing workshops for veterans, Lewis sees and hears the stories that surface when people remember those they have lost.

“When someone comes to a workshop, they have the idea of doing a print about their friend,” Lewis said. “They start telling the story and say, “This is him, this is what happened. He was blown up here at this time.” They were like this, and they did that. They keep him alive with a piece of artwork that goes from telling their own story to helping other people who can’t tell their story.”

More recent returnees from service in Iraq and Afghanistan are, on the whole, more willing to talk about their experiences and their losses than the generation that returned from earlier wars, Lewis feels.

“We’ve learned the lessons of the

Vietnam generation. They came home, created communities, and looked out for each other,” Lewis said. “When we do 20 minutes of writing [at a workshop] and everyone reads their piece, there’s some really powerful writing. The main thing that comes across is the raw emotions and the stories. You don’t want to sit on that.

F*** that. Tell your story.”

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Jim McConkey remembers the Thirties as a time of high hopes in America.

“Everyone expected my generation to go to college,” McConkey said. “There was a lot of idealism, and that was in the Depression. I was in a generation that was brought up to believe that war was preventable. It was a time when people didn’t believe in war.”

McConkey remembers a World War I veteran who had lost a leg telling his high school class of the horrors of trench warfare, reading the progressive, isolationist historian Charles Beard as a student, and taking a class at Cleveland 2015

College about the propaganda of the Great War and all the atrocities ascribed to the “Huns” that were fictions.

“We’d read stories about the presentday Huns engaged in atrocious acts, and we didn’t believe any of that,” McConkey said. “We were fighting because we had to, because we were invaded by Japan and Germany declared war on us.”

After entering the Army on May 20, 1944, McConkey found that he was, perhaps, a “natural born pacifist.” In training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he found that affixing the bayonet to his M-1 rifle made him “physically ill,” and he was threatened by an officer with the stocks for not having his helmet on at the right angle.

It was in France, while attached to the 26th Infantry Division’s headquarters, that McConkey found his occupation: editing the division’s newspaper. After he suggested the “Yankee Division” needed a newspaper, and resisted Gen. Willard Paul’s insistence on a weekly front-page editorial slot, the YD Grapevine was in business. McConkey wrote headlines like “26th Recon Puts Corset on Rundstedt’s Bulge,” had an assistant editor who he remembers as doing nothing, but had smelly feet, and put one “cheesecake” photo a week on the back page—a glamour

shot of a pin-up girl, under lines like “A Subject to Study.”

Putting out the weekly, though, required transport to get the paper from the printer, which was solved when the division’s publicity man, Henry Misrock, stole a Jeep left on a beach by another division. After hiring a staff artist who insisted on driving and then returned from Luxembourg after driving miles on a flat tire, Misrock and McConkey needed to find a replacement. They staked out a motor pool and, when the sentry walked away, took off a wheel a few wrench turns at a time.

“That was about the most soldier-like thing I did,” McConkey said.

In April ‘45, with V-E Day only a few weeks away and the lines very fluid, McConkey went out on a search for fish lime glue, needed to paste photographs on the page. He drove through villages where “Germans were waiting to be conquered.”

“General Patton had said ‘Take no prisoners,’ which didn’t mean kill them, but we weren’t taking them,” McConkey said. “The Germans jumped on the Jeep to surrender, and we had to wave them off.

Then it happened again in another village.”

Closer to home, a spike set into pavement caught the Jeep’s tire and flipped over on McConkey. After recuperating

from some severe internal injuries, he returned home and discarded his uniform, still unconvinced of the need for war.

“Somehow if we can’t learn to live with each other on this beautiful little planet, I don’t think we have any justification for colonizing another one.”

lieutenant: “He was killed, a mortar came and hit him right in the head.”

When his 11 months in action were ending, Smith was told with only two more days’ service at the front, he would have the points needed to make sergeant.

“I wasn’t in it to make rank,” Smith said. “I said I’d go home. You go back to the front to take a hill, you stay till it’s over.”

Pushing Hills in Korea

Bloody Ridge, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill.

Don Smith, of Newfield, was on the line with the U.S. Army’s 2nd Infantry Division when these previously anonymous Korean hilltops got names in the pitched and fierce battles of 1951.

“Every time the minister started preaching, we knew we were moving out,” Smith recalled. “You can do all the training in the States, but there’s nothing like the real thing. It’s you or them, one or the other.”

Smith remembers battles that began with American jets bombing the next objective, a hill held by North Korean forces huddled in bunkers. Then artillery opened up on the position. Finally, it was time for infantrymen to begin their assault.

“There always seemed to be eight or 10 small hills to take before we reached the main objective,” Smith said. “The lines for miles went bunker, trench, bunker, trench.”

Sometimes, the North Korean forces had to retreat. Sometimes, the Americans pushing hills heard the order to “bug-out.”

“You’re running down the hill, past your buddies who are getting hit. Bullets are whizzing by.”

Smith remembers one bug-out when he reached the valley and laid down by a creek, so tired and thirsty he took a drink without sterilizing the water first. He looked down and saw that his boot was inches from a shoe-mine. He took out the detonator and threw the mine into the rice paddy.

On another retreat, Smith was “blown off the hill” by a shell.

“It knocked me out, and they were carrying me for dead down the hill,” Smith said. “They laid me out on a litter. I woke up, and the first thing I do is feel for my legs and arms. The Red Cross man patches me up, they loaded me up with grenades and a couple machine gun barrels, and it’s back up the hill.” Another time on another hill, a lightning strike knocked him out of his foxhole.

Rest and relaxation was not a priority in Korea in 1951. Every three weeks or so, Smith’s unit might get some time at a camp behind the lines along a stream where there were potbellied stoves to heat water and fresh sets of clothes.

Unlike many who served there, Smith didn’t get the standard week of R&R in Japan. His only memories from there are as a waystation to Korea: On the way in at Sasebo naval base, the sounds of a a band playing “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You,” “because in other words, that’s what you’re getting into.” On the way home to

Breaking Rock in Vietnam

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When Smith’s unit lost 500-some men in one assault, their cushy rest-up detail was guard duty at Koje-do (or Geojedo) prison camp, an island that Smith remembers having 58,000 prisoners.

“I felt pretty safe back there,” Smith said, despite having one prisoner-of-war assaulting him while taking them to the water. The prisoners occupied their time with art, of a sort—they made sculptures of a soldier, “even up to the red star on the hat,” and a tank hung with flags made from burlap bags. When an American general visited and ordered the sculptures destroyed for discipline’s sake, Smith was

on the machine gun detail that pulverized them back into dust.

For years, Smith said, he didn’t talk about his experiences in Korea—he was happy just to be home, “safe and sound.”

Now he flips through an album of snapshots he took with a Beacon II camera he kept on his belt over there. He lost some 60 rolls of film that were never developed that included “a lot of raw stuff ” from the front. Those pictures he does have show the hills with lines running across them, the prisoners Smith was guarding, tired young men laid out on bunkers, back from patrols, wearing their summer uniforms or white, snow camouflage outfits. One picture is of a smiling young man in a white T-shirt that Smith says was a T

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When Roger Beck signed up for the Navy reserves while at Cornell in 1962, he had “maybe heard of Vietnam.”

“When I joined the service it wasn’t front page news at that time. We were involved and not many people knew it,” Beck said. “I was pretty naïve. I joined the Navy to see the world.”

While in the Seabees, the Navy’s construction forces, Beck was deployed to Da Nang, Vietnam in early 1967.

“There was a lot of incoming mortar fire,” Beck remembers. “A Viet Cong mortar attack blew up a fuel depot in Da Nang two miles from where we were.

When that happened in the middle of the night it was light as day out.”

Beck arrived just after the Tet Offensive ended, “which raised hell with everything, and by the time we got there the damage was still there.”

Beck was fortunate to serve in a unit, Mobile Construction Battalion No. 4, that experienced relatively light danger: maybe a dozen attacks during his eight-month deployment and four truckers lost out of about 400 men. He worked in different camps that supported the rebuilding of Highway One toward Hue, and operated a bulldozer that was stripping topsoil in a quarry for long hours, six and a half days per week. There, Beck “detected a lot of indifference” among the Vietnamese he worked with, who broke rocks by hand with a chisel.

“They had seen the French there for 100 years, and 10,000 years of various invasions by the Chinese,” Beck said.

“They knew this history, and now it was the Americans’ turn.”

When Beck asked Vietnamese who ran kiosks that catered to servicemen as to their opinions about the American presence there, he remembers an answer from one woman that was particularly straightforward. “‘Why don’t you go home,’ she said, ‘We’ll take care of what’s happening here.’

She was obviously not inhibited in her conversation.”

Upon returning home, Beck used his experience in construction to start a contracting business, and began learning more about the United States’ history in Vietnam.

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On September 11, 2001 Lewis was just beginning basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Training was a media blackout, but his unit had been sent across the base on a bus to an arena where they were given a firepower demonstration, a taste for the sort of destruction American howitzers and machine guns could wreak.

“The bus driver was listening to the radio at 10:30 or 11 o’clock, and by then it was clear what was happening,” Lewis said.

“Some guys, it was in one ear out the other.

All I knew was ‘Oh, shit, this definitely changes things.’”

Lewis’ artillery unit was supposed to go through Turkey into Kurdistan when they deployed for the Iraqi invasion in 2003. But the Turks refused to serve as a staging ground, and they were sent around to the Persian Gulf.

“It turns out they didn’t need heavy artillery. They said just take all your wheeled vehicles and trucks up there.”

With those vehicles, Lewis’ unit was trying to collect armaments left lying around after the quick surrender of Saddam Hussein’s forces.

“Sunnis, Shias, they’re all coming to grab ammo and guns, and we’re trying to collect it and guard it,” Lewis said. “A lot of us didn’t know what it was—we were carrying ammo we shouldn’t have. It blew some of our trucks up, and we were lucky we got out of there with no one killed.”

Iraq after the invasion had a chaotic, “Mad Max,” feeling.

“We had no armor, no intelligence, no interpreters,” Lewis said. “We didn’t have any mounts for our machine guns.

We put grenade launchers on the hood of our Humvees with ratchet straps. We had Vietnam-era flakjackets, black leather boots, woodland camouflage.”

After six months in Iraq and a few more months on funeral detail, Lewis was out of the Army, a veteran at 21 years old.

He didn’t start writing until several years later (he’s now published two books of poetry).

“People are recognizing there are all these veterans who come back,” Lewis said.

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had considered making changes to the properties before selling them in 1990.

“When the Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act was implemented it essentially rendered the property useless in terms of renovation or ‘improvement,’” Houghton said. “Seemingly, in no time, it went from protecting the river itself to a half mile restriction on either side of the river bed. We were in the process of trying to renovate and/or put a house on the abutting lot but opted to move rather than fight city hall.”

Asked for his estimate on demolishing the house, Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency director Nels Bohn said that $40,000 was a “rough estimate,” if asbestos were found there, “which often becomes an expensive part of these projects.”

How long the house has been unoccupied is unclear, though it is not in immediate danger of falling down, Bohn said, and a “pretty robust concrete foundation” would also need to be considered into costs. That is, if removing the house and restoring the property to a more natural state is to be the city’s course of action.

Removing the house seems to be the default position among interested parties moving forward. The memo from the NAC says the house “already detracts from the beauty and character of the Ithaca Falls … by inserting a highly visible, inconsistent, non-natural element into the otherwise spectacular viewshed.”

At one point during discussions, Martell had floated the idea of putting a cafe where the house now stands, an idea she said was a joke but quickly became an idea that was bounced around before getting shot down. Building an iconic tower on the house’s foundations in the style of Yeats’ Thoor Ballylee and letting out the space to artists and writers as a fellowship is another idea that might be explored.

So far as the wooded property goes, acquiring it does open up the possibility of a “rim trail” in the steep-stepped style, opening up new vistas to the public, though certainly not the alternately abled.

Building all the way to the elevation of Stewart Avenue might be prohibitive from an engineering and financial standpoint, as much of the rim towards the top is heaped-up, sandy soil, and would definitely require fencing for regular access. By building steps to a point about 50 feet above the house, though, fine, head-on views of the falls would be made available to the public. Just behind the house, there’s a natural bowl that looks a lot like a small amphitheatre.

In the Natural Areas Commission’s memorandum, it’s stated that the “recreational river” status granted to the Fall Creek area is “unique,” in that it’s administrated by the city and not by the DEC. • —Josh

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Ultimately, Dennis graduated from SUNY Oswego in 1969, and although he later went back to get a master’s degree from SUNY Cortland, he actually started teaching before even finishing undergrad.

He said, “There was a shortage of teachers and you could teach without a degree then.” Accordingly, he began teaching in Waverly in 1966 before moving to Sodus in 1967. He narrowly avoided the draft in 1966 because he and his first wife had a newborn. Then in 1971, the family moved to Ithaca and Dennis began teaching at South Hill Elementary. He said, “We made the choice that we wanted to live in Ithaca because we knew the schools were great.”

Eventually, Dennis moved to Trumansburg, to live with his second wife, in 2002. After a bout with cancer, he retired from teaching in 2004 and when Irene Stein approached him in 2005 about running for the county legislature seat in District 5—an area that includes Ulysses and part of Enfield—Dennis said yes. He has been on the legislature for almost ten years now (but he won’t say whether he plans to run again in 2017.)

In the past two and a half terms, Dennis has gained some perspective on elected office: “People say elected people are giving back to the community,” he said. “I’m not certain anyone would say I’m giving back, but it’s sometimes fun and sometimes frustrating to be an elected official here. But if I were going to pick a place to be an elected official out of anywhere, this is the place I’d choose to be. There’s a lot of bizarre county governments out there, but I think this one is the best of the crowd. We do talk things to death, but we certainly get things done.” • —Keri

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Last week at the Vestal Golden Bear Invitation, Jake pulled off one of those epic time drops, burning through the 3,200meter run in a personal best 9:32. “It was,” Jake said, “one of the best races of my career,” and it was a mere few seconds off the Ithaca High School record. Given he is only a sophomore, it appears that Avery has a great shot at claiming that record, and hopefully, many others.

The Vestal meet was, Jake said, “the last big invitational before the STAC and Section IV meets.”

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County to Choose Among Three Designs Site of old library at the corner of North Cayuga and West Court streets to be turned into housing

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or some time now, Tompkins County has been debating what to do with the old library building at the corner of North Cayuga and West Court streets. The process for finding a new use for the site began in 2013 with the release of a Request for Expressions of Interest. Initially, there were six responses, although eventually Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Integrated Acquisition and Development, and DPI Consultants dropped out. In December, the legislature approved releasing a Request for Proposal, which got three responses. The sections below outline some of the important takeaways for each of the projects—all of which the legislature will have to weigh before selecting the best-fitting project.

Rochester’s Cornerstone Group The Basics: Rochester’s Cornerstone Group is proposing 63 affordable housing units for seniors in the 55+ age range. This proposal is the only affordable housing option. The rental price would be $887 to $975 for a one-bedroom apartment.

County Assessment Director Jay Franklin estimated that, without a PILOT agreement, a project like this one would be likely to pay a little more than twice that in taxes.

Travis Hyde Properties The Basics: The proposal led by Travis Hyde Properties is the only one that incorporates Lifelong into the project. It entails 60 senior apartments open to individuals in the 50+ age range.

The rental price would likely be around $1,200 for a one-bedroom

Cornerstone Group of Rochester design to replace the old library with affordable apartments. (Photo provided)

The proposed 73,600-square-foot project is designed to fit in well with the surrounding architecture. Cornerstone will tear down the old library and erect a new structure. A four-story L-shaped building is planned, running along North Cayuga and West Court streets with a courtyard space and parking toward the center of the block. The façade features stone to match the church across the street and brick to match other neighborhood buildings. The upper part of the building uses some cement fiber siding.

The building includes interior community space, some of which would

be for use by the Cornell Cooperative Extension. In terms of parking, the project offers 16 exterior and 36 interior parking spaces.

Tucked away on the roof—such that they wouldn’t be visible from the street— would be enough solar panels to meet 25 percent of the building’s energy needs.

The project will meet or exceed the payroll criteria in a living-wage policy both during and after construction.

The developers are requesting a 32year payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement of $600 per unit per year, with built-in annual increases. Tompkins

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Travis Hyde has proposed a 72,500square-foot four-story L-shaped building that would run along Court Street and then inward toward the center of the block. The Cayuga Street side would be open, featuring a community garden space. Professional office space and Lifelong facilities for seniors would be on the ground floor. This project would entail demolition of the old library and construction of a new building.

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In Division 3, we received a Second Place Award for Coverage of Education.

Michael Nocella and Keri Blakinger wrote the winning stories, which included this cover story on school budget options.

We took home a Third Place Award for Best Column for Charley Githler’s “Surrounded by Reality.”

We also received an honorable mention in the Coverage of the Environment category, with stories written by Glynis Hart, Bill Chaisson, and Michael Nocella.

For Coverage of the Arts we received also an honorable mention with stories by Warren Greenwood, Ross Haarstad, and Bill Chaisson.

Ithaca was well-represented at this year’s NYPA conference, as the Ithaca Times was not the only local publication

Times Wins State Awards New York Press Association recognizes reporters of local news, arts

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In Division 2, we received a First Place Award for Coverage of Crime/Police/Courts. Among the stories entered

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On May 7 United Way of Tompkins County in partnership with Heather Lane, held its Second Annual Youth Venture Pitch Night recently at Rev Ithaca Startup Works.

This year’s event showcased six Social Ventures created by high school students at Dryden Central School and Lehman Alternative Community School. The teams presented their social venture to four community panelists, and each team received seed funding. This year’s seed funding came from Ithaca College Student United Way, Cornell University Student United Way, and a generous anonymous donation. To help the students launch their ventures the panelists provided constructive feedback and insight into financial management, planning, leadership and goal-setting.

This year’s panel members were Charlie Mulligan, President, GiveGab; James H. Quest, Founder & CEO, QA Bolt Beverages, LLC; Jennifer Tegan, Partner & VP Finance/Administration, Cayuga Venture Fund; and Laura Winter Falk, Owner, Experience! The Finger Lakes, LLC. The Ventures were as follows: 73 Records – LACS Venture led by Etienne Grenier and Lachlan Berger. 73 Records is a collective record label dedicated to the production and distribution of youth music, art, and literature.

Animal Care – Dryden Venture led by Marli Hammond, Medina Lojic, Makayla Hoyte, Taylor Burk, Nicole Zhe, Jamie Mullins. The Venture was created for 6th grade students at Dryden to teach them about proper animal care.

Computer Science – Dryden Venture led by Jamie Mullins and Tor Wildenstein.

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National Attention for Northside

Northside Wine & Spirits is the topic of a four-page spread in the April 2015 issue of the nationally circulated drinks industry publication Market Watch. Northside was featured in“Finger Lakes Trail Blazer” by Tracey Rosenthal.

Tracing the store’s history from 1959, Rosenthal outlines Northside’s unique position in its pivotal role as a promoter of Finger Lakes wines, particularly in the wake of the New York Farm Winery Act of 1976.

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The Enchanted Badger is an 1800 square foot space that is big enough to both display the games and to be able to serve as a gathering place. In addition to magic card tournaments three times a week, The Enchanted Badger also hosts casual games nights on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They also hold special events that coincide with the release of a new game or expansion to an older game.

Board game nights are populated by people of all ages and participation in a given game can cross age-demogrpahic lines. “When the interest level is there, younger kids can play adult games,” Humby says.

The social aspect of the games is a large part of their appeal. “You want to see people’s expressions when you shoot them in the face,” says Humby. “With electronic games you don’t have that empathetic connection.”

Ithaca Auto Service: A Fresh Start for Jason Dzikiewicz After nearly 20 years working at Monro Muffler, Jason Dzikiewicz decided it was time to take his expertise -- and many of his clients -- a half mile down the road to open up his own auto service business: Ithaca Auto Service. Ithaca Auto Service embodies Jason’s fresh start where the mission is “Pay Less and Expect Better Service.”

“Customer service,” Jason says, “that’s always been my goal and always will be. To me, that means taking care of customers right the first time. And if there are ever any issues, to make sure they’re handled right away.”

“We do all foreign and domestic cars,” he explains. “We do everything except body work. We do all general maintenance and auto repair. Alignments, tires--it’s key to offer great service at a great price, since we are in a very competitive environment.”

“With our roads, we see a lot of brake problems, lots of front end and maintenance needed, alignments. Normal problems, but Ithaca is pretty unique with its hills and its roads aren’t the greatest either, so maintenance is key.”

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the county’s appraisal at $925,000. In their May 8 presentation to the Old Library Committee the project leaders pointed out that this proposal would bring four taxexempt properties back onto the tax rolls.

Unlike the other options, the Travis Hyde project incorporates the existing Lifelong parcels, which are currently tax-exempt.

The Lifelong property at 119 W. Court St. would be demolished as part of the project, while the 121 W. Court St. property would remain for use as an annex for visiting families.

Presenters boasted that this plan offers the most sustainable overall approach, with rainwater harvesting, combined heat and power, and solar panels. The project would not guarantee a living wage for employees after the construction period.

The proposal only offers 30 parking spaces for the building, and Legislator Mike Lane (D-Dryden) said, “I’m still queasy about parking here.” Frost Travis of Travis Hyde responded, “We want to make this building and this city built for people not for cars,” adding, “If someone says you can pry the steering wheel from my cold dead fingers, then they’re not a good candidate to live here.”

When asked how this modernlooking building could be said to fit in with the existing architecture in the area, Steve Hugo of Holt Architects said that the project is not trying to “mimic” the historic district or “recreate the past” but “to see the two side-by-side I think gives value to both.”

The project includes a request for a tax abatement plan, although county Planning Commissioner Ed Marx said that the details of it were not released in public documents.

Franklin Properties: West Court Lofts and Wellness Collective The Basics: Syracuse-based Franklin

Properties is proposing a mixed-use development with 22 condominiums and commercial space for a wellness center featuring doctors’ offices and other wellness practitioners. This is the only proposal that would reuse the Old Library structure.

This proposal would entail building a 58,000-square-foot structure, 26,000 square feet of which would be condominiums. Doug Sutherland of Franklin Properties explained, “This proposal would maintain most of the footprint of the building.” The loading docks on the back of the existing structure would be removed, and the structure would be extended further upward, and there would be a café built on the North Cayuga Street side to allow groundlevel access to the commercial spaces.

(Residents would use West Court Street for an entrance.)

Most of the unit would be lofts, although the units on the penthouse floor would be single-level spaces. Every unit is designed with its own balcony. In terms of parking, there would be 31 spaces, both indoor and outdoor.

As with the other options, the Franklin Properties proposal offers a $925,000 purchase price. The project also includes a seven-year tax abatement.

Compensation to construction workers, maintenance workers, and medical staff will exceed the county’s living wage.

In addition to meeting LEED and Architecture 2030 Standards, the project achieves added energy savings by reusing the existing structure. That reuse is expected to make for a shorter and quieter construction period.

Next Steps The Old Library Committee meets again on Tuesday, June 2, and Chair Mike Lane (D-Dryden) said that he hopes the committee will reach a consensus and make a recommendation to the full legislature at that point. He said, “I would like to see the legislature act on the 16th of June.” §

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Nino and Bob Lama bought the property around 1984, or sometime close—“I still had a mullet,” Bob said via phone from the yacht brokerage he runs in Miami Beach.

“We bought it to relocate Lama Insurance Agency and expanded the building with a wing on the south side,” Lama said. “It was originally an Exxon gas station. They closed the station, removed the tanks, and put the property on the market.”

All of the proper environmental cleaning was done to the property back in the ‘80s, Lama said, before they expanded.

There was a building of about 1,800 square feet on the property with the vacant station lot when the brothers bought the property, Lama said, before they added onto the building.

The Thai Cuisine moved into the space in the late ‘80s and remained open 24 years as the premier spot for Thai cuisine in town, before their ownership retired about two years ago.

There’s still an office for Lama Real Estate at the location, a business the brothers started in 1986, which Bob thinks will remain open indefinitely.

“CFCU has a lot of options with the property, and they haven’t discussed it in great detail,” Lama said.

Bob retired from the insurance operation about four years ago, after Lama sold that wing of their business to First Niagara in 2005, and he says he’s enjoying Miami Beach.

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Reusing Our Barns Auburn company re-mills timber for a new life

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“When I went into those places,” Holland recalled, “I said, ‘This is it.’”

He had always had a love for wood, an appreciation in part due to his background in art. He had been classically trained, bolstering an early natural ability with technical schooling, where he also learned design.

“I also have a deep love of history,” said Holland. “The majority of the wood that I collect comes from the Finger Lakes region and it is mostly barn wood, although I am looking at one industrial building right now.”

He started Levanna Restoration Lumber in 2002, naming the business after the road where he found the first structure that he deconstructed.

In 2008 he discovered that “Levana” was also a Roman goddess dedicated to protecting newborn infants. The name means “to lift” or “rise up” from a ceremony during which a father lifted the infant to show it was legitimate. Holland was delighted that his business, which raises up old barns to a new life, had so apt a name.

“Initially I was salvaging them myself,” he said, “and I still get out there and do it.”

He was also the chief scout, finding most of the old English-style barns that he loves simply by driving around and looking for them. “Now my name has gotten around,” said Holland, “and people call me.”

The English barns have two sliding doors hanging on the long side of the structure. They are built into a slope so that a hay wagon can be driven right into the center of it through the doors. There is another set of sliding doors on the opposing long side of the barn. There are three bays in these structures, one for animals, one for use as a granary and a third area for threshing. They are usually 30 feet by 40 to 60 feet.

After a barn is dismantled all the timbers have to be de-nailed. Then the pieces are “undercut” for new purposes. Barn timbers can be cut down to make mantels and into planks for flooring.

In the 19th century, said Holland, barns were built from whatever kind of trees were on the property. He has a gallery of source barns at his company website.

Beneath each photo the caption lists the types of tree used to construct the barn.

They include beech, maple, walnut, ash, basswood, cherry, poplar, yellow poplar (tulip tree), elm, oak, pine, and hemlock.

(Chestnut, so prevalent further south in the Appalachians, is used only rarely for barns up there.)

The older timbers are from trees that may have been 300 to 500 years old when they were cut down. “They have a supertight end grain,” Holland said. “It affects

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the appearance of the board and has a unique patina that you don’t find in newer wood.”

According to Holland, in the later 19th century barns were often built with timbers re-purposed from older barns. This allows him to get the old material from the virgin forest out of barns built right up to 1900.

For all his love of barns Holland doesn’t have an agricultural background.

His own father did a little farming when he was younger, but the former draftsman has never done any farm labor. “My affection is for barn wood,” he said, “not barns.”

Many of the Levanna Restoration customers are drawn to use of the old wood because they “like being green,” according to Holland, but many simply like the aesthetics of old wood. He said many homeowners like to incorporate the vintage lumber into their décor in order to provide a contrast with modern materials in the rest of a room.

The barn wood is used for false beams attached to ceilings, and for stair treads and risers. “People like to see the worm holes and the coloration that the new material doesn’t have,” said Holland. “It’s a niche market because of the cost of the material. Some people just like one accent piece. It is something to tie in with a theme that they are trying.

Holland does still make use of his training in design. He will advise his customers “up to a certain point” by asking about their color scheme and drawing them out on the overall theme that they are trying to achieve. He likes to know how high the ceilings are in a room and to get a list of everything that is already there.

In addition to supplying lumber, his shop also does some furniture making, creating beds and nightstands. He also makes fireplace mantels. “We make them look beautiful,” he said. “I am told that I’m the go-to guy for rustic mantels. I make them as if they were going into my own

home.”

Christopher Glaubitz, an architect with Tetratech in Ithaca, is a Levanna Restoration customer. (He is also on the U.S. Green Building Council.)

Holland managed to find some incense-cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) for the architect. The tree, a member of the cypress family, grows in the western United States, where it can reach heights of 200 feet and a ten-foot diameter.

Holland reclaimed the wood from planks for a beer vat at the Genesee brewery in Rochester. The planks were held together with three-inch thick maple pegs.

He glued these in place so they would remain immobile during the milling. He sliced the original pieces into half-inch thick planks, planed them, and gave them ship-lap edges. Glaubitz used the eightinch wide planks for ceiling paneling in his kitchen.

Many of Holland’s customers, however, are commercial enterprises like Bass Pro Shops. When the company built a new 34,000 square-foot facility in Auburn they sought out Levanna Restoration. Now they are coming back to Holland when they build new retail stores all around the country.

Levanna Restoration now has customers all over the United States. Holland received a phone call from a Kansas City architect firm that decided to bypass a local company because Levanna would refinish flooring while the local company would not.

He recently procured some white oak box beam trusses (parallel beams joined by diagonal beams) in Whitney Point. He milled them into 16-foot long, quarterinch-thick veneer sheets and adhered them to MDO (medium density overlay) plywood, which was then used to make new trusses.

“I do as much as I can to have as broad an inventory as possible,” said Holland, “so that I can get a wide variety of clients.” §

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Bill.” The 11-year-old me was so JW: This year, we were impressed that I hounded the cast building on what we did last for my first post-show autograph. season. Last season, we did This year, I discovered that my Red, Around the World in 80 Richard II cast mate David Romm Days, Little Shop of Horrors, was one of the actors in that show. and Other Desert Cities. I I saw Greg Bostwick in The Front wanted the audience to have Page when I was in high school, a completely new experience and years later he was sitting at every time they came to the the table for the first read-through theatre. I wanted each piece of The Chalk Circle. As a kid who to have its own environment. had acted all over town, this was We made some changes, the last dragon to slay. and the cast sizes became I also previewed dozens a bit smaller. We wanted to of shows and did other TV commit to the kinds of plays coverage for the Hangar when I where every single actor had was the entertainment editor at their moment to shine, a tour NewsCenter 7. I remember actors de force moment if you will.

Aidan Elsesser, Jordan Dunn-Pilz, and Caroline Gorland – three members of the cast of the from many decades, some now When you’re doing a play like musical “Spring Awakening,” part of the Hangar Theatre 2015 season. (Photo: Brian Arnold) deceased. And for some reason, I Red with two actors, each actor still remember that the name of the gets their moment. But when beloved professors are still there, so it’s kind of dog in their production of Gypsy you’re doing a musical where wonderful to come back home to Ithaca. After was Ivy. I also remember being impressed that every actor gets their moment, it really narrows graduating from Ithaca College, I moved down they held auditions for canine actors. down the field. to New York City, where I’ve lived since 1997.

With all that swirling in my head, I talked One of the things I knew I wanted this year I’ve been a wearer of many theatrical hats. I to the Hangar’s Artistic Director Jen Waldman that I wasn’t able to do last year is to program obviously direct and choreograph, and now about the upcoming slate of shows, what went a female playwright. It’s challenging for us, in into the decision to stage them, and the Current I’m directing the Hangar, but in addition, I a theatre that’s as large as we are for the city spent many years as an actor on Broadway and State of Theatre As We Know It. that we’re in to build a season that doesn’t have around the country. For the last 11 years, I’ve Ithaca Times: Tell me about yourself. any box office history behind it. So a lot of our been running an actors’ studio for professional Jen Waldman: I was born and raised in a selections come from the Broadway market actors in Manhattan. So I try to keep my fingers or the Off-Broadway market, where female suburb of north Los Angeles called Calabasas, California. We are unfortunately responsible for in many artistic pots. playwrights are still really limited in their IT: When I interviewed Bob Moss back in the rise of the Kardashians. [laughs] But it was accessibility to audiences. So this year, I was 1987, he told me that the Hangar’s biggest hits actually a quiet and unassuming town when I fully committed to having a female playwright tended to be dark dramas like Arthur Miller’s lived there, and I moved to New York State in in the mix: we’re doing Yasmina Reza’s God of All My Sons, and not the sort of tonic musicals 1993 to enroll at Ithaca College, actually, where Carnage. you associate with summer stock.

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ndrew Niccol’s Good Kill, a factbased fiction about the effects of military drone technology circa 2010, reunites the New Zealand filmmaker with Ethan Hawke, the star of Niccol’s 1997 debut film Gattaca. Niccol’s best script, The Truman Show, was directed the following year by Peter Weir and netted Niccol an Oscar nomination. Since then, Niccol has directed flawed but interesting flicks like S1m0ne and fairly pretentious pedantic junk like the Justin Timberlake vehicle In Time.

Good Kill may be my favorite Niccol film to date. As a modern war epic, I prefer it to Clint Eastwood’s perfunctory and overblown American Sniper. Hawke plays a pilot who probably worshipped at the altar of Top Gun and finds himself in a hot locker outside Las Vegas, blowing up buildings and “targets” with a joy stick. At home, he ignores his wife (January Jones) and kids, hides his booze, and yearns to fly an airplane again.

Hawke plays the kind of American sniper I can relate to. In fact, Good Kill is the latest interesting film featuring Hawke recently. Just in the past few years, Hawke has made some truly noteworthy pictures, including The Purge, Predestination and of course, Richard Linklater’s inner epic Boyhood. Here, Hawke is as drained and parched as his surroundings, and as much as he has matured since Explorers and Dead Poets Society, there’s something of the kid in his looks, an interesting dichotomy as subtext.

And at least Niccol allows Hawke to shake off the abuse and the thousand –yard stare long enough to look at his work and his life, question authority, and in his own way, speak truth to power. Zoe Kravitz is also affecting as a fellow drone jockey, and the always awesome Bruce Greenwood plays their commanding officer with a profane and world-weary swagger. Niccol gives Greenwood a great speech that is the 2015 answer to George C. Scott’s opening speech from Patton.

• • • Aside from Gimme Shelter (1970), I hadn’t seen much of Albert Maysles’ documentaries. When Maysles died in March, I saw a block of his films on TCM, including Grey Gardens (1975), the short Meet Marlon Brando (1966) and best of all, the amazing Salesman (1968), which follows a quartet of traveling Bible salesmen. Now comes Iris, his final film, a portrait of fashion icon Iris Apfel and her husband Carl.

All a documentary needs is a great character, and Apfel certainly is that. I don’t follow fashion, and I’m usually not crazy about the culture vultures like Anna Wintour and Isaac Mizrahi that have gotten their own films.

But the elderly Apfel is sweet, polite and far from pretentious. I like her because she tends to put stuff together from bargain bins that clash in interesting ways. In his straightforward, no-nonsense way of shooting and editing, Maysles picks up endless little details—I could look around the Apfel’s kitsch-stuffed apartment for days—and builds up a sweet love story between two eccentric people who adore each other’s eccentricities. •

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The composition is simplistic yet joyous, playful yet graphically bold. She too imbues movement within the frame, and does so

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Think Spring, an abstract work by Barbara Mink, is the first artwork of the exhibition, closest to the door, and it sets a high precedent for the rest of the show.

Large and engaging, the work draws you in with its erratic, vivacious splashes of color that almost pay homage to the likes of J.M.W. Turner and the buoyant exuberance of early impressionism. Orangish yellow drips into black, which in turn reaches outward into undulating saturations of purple, blue, and green. The formlessness of the colors juxtaposes beautifully with faint but intentional lines—straight, evenly spaced, geometric—that lead you in and out of the image while also feigning perspective points in an otherwise indiscernible space.

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Other works in the Members Show include clever and multidimensional sculptures by Jane Dennis (one piece, Missing the Obvious, does require a closer look to gain a fuller picture); intriguingly fragmented digital images by James Spitznagel; expressive still lifes by Ileen Kaplan; and texturally engrossing paintings by Patricia Brown. The gallery is packed with so many colors and mediums, so many unique voices, that it’s impossible to mention everyone or to go to the length they all deserve. The Members Show has just about all media forms, sans performance: paintings, sculptures, mixed media, pastel, video, glass, bronze, photography…

It has gesture drawings by Janet Byer Sherman, created with energetic swishes of her hand; kaleidoscopic, mandala-like “bubblewheels” by Daniel McPheeters; earthy close-up photographs by David Watkins, Jr.; and a clever play with perspective in Mary Ann Bowman’s work, in which she produced both a sculpture of a seagull and an archival photograph of the aforementioned bird.

With so many pieces at once, somehow working in unity rather than conflicting, it would be challenging not to come across at least one piece that inspires you. Eva Capobianco’s sculptures, made of wood and glass, stood out to me with their reflections on looking at rain through windows and the unquestionable beauty of amber glass. West from Turkey Hill Road, #2, Reconsidered by Carol Abitabilo Ast stood out as well: five panels, each a separate pastel color, which together create a panoramic of a winter landscape. Each panel is stitched onto a black backing with thread and it all looks quaint and lovely, delicate yet packed full of dimensionality. • State of the Art Gallery is located at 120 W. State St. / M

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ith the wider recognition and rising prestige of Finger Lakes wine has come an avalanche of books about the region. To this Sarah Sheurer Thompson has added Finger Lakes Wine Country, the latest entry to the Images of America series issued by Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, South Carolina.

The format of these books is unvarying: the chapters, which have brief preambles, are composed of captioned archival photos. Thompson did a year of research to assemble all this material and her acknowledgements include the names of many wineries and winemakers, archivists and historical societies, librarians and libraries.

Her introduction covers the same historical ground as many of the regional books do, talking about geology and the Iroquois. The geology is arcane and Thompson gets some of it incorrect. The valleys that hold the Finger Lakes were not gouged out between north-flowing rivers.

The river valleys were there and the ice

sheets advanced and retreated several times over the last two million years to greatly deepen them and make the valley walls “oversteepened.”

The valleys of the lakes west of Seneca Lake were originally carved by south-flowing rivers. This can be seen in the forked shape of Keuka, which preserves two tributaries coming together in a trunk stream. There are bumps in her short overview history, but people don’t pick up books like this to read the introductions.

The body of Finger Lakes Wine Country is made up of seven chapters that are a pictorial chronology of the evolution of the regional wine industry.

In the first chapter, “Winemaking Taking Root,” Thompson is immediately on firmer

ground than she was with geology. She notes in her introductory material that she and her husband moved to the Finger Lakes in order to start a winery and that they are about to plant their vineyard on the west side of Seneca Lake. Chapter one is focused on the south end of Keuka Lake, where the industry began in the mid19th century. Thompson has rounded up daguerreotypes, engravings, and photographs that provide the reader with a look at the landscapes, the machinery, and people that initiated the grape growing and wine making business here.

It all begins with an engraving of Rev. William Bostwick, who planted Catawba, Isabella, and Sweet Water vines in Hammondsport in the 1830s.

Other earlier growers took their cuttings from him. Even people not particularly interested in wine Sarah Thompson but fascinated by 19th century architecture and graphic design will find much of interest in this book. Thompson has assembled images of a wonderful variety of industrial and commercial buildings and of advertisements. The reproduction of these media is generally

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In chapter two Thompson takes an interesting detour into the craze for “table grapes” that occurred when refrigeration became prevalent at the end of the 19th century. This short interlude focuses on advances in transportation and—I haven’t seen this mentioned in other books—the regional expansion of basketmaking and other crafts in response to the need for shipping containers. This is an important insight on Thompson’s part because this development of ancillary industries is exactly the kind of thing that the region should be focusing on now with its new emphasis on “sustainability.”

The contemporary wine producers are providing opportunities for restaurateurs, farmers, artists and artisans, and even bottle recyclers.

In subsequent chapters Thompson explores grape growing and wine storage, temperance, and the shift from making table wines from hybrid grapes to making fine wines from vinifera grapes. For readers who have already got familiar with the history through books by Evan Dawson (Summer in a Glass) or Richard Figiel (Circle of Vines) or a dozen other books that are mostly text with a few photos, this book will put faces on a lot of familiar names.

Thompson will be at Buffalo Street Books on Saturday, May 23 at 3 p.m.

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One of the other things I’m keeping in mind this year is that I wanted a real classic American play that is celebrated, an American treasure. So we opted for Lanford Wilson’s Tally’s Folly, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979. It is really a beautiful American play. It really deserves to be seen on three sides. It’s theatrical as well as being naturalistic, so it seemed like the perfect play.

Also, we have our Kiddstuff season, which is really geared toward elementary school, but I was feeling like we needed something to bridge the gap from Kiddstuff to the Mainstage shows. It’s not that they’re not kid-friendly, they’re just very sophisticated, and can go over the heads of 10-. 11-, 12-year-olds, so I wanted to make sure we included something that would keep kids coming back to the theatre, so that’s how Hounds of the Baskervilles got into the mix. Sherlock Holmes is back on everyone’s radar right now, so it’s kind of a fun one for us to do.

And then, in terms of the musical, I wanted something that was rockinfluenced this year. I’m not really sure why I wanted to do that, but I was just feeling that calling to do something that had some electric instruments. Spring Awakening has been a piece that’s been really close to me since it opened in New York. I’ve had a lot of students in that original production. So we opted for Spring Awakening, and we haven’t even started rehearsals yet and the experience has been completely magical and transforming. Once these four titles fell on the page together, it just felt right. So we committed.

IT: Where do you see the state of theatre now?

JW: Well, the state of the theatre in the Finger Lakes area is pretty great. I think what’s special is that none of the theatres in Ithaca, Auburn, etc., we don’t really feel like we’re in competition with each other. In fact, you’ll notice in the “Special Thanks” section in each of our programs, we’re always thinking each other, because we share resources a lot.

Last year, in fact, I called Brett Smock at Merry Go Round Playhouse and told

The national state of theatre is going through this interesting shift, in that playwrights are writing much smaller intermissionfree plays on one hand, and then there are these immersive environmental experiences that are becoming really, really popular: sightspecific, with Managing director Josh Friedman and artistic director of the Hangar Theatre Jen the audience integrated into the Waldman. (Photo: Rachel Philipson) action. The biggest thing in New York him we needed a wig, he sent the wig right now is this over. We share a very friendly atmosphere show called Hamilton, and many people among all the theatres, and I don’t know if say that it is probably the most influential that would be true in another part of the musical of the last 20-25 years; just turning country. what we expect on its ear and making a

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IT: I know you’re about to wade into this summer, but are you already thinking about next summer?

JW: Oh, yeah. We actually started having some season planning sessions that Adam Zonder, our production manager, started a few months ago, so we [laughs] have been exchanging emails called “Titles I Am Considering.” There’s like a hundred names on the list. [laughs] We’re whittling down and building on what we’re doing this year. [We want to] supply entertainment, but the magical thing about the Hangar is the idea that we can do drama in the summertime. A lot of other theatres don’t have that opportunity.

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5/21 Thursday

Music bars/clubs/cafés

5/20 Wednesday

Reggae Night w. The I-Town Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00: PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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

5/21 Thursday

Chk Chk Chk | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Gerard Burke | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Sunset Music Series | 6:00 PM- | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Acoustic music. Visit http:// www.sixmilecreek.com/ for more info.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30: PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB.

5/22 Friday

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| Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | The Follow | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM- | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

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Immortal Jellyfish | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Gogone | 6:00 PM-8:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Roots/ rock from all over the planet.

Bob and Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00: PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:30: PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | The Pelotones play jazz, blues, and R&B. The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:30: PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Slabtown Stringband | 5:30 PM-8:30: PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old-time happy hour tunes.

5/23 Saturday

Tino Navarra | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | GIZMO: A Mini-Fest of Musical Machines | 8:00 PM- | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Luddite Machine and Prof.

Skillrex (Newman Brothers) assemble a variety of electronic noise-makers into one genre-defying mix. Bring Your Own Gizmo and join in. ALL AGES and FREE.

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Hot Biscuits | 6:00 PM-9:00: PM | Corks and More, 708 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Singer/Songwriter duo, Folk, Pop, Country.

Ageless Jazz Band | 6:00 PM-8:30: PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Ageless Jazz Band will play, featuring vocalist Cookie Coogan.

Ageless Jazz Band featuring vocalist Cookie Coogan | 6:00 PM-8:30: PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Toivo | 2:00 PM-4:00: PM | The Good Life Farm, 4017 Hickok Rd, Interlaken | Tex-Mex, Finnish, and originals.

5/24 Sunday

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

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

Spottiswoode and His Enemies | 7:00 PM-9:00: PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Third Story Band | 5:00 PM-7:30: PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Classic rock

5/25 Monday

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

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5/26 Tuesday

Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00: PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Toivo | 6:00 PM-8:00: PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Tex-Mex, Finnish, and originals.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

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Tuesday Bluesday | 5:00 PM-8:00: PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With Danny P and Friends concerts

5/20 Wednesday

Mayfest (Barnes Hall) | 08:00:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell’s 8th annual international chamber music festival. Multiple performers, venues.

Mayfest 2015 | 12:00:00 AM-11:59:59 PM | Cornell’s 8th annual international chamber music festival featuring the Chiaroscuro Quartet, clarinetist Chen Halevi, violinist Yehonatan Berick, cellist Clancy Newman, plus the i3°

Mayfest (Milstein Hall Crit Dome) | 08:00:00 PM- | Milstein Hall, Cornell Campus, Ithaca | Program 7, including Aperghis: Le Corps à Corps (Compitello); Ithaca Children’s Choir; Stravinsky: L’Histoire du soldat.

Mayfest 2015 | 12:00:00 AM-11:59:59 PM | Cornell’s 8th annual international chamber music festival featuring the Chiaroscuro Quartet, clarinetist Chen Halevi, violinist Yehonatan Berick, cellist Clancy Newman, plus the i3° jazz trio, the Ithaca Children’s Choir, the Shuhan Family of musicians, and faculty and students. Various times and locations. More info at http://mayfestcornell.org

5/23 Saturday

CU Music: Senior Days Concert | 08:00:00 PM-10:00:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club; Robert Isaacs, conductor: Senior days concert features music from both groups’s 2014-15 repertoire

5/25 Monday

Three Chord Monty | 11:00:00 AM-01:30:00 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Far from the Maddening Crowd | Headstrong Victorian Beauty has choice of three different suitors.

Adaption of Thomas Hardy novel. | PG-13 119 mins | National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem | Tom Stoppard play directed

by Nicholas Hytner. | 100 mins NR | Felix and Meira (Felix et Meira) | An unusual romance blossoms

between lost souls who inhabit the same neighborhood but vastly different worlds. | 105 mins R | Good Kill | A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot. | 102 mins R | Lambert & Stamp | Documentry revealing the unlikely partnership between aspiring filmakers and the band they helped produce: The Who. | 117 mins R | The Salt of the Earth (Le Sel de la terre) | Documentary follows photographer Sebastião Salgado, who for 40 years has shot an ever-changing humanity. | 110 mins, PG-13 | Welcome to Me |Kristen Wiig wins the lottery, quits her psychiatric meds, and buys her own talk show. | 105 mins R | Woman in Gold | Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. | 110 mins PG-13 | cornell cinema

Playing throughout May. Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Big Hero 6 | A robot and a young prodigy form a band of high-tech heroes. | 102 mins PG | Birdman | The Oscar-winning hit with Michael Keaton. | 119 mins R | The Cut | In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses everything. | 138 mins NR | Kingsman: The Secret Service | A spy org recruits a promising street kid.

Action & laughs ensue. | 129 mins R | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | The legendary troupes’ classic, quotable comedy. | 91 mins PG | Pelican Dreams | Follow a wayward pelican from the Golden Gate Bridge to a rehab facility. | 80 mins G | Trainwreck | Amy Schumer starrer from Judd Apatow. | 122 mins R | What We Do in the Shadows | Horror/comedy about modern-day vampires. | 86 mins NR | Hospicare Film Series: “Death: A Love Story” | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 05/13 Wednesday | Hospicare, 172 E King Rd, Ithaca | Documentary

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 7:00 PM-, 05/15 Friday | Groton Public Library, , | Cult-classic musical film, refreshments. Free for Adults over 18.

Stage Guys and Dolls | 7:30 PM-, 5/20 Wednesday | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | This five-time Tony Award-winner celebrates Broadway’s golden era with one of the greatest scores ever written for a musical by the legendary Frank Loesser.

The Velocity of Autumn | 7:30 PM-, 5/22 Friday, 5/23 Saturday, 5/24 Sunday, 5/25 Monday, 5/26 Tuesday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene | A humorous and touching look at the often fiery nature of family relations and the fragility of love. The play asks: When is the right time to intervene if an elderly parent no longer appears competent to live alone? How do you deal with it when mother threatens to blow up her building if the police even knock on her door? Performances May 22 – June 14, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30

p.m., plus Sunday matinees at 2 p.m Safety Revisited: A screening of Civic Ensemble’s 2014 Community-Based Play and Shai Ben-Dor’s student documentary, “Do You See Me? | 7:30 PM-, 5/22 Friday | Kitchen Theatre Co., 417 W State St, Ithaca | Whiskey Tango Cabaret Night | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 5/23 Saturday | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 Rt. 414, Burdett | An assemblage of burlesque dancers, singers, acrobats, musicians, and costume designers that will entertain you with their cabaret nouveau stylings.

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School Board Election Results Certification | 8:00 PM-, 05/20/ Wednesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | In Board Room.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 05/20/ Wednesday | The Boatyard Grill, 525 Old Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | RSVP 607-277-6036 or joyceannewhite@icloud.com Groton Public Library Preschool Story Time | 10:00 AM-, 05/20/ Wednesday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | Storytelling for preschoolers.

Coffee with the Mayor and Chief | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 05/20/ Wednesday

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| Multiple Locations, , | Throughout April and May, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick and Chief of Police John R. Barber will visit local coffeeshops for several hours to provide an opportunity for folks in the Ithaca community to come talk to them about any police issues or concerns that they may have.

No speeches; no agenda. Constructive criticism is welcomed; no reservation required. Free coffee provided by the host coffeeshops. May 20, 27: Gimme!

Coffee 506 W State St. School Board Policy Committee Meeting | 5:00 PM-, 05/21, Thursday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | In Board Room.

Cornell University trustees meeting | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 05/22/ Friday | Statler Hotel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Some sessions open to the public. Contact Joe Schwartz in Cornell’s Media Relations Office at 607-254-6235 or joe.schwartz@cornell. edu.

Groton Public Library Preschool Story Time | 10:00 AM-, 05/23/ Saturday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | Storytelling for preschoolers.

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

Cornell University trustees meeting | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 05/23/ Saturday | Statler Hotel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Some sessions open to the public. Contact Joe Schwartz in Cornell’s Media Relations Office at 607-254-6235 or joe.schwartz@cornell. edu.

Learning Adrenal Fatigue: Help through Holistic Healing | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn to nourish your adrenal glands. Sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Golf Swing Basics and Core Exercises to Help Your Game | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Island Health & Fitness, 310 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Presenters Jeff Humphrey, Physical Therapist, Cayuga Medical Center, CHT and Titleist Performance Institute Certified. Nikki Bonanni, Exercise Physiologist and Personal Trainer. Free Make Rope Baskets | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Craftstitute, 2027 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | Learn to construct baskets with cotton clothesline and a sewing machine. Visit http://www.craftstitute. com/classes/ for more.

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The Haunt, Thursday, May 21, 8:00 p.m.

Oasis Dance Club, Sunday, May 24, 5:00 p.m.

Dance Punk band formed in Sacramento, California in 1996. Live the band brings energy and smarts.

Bookbinding Workshop | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 5/21 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Instruction for assembling a small, simple book. Free and open to ages 12 and up. Register by contacting Teresa Vadakin at (607) 272-4557 extension 272 or tvadakin@tcpl.org Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Older Workers Job Tips | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/21 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Topics will include myths about the older worker, changes in job search methods, realities of the current job market, and ways to deal with them. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Tompkins Workforce Workshop: Civil Service | 10:00 AM-11:00 AM, 5/22 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Learn how to look up exam and vacancy information for various forms of government. Will look at the application process and provide an understanding of navigating the process. Pre-register at 272-7570.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/22 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

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

Conference on Anxiety | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 5/22 Friday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A closer look at anxiety disorder hosted by the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, Collaborative Solutions Network, Racker Center, and the NAMI-Finger Lakes.

Doreen B. Hertzog Concerto/Aria Competition Auditions | 12:00 AM-, 5/22 Friday | First United Methodist Church, 1034 West Broad Street, Horseheads | 2015 Doreen B. Hertzog Concerto/Aria Competition Auditions on Saturday, June 13, 2015. May 22 deadline.

Taoist Tai Chi Open House | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, 5/23 Saturday | Fall Creek Studios, 1202 N. Tioga St., Ithaca | Come and learn about the benefits of practicing tai chi. Meet students and certified instructors, and learn a few moves yourself.

Aeropress Brew Methods | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/24 Sunday | Craftstitute, 2027 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | Learn to construct baskets with cotton clothesline and a sewing machine.

Take a trip back to the 60’s and 70’s with this Classic Rock band from Ithaca.

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Red Cross Training | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CRP/ AED. Registration Required. Call 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or visit https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class.

Sign Language Courses | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | ASL I and ASL II courses available. Eight-week courses, Wednesday evenings, May 20 - Wed July 8. ASL I, 7pm-9pm; ASL II, 6pm-7PM. Registration forms at FLIC website or FLIC during business hours. For info contact Monica Voionmaa at monica@fliconline.org or (607) 272-2433.

Groton Public Library Preschool Story Time | 10:00 AM, 5/20 Wednesday, 5/21 Thursday, 5/22 Friday, 5/23 Saturday, 5/24 Sunday, 5/25 Monday, 5/26 Tuesday | Groton Public Library, 112 E Cortland St, Groton | Storytelling for preschoolers.

Beyond Diversity: Moving to an Inclusive Culture | 8:15 AM-4:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Emerson Suites, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Presenters Stanley Byrd, HR DirectorOrganizational Development and Staff Diversity, University of Rochester and Jessica Mayer, Consultant, JB Access.

Primitive Pursuits Fast Track Wilderness Skills Instructor Certification | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | TBD, , | Combines wilderness survival skills & bioregional knowledge with the most effective tools of mentoring. Upon completion, you will receive a certificate from Cornell Cooperative Extension reflecting up to 160 hours of “dirt time” and a demonstration of standard competencies valued in the fields of primitive technology and outdoor education. Dates: Wednesday May 20th- Saturday June 20th (Tues. - Fri.).

Additional Required Days: Primitive Pursuits Day Saturday May 23rd; camp outs on 5/28-5/29; 6/9-6/10; 6/19-6/20. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

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Paint Nite Ithaca | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 5/25 Monday | Joe’s Restaurant, 602 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | A master artist will guide you through creation of a 16x20 acrylic masterpiece in about two hours, while you enjoy delicious food and drink. Tickets available at www. paintnite.com.

May Workshop: Make a Terrarium | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/25 Monday | Art & Found, 112 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Create a mini eco-system to keep the spirit of Spring alive in your home or office.

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City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 5/25 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca

Nature & Science CU Plantations: Birds & Blossoms-Guided Spring Walks | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | In collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cayuga Bird Club, Cornell Plantations is offering Friday morning bird walks and Sunday wildflower walks throughout May. Walks will be held rain or shine. Pre-registration not required. Friday bird walks will occur at 8:00 a.m. at Cornell Plantations; meet by the Sculpture Garden, in the F.R. Newman Arboretum off Caldwell Road.

Sunday wildflower walks will be held at 1:00 p.m. at Sapsucker Woods; Meet at the Lab of Ornithology visitor center.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 5/22 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Night Hikes | 6:00 PM-, 5/22 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Held during the evening. Hike our wooded trails under the big sky of our back fields or around our ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. No need for a flashlight— you’ll be surprised how much you see without one. Please call ahead for availability: 607-273-6260.

Big Trees! | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 5/23 Saturday | Mullholland Wildflower Preserve, Giles Street, Ithaca | See large and interesting trees in the forest on the south side of Six Mile creek. Steep trails, just over two miles, about two hours. Led by Joe McMahon. Meet in the parking area off Giles St. Cayuga Trails Club: Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve | 8:30 AM-, 5/23 Saturday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a leisurely birding hike through the LindsayParsons Biodiversity Preserve in W. Danby. Meet at 8:30 a.m., Ithaca

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OAR’s Annual Meeting | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | OAR of Tompkins County, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | With keynote speaker Keri Blakinger. Refreshments served.

Not for Profit Day | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Friends of the Library, 509 Esty Street, Ithaca | Free Books. Criteria: Bring a photo ID and a letter on official letterhead from your organization. It should identify you as eligible to take books for your organization and should state what the books will be used for. | (607) 272-2223| http://www.booksale.org Glassfest | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/21 Thursday, 5/22 Friday, 5/23 Saturday, 5/24 Sunday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Ribbon cutting ceremony and party at 5pm. Festival continues in Corning’s Gaffer District for three more days of glassmaking demos and artwork, wine and craft beer tasting, music, and much more. For more information, visit GlassFest.org or call (607) 937-6292.

Opening Weekend BBQ Fundraiser | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/23 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Barbecue, Free Pool Admission, Live Music by Scratched Vinyl.

Cornell Graduation | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Outgoing President David Skorton will deliver the commencement address.

Tompkins County Memorial Day Ceremony | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/25 Monday | DeWitt Park, , Ithaca | This ceremony honors the military men and women of the United States of America who have paid the ultimate price for this country.

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Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

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

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 5/20 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome.

Zumba Gold Classes | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | Lifelong, 119 Erin from Whisky Tango Sideshow. Cabaret Night at Damiani Wine Cellars, W Court St, Ithaca | With instructor Nicole Bostwick.Starting June 3, Burdett, NY. Saturday, May 23, 6:00 p.m. Photo provided by WTS website. 2015-December 31, 2015 Every Wednesday 12:00-1:00pm visit www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar. Birth to Three A To Z | 3:00 PM-7:00 EMS, 722 Meadow St or 9:00 am at the preserve, Rt. 34/96. For more PM, 5/20 Wednesday | The Space at information, call 607-272-8679 or GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org | Learn ways to support healthy Guided Beginner Bird Walks, development and well-being in young Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 5/23 children. Free; For families/caregivers Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, of children from birth to age three. but Food Addicts in Recovery 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Online Calendar PM, 5/20 Wednesday | NY, , | Meets See it at ithaca.com.

Targeted toward beginners, but multiple places and days. For more appropriate for all. Binoculars available information, call 607-351-9504 or visit for loan. Meet at the front of the big kids welcome. Drop by anytime www.foodaddicts.org. building. For more information, please between 3pm and 7pm.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ Alcoholics Anonymous | 12:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | calendar.

AM-11:59 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Bird Quest at the Lindsay-Parsons Multiple Locations, , | This group meets Dr, Lansing | The Ithaca League of Biodiversity Preserve | 8:00 AM-, several times per week at various Women Rollers announces their roller 5/24 Sunday | Lindsay-Parsons locations. For more information, call derby style workout program. New Biodiversity Preserve, , West Danby 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ or returning skaters of any level are | Bring binoculars if you have them.

PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf welcome. Trainers are members of Beginning birders welcome! Sponsored the Ithaca League of Women Rollers.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 by the Finger Lakes Land Trust. For Open to men and women 18+. For PM, 5/21 Thursday | Ithaca Health more information and directions, more information and to register: Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | visit www.fllt.org/events. http://www.ithacarollerderby.com/ Need to see a doctor, but don’t have Guided Beginner Bird Walks, wreck-derby/ health insurance? Can’t afford holistic Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 5/24 care? 100% Free Services, Donations Sacred Chanting with Damodar Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Appreciated. Do not need to be a Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Tompkins County resident. First come, 5/20 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. first served (no appointments).

215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every Targeted toward beginners, but week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual Southern Tier Parkinson’s Disease appropriate for all. Binoculars available practice open to all faiths. No prior Support Group | 1:30 PM-3:00 for loan. Meet at the front of the experience necessary. More at www.

PM, 5/21 Thursday | Schuyler County building. For more information, please DamodarDas.com.

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Spottiswoode and his enemies Felicia’s Atomic Lounge Sunday, May 24, 7:00 p.m.

Eclectic band with roots in New York City, they play a sound that’s hard to pin down. With songs ranging from rock to folk and gospel, they bring an interesting take on modern music.

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NAMI Support Meetings | 1:30 PM-, 5/21 Thursday | NAMI Finger Lakes, 430 West State Street, Ithaca | Meet NAMI members to discuss your situation with loved ones suffering from mental illness. All conversations kept confidential. For info contact Susan Larkin at spclarkin@icloud.com or 539-7299.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 5/21 Thursday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/ or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Yoga School Classes | 4:30 PM-, 5/22 Friday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Raja Yoga, 8pm, Friday 5/08; Prenatal Yoga, 4:30pm Friday 5/29; Baby - n - Me Yoga, Tuesdays, 11am 2/17-3/17--pre-registration required.

Taoist Tai Chi Open House | 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, 5/23 Saturday | Fall Creek Studios, 1202 N. Tioga St., Ithaca | Come and learn about the benefits of practicing tai chi. Meet students and certified instructors, and learn a few moves yourself.

Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 5/23 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 5/24 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 5/24 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 5/24 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/25 Monday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Overeaters Anonymous is a worldwide

Bird quest

The Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve Sunday, May 24, 8:00 a.m.

Bird watching free and open to the public.. With a goal of keeping a tally of bird species found on local Land Trust properties.

12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 5/25 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Free massages for veterans | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/25 Monday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Veterans, come in for a FREE student massage the week of Memorial Day. Call 607-272-9024 today to find out how to sign up!

Monthly Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 5/26 Tuesday | 316 E Court St -- enter Court St side, , Ithaca | Professionally facilitated

by Jane Baker Segelken and Cathie Simpson. Participants are encouraged to bring a memento and/or a photograph to share. For information: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-273-3063, or email petloss@gmail. com.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 5/26 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees.

The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine.

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 5/26 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Yoga School Classes | 4:30 PM-, 5/26 Tuesday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Raja Yoga, 8pm, Friday 5/08; Prenatal Yoga, 4:30pm Friday 5/29; Baby - n - Me Yoga, Tuesdays, 11am 2/17-3/17--pre-registration required.

Understanding & Responding to the Sexual Behaviors of Children | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 5/26 Tuesday | Jillian’s Drawers, The Commons, Ithaca | Free presentation based on concepts developed by Gail Ryan of Kempe Children’s Center and presented by the Enough Abuse Campaign. Contact Toby Girard at 607-277-3203 ext 302 or tgirard@theadvocacycenter. org by Friday, May 22nd, to register.

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Promoter Dan Smalls has decided that the Brewery Ommegang, which is just south of the small upstate village, should be associated with equally strong pop programming. On Friday, May 22, the six-show season will kick off with two generations of the most original acts in rock — the Pixies, and TV on the Radio.

For the last four years, Ommegang has hosted artists universally respected by audiences: among others, Levon Helm in 2011, Wilco, Bon Iver, and Lyle Lovett in 2012, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and the Black Crowes in 2013.

Last summer, to invoke another Cooperstown trope, Ommegang swung for a grand slam: Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Conor Oberst, and a returning Old Crow Medicine Show.

If anything, the summer series shares much in common with Tanglewood, Massachusetts, which also welcomes world-class performances in the open air. “The uniqueness of the venue is that there is no venue,” Smalls said. “We build

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 5/26 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604

Books Book Discussion: Finger Lakes Wine Country | 2:00 PM-, 05/23 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Sarah S. Thompson discusses her new book.

The Pixes (Photo provided) it from scratch using the brewery’s picturesque grounds. And we build it with fan experience in mind—ease of movement, sightlines etc. The background for the artists is the lovely tree line and setting sun. The fans see the brewery silos lit up behind the stage. It’s quite stunning.”

The Pixies remain among the dozen or so acts associated with the major leap forward for rock between the late ‘70s and the mid ‘90s. In our generation’s Fleetwood Mac, Pixies front man Frank Black is a little akin to Afrika Bambaataa or Chick Corea. The band was pioneering in the sense that it influenced a generation of college

Arts ongoing Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca || Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, through 6/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, through 6/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos,

by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu

rock, but also in the sense that it was always a thrill to listen to the weird excesses of hyper-literate Boston rock.

TV on the Radio is just as influential. One of the few acts associated with the early 2000s New York City rock revival to cast its vision forward as much as backwards, the band continues to be one of the most engaging listens in so-called “independent” rock. John Grant opens.

Future shows include the Avett Brothers and John Prine (June 13), Old Crow Medicine Show (July 24), The Decemberists (July 26), Primus and Dinosaur Jr. (July 31), and Bonnie Rait

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Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | As our neighboring institution, The Corning Museum of Glass, is celebrating the opening of a new contemporary art gallery, the Rockwell teamed up with glass specialists at the Traver Gallery in Seattle, WA, to install a celebratory display of nine contemporary glass pieces of the Pacific Northwest on the ground floor. The exhibit will be on view through Memorial Day. Also on display is “The Photography of John Doddato: In Pursuit of the American Landscape,” through Feb. 2016.

• • • Casita del Polaris, the new venue in Fall Creek right next door to Northstar (1201 North Tioga Street #2), has been hosting “secret society” shows Thursday nights in since the beginning of May. Following performances by the Analogue Sons, a chamber concert, and “Nice ‘n Easy” DJ sets by Mike Judah Miller, cello titan Hank Roberts will perform this Thursday, May 21. With only approximately 50 seats available for the 9 p.m. show, you’d be advised to arrive early. Roberts will be joined by Chad Lieberman and Michael Stark. •

Benji Slatoff-Burke exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Silky Jones, 214 The Commons, Ithaca | Interpretations of Rodin show runs through May 31.

Annie Eller exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca, | Intricate and illuminated drawings. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Jen Fisher & Laura Sinclaire exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Exciting works in ink, watercolor, and oil. Runs May 1 to June 30.

Naomi Edmark exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM | Stella’s Cafe, 403 College Ave Ste B, Ithaca | Naomi will be showing her series of photos from May 11 to June 30.

Final Potter’s Room exhibit | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/20 Wednesday | The Potter’s Room, 109A E Sate St, Ithaca

| Bring in piece to exhibit by Saturday May 23rd to participate in the June 5th show, our last First Friday Gallery Night.

Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 5/22 Friday | Central NY Living History Center, 4386 US-11, Cortland | A national traveling exhibition which focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to meet the constitutional challenges of the Civil War. Runs until June 19. Visit www.cortlandhistory.com for more information.8. are always local adventures, amazing visiting artists and many collaborators.

Registration is now on-line and space is limited. Details at www.abovoagogo. com/summer.

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City of North Tonawanda - Tax Foreclosure Auction. Saturday, June 6, 2015. Registration: 9:00AM Bring ID Auction Start: 10:00AM Stephen Sikora Post #1322 950 Payne Avenue, North Tonawanda, NY 14120. Sale Catalogs Now Available at City Hall www. auctionsinternational.com 800-536-1401 (NYSCAN)

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Responsible, selfdirected, solid administrative experience.

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glossy vintage sunburst stika spruce top and natural finish rosewood back and ebony bridge sides grand concert size, School Nurse and fingerboard with ivroid inlaid Southern Cayuga Schools seeks a Reg“heritage” fretboard markers with 12 istered Professional effective with Sepfrets clear of the body,Nurse slot peghead w/HSC, $3378, Yours:of$2549 temberlist: 1, 2015; review applications will continue untilIGW position is filled. Please 272-2602 send letter of interest, district application, VIOLINS FOR SALE: European, old and coy of license/certification, transcripts, new, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516. fingerprint clearance and at least three letters of reference. Deadline June 1, 2015. Patrick M. Jensen, Superintendent of Schools, Southern Cayuga Central School, 2384For RouteSale 34B, Aurora NY 13026, (315)364-7211, AdminAssist@ BOXER PUPPIES southerncayuga.org SCCS Registered, Vet checked, 1st EOE shots and wormed. Need loving home, very beautiful. Parents on property. $450/obo.

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Music Teacher

Social Work Assistant

RED MAX WEED WHACKER used very Southern Cayuga Schools seeks a Music little. $50.00 Teacher effective September 1, 2015.

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PT (22.5 hours/week) Responsible for coordinating & providing social work services to residents in an 80 bed skilled nursing facility under the direct supervision of the Director of Social Work.

Job tasks include identifying & meeting the psychosocial needs of residents to enhance quality of life: serves as resident rights advocate & discharge planner; serves as liaison between residents, family members, & facility; participates Cayuga Lake in special projects to benefit residents; Triathlon maintains all necessary information & Sunday records as requited.8/4/2013 Qualifications: The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take Degree Social Work,Falls Human Services, place at in Taughannock State Park or related preferred; workwill experion Sunday,field 8/4/13.

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NEEDHAM MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2015 to 11/24/2015, work tools, supplies, and equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return o their permanent residence at the end of the workday. 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. $11.26 per hr. Applicants apply at Employment & Training Resources 275 Prospect St. Norwood, MA 02062 (phone $$$HELP WANTED$$$ or apply for number 781-769-4120), Extra Income@ Assembling CD cases the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5516118. May perform from Home! any combination of the following tasks: Noplanting, Experience Necessary!

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AIRLINE - Get Cover plants with plastic to prevent frost FAA approved Aviation Maintenance damage. Weed and thinning blocks of Technician training. Financial plants. Transplanting seedlings aid usingfor hand transplanter. andavailable. ties leaves qualified students - Closes Housing over heads of cauliflower. Picks, cuts, Job placement assistance. Call AIM pulls, and lifts crops to harvest them. Ties vegetables 866-296-7093 in bunches. May be identified with work assigned such as blocking, (NYSCAN) cutting, stringing, irrigating various crops. Transplanting, moving spacing of flats. Carts and trucks plants to and from greenhouse floors and benches.

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Physician: Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca (Ithaca and Cortland, NY) seeks Sports Medicine Physician to provide sports medicine services. Required:MD + 60 months of training including 12 months of Sports Medicine fellowship, 12 months of Geriatric Medicine fellowship, & at least 36 months of acceptable primary residency; Board Certified in Sports Medicine; Board Certified in Geriatric Medicine; NYS physician license eligible; training & certified in BLS, ACLS, PALS, & CIC. Email resume to hr@cayugamed.org using Job Code SMP-15

Westward Orchards

Harvard, MA needs 2 temporary workers 6/1/2015 to 10/31/2015, 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. $11.26 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 #5516186. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetable crops, including, but not limited to, driving or operating farm machines,maintaining buildings, preparing soil, planting, weeding, thinning, spraying, irrigating, mowing and harvesting. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. 1 month experience in duties listed required.

460/Sales / Marketing Are you a self starter, smart on your feet, Competitive, Outgoing, Personable and possess a strong work ethic? We may have the job you’ve been looking for! The Ithaca times/Ithaca.com seeks a full time sales representative. Our Reps identify needs and sell marketing solutions that include newspapers online and niche products. Base, plus commission, Full benefits. Send resume and cover letter to Jbilinski@ithacatimes.com

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his house has a striking appearance from the outside with its vertical redwood siding and Llenroc facing stone. The scale of the eaves are downright nearly Frank Lloyd Wrightian, giving this ranch house a gravitas that approaches something like the Prairie Style.

The effect is continued on the inside, although thoughts of Frank Lloyd Wright are perhaps replaced with those of Don Draper. The interior, built in 1957, has scarcely been altered. When you enter the front door you are confronted with another wall of Llenroc (dark gray siltstone originally drawn from a quarry near the Cornell campus). This stone wraps around into the living room where it forms the panel wall for a modern mantel-less wood burning fireplace.

Many of the walls in the living and dining rooms are clad in tongue-in-groove paneling made from gum wood, which is finished in a deep reddish brown.

There are oak floors through out the main floor.

The original cabinetry is still in the kitchen. The yellow pine cabinets have simple round wood pulls and steel hinges, a purposeful combination of rustic and modern. The counters are decorated with a vintage boomerang pattern that will remind anyone over the age of 50 of a visit to their grandmother’s house. These are in incredibly pristine condition.

The house has casement style windows that crank open and sliding glass doors that lets you exit from the living room onto a large covered stone patio that looks out over a large backyard dominated by an enormous red oak.

This was an era when shelves were built into the walls where possible. There is an alcove in the living room that once

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held such shelves and they are intact in the study and the spare bedroom (where there is also a built-in bureau).

This latter bedroom has an adjoining bathroom that will make you feel that you entered a time warp. All the enamel is a vintage peach that resists being loud.

The main bedroom is in the back corner of the house. Its bathroom has been updated with narrow glass tiles around the mod sink and in the double-sized shower stall. The two large closets in this bedroom are built in; the wood doors match and are flush with the wall.

The lower level is entirely finished, but has been little used. It is a former doctor’s office with a separate entrance. In addition to the five finished rooms and a half-bathroom, there is also a large laundry room that is also home to the utilities.

This house is tucked away in a back road in the hamlet of Newfield, walking distance to a small store, the library, a breakfast and lunch restaurant, and the school campus. •

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